About ContextRocket
ContextRocket is the first comprehensive AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) platform built for the AI-native search era. We help your brand earn visibility where it matters most - in AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.
As AI becomes the primary interface for information discovery, brands need new strategies to maintain visibility and authority. Traditional SEO optimizes for search engines. ContextRocket optimizes for how AI reads, understands, and cites content.
Our platform combines advanced AI analysis with proven content optimization principles to ensure your brand maintains visibility in the conversational AI landscape. We're building the future of content optimization, one AI interaction at a time.
Our Team
We're building the future of AI-powered content optimization, helping brands maintain visibility in the age of conversational AI.
Mark MacMahon
Founder & CEO/CTO
I founded ContextRocket out of a recent passion for AI agents and AI-assisted coding, combining it with my two lifelong pursuits: building world-class technology and applying the principles of marketing and branding to bring it to market. As a solo founder, I design, code, and ship the platform, while also guiding its brand, positioning, and strategy.
I have been working in the software industry since 1997, with a career spanning startups, venture building, and global enterprises. At Emuse Technologies (2002–2004), I worked on iChara, an innovative mobile avatar and interactive chat platform for NTT DoCoMo’s i-mode network in Japan. These early experiments foreshadowed today’s LLM-powered assistants and marked the beginning of my long interest in agent-driven systems.
At Daon, I developed biometric identity verification platforms for U.S. government agencies, combining high-security middleware with AI-like biometric matching. I also worked on DRM systems for Sony PlayStation and next-generation network solutions at Ericsson.
At Nokia (HERE), I led the Location Search team, delivering global-scale search and data services used worldwide. I later founded and sold the search startup Localstream, built an AI-powered audience intelligence platform at Future Demand for the sports and entertainment industry, and scaled engineering at FLOYT Mobility, where I led the transition of billiger-mietwagen.de and Carigami.fr to mobile apps with integrated car-sharing capabilities.
As Venture CTO at BCG Digital Ventures, I led the development of the first version of Heycar in less than six weeks, later becoming its founding CTO as the platform grew into one of Germany’s leading car marketplaces. In the media sector, I contributed to the SEO platform at WELT.de and the news recommendation engine at Upday, Samsung’s flagship news app.
More recently, I have gone deep into AI-assisted coding and large language models (LLMs), embedding these capabilities into ContextRocket from day one. Alongside building the company, I also work as a fractional CTO and Techstars startup mentor, leveraging a large European startup network to help founders and teams align technology with strategy and accelerate growth.
Originally from Dublin, I have been based in Berlin since 2009, working internationally across Europe and the United States.
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