Agency · Los Angeles, United States
Single Grain
Growth programs combining paid acquisition, SEO, content & CRO to accelerate SaaS adoption.
Our overview
Single Grain helps SaaS companies grow faster through paid acquisition, SEO, and CRO. Their team creates full-funnel marketing strategies that blend creative experimentation with analytics, designed to drive qualified sign-ups and long-term retention. Single Grain also runs growth podcasts, training, and resources for SaaS marketers, emphasizing innovation and execution.
What does Single Grain do?
Single Grain is a digital marketing agency based in Los Angeles that runs SEO, paid media, content and CRO for SaaS and other companies. Its website says it was founded in 2014 and now describes the agency as an “AI-Native Growth Operator”.
The services its website lists are:
- Search: SEO and AEO (optimizing to be cited in AI answers)
- Paid media: paid acquisition across ad platforms
- Content and creative: articles, landing pages and creative for ads
- Managed revenue agents: AI agents run for clients as a service
- Growth strategy and client operations: planning and running the overall program
Its profile describes full-funnel plans that mix creative testing with analytics, aimed at qualified sign-ups and long-term retention. The agency also runs growth podcasts, training and resources for SaaS marketers.
Who does Single Grain work with?
Single Grain’s website says it has worked with 500+ companies. Clients it names include Amazon, Uber, Lyft, Salesforce, Airbnb, 15Five, Bittrex, Crunchbase, Drift, Fujitsu, Intuit, Nextiva, Nordstrom Rack, Semrush, Vend and Wolters Kluwer, as well as SmartRent, LS Building Products and Bierman Autism.
That list runs from large consumer brands to SaaS companies. Its profile here is tagged for B2B SaaS.
How does Single Grain work?
Single Grain’s profile describes a team that tests channels and messages quickly, scales what works and drops what does not. Paid and organic share data, so what ads learn about buyers shapes SEO and content, and the other way round.
Content is judged against qualified traffic and conversions, and pieces that underperform are updated or replaced. Its website lists Google Partner, Microsoft Partner, Google Analytics and Facebook Blueprint credentials.
The agency is a weaker fit for companies that want a deep specialist in a single channel, or a thought leadership partner producing original research.
What results does Single Grain’s website point to?
Single Grain publishes case studies on its site, many of them about AI search. The ones we found on the pages we read include:
- “How SmartRent Achieved 10 Monthly SQLs From LLMs”
- “How LS Building Products Gained 400+ AI Citations”
- “Learning A-Z Increased Revenue by 65% Using Paid Media in 2024”
- “How We Scaled Search Traffic & Lead Generation with Programmatic SEO”, about its own site
It also has technical SEO and AI search case studies for SmartRent, Bierman Autism and LS Building Products.
What to ask Single Grain before you hire them
- Which of your case studies are for B2B SaaS companies, and what were their sales cycles?
- What are managed revenue agents, and what would they do for a company like ours?
- How do you track SQLs that come from AI answers back to our CRM?
- Who would lead our account, and how much of the work is done by people versus AI tools?
At a glance
- Type
- Agency
- Based in
- Los Angeles, United States
- Founded
- 2014
As their own website states it.
Services
- SEO
- Digital marketing
- Strategy
- Content marketing
- Marketing Operations
- LLM & GEO
Industries
- B2B SaaS
Profile last checked
How we scored Single Grain
Four scores out of 5 with equal weight, averaged to give the overall score. Nobody pays to be listed or to be ranked higher.
Overall
3.75/5
- B2B SaaS focus3/5
- 3 out of 5.General digital agency with SaaS vertical pages
- Proof of results4/5
- 4 out of 5.Case studies with clear KPI lifts
- Transparency3/5
- 3 out of 5.Clear services; pricing typically via proposal
- Reputation5/5
- 5 out of 5.Widely recognized brand and content engine
Our review by service
SEO
Single Grain is a Los Angeles-based digital marketing agency with a strong SEO and content practice, founded by Eric Siu, who has built a significant audience in the marketing community through his podcast and content output. Their SEO work covers keyword strategy, technical site health, content production for organic, and link building, positioned within a full-funnel digital marketing offering that also spans paid acquisition, CRO, and video content. The breadth of their service means SEO and paid inform each other rather than operating as separate briefs.
Their approach to SEO draws on the same analytical and experimental culture that runs through their paid work: test what works, measure outcomes against pipeline rather than traffic, and iterate faster than the competition. Content is produced to serve both organic rankings and conversion, with messaging and intent alignment informed by what paid campaigns have learned about buyer behavior. This connected approach reduces the time it takes to understand which organic topics and formats generate pipeline for a specific SaaS product.
Single Grain is a good fit for B2B SaaS companies that want SEO run inside a broader performance marketing framework with cross-channel data informing organic strategy. They suit growth-stage companies that want a full-service partner rather than a specialist agency focused exclusively on organic. They are less suited to companies that need a dedicated technical SEO partner with deep site architecture expertise, or to those looking for a content-first organic approach independent of the paid and CRO context Single Grain brings.
Content marketing
Content at Single Grain serves a full-funnel marketing strategy rather than operating as a standalone channel. Their content team produces pieces informed by what paid campaigns are learning about buyer intent, which means editorial direction is shaped by real conversion data rather than keyword volume alone. This integration prevents the common situation where content and paid teams work from different audience assumptions and produce inconsistent messaging across channels.
Their content output spans long-form SEO articles, landing pages optimized for conversion, and video content for paid and organic social, which reflects their broader multi-channel model. The analytical culture that runs through their paid work applies to content measurement: pieces are evaluated against qualified traffic and conversion contribution rather than engagement metrics, and under-performing content is updated or replaced rather than left to accumulate on the site. This active content management approach maintains the quality and commercial relevance of the program over time.
Single Grain is a good fit for B2B SaaS companies that want content produced as part of a performance marketing system where editorial output is continuously refined based on what the data says is working. They suit companies that value speed and iteration over a fixed editorial calendar. They are less suited to companies looking for a premium thought leadership partner producing original research and long-form category authority content, or to those that want content managed independently of paid and performance channels.
From singlegrain.com
What their own website says, checked .
In their words: “AI-Native Growth Operator”
- Services they list
- AEO, SEO, Paid Media, Creative, Content, Managed Revenue Agents, Digital Marketing, Growth Strategies, Client Operations
- Founded
- 2014
- Clients they name
- 500+ Companies, SmartRent, LS Building Products, Bierman Autism, amazon, uber, lyft, salesforce, airbnb, 15five, bittrex, crunchbase, drift, fujitsu, intuit, nextiva, nordstromrack, semrush, vend, wolters-kluwer
- Partner badges and awards
- facebook-blueprint, google-analytics, google-partner, microsoft-partner
Case studies on their site
- How SmartRent Achieved 10 Monthly SQLs From LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- How LS Building Products Gained 400+ AI Citations (opens in a new tab)
- Smart Rent – Technical SEO & AI-Powered Growth (opens in a new tab)
- Bierman Autism Case Study – Technical SEO & AI Search Visibility (opens in a new tab)
- LS Building Products – SEO & AI Search Visibility (opens in a new tab)
- How We Scaled Search Traffic & Lead Generation with Programmatic SEO (opens in a new tab)
- Learning A-Z Increased Revenue by 65% Using Paid Media in 2024 (opens in a new tab)
FAQs
Some common questions, answered
Where is Single Grain based?
Single Grain is based in Los Angeles, in the United States. Its website says it was founded in 2014, and the agency runs SEO, AEO, paid media, content and creative work for SaaS and other companies, with clients that include Salesforce, Intuit, Crunchbase and Drift.
What services does Single Grain offer?
Single Grain offers SEO, AEO, paid media, creative, content, managed revenue agents, digital marketing, growth strategy and client operations, according to its website. Its profile adds CRO and describes full-funnel plans that share data between paid and organic channels to grow qualified sign-ups.
Does Single Grain help with AI search?
Single Grain lists AEO among its services and calls itself an “AI-Native Growth Operator” on its website. Several of its case studies cover AI search, including “How SmartRent Achieved 10 Monthly SQLs From LLMs” and “How LS Building Products Gained 400+ AI Citations”.
Which companies has Single Grain worked with?
Single Grain’s website says it has worked with 500+ companies and names Amazon, Uber, Lyft, Salesforce, Airbnb, 15Five, Crunchbase, Drift, Fujitsu, Intuit, Nextiva, Semrush, Vend and Wolters Kluwer among them. Its published case studies include SmartRent, LS Building Products, Bierman Autism and Learning A-Z.
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