The People Behind The Machine

Meet The Founders

Four operators who got tired of watching agents burn money on broken systems. So we built something that actually works.

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Our Mission

We exist because 97% of real estate websites get less than 100 visits a month.

We analysed over 25,000 websites before we launched FlyDragon to see how bad the traffic problem was in real estate. Over 20,000 agents paying between $250 - $2,000 a month seeing no ROI from their website.

With the introduction of AI search, we knew that number would get worse, not better, if something didn't change. Since our inception, agents see a 1000% increase in traffic from AI search engines within the first 90 days. These websites now generate inbound leads. We've solved the problem so many agents have had for years. And we did it fast.

Our Story
The Problem

Agents Were Invisible

After years generating 400,000+ leads across every channel — Facebook, Google, email, TV, radio — one truth kept resurfacing: organic leads convert best. But AI search was rewriting the rules and nobody was paying attention.

The Insight

AI Changed Everything

When ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity started answering "who's the best agent in Dallas?" — a whole new game opened up. The agents who moved first would own their market. We decided to build the machine that gets them there.

The Build

FlyDragon Was Born

Four operators — strategy, sales, automation, and content — came together with one mission: make real estate agents impossible for AI to ignore. Entity-first architecture. LLM-ready content. Market exclusivity. No fluff.

Why Us, Why Now

The $200B real estate marketing industry is being rewritten by AI. We're the only team built to win it.

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The Market Is Moving

AI search is the fastest-growing discovery channel in real estate. ChatGPT alone processes 1B+ searches per week. Agents who aren't visible in AI don't exist to the next generation of buyers and sellers. This isn't a trend — it's an extinction event for traditional lead gen.

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Nobody Else Does This

Traditional SEO agencies optimize for Google. We optimize for every LLM — ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity — simultaneously. Our entity-first architecture and schema markup strategy is purpose-built for how AI models discover, evaluate, and recommend agents. No other agency has this playbook.

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Built-In Moat

Market exclusivity means each new client locks out competitors in their locality. Once an agent signs, their competitors can't access our system in that market. This creates compounding defensibility — every deal we close strengthens our grip on the category.

Why This Team

Ryan 12 yrs in SEO. $100m+ generated. Architected AI visibility frameworks from scratch.
Tim 7 yrs as Curaytor's first COO. Coached 1,000+ agents. Built the sales engine doing 70+ markets in year one.
John Infrastructure and AI automation. Keeps data pipelines, orchestration, and monitoring running at scale 24/7.
JD Scaled TripAdvisor strategy. 100,000s of leads generated. Runs the content engine ranking 300+ sites monthly.
Our Growth

From first client to 100+ markets in under a year.

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Market acquisition trajectory — FlyDragon's first 12 months

250%

Average AI traffic increase within 120 days

$4m+

Generated for agents every 6 weeks on average

6 weeks

Average time to first AI-generated phone call

1m+

Brand impressions delivered across AI platforms

Trusted Across The Industry

Agents trust us. Brokerages trust us. AI trusts us.

Partnered with agents at
Compass Berkshire Hathaway Sotheby's Keller Williams RE/MAX Century 21 Realty ONE
Our agents are cited on
ChatGPT Google Gemini Perplexity Grok
$640K

Listing under agreement from a seller who found our agent on ChatGPT and sold above asking.

— LeAnne Caswell
$1.3M

In buyer pipeline from two phone calls generated by a single press release in Katelyn's core markets.

— Katelyn Warren
$30K

In secured GCI within the first 14 days of ranking #1 in AI search for Tracie and Brian.

— Tracie Chernowski

The Team

Four operators. One mission.

Ryan Darani

Co-Founder & Chief AI Strategist

12 yrs SEO $100m+ generated 50K+ audience built organically

"You need to capitalise on AI today. I've seen too many businesses lose because they were afraid to invest."

Tim Harvey

Co-Founder & CEO

7 yrs COO at Curaytor 1,000+ agents coached

"AI is already one of the best referral channels. Agents who move first."

John Mackin

Co-Founder & AI Automation Specialist

Data pipelines at scale 24/7 uptime systems Cost-optimized cloud ops

"AI only works at scale when the rails are solid. We provide agents with speed, stability, and trust."

Jonathan "JD" Dioli

Co-Founder & AI Content Master

Scaled TripAdvisor strategy 100Ks of leads generated 300+ sites ranked/month

"AI amplifies what's already strong. Our job is to build the content foundation."

Supported by a dedicated operations team

Beyond the founding team, FlyDragon is powered by specialists in content production, editorial QA, technical SEO, client success, and platform engineering — scaling delivery across 100+ markets without sacrificing quality.

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