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No. 06 · About · Sydney / Tech Central

Twenty years in search. Rebuilt for how people ask now.

Brain Buddy AI is a Sydney-based AI search visibility and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) company helping Australian businesses get found in both Google search and AI-generated answers. Operating from Stone & Chalk Tech Central in Haymarket, our team manages GEO strategy, AI search audits, lead generation, and AI agent deployment for SMBs across Australia.

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A note from the founder.

Straight from the person who started all of this.

Signed

Jayson Munday

Founder / Head of strategy

I have been doing search marketing for a long time. I watched Google’s algorithm changes break half my clients overnight. I rebuilt what “good content” meant again and again through a dozen updates most people have already forgotten.

I tell you this because when ChatGPT launched in late 2022, I knew exactly what I was looking at. Not a chatbot. Not a toy. The start of a second kind of search that would grow alongside the first, eventually eating a large slice of its lunch. Most of the SEO industry tried to pretend it was a passing fad.

I left my American business, moved back to Australia, and built Brain Buddy AI from the first day around one question: when a customer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Claude for a recommendation, how do we make sure our clients are in the answer? Every process we run, every report we write, every piece of content we ship, works backwards from that question.

When your customers ask AI who to call, somebody gets the recommendation. Our job is making sure it is you.

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Two decades, in four chapters.

The short version of a long road.

2003

The blue-links years begin

Our founder joins Vertical Leap Australia, the local arm of one of Britain's first dedicated SEO agencies. Back then, SEO meant picking a handful of keywords and getting them onto page one. Twenty years later, almost none of that playbook still works.

2016

Crossing the Pacific

Launched Be the Square in the USA, building search and content programmes for American SMBs and scale-ups. A second market, a second playbook, and a front-row seat to how quickly search habits can change.

2022

ChatGPT arrives. Everything changes.

Within weeks of the ChatGPT launch, it becomes clear that search is not shifting. It is being rebuilt. We move back to Australia and start building Brain Buddy AI from day one for a world where people ask AI for answers, not just Google.

Today

Software that ships, humans who sign off

We built our own software because reports do not move rankings. The agent proposes improvements, a senior SEO approves each one, the change ships to the client's site, and we check the live page after. We keep the client list small on purpose, so every account gets a named human on the other end of the email.

03

Proof lives on its own page.

A named case study, a change log of shipped fixes, and four verified Clutch awards for 2026. Every number comes with a source you can check.

Founder Jayson Munday was also featured in the Sydney Weekend Magazine, in conversation with the Daily Telegraph, sharing how Australian small businesses are navigating the year ahead.

Clutch 2026

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Verified Clutch awards across Sydney and Australia in 2026, backed by real client reviews on Clutch.

Featured in

The Daily Telegraph

Sydney Weekend Magazine, in conversation with the Daily Telegraph.

04

Four things we will not compromise on.

The principles we come back to when it gets hard.

No. 01

The best agency is boring in a good way.

No surprise invoices. No mystery about what we are doing this week. Month in, month out, the same cadence and the same accountability. That is the whole point.

No. 02

Tools do not replace thinking.

We use AI heavily inside the agency because it makes us faster. It does not make us lazier. Every piece of client work is reviewed by a human who would be embarrassed to send it if it was not good.

No. 03

Australian first, because you are.

We know the regions, the councils, the trades, the professional bodies, the local Google rules, the time-zone pain of dealing with overseas vendors. You hire a Sydney office that speaks your language and knows your market.

No. 04

Honest work compounds.

We do not chase shortcuts that disappear the next algorithm update. We build content, trust signals, and authority that stays yours. Quietly, predictably, year after year.

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About Brain Buddy AI.

Who is Brain Buddy AI?

Brain Buddy AI is an Australian AI search company based in Sydney, founded in 2022 by Jayson Munday. Brain Buddy helps businesses across Australia get found in AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini, as well as in traditional Google search.

What does Brain Buddy AI do?

Brain Buddy manages the whole job of getting a business recommended by AI engines. That covers GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation), AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation) and SEO, delivered as one programme. Brain Buddy handles the content, the schema, the entity signals and the monthly tracking, and a senior SEO approves every change before it ships. Businesses that prefer to self-serve can use Brain Buddy Studio at studio.brainbuddy.ai.

Where is Brain Buddy AI based?

Brain Buddy AI works from Stone and Chalk at Tech Central in Haymarket, Sydney, and serves clients across every Australian state and territory. Brain Buddy AI Pty Ltd trades under ABN 81 673 063 155.

Who founded Brain Buddy AI?

Brain Buddy AI was founded by Jayson Munday in Sydney in 2022. The Brain Buddy team has worked together in search and digital since 2003, across Australian, US and European markets.

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What makes Brain Buddy AI different from other SEO agencies in Sydney?

Brain Buddy AI specialises in optimising for both traditional Google search and AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude. Founded by experts with 21+ years in search marketing, we're one of the few agencies building specifically for the era where customers ask AI for recommendations.

How long has Brain Buddy AI been in business?

Brain Buddy AI has been providing SEO and digital optimisation services since 2003, giving us over 21 years of experience in search engine optimisation. We've evolved from traditional blue-links SEO to pioneering AI-driven AEO and GEO strategies.