About Linkade

Link building for founders who'd rather be building

Linkade is a link building tool that finds relevant sites and pitches them for links, helping SaaS and ecommerce founders rank on Google and get recommended by AI.

2026Founded
San Diego, CAHeadquarters
BootstrappedNo outside funding
Our story

The link building founders never get to

Jake founded Linkade in San Diego in 2026. It does the slow part of link building: it finds sites that fit, finds the right person and writes one email for each. The customer approves each email, or turns on Autopilot.

JakeFounder, San Diego, CA
“I built Linkade because outreach for my own projects always lost to the roadmap. The tools wanted me to spam a thousand strangers, and the agencies wanted a retainer. So I made the thing I wished existed.”

Jake founded Linkade in 2026 and writes the guides and comparisons on this site. Send corrections or questions to:

hello@linkade.ai
Who it's for

For founders and the agencies they hire

Anyone building links to their own site, or to a client's.

SaaS founders

Building links to their own site after launch, when the first guides are live but stuck below page one on a new domain with few links.

Ecommerce and online businesses

Stores and other online businesses at the same stage, with guides, tools or product pages another site could reasonably link to.

Agencies

Building links for several clients at once, each in its own workspace.

What Linkade does

Every step of link outreach in one place

The research and the writing, from finding a site to checking the link.

Finds sites

Reads your site for its market, keywords and competitors, then finds sites through competitor backlinks, search results and web research.

Judges fit

Judges each site on its metrics and its fit with your business. Turns down competitors, sites that don't publish and sites outside your market.

Finds the contact

Uses a contact the publisher prints on its site, or one it has verified. Never a guessed address.

Writes the pitch

One short first email per site that asks whether they are interested, with no link until they say yes. Approve each one, or turn on Autopilot.

Sends from its own mailbox

A separate sender domain, warmed up before its first email, sends at a steady pace through the day. Your own domain never sends a pitch.

Watches every link

Sorts each reply for you to answer, then keeps checking every placed link and marks it live, lost or changed.

Where Linkade fits

How Linkade compares

What each tool is built for, and what it does better than Linkade.

LinkadeAsks each site first and offers the link only after a yes, emails only printed or verified contacts, and keeps checking every placed link
BuzzStreamOutreach CRM for teams that research and write their own pitches, with deeper team featuresLinkade vs BuzzStream
PitchboxOutreach platform for agencies, with more integrations and white-label client reportsLinkade vs Pitchbox
ResponaSells link placements as a managed service, and guarantees each one goes liveLinkade vs Respona
MentionAgentAI agent that pitches blogs ranking for your buyers' searches, and also tracks brand mentions in ChatGPT, Claude and GeminiLinkade vs MentionAgent
BacklinkGPTAI agent for business owners that also pitches on LinkedIn and negotiates when a site asks for a feeLinkade vs BacklinkGPT
Key facts

Linkade at a glance

Company
Linkade
Type
Link building tool
Founded
2026
Founder
Jake
Headquarters
San Diego, California, United States
Funding
Bootstrapped
Website
linkade.ai
Contact
hello@linkade.ai
FAQ

Questions about Linkade

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