Luke McLaughlin
AI Marketing & Search Lead · Munich, Germany

Luke McLaughlin

GEO and AI search · Technical SEO · AI marketing automation

Luke is a B2B marketing professional with more than ten years in biotech, life sciences and SaaS, specialising in AI search visibility. He builds on a technical SEO foundation — site architecture, structured data, Core Web Vitals and topic clusters — to deliver generative engine optimisation: making brands crawlable, retrievable and cited by AI answer engines.

He builds AI marketing tools, from GEO auditing software to LLM content workflows and local AI agents, and works hands-on in Python, SQL and both cloud and local open-weight models. He holds an MSc in Molecular Biology from Birkbeck, University of London.

Results from his marketing work include €4.1M+ in qualified pipeline, a 49% reduction in customer acquisition cost and 48% organic traffic growth.

Curriculum vitae. Two pages, PDF, updated October 2026.

Focus areas

What Luke works on

AI search & GEO

Visibility in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity: AI-crawler access, llms.txt, entity optimisation, answer-ready content and citation analysis.

Technical SEO

Crawling and indexation, structured data, Core Web Vitals, site architecture, topic clusters and international SEO.

AI marketing operations

LLM content workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, brand voice and claims QA, and local open-weight models for private data.

Publications

Books by Luke McLaughlin

All four are free to download.

First edition · August 2026

The AI Search Handbook

A complete, self-contained guide to generative engine optimisation: how AI search retrieves, chunks, evaluates and cites information, and how to become a source an AI answer names.

  • Free
  • 391 pages
  • 62 chapters
  • PDF · 2.4 MB
2026 edition

AI Engineering Essentials

Sixteen chapters from NumPy and data preparation through classical machine learning, neural networks and PyTorch to NLP, embeddings, transformers, RAG and MLOps — every project with runnable code and its exact output.

  • Free
  • 854 pages
  • 16 chapters
  • PDF · 21.4 MB
2026 illustrated learning edition

From Marketing to Technical Marketing

An illustrated learning path for marketers who want to understand the instructions and build something useful: 52 chapters across ten parts, with a companion pack of runnable exercises and solutions.

  • Free
  • 874 pages
  • 52 chapters
  • PDF · 17.0 MB
  • + companion pack

Working on AI search or technical SEO?

Luke’s full profile, experience and contact details are on his personal website.