Leading generative AI & SEO/GEO specialist · Digital strategist · Builder of the AI era
From organic search to RAG: 21 years understanding algorithms before they become the norm.
Published books Micro d'Or for eloquence Numerous talks 12 SaaS shipped
01The common thread
A single obsession: making a brand visible to the algorithm that decides what surfaces. From PageRank to the LLM, the thesis never moved — the world caught up with it.
Act I · ~2010
The era of the graph. Semantic cocoons and mathematical internal linking — Rank4Win industrializes the structure Google rewards.
Act II · 2015–2019
AI enters search. The machine learns to read: semantic content optimization becomes the new frontier.
Act III · 2023
The answer replaces the link. Prompt Engineering: he publishes one of the world's very first French-language manuals in the field.
Act IV · Today
Being the source the AI cites. LLMRanky measures brand visibility within generated answers.
"A true visionary doesn't chase trends: they hold a thesis the world eventually follows."
02Portrait
Maher Wannes is a leading SEO/GEO and generative AI specialist, entrepreneur, author and speaker. He is recognized across the global French-speaking web ecosystem as a top-tier expert and as a French-speaking pioneer of Prompt Engineering (the art of structuring and optimizing text instructions) applied to large language models (LLMs).
His philosophy: a scientific, mathematical and data-driven approach to the web — reverse-engineering algorithms and automating artificial intelligence. From France, through London to Málaga, the same move: understand the machine before it becomes the norm.
Leading SEO/GEO & AI specialist — Entrepreneur — Author — Speaker
03Expertise
Reverse-engineering Google's algorithms.
Search-engine marketing as a growth lever.
Cocoons & internal linking, a mathematical approach.
Global French-speaking pioneer, advanced frameworks for LLMs.
Generative Engine Optimization: visibility within AI answers.
Multi-agent systems, daemons, RAG.
Pipelines, agents, industrialization.
Auditing, hardening, 250-point checklists.
04The author & researcher
Global Pioneer
One of the world's very first practical manuals in French dedicated to the craft of Prompt Engineer, written before the world even realized it was a craft. Advanced frameworks and query structures to master LLMs and automate processes.
The mathematical guide to internal linking.
Adapting content to Google BERT & RankBrain.
05The speaker
Award
An elite improvisation contest born in Silicon Valley: improvising an entire talk over absurd slides, drawn at random live, in front of an expert audience (Google Developer Group).
The hardest demonstration of eloquence to fake there is. He won it.
Video marketing & semantic architectures.
"The perfect structure for Google."
SEM as a B2B growth lever.
AI at the Heart of the City: Steering Urban Transition at the Scale of a State.
From the prepared keynote to improv under pressure, the same reflex: making the complex crystal clear and getting an entire room behind an idea.
06Structures
Three structures, one shared standard: treating the web as a science, not a service — from the founding agency to the lab that supports governments and companies.
Nantes
IT consulting, web development and digital marketing. The founding structure, bedrock of hands-on expertise.
London
Technology laboratory. Applied scientific research in SEO/SEA and integration of artificial intelligence for governments and companies.
Málaga · today
Product & AI studio. The ecosystem's growth engine, source of the current SaaS portfolio.
07SaaS track record
Assisted semantic writing within WordPress.
Automated generation of Semantic Cocoons.
Technical SEO audit & competitive analysis. Generation of the perfect semantic structure.
Management of site networks (PBN).
Daily tracking of Google rankings.
Encrypted and secure video-conferencing solutions.
08AI-native portfolio
Flagship product · GEO
Measuring brand visibility within AI answers.
When your customers query ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity instead of Google, visibility is no longer measured in rankings but in presence within generated answers. LLMRanky measures, tracks and optimizes that visibility. It's the same quest as Rank4Win, carried into the era of LLMs. The vertical summit of 21 years of expertise.
Large-scale e-commerce content generation, optimized for conversion and indexing.
AI cinematic production: cloud rendering pipeline, structured video prompting.
Next-generation CMS, natively GEO/SEO/AI — structure and content designed for generative engines from the moment of publishing.
Distribution of 30 Claude Code agents: hybrid BYOK + included API model, dual-key routing, AES-256-GCM encryption.
09Research & development
Proof that he doesn't just advise: he designs, codes and operates production systems.
Universal Python asyncio daemon: Redis Streams, PostgreSQL/pgvector, APScheduler, Claude API.
AI verifiability framework: whitepaper, 43-slide deck and Claude Code skill, published in FR & EN.
Complete WaveSpeed AI pipeline, built in pure PHP.
Local/VPS open-source stack: Ollama + Open WebUI.
250-point checklist, continuous monitoring and tooling.
10Audience & education
Over 70,000 combined followers
61.7K on TikTok, 11.4K on Facebook, united around a single standard: learning.
Facebook Live
Signature format: live audits, screen sharing, real-time breakdown of Google's Core Updates.
Video channels
Advanced tutorials, interviews & masterminds on generative AI and growth hacking.
Bootcamps
Dozens of hours of modules: Prompt Engineering and semantic optimization.
Talks, lives & webinars — the replays settle in here, poster by poster.
11Value proposition
He turns vision into complete systems — daemons, encryption, multi-agents — where others stop at the slide.
AR · FR · ES, rooted in the Middle East & Spain: markets that mainstream tech doesn't know how to reach.
Transparency, ethics and verifiability (Trust Anchoring) built into the product from the design stage.
All the way to the final product, all the way to launch. He closes the loop, where the graveyard of ideas is full.
Sun Tzu → algorithms → coherent specs. He structures instead of stacking.
12What he brings
WebHope has already done it for governments and companies. Here are the concrete levers.
Making a brand, an institution or a country visible in generative engines.
Training teams and public administrations in Prompt Engineering and applied AI.
Designing and deploying custom products, secure and controlled end to end.
Automation, algorithmic reverse-engineering, measurable growth.
Access to Middle Eastern markets, trilingual content and interfaces.
Operational research: agents, RAG, verifiability, offensive security.
Each lever translates into an assignment, training or partnership let's talk about yours.
13Technical foundation
No black boxes, no dependencies imposed: he masters every layer, from server to model.
14FAQ
Maher Wannes is a generative AI, SEO and GEO specialist, entrepreneur, author and speaker. A French-speaking pioneer of Prompt Engineering, he designs multi-agent AI systems and SaaS products, and runs the MaFady studio from Málaga.
GEO optimizes a brand's visibility within the answers of generative AI (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity). Where SEO targets ranking in Google, GEO targets presence in generated answers — the natural extension of search optimization in the era of large language models.
Three areas: SEO/GEO consulting (web and AI visibility), training in Prompt Engineering and applied AI, and the custom design and development of sovereign SaaS platforms, secured end to end — for brands, institutions and governments.
His flagship book is "Ingénieur Prompt ChatGPT" (2023), one of the very first manuals worldwide, and in French, dedicated to Prompt Engineering. He has also published several white papers on the semantic cocoon and AI-driven semantic optimization.
Prompt Engineering is the art of designing the instructions (prompts) that effectively drive large language models (LLMs). Maher Wannes is a French-speaking pioneer of the field, author as early as 2023 of one of the first reference manuals on the subject.
Through the site's contact form or by email (contact@maher-wannes.com), with a reply within 1 hour. For any assignment, partnership, consulting, talk or training.
15Contact
Assignment, partnership, consulting or a talk — let's discuss your project: AI visibility, a sovereign platform, team training or applied R&D.
