ITERATE YOUR MARKETING

Itera, Inc. is a marketing technology company in Tokyo building LLMOcheki, an AI agent for measuring and improving AI search optimisation (LLMO). When AI such as ChatGPT or Gemini summarises and recommends information, we optimise so that your information is correctly chosen and cited. Measurement, improvement and execution are all delivered through our own products.

CLIENTS

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* Clients across all of our services

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WHO WE ARE

Search has moved from looking things up to asking.
In any industry, only a handful of brands get named in an AI answer.And nobody has ever seen the criteria behind that selection.
We started by measuring that black box.We put statistically significant volumes of questions to eight AI engines,and turn which brands get cited, and why, into data.
Instinct that goes untested stays instinct.Measure, improve, then measure again.Only this repetition turns coincidence into results you can reproduce.

ITERATE YOUR MARKETING

We are Itera, Inc.

To make marketing that delivers results the norm.

Enough hypotheses. Let us start measuring

What cannot be measured
cannot be improved.

PRODUCTS

Turning "chosen by AI"into an observable metric.

"AI never mentions us." What makes this problem so awkward is that nobody can see what is happening. Our products statistically observe mentions and citations in AI search, improve them, then observe the effect again. Marketing in the AI era, which tends to collapse into opinion, becomes something you can handle with metrics and iteration.

DIGITAL MARKETING

Digital marketing

01

LLMO programme support

Starting from LLMOcheki observation data, we provide ongoing support for the information architecture and content needed to be cited in AI search. The effect of each measure is verified at the next measurement.

02

SEO

Improving organic traffic across three fronts: keyword design, internal structure and content. Run alongside LLMO, it builds a state of being chosen in both AI search and conventional search.

03

LLMO for recruitment

Employer communications for an era in which candidates ask AI "what is this company like?" We shape job listings, employee profiles and organisational culture into a form AI can cite correctly.

04

Landing page & website production

Site design that assumes measurement after launch. From a fast start with HP BOOSTER to running the improvement cycle, we handle it end to end.

05

Web & social advertising

We design and run advertising on Google, Meta and every major social platform. Creative is cycled from production through verification, managing both cost per acquisition and reproducibility.

06

In-house enablement

Hands-on support to get your own team running operations independently. Tool adoption, team design and codifying knowledge all reduce external dependency.

You cannot pick the right answer first.
So you close in through repetition.

How we work

ITERATION MODEL

Results = Measurement × Improvement × Iterations

We do not bet on thinking up a brilliant tactic. Measure where you stand, form a hypothesis, execute, then verify the difference. How fast and how often you can complete that loop — that is the only variable. Nothing depends on individual flashes of inspiration, which is why anyone can get close to a result. This is how Itera works, and it is the design philosophy behind our products.

01MeasureEstablish where you stand with data
02HypothesiseExplain the difference structurally
03ExecuteChange the information architecture and content
04VerifyMeasure the effect again and go round once more

Let us talk in data,
not in opinions.

Our research

RESEARCH & DATA

How has AI search changed search behaviour? Every week we record that change through continuous observation of 900 queries across 30 industries, and publish it free as a shared asset for the industry.

86.5%
AI Overview appearance rate. The top of the results page is already occupied by an AI answer.
51.9%
Estimated fall in click-through for the top organic result. The value of "ranking first" is structurally eroding.
59%
Zero-click rate. More than half of users get their answer before visiting any site.
30industries×900queries
One of Japan's largest continuous LLMO studies, updated weekly.

* All figures from Itera's own research.

Reproducible results are
the deliverable.

ITERATE PROJECT

A major real-estate brokerage × Itera
Question
"What conditions make AI search cite us rather than our competitors?"
What we tested
Implemented structured property data and FAQ schema, then continuously measured recommendation frequency in ChatGPT
Result
AI citation rate 12% 58% 3 months
A B2B SaaS startup × Itera
Question
"How is our technical content being evaluated by AI?"
What we tested
Optimised the engineering blog for LLMO and strengthened structured data, then tracked citation sources by engine
Result
AI citation rate 5% 65% 4 months Traffic via Perplexity up 8×
A D2C brand × Itera
Question
"Does product recommendation in AI search carry over into branded search?"
What we tested
Continuously measured product recommendations in AI search and implemented structured product data
Result
Branded searches 1,200/mo 3,000/mo 4 months

Not a company that stands out —
a company you cannot do without.

COMPANY

MISSION

To make marketing that
delivers results the norm.

We want to end the era in which the success of marketing is decided by one person's instinct and experience. Our aim is to make a reproducible process, grounded in measurement and iteration, standard equipment at every company.

VISION

To become the marketing
infrastructure of the AI era.

The route connecting companies to their customers is being replaced, from search engines to AI. We are the platform responsible for measuring and optimising that new route — aiming to become as unremarkable and as essential as electricity or running water.

Iterate your Marketing.

Shape the market
from its very definition.

Working at Itera

CAREER

Creating new value
at the moment AI is shifting
the ground beneath
marketing

LLMO is a field with no textbook yet. Itera publishes an LLMO measurement standard, and has been designing how this market gets measured in the first place. Under a leadership team that has been through two exits, you get an environment that iterates rapidly across product, data and content. Careers that involve defining a market — rather than competing in a finished one — do not come around often.

Is your brand
being chosen by AI?

You do not have to answer from guesswork.
Start by measuring.

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