Sales & marketing

Rankai

Website
Founded 2023Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Websites used to be static billboards, passive and waiting to be found.



RankAI helps startups and agencies grow websites on autopilot. It learns from your site, market, competitors, and performance data to identify which pages should exist, creates them in your brand, publishes them directly to your live website, and continuously improves them based on real traffic and conversion — so your website gets discovered, trusted, and converted on by both human and Agents.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously LineUp

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Dyllan Liu

Founder

Co-Founder and CEO of Rankai. Previously: Ex-McKinsey, Engineering @ Amazon, ML Research @ Stanford, Business & Data Science @ Berkeley, Online education platform serving 20 schools and 1500+ rural students

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Hugo (Kanghong) Zhan

Founder/CTO

Co-Founder and CTO @ Rankai. Previously: Engineering @ Amazon, National Junior Math Olympiad team, 74th nationally ranked table tennis player (U15), CS at UC Berkeley.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
3team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2023 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

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Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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