Ryan Howard is a founder and the CTO of Complete SEO. He has spent 20 years building websites and apps and running marketing experiments. He sets the agency's technical strategy, including how client websites are built so they load fast and are easy for search engines and AI tools to read. He builds the AI agents that handle SEO and website work across client sites, along with the systems the agency runs on, such as the AI visibility tracker and the client reporting platform.

Ryan leads the agency's original research on how AI search picks local businesses. His work includes a study of 44,988 ChatGPT local answers and a ten-week study showing that Claude's web search draws on Brave. He built Website LLMs.txt, a WordPress plugin with more than 40,000 active installs.