StudioHawk
Melbourne SEO and AI search agency founded in 2015, with Sydney, London and Atlanta teams and four APAC Best Large SEO Agency wins.
Proofs
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Case studies
Named, public, with a stated result. An unnamed client story does not count.
Founders
- Founded Hawk Academy, a free SEO and AI search training platform
What they do
- Services
- GEO · SEO · Technical SEO · Local SEO · Link building · Digital PR · Content SEO
- Industries
- Ecommerce · Healthcare · SaaS
- Regions served
- US, UK, Australia, APAC
- Monthly budget
- Under $2k/mo
- Team size
- 51-200
- Founded
- 2015
- Address
- 39/41 Mount St, Prahran, VIC 3181
- Pricing
- On request
About
StudioHawk is a specialist SEO agency headquartered in Prahran, Melbourne, with a Sydney office and staff in London and Atlanta. Harry Sanders founded it in 2015 at 17 and is still listed as founder and director. The site claims a team of more than 120, and Clutch lists 50 to 249 employees. Services cover technical, local, ecommerce, international and enterprise SEO, link building, digital PR and content, plus an AI SEO line that names generative engine optimization, ChatGPT and Gemini optimization, and a white paper on answer engine optimization.
The evidence base is large. The case study library lists more than 60 named clients, and several report AI search results: Cooper & Co AI referral sessions up from 759 to 7,825 year on year, and Genea Fertility AI Overview placements up from 89 to 191 in one quarter. Other cases include JobAdder, QuickBooks APAC and Officeworks. These are the agency's own figures. The APAC Search Awards winners pages list StudioHawk as Best Large SEO Agency in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026, and the 2026 Global Search Awards gave it Best Local Campaign (SEO): Large. Clutch shows 4.8 from 6 reviews, with a $1,000 minimum project and an hourly rate of $150 to $199.
Pricing is not published; proposals are bespoke and the site states there are no lock-in contracts. The Clutch review count is small for an agency this size. The site cites a Google review count but no live Google profile was opened, so none is recorded. A Google Partner claim was not checked against Google's directory.
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