Maeva Cifuentes is founder and CEO of Flying Cat, a Los Angeles SEO and answer engine optimization agency for B2B SaaS companies. She has worked in SEO and localization for more than 15 years, leads search strategy for clients including D2L, Klaviyo, CoVet, and Blue J, and writes The Search Spot, a newsletter on search and AI for marketing leaders.
A Translator Who Became an SEO
Flying Cat's about page says Cifuentes is a first-generation American and the daughter of Colombian and French immigrants, and that she began her career in translation and localization. That start became the base of the agency's international practice across France, Germany, Spain, and Italy. She speaks English, French, and Spanish and oversees every international program with native SEO specialists.
The agency, founded in 2020, takes its name from her rescue cat Buddy. The page tells the story of his six-story jump in 2018 and closes with a line about the firm's style: "We bring that bold energy to organic growth. Unlike Buddy, we look before we leap."
The D2L Case She Wrote
Cifuentes is the byline on the agency's D2L case study, published in October 2026. It reports that the share of tracked AI answers recommending D2L, the maker of Brightspace, rose from 12 percent to 33 percent between December 2025 and September 2026, that demo requests from organic search and LLMs grew 73 percent, and that demo requests from ChatGPT were 3.2 times the prior year. D2L's CMO, Brian Finnerty, is quoted calling it "a very powerful endorsement of the early work we've been doing on LLM visibility."
The figures are the agency's and its client's own.
Founder-Led, With a Freelance Bench
The about page describes the model plainly. Cifuentes sets strategy, reviews deliverables, and leads every quarterly business review, while specialist freelancers handle writing, technical SEO, outreach, and translation. Pricing there runs from $2,000 a month for advisory work and from $4,000 a month for hands-on programs. Buyers who want one named senior strategist on every account will find that here, and buyers who want a large in-house team will not.