COHORT 2 15 SEPTEMBER 2026 20 SEATS

You already know marketing. Search is the part that makes you hard to replace.

Twelve weeks, live. Real sites, real audits, real work you can show. Built for people doing this alongside a full-time job.

Kenya & Nigeria  ·  6–8 hrs a week

12
Weeks
20
Seats max
6–8
Hrs / week
Live
Not recorded
01 // Who this is for

Three people buy this. Usually for different reasons.

A

Agency owners and team leads

Your juniors were handed SEO with no training, so they are learning on client sites and the clients are paying for the mistakes. Train them properly in one quarter.

B

Brands with in-house marketing

You have been told to do SEO with no budget to hire for it. A hire is a salary forever. A retainer is 30 to 80k a month and the knowledge leaves with the contract. This stays in the building.

C

Marketers and freelancers

You run content, brand or social well. Search is the one channel you cannot quote on with confidence, and it is the one that compounds.

02 // The problem

Search changed underneath everyone and most marketers have not caught up.

Someone types a question. A machine writes its own searches, reads the results, and answers without sending anyone to your site. The rules for being the source it quotes are not the rules most people learned. You can either understand that or keep guessing why the traffic moved.

03 // Taught properly, not as a buzzword

AI search is a module, not a slide.

Most training covers this with one idea and a statistic. There are at least six separate mechanisms at work, each one demands something different from a page, and the evidence moves fast enough that you need to be able to read it yourself.

Start with what actually happens

A prompt is not a search. The model works out what it needs to know, writes its own queries, runs them, reads what comes back, and only then answers. Three or four hidden searches, none of which the user sees and none of which you can see.

Look at the third one. That is the model going straight to a company's own website to check a fact. In the largest public study of this behaviour, roughly three quarters of the generated queries looked like that.

What the user typed

"Who should I hire to clean my sofa in Nairobi?"

What the model actually searched
  • sofa cleaning services nairobi
  • sofa cleaning nairobi price 2026
  • site:thatcompany.co.ke sofa cleaning pricing
  • sofa cleaning nairobi reviews

The prompt is the doorway. These are what walk through your site.

01
Retrieval, and when it does not happen

Some prompts never trigger a search at all, because the model already knows the answer and the answer does not change. Content sitting behind those prompts cannot earn a citation no matter how good it is. Knowing which is which decides what you bother writing.

02
Query fan-out

How one prompt becomes several hidden queries, how shallow that actually is, and how to work out which queries a given prompt would generate for a business you are auditing.

03
The shortlist problem

Models arrive with specific companies in mind before retrieval even starts. Getting into that candidate set is brand recognition, third-party mentions and classic organic visibility. A completely different job from the one below, and the half most people skip.

04
First-party verification

Once you are a candidate, the model comes to your own site for prices, specifications, terms and policies. Your service pages are search content, not sales collateral. Vague copy is where you lose the citation to a competitor who stated the number.

05
Entities and extractability

Search engines match things, not strings. Which entities a page has to cover to read as genuinely expert, and how to write so a machine can lift a clean, self-contained answer out of it. Answer-first structure, question-shaped headings, and facts that are not buried in a slider.

06
Measuring any of it

Whether you are being cited, where, and for which prompts. Which prompts are worth tracking and which are vanity. The same business-value discipline you already apply to keywords, applied to prompts.

And how to hold the evidence honestly

This field is full of people quoting a percentage long after the thing that produced it changed. You will learn to separate the durable mechanism from the dated number, so when a client asks where a claim comes from you have a real answer. That habit outlasts every specific statistic in the module.

04 // What changes

Six things you cannot do yet.

Each one ends in something you can put in front of a client or an employer. Not a quiz score.

01
NowYou pick keywords by search volume and hope some of them convert.
Find the work worth doing

Rank keywords by what they are worth to the business, and read a competitor's entire strategy from their site structure alone.

02
NowA page underperforms and you cannot say why beyond a feeling.
Judge any page in minutes

Say what query it serves, whether it matches the results page, which entities it is missing, and what you would change first.

03
NowA tool hands you 400 errors and you have no idea which ones matter.
Find what is genuinely broken

Crawl a site, read what search engines actually see, and separate real problems from noise a plugin flagged for no reason.

04
NowA client asks why a competitor is in the AI answer and you improvise.
Show up in AI answers

Write pages that get quoted rather than skipped, and explain exactly why a competitor is being cited and your client is not.

05
NowReporting is a screenshot of a chart going up, with no causal story.
Prove the work moved something

Use Search Console as a diagnostic instrument. Say what changed, why it changed, and what it was worth, with the data open.

06
NowYou would not know what to quote, so you do not offer it at all.
Charge for it

Scope the work, write the proposal, price it, and answer the questions a buyer asks in the moment before they say yes.

05 // How it runs

Twelve weeks. Learn it, then use it on something real.

Phase 01  ·  Weeks 1 to 9

Training

Live sessions with assignments on real sites between them. You are not watching, you are producing work that gets reviewed and sent back.

  • Weekly live sessions
  • Assignments on live sites, marked with feedback
  • Paid tool access included
  • Written reference guide for every module, yours to keep
  • Private group for questions between sessions
Phase 02  ·  Weeks 10 to 12

Mentorship

Apply it under supervision. Three weeks, and it is the half that produces the portfolio and costs us the most to run.

  • One-to-one sessions with Daniel
  • Group coaching calls
  • Portfolio built and reviewed
  • Proposal and pricing frameworks
  • Client outreach that is not a template blast
06 // Curriculum

Twelve weeks, in order.

Each module assumes the one before it. Click through to see what a week contains and what you produce in it.

Week 1

How search actually works

Crawling, rendering, indexing and ranking, in that order, because every problem you will ever diagnose sits in one of those four stages. Set up your toolkit and run a first pass on a live site.

You produce A crawl of a real site, and a read of what search engines actually see on it
Week 2

Keyword research and competitive analysis

Find what people actually search for, then rank it by what it is worth to the business rather than by volume. Read a competitor entire strategy from their site structure.

You produce A keyword set ranked by business value, and a competitor teardown
Week 3

Content strategy and search intent

Map keywords to pages by intent. Decide what to create, what to optimise, and what to leave alone. Build the topic cluster that everything after this sits inside.

You produce A cluster map with a create-or-optimise decision on every page
Week 4

On-page SEO

Judge whether any page serves its query, then say what to change and why. Entities, information gain, cannibalisation, and reading titles and metas as a diagnostic instrument rather than a writing task.

You produce A page-level audit memo with a first change and a way to measure it
Week 5

Content architecture and internal linking

A cluster is not a cluster because you drew it. It is a cluster because the links exist. Anchor text, hub and spoke direction, click depth, and finding the orphan pages nothing points at.

You produce An internal linking plan with the anchors written, not just arrows drawn
Week 6

Technical SEO: crawl, render, index

Crawl budget, JavaScript rendering, canonicals, redirects and index bloat. Separate the problems worth fixing from the ones a tool flagged for no reason.

You produce A prioritised technical issue list with severity and effort against each one
Week 7

Technical SEO: speed, structured data, diagnostics

Core Web Vitals, schema as a machine-readable restatement of what a page already proves, and how to debug something when two tools disagree with each other.

You produce Structured data implemented and validated on a live template
Week 8

AI search and GEO

Retrieval, query fan-out, the shortlist problem, first-party verification, entities and extractability. The full module, taught from evidence rather than from headlines.

You produce A page rewritten to survive a model checking your site directly
Week 9

Local, e-commerce and measurement

Google Business Profile, local signals and the location page trap. Product and category structure for stores. Then Search Console and GA4 as diagnostic instruments rather than screenshot factories.

You produce A reporting view that says what changed, why, and what it was worth
Weeks 10 to 12

Mentorship and portfolio

Three weeks applying all of it under supervision. One-to-one sessions, group coaching, portfolio review, and the proposal and pricing frameworks you need to charge for this work.

You produce A finished portfolio and a proposal you could send tomorrow
07 // Fit check

Worth being honest before you apply.

This works if

  • You already work in marketing and search is the gap
  • You have written things that should rank and do not
  • You want to stop paying for every click
  • You can genuinely give it six to eight hours a week
  • You are willing to be told your work needs redoing

This does not

  • You want a shortcut or a trick that still works
  • You have never done any marketing at all
  • You want a certificate more than the skill
  • Twelve weeks is longer than you can commit to
  • You expect to watch recordings and pick it up later
08 // The Trainers

Industry experts who do this every week for money.

DN

Daniel Ndege (Lead Trainer)

Founder, OnMedia  ·  Co-founder, Search Safari

Connect on LinkedIn

Daniel built OnMedia's search practice from nothing. He ranks Kenyan brands on live sites, not in theory, and he co-founded Search Safari, the first dedicated community of SEOs in Kenya.

He serves as the lead trainer for this cohort, joined by two other active industry experts. This bootcamp is the method they use on client work, cut into twelve weeks you can do around a job.

"After 12 years in the SEO game, Daniel beats literally everyone else I have ever worked with. Skills, ideas, implementation and a sharp eye for tech that moves our business forward."

Barry A. P.
SEO strategist

"Daniel has been a solid go-to guy for all things content strategy and delivery. His unique approach, utmost professionalism and attention to detail have never once let me down."

Luke Fitzgerald
Digital marketing consultant
10 // What you keep

Yours after the twelve weeks end.

Audit framework and template
Keyword research system
Content brief template
Technical SEO checklist
Written reference guide per module
Client proposal template
Reporting template
Every session recording
Alumni group access
11 // Investment

Three ways to solve this. Two of them never stop costing you.

A retainer
KES 30 to 80k / month

Work gets done. The knowledge leaves when the contract does, and you are back where you started.

A hire
A salary, monthly, forever

The skill is in the building until they leave. Then you hire again and pay to train the next one.

This
KES 29,999 once

Someone already on your team does the work, or briefs an agency properly. Either way the skill stays.

Early bird  ·  3 seats
KES 24,999

Paid in full. Closes 31 August 2026, then the price goes up. Admission is strictly by application.

  • Full twelve weeks
  • All live sessions and recordings
  • Paid tool access
  • One-to-one mentorship
  • Reference guides and templates
Apply for an early seat
Standard
KES 29,999

One seat, paid in full. Admission is strictly by application.

  • Full twelve weeks
  • All live sessions and recordings
  • Paid tool access
  • One-to-one mentorship
  • Reference guides and templates
Apply now
Pair
KES 49,999

Two seats, KES 25,000 each. One person trained alone tends to leave with the skill.

  • Two full seats
  • Everything in Standard, twice
  • Both get one-to-one mentorship
  • Built for sending colleagues together
Apply for two

Paying in two

KES 16,500 at enrolment and KES 16,500 before week 10, which totals KES 33,000 against KES 29,999 paid once. Week 10 is when the one-to-ones and portfolio review start, so the balance falls due before that phase begins. Standard price only, not early bird.

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Three seats or more

Agencies and in-house teams. Quoted per organisation and invoiced properly so your finance team can process it. Send how many people and what they currently do, and a quote comes back.

Get a quote on WhatsApp

Capped at 20 seats. Admission to the cohort is by application. When the room is full, enrolment closes.

12 // Questions

Before you ask.

No. You need marketing experience. If you understand content, brand or digital marketing, you have the foundation. The SEO is taught from the ground up.
Everything is recorded and you keep access. Worth saying plainly though: people who rely on recordings tend not to finish. The cohort works because it is live.
Six to eight hours a week including the live session. It is built for people working full-time. If that is not available to you, this is not the right quarter for it.
Actual work. You audit live sites, build real strategies, and your assignments get marked with feedback. You leave with a portfolio because you made one, week by week.
Yes. Sessions run at a time that works across both countries. Payment options reflect the same underlying price in both markets.
Search Console, GA4, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog, and the AI tools reshaping how search works. Paid access is included for the duration. Tools are the easy part. Judgment is what we are actually building.
Two payments. Half at enrolment and the balance before week 10, totalling KES 33,000 against KES 29,999 paid once. Week 10 is when mentorship starts, so the balance falls due before that phase begins. Not available on the early bird.
Yes, and for three seats or more we quote and invoice properly so finance can process it. Message the number of people and what they currently do, and a quote comes back.
Sometimes, honestly. If you want it done and do not want to think about it, hire someone. If you want the skill to stay in your business after the contract ends, train the person you already have. Both are real answers.
Yes. The price will not go down.

Twelve weeks from now you either have this skill or you do not.

Starts 15 SEPTEMBER 2026. 20 seats.

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