SEO doesn't generate ROI through execution. It generates ROI when there's a strategy capable of finding the right opportunities.

The technical side of SEO is necessary, but it stopped being a differentiator. What separates companies that merely show up on Google from those that turn search into revenue is the ability to understand the market, uncover hidden opportunities, and align digital positioning with the customer's buying behavior.

At Próximo Passo, we combine business acumen, market analysis, and SEO expertise to build strategies that go beyond keywords and rankings. We investigate where your company can gain ground, which demands your competitors are ignoring, and which moves can generate the greatest commercial return.

+R$ 11,4M

generated via organic

93%

stay 18+ months

GEO

positioning in AI search

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Organic marketing strategies for B2B

Industries we master with the 3-Stage Method.

SaaS
Industry
Fintech
B2B Consulting

We build a content ecosystem that performs across multiple channels, positioning your company throughout the entire buying journey. We do SEO to generate ROI.

Companies that took the next step with Próximo Passo

Context and Diagnosis

Execution without direction is what keeps your SEO investment from paying off.

Almost every company that invested in SEO and saw no return did the same thing: they hired execution.

They hired a team or an agency to produce content and tweak the website. What they didn't have was the level above: someone with authority on the subject and the business acumen to diagnose what's really blocking the results and point out where the return is.

SEO that generates ROI isn't a volume of tasks, it's a strategic decision. Knowing which searches are worth revenue and which only generate traffic, where competitors left exploitable gaps, which technical or content bottleneck is holding everything else back, and in what order to act for the return to show up. These bottlenecks tend to be structural and far from obvious, which is why execution alone doesn't see them. Without that reading, the operation runs, the budget goes out, and the result never comes.

That's the work of the consulting: the strategic command that was missing. We diagnose the bottlenecks, identify the highest-return opportunities, direct your team toward the right execution, and track the results, always with the perspective of someone who thinks about your business, not just the technical side.

That's why, at Próximo Passo, we build an SEO strategy that puts your company in front of the customer right at the search stage and communicates the authority they need to see to trust you.

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Lower customer acquisition cost

Less dependency on ads and prospecting, so you spend less to win every new deal.

Revenue predictability

The right customers start arriving on a consistent basis, so revenue becomes easier to forecast.

A channel of your own

It keeps bringing in business even when you're not investing in paid media.

The cost of the problem

The cost of continuing to invest in SEO without direction.

Every month of execution without strategic command is budget spent without proportional return. You pay the team or the agency, and the results don't keep pace with the investment.

Lost time doesn't come back. While your operation runs without direction, a competitor who has that direction takes over the searches that convert, and every position they claim gets more expensive to win back later.

And the worst cost is the invisible one: concluding that "SEO doesn't work for my company." When what actually failed wasn't SEO, it was investing in execution without the strategy that makes it profitable.

Why do companies that invest in SEO keep seeing no return?

It's not a lack of investment, or of effort. It's that SEO without a business lens turns into a set of technical tasks disconnected from what actually generates revenue. Content gets produced that no one with buying intent is searching for, effort gets spent optimizing things that don't move revenue, and the result is activity without return. The turnaround isn't investing more, it's putting an authority with a business lens in command, so every action has a reason tied to your ROI. That's what our methodology does.

The Solution

How we lead your company to returns.

The consulting engagement is the strategic command of your SEO operation, led by someone with authority on the subject who thinks about your business. In practice:

Bottleneck diagnosis

A technical and content audit that reveals what's blocking your rankings and your return, including the structural issues that execution alone can't see.

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ROI opportunity mapping

SERP analysis, search intent, and competitive research to find the searches worth revenue and where there's exploitable space.

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Direction for your team

We set priorities, briefs, and standards, and guide your team through the right execution, instead of handing over a document and walking away.

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Ongoing tracking

We monitor execution and results, and adjust course based on the numbers, with the business perspective your team doesn't have on its own.

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Direction for AI search

We point the way for your company to be cited by generative engines, GEO and AEO, not just to rank on Google.

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ROI reading

Every recommendation is tied to business impact, and the return is measured through our own CRM, from the click to the revenue.

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We don't hand you a report to execute on your own. We take on the strategic direction and guide your team all the way to the result.

Case Study

From over a year with no return to +1,160% in organic clicks

An HVAC manufacturer where the diagnosis found what execution couldn't see.

HVAC · Southern Brazil22 years in business1+ year with no return

An HVAC manufacturer with 22 years in business, based in Southern Brazil, had already been doing SEO for over a year with no return. They had execution; they lacked direction. The diagnosis was honest and uncomfortable: the bottleneck was structural, not a matter of content volume, and no amount of execution would fix it.

Once the foundation was rebuilt on the right strategy, the result was a 1,160% increase in organic clicks. Proof that what separates effort from return is the right diagnosis, before execution, and the direction of someone who thinks about the business.

2.52K

organic clicks in 16 months

152K

impressions in the period

14.3

average Google position

Addressing Objections

The questions that decide the investment.

"I already invested in SEO, or in an agency, and got no return."

That's the starting point for most of our clients, and the reason is usually the same: they hired execution, not strategic direction. A completed task doesn't generate a return. The difference here is the command: we diagnose what blocked the result, point out where the ROI that the previous investment missed is hiding, and lead the operation to it. That's how an HVAC manufacturer went from over a year with no return to a 1,160% increase in organic clicks, after the diagnosis found what execution couldn't see.

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"I already have a team, or an agency, handling SEO."

The consulting doesn't replace that structure, it commands it. A team executes well what it's given; what's usually missing is the business perspective that defines what it should execute, and why. We come in as the strategic direction that turns the execution capacity you already have into return.

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"I need business results, not a technical report."

That's precisely our difference. SEO treated purely as a technical exercise generates tasks, not revenue. We work with a business lens: we identify the market opportunities that generate ROI and guide execution connected to that goal. The technical side is the means, the business result is the end.

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"With artificial intelligence, does this still generate return?"

It does, and it's already part of what we do. Beyond ranking on Google, we point the direction for your company to be cited by generative engines, GEO and AEO, where a growing share of buying decisions now begin. The consulting covers both, so your strategy isn't outdated before it even launches.

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Methodology

The way we build your authority works in three stages: what you already have, where the decision happens today, and the asset that keeps compounding from here on.

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Stage 01 · Past

We turn your experience into online authority.

Before publishing anything new, we audit the digital asset you already have: old content losing position, links leaking authority, mentions that aren't working for your brand. That past has value, and most agencies discard it. We recover it and build the new on top of it.

Stage 02 · Present

We secure your presence where the decision happens.

Today, search isn't just on Google. Your customer asks ChatGPT, searches on Perplexity, and checks LinkedIn before ever talking to a salesperson. We operate all three layers: technical and content SEO, GEO for generative AI, and cross-channel synchronization. The same asset works wherever the decision actually happens.

Stage 03 · Future

We build an asset that only grows over time.

Every piece of content published, every optimization, every mention earned adds up. The asset grows every month. And the reports speak your language as a business owner: how much your brand saved on paid media, how much authority it gained, and the real advantage it's building over the competition. We don't deliver average position. We deliver measured equity.

What Sets Us Apart

SEO focused on ROI.

Our report answers just one question: how much of your SEO investment turned into real commercial opportunity? Vanity metrics aren't the focus, revenue is.

To answer that, we operate our own CRM, which identifies the source of every lead and integrates the sales pipeline with the marketing strategy. In one place, you can see which channel brought in the opportunity and what stage of the sales process it's in, including contacts that arrive through AI search.

Strategic reporting on impressions, clicks, CTR, and rankings, always read through a business lens, never as an isolated number.
Our own CRM with the source of every lead, no extra tool and no SaaS cost.
ROI diagnosis: data converted into business insight, from the click to the revenue.

Our own CRM dashboard: leads, customers and revenue growth over 12 months

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More execution doesn't fix a lack of direction.

When SEO isn't paying off, the instinct is to do more: more content, more tweaks, more investment. But the problem is rarely volume, it's direction. Without someone with business acumen defining what to execute and why, doubling execution just doubles the cost of what wasn't working. What turns into return isn't how much gets done, it's the strategic command behind what gets done.

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We're an SEO agency founded in 2023 to generate results that go far beyond the monthly report.

What most SEO agencies see

Search volume
Rankings
Clicks generated

What Próximo Passo sees

Buying behavior
Market share
ROI generated

Who We Are

The minds behind the strategy.

We believe growth doesn't happen through isolated actions, but through continuously building visibility, authority, and demand throughout the buying journey.

Our job is to make sure companies get found by the right customers at the moment they're researching solutions, even before any sales contact happens.

Our focus is turning your brand into a benchmark in your industry, not as a talking point, but as a real presence at the moment the customer researches and decides which companies to consider hiring.

The company is led by its founders, Bruna Leme and Fabio Orlando, and backed by a technical team specialized in SEO, content, and digital strategy.

Bruna Leme

Co-founder, Commercial Lead

Connects strategy to your business and makes sure every deliverable is tied to revenue, not vanity metrics.

Fabio Orlando

SEO and GEO Strategist

Defines the technical roadmap that puts your brand ahead on Google and in generative AI.

Raul Klemp

Social Media and Content

Builds the authority that makes your brand remembered, cited, and chosen.

Frequently Asked Questions

You ask, we answer.

What does an SEO consulting engagement do?

It takes on the strategic command of your SEO operation. It diagnoses the bottlenecks blocking results, identifies the highest-return opportunities, directs your team toward the right execution, and tracks progress all the way to ROI, with a business perspective, not just a technical one.

How is this different from the full-service SEO offering?

In the full-service offering, execution is ours, end to end. In consulting, your company already has the execution structure, a team or an agency, and we take on the strategic direction: we diagnose, point out the opportunities, guide your team's execution, and track the return. In both cases, the goal is the same: generating ROI.

I've invested in SEO before and got no return. Why would this be different?

Because in most cases what was missing was direction, not execution. The difference here is authority on the subject combined with business acumen: we diagnose what blocked the result, find the ROI that the previous investment missed, and guide the operation to it, with ongoing tracking.

Do you only diagnose, or do you also follow through on execution?

We follow through. The diagnosis is just the start. After that, we direct your team's execution and adjust course based on the numbers, until the business result shows up.

How does the consulting engagement generate ROI?

By connecting every decision to a search with commercial intent and to a revenue impact. The return from the organic channel is cumulative: CAC tends to fall over time, and the LTV of customers who arrive through qualified search usually outperforms that of paid traffic. The return is measured through our own CRM, from the click to the revenue.

Does the consulting engagement include AI search?

Yes. We point the direction for your company to be cited by generative engines, GEO and AEO, because part of the buying journey has already migrated to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, with low overlap with traditional Google rankings.

How much does it cost?

The investment varies based on the size of the operation and the depth of the diagnosis. In our initial conversation, we scope the engagement and the expected return.

How long until the return shows up?

The diagnosis is delivered within the timeline defined in the scope. The return from execution is progressive: there's a maturation period leading up to the inflection point, and from there the results compound without depending on continuous media spend.

Próximo Passo

You've already invested in SEO. What's missing is someone to turn that investment into return.

We'll diagnose what blocked your results, point out where the ROI is, and guide your operation, and your team, all the way to it.

From over a year with no return to +1,160% in organic clicks: the HVAC case, after the right diagnosis.