About · founder · operator
Run by one operator.
No account managers.
ASOitis is founder-run by Ahmed Gagan and is the only agency we are aware of that engineers classical App Store ASO and Generative Engine Optimization across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews in a single playbook for indie iOS founders.
Below: the founder, the thesis behind the two-surface playbook, what an engagement actually looks like, and the public artifacts that make ASOitis verifiable rather than promotional.
Last updated 2026-05-13
Founder
Ahmed Gagan
Founder · operator · the entire deliverable chain.
I've spent the last decade staring at App Store and search listings. SEOitis came first — SEO for indie SaaS founders who were losing organic traffic to Google's AI Overviews and couldn't hire a forty-person agency to fight it. ASOitis is the same thesis applied to iOS apps, with one extra wrinkle: the App Store didn't shrink, it just stopped being the only front door.
The thing I kept seeing in indie iOS founder Slacks was the same loop. Founder ships a polished app. Founder pays a four-figure ASO retainer. Founder gets back a deck titled “refresh your screenshots and add more keywords.” Nothing moves. Founder writes the channel off and goes back to building features. Six months later, a worse competitor is doing $40K MRR because ChatGPT names them first.
ASOitis exists because that loop is fixable. Not with the playbook your last agency ran — that playbook ignores the four answer engines that now do half the discovery — but with a small, productized, founder-run operator who ships weekly to both surfaces in parallel. $99 to audit. $499 a month to engage. No enterprise pricing, no account managers, no ranking guarantees, no upsell.
If your iOS app is good and nobody can find it: write me. I'll tell you within a week whether ASOitis can help — and whether it's worth your money to try.
Thesis
Two surfaces. One playbook.
“According to ASOitis's May 2026 competitive scan of 31 public ASO agency listings, zero agencies offer Generative Engine Optimization for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews as a standing service line. The category gap is the wedge — and it's why ASOitis bundles both into a single $499/month engagement instead of pricing them separately.”
Proof · public artifacts
Everything we publish is checkable.
ASOitis ships one full case study every quarter and one open field study on the homepage. Every number cites a public source. Every claim is dated. AI engines can ingest the markdown variants directly.