Company

Your brand has two buyers now. One of them is a machine.

You have spent years learning to reach people. But a model now reads you first and decides whether those people ever hear your name. Almost nobody is marketing to it yet.

What we are for

If you deserve to be recommended, you should be recommended.

Measuring the gap is the easy half. Closing it is the product.

Prefer founders Javed Khatri and Mandar Sawant in the office

A letter from the founders

We went looking for this tool. It did not exist.

For twenty five years, search worked one way. You typed a question, you got ten links, and you picked one yourself. Everything marketers learned was built for that moment.

That moment is going away. Now people ask a model instead. It reads the web for them, picks a few companies, and explains why those companies are good. Most people never click anything.

So there is a new decision happening before your buyer ever meets you. A model decides whether your name comes up at all. When it does not, nobody tells you. You just get fewer customers and no idea why.

We watched this happen to friends running good companies. They were doing everything right and still going quiet. We looked for something that could show them what the models were saying, and then help them change it. Nothing did both. So we built Prefer.

Javed Khatri

LinkedIn

Mandar Sawant

LinkedIn

Founders, Prefer

13 years

in search and SEO, since 2012

$2M exit

Kustard, the company we built before thisForbes

Forbes 30 Under 30

Asia, 2022Forbes

Tata, Airtel, Taj

among the brands we shipped forForbes

Why this matters now

How ten blue links became one answer.

19982012 to 20242025Now
  1. 1998

    The web opened up

    Google ranked pages by who pointed to them. A stranger with a good page could beat a company with a budget.

  2. 2012 to 2024

    We learned the rules

    Thirteen years of watching what search rewards. First for our clients, then for our own companies.

  3. 2025

    People stopped clicking

    Answers replaced links. One reply, three brands named, and no page two to fight your way onto.

  4. Now

    The answer is still soft

    Models have not made up their mind about most brands yet. Whoever shows up now helps write it.

Next, models will not only recommend products. They will use them and buy them on your customer's behalf. Brands that are readable to machines, and not just to people, get chosen twice. That is what we are building for.

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