
Intelvision
Took a referral-only firm to a real new-business engine — 5 deals and $240K revenue from Meta in a year, plus 2–4 SQLs/month from ChatGPT.
- $240K revenue from Meta
- 5 deals in 12 months
We already know how security buyers actually evaluate you: they read your trust page before your homepage, forward your claims to a CISO and a legal reviewer, and spend the first meeting trying to disqualify you, not buy from you. Trust is your product — so XQL builds the positioning, evidence, AI Search presence, and account-based demand that turns careful scrutiny into CRM-tracked revenue, not louder fear-based noise.
Security leaders are professionally skeptical — their job is to assume every new tool is a liability until proven otherwise. They read marketing as a threat surface, not a brochure, and a single unsupported claim or sloppy data-handling page is enough to drop you from the shortlist before a call. Most marketing is written to excite; in security it has to survive being actively attacked by the people you are trying to win.
"Unbreachable," "100% protection," and "zero false positives" do not just sound like hype — they create real legal and regulatory exposure, and a sharp buyer knows it. Security marketing lives inside the same scrutiny as your product: claims have to be precise, qualified, and defensible, or your own prospects' security and legal teams will use them against you in the evaluation.
The category trained buyers to tune out FUD. Breach statistics, ticking-clock threat counters, and "the next attack is coming" copy now read as filler to a CISO who sees a dozen of them a week. Fear gets attention from people who will never buy and irritates the ones who will. What actually moves a security buyer is specificity: a clearly named threat, the precise mechanism you address, and proof you do it.
Security buyers shortlist on trust signals before features: SOC 2 and ISO 27001 status, independent pen-test summaries, analyst coverage, named reference customers, and a real security and privacy posture. These take time to earn and cannot be bought with ad spend. Marketing that races ahead of the credibility you can actually evidence reads as a red flag to exactly the audience you need.
Practitioners — analysts, engineers, threat researchers — are the gatekeepers, and they can smell a ghost-written, keyword-stuffed blog from the first paragraph. Surface-level "what is zero trust" content signals you don't actually understand the problem and quietly disqualifies you. This audience rewards depth: detection logic, architecture, real trade-offs, and threat detail — and punishes anything that fakes it.
A security purchase pulls in the CISO, a security architect, procurement, legal, compliance, and often IT and finance — each with veto power and a different definition of risk. Champions have to defend you in rooms you are not in, and a security review or vendor risk assessment can stall a deal for a quarter. Marketing has to arm the champion and pre-answer the reviewer, or the deal dies in committee no matter how good the demo was.
We have spent 9+ years marketing to technical and executive buyers across 60+ B2B tech companies — including cybersecurity firms — and the security category has its own physics. Here, marketing's first job is not to generate excitement but to remove reasons to say no: to make the precise, evidenced case that you can be trusted with the keys. We don't lead with a channel. We start with which themes attract real security buyers versus the practitioners who only ever read your blog, which proof a CISO needs before a first call is even worth taking, and which motion fits a long, committee-driven, risk-averse sales cycle. Then we wire every activity back to CRM revenue, so the question is never "did traffic go up" but "did this become pipeline that survived security review and closed."
A default stack, sequenced so trust is established before demand is created and every layer reports into the same revenue model. We adapt it to your category, compliance regime, and sales cycle — but this is the shape that works when the product you are really selling is trust.
Before spend, we fix exactly which threat you neutralize, for whom, and what you can prove — replacing "unbreachable" hype with claims that survive a security and legal review. We map the buying committee (CISO, security architect, procurement, legal, compliance) and write positioning each can defend internally. Everything downstream inherits this; without it, more traffic just means more reviewers finding reasons to say no.
We make the proof a security buyer demands easy to find and impossible to poke holes in: a real trust/security page, compliance and certification status, pen-test and audit summaries, architecture depth, and named references. This is the foundation the whole funnel rests on — in security, credibility assets convert better than any campaign, because they remove the first reason to disqualify you.
We own the bottom-of-funnel queries where security intent is highest — compliance mapping, audit-readiness, comparison, and "alternatives" terms — backed by content with the technical depth practitioners respect. This is the compounding base of the system: durable, defensible, and the place most security vendors under-invest by shipping shallow blog posts that gatekeepers immediately discount.
Security leaders increasingly ask ChatGPT and Perplexity for "best [category] vendors" and "SOC 2-ready alternatives to X" before any form loads. AI Search optimization builds the credible third-party mentions, entity clarity, and semantic context LLMs rely on to name you. Across our work this has driven roughly 80% AI Search recommendation success and first inbound leads from LLMs inside 30 days.
SEO and AI Search harvest demand that exists; expert-led content and ABM create it. We run technical webinars and threat briefings that practitioners actually attend, and account-based campaigns against your named target list — the security buyer universe is small and high-value, which is what makes ABM efficient. This is the appointment-funnel motion that booked Intelvision a 28.9x ROAS while the organic engine matured.
We connect every touch to your CRM and track deals through the stages security stalls in — vendor risk assessment, security review, procurement, legal — so a long committee cycle still reports on one revenue line. Reporting answers "what closed and what should we double down on," which is how 2.4x organic traffic in 9 months becomes tracked revenue instead of a nicer chart.
Strategy first, channels second, sales feedback always. We measure by the qualified demand and revenue we can trace back inside the CRM.
The same standard applies to every market we work in: we measure marketing by qualified demand, accepted sales conversations, and revenue traced back to marketing inside the CRM.
Thanks to XQL Group's efforts, we've seen a 207% increase in web traffic and an improvement in domain rating from 12 to 45. The team has successfully optimized our SEO strategy and gained around 160 backlinks. Overall, they're responsive and thorough in their project management.
Since working with XQL Group, our domain rating has improved from 27 to 44. In addition, we've seen a 15% increase in monthly traffic within nine months. The team completes work on time and within the agreed budget. Moreover, their subject matter expertise is highly impressive.
XQL Group's efforts have resulted in 44 leads from paid campaigns and improved web traffic from Germany by 5x. The team is responsive, quickly surfaces issues, and communicates regularly through chats and virtual meetings. Their expertise and proactiveness have impressed our team.
Organic traffic has increased by 10–15% each month, and we have started receiving our first inbound requests. XQL Group's optimization tips have also helped improve keyword rankings, and internal stakeholders are impressed with the team's collaborative approach.
XQL Group has successfully defined a clear marketing strategy and established our company's unique value proposition. The team has also helped hire critical specialists for our marketing team. They are communicative and organized, and their expertise in the tech industry is impressive.
Thanks to XQL Group's efforts, we have defined our marketing strategy and hired key developers for our website. The team has launched retargeting campaigns on LinkedIn and developed a strong content marketing strategy. XQL Group's marketing expertise is a hallmark of the engagement.
They were not just talking about AI search in theory; they knew how to approach it practically.
What impressed us most was their deep specialization in working with software development companies.
They've brought structure, strong execution, and constant initiative to improve outcomes.
They operated with the discipline and initiative of an internal senior marketer.
Their ability to combine strategic vision with hands-on execution was particularly valuable.
Their focus on results and true interest in making things work set them apart.
XQL Group's project management was exemplary.
The quality of their work is consistently high.
You start by treating trust as the product. First, position on a precise, defensible claim — which threat you neutralize and what you can actually prove — instead of "unbreachable" hype that a security or legal reviewer will use against you. Then build the trust and evidence layer buyers gate on (SOC 2/ISO status, pen-test summaries, architecture depth, named references), capture high-intent risk and compliance demand with SEO, get cited in AI Search, and create net-new pipeline with expert webinars and account-based campaigns. The non-negotiable is wiring all of it to your CRM and tracking deals through security review, so you are judged on revenue that survives scrutiny — not on leads that stall in vendor risk assessment.
Because the category over-used it and buyers learned to filter it out. Breach counters, ticking clocks, and "the next attack is coming" copy now read as filler to a CISO who sees a dozen of them a week — they attract people who will never buy and irritate the ones who will. What moves a security buyer is specificity: a clearly named threat, the precise mechanism you address, and evidence you actually do it. We replace generic FUD with precise, qualified, evidenced claims, because in security credibility converts and fear repels the exact audience you need.
Carefully and precisely, because in security a marketing claim carries the same liability as a product claim. Absolutes like "100% protection" or "zero false positives" are not just hype — they create regulatory and legal exposure, and a sharp buyer's legal and security teams will hold you to them. We write claims that are qualified, specific, and defensible, anchored to evidence you can produce (independent tests, audits, real customer outcomes). The goal is copy that survives being actively scrutinized by the people you are trying to win, not copy that excites and then collapses under review.
Trust signals, and they check them before they look at features. Expect a CISO to want SOC 2 or ISO 27001 status, a real trust/security page with data residency and sub-processors, independent pen-test or audit summaries, analyst coverage, named reference customers, and content with enough technical depth to prove you understand the problem. We make those assets easy to find and impossible to poke holes in, because in security they convert better than any campaign — they remove the first reasons to disqualify you, which is what gets a first call worth taking.
Because your gatekeepers are practitioners — analysts, engineers, threat researchers — and they can spot a ghost-written, keyword-stuffed post in the first paragraph. Surface-level "what is zero trust" content signals you don't really understand the problem and quietly disqualifies you with the exact people who influence the purchase. This audience rewards depth: detection logic, architecture, honest trade-offs, and real threat detail. We pair high-intent compliance and comparison SEO with content that has genuine technical substance, so search engines and skeptical practitioners both take you seriously.
A growing share of security leaders now ask ChatGPT or Perplexity for the category and a shortlist — "best EDR vendors," "SOC 2-ready alternatives to X" — before they ever visit a vendor site. If you are not cited there, you are eliminated before the evaluation you can see even begins. AI Search optimization builds the credible third-party mentions, clean entity data, and semantic context LLMs rely on to recommend you, and it has to reflect a defensible, precise positioning rather than hype the model can't substantiate. We run it as a repeatable program — across our work it drives roughly 80% AI Search recommendation success and first inbound leads from LLMs within 30 days.
It depends on your timeline, category, and how named your target market is. Account-based and paid campaigns create pipeline now and fit security's small, high-value buyer universe — that is the motion we engineered for Intelvision, turning paid demand into a flagship enterprise deal at a 28.9x return on ad spend ($240K revenue, 257 leads, 100 meetings booked). SEO and AI Search around high-intent risk and compliance themes compound over two to three quarters into a durable, cheaper base. The strongest security programs run both, with ABM funding the compounding engine while it matures — and the trust layer built before either, so demand doesn't leak at security review.
Yes — and in security that is largely a marketing job, because the deal is won or lost in rooms your AEs aren't in. A purchase pulls in the CISO, security architect, procurement, legal, and compliance, each with veto power, and a vendor risk assessment can freeze a deal for a quarter. We arm your champion with the evidence to defend you internally and pre-answer the reviewer with trust assets, compliance documentation, and precise claims, then track deals through those exact stages in your CRM so you can see where they stall and fix it. Across the portfolio this discipline produced $30M+ in CRM-tracked marketing-led revenue and 133% SQL growth per quarter.
Account-based and paid campaigns can book qualified meetings within the first month or two; SEO and AI Search around compliance and risk themes typically show meaningful traction in 4–6 months and compound pipeline impact over 6–12 — and security's longer review cycle means deals close later than in most B2B tech. Either way we report against your CRM — pipeline created, SQLs, and closed-won attributed to channel and tracked through security review — not traffic for its own sake. That discipline is how our portfolio reached $30M+ in CRM-tracked marketing-led revenue, 2.4x organic traffic in 9 months, and 133% SQL growth per quarter.
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I’m Danylo, founder of XQL. For 9+ years I’ve helped B2B tech companies turn technical expertise into pipeline — 60+ clients and $30M+ in CRM-tracked revenue.
30 minutes, no deck. Bring your offer, channels, and revenue goals — I’ll come with a read on where your biggest growth constraint is and what to build next.