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About Higglo · ABA marketing agency

The people behind the ABA marketing agency built like a growth engine.

Founded2017
Team20+ operators
BasedRemote · EU / NA / ME

Higglo started because too many behavioral health organizations were buying marketing that didn't understand the category they were marketing into. Six retainers, six dashboards, six different definitions of “success” - and intake teams still flooded with unqualified leads that never made it to the census line.

So we built the alternative. Six disciplines - SEO, GEO, digital PR, CRO, UX, and web development - wired into a single engine under one operator, one roadmap, and one P&L. Accountable to qualified inquiries clinical operations can actually onboard. Not rankings. Not impressions. Not press clips.

- The ABA marketing agency built like a growth engine, with a clinical conscience.
Operating principles

Six things we refuse to compromise on.

These aren't slogans on a careers page. They're the lines we've walked away from retainers over.

P.01

Measure pipeline, not rankings.

Keywords are leading indicators, not the scoreboard. Every dashboard we build terminates at qualified inquiries and booked consultations - the numbers your clinical ops team actually feels.

P.02

Trust is a compounding asset.

Caregivers research for weeks before picking up the phone. Entity clarity, earned authority, and a site that reads like a provider (not a funnel) compound across every touchpoint - and compound longer than any paid channel.

P.03

Fewer, better inquiries.

Lead quantity is easy. Lead quality is the thing that stops intake burnout and dead-end consults. We design conversion paths to surface fit early - even when that means fewer form fills.

P.04

Integrated or nothing.

Six disciplines, one roadmap, one scoreboard. We won't run SEO for a site we can't audit, or CRO for a funnel we can't instrument. Half-systems produce half-results.

P.05

Clinical language, handled with care.

ABA, autism, neurodiversity, payer relationships - these are sensitive, evolving categories. We work with your clinical leadership on tone and terminology before a single page goes live.

P.06

Say no to bad fit.

Not every engagement deserves a yes. If your numbers say the constraint is clinical capacity or payer mix, we'll say it plainly - even if it costs us the retainer.

Origin & milestones

Seven years, one stubborn thesis.

2017
Founded

Started as a two-person software engineering consultancy across the tech industry.

1 client · 2 operators
2020
Intake as a design problem

First CRO sprint reframed intake forms around caregiver decision states, not marketer KPIs.

CRO practice launched
2022
Six disciplines, one team

Consolidated SEO, CRO, UX, web dev, and PR into one studio. Dropped the "agency" label.

Studio model adopted
2025
GEO practice opens

Published the first behavioral-health entity framework for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI overviews.

GEO practice launched
2026
20+ operators · 40+ partners

Serving ABA, autism services, pediatric therapy, and adjacent behavioral-health categories across NA and EU.

Today
The core

The operators actually doing the work.

FounderPortrait of Michael Mitrakos
Michael Mitrakos
Founder · CEO & Strategy

CEO with a background in software engineering and SEO. Former CEO of DoubleTap Consulting. Over a decade leading engineering teams and driving organic growth for multi-location businesses.

StrategySEOGEOEngineering
FounderPortrait of Izzy Hamed
Izzy Hamed
Founder · CSO & Growth

Chief Sales Officer with 15+ years leading enterprise and multi-million dollar sales cycles. Specializes in closing complex deals and scaling revenue across competitive markets.

SalesGrowthOperations
LeadPortrait of Ayman
Ayman
Lead · Project Management

Technical project manager with experience delivering complex web and marketing systems. Owns execution, timelines, and cross-functional coordination from strategy through launch.

Project managementTechnical delivery
LeadPortrait of Nick
Nick
Lead · Project Management

Project manager focused on keeping multi-discipline engagements on schedule. Runs sprint planning, client cadence, and delivery QA across SEO, web, and CRO workstreams.

Project managementDeliveryClient cadence
Plus 17 more - analysts, researchers, writers, and engineers.
No account managers · No handoff tax
How the studio runs

A studio operating system, not a layered org chart.

Small pods. Direct operator access. The same six disciplines from kickoff through month twenty-four. Here's the boring part that makes the interesting results possible.

OS.01Roles

One pod, six disciplines

Every engagement is staffed with a cross-discipline pod - SEO, GEO, CRO, UX, web, PR - from day one. No "integration fee" six months in.

OS.02Access

Direct to operators

You talk to the person shipping the work. No account manager layer translating between you and the people writing the queries.

OS.03Cadence

Weekly build, monthly read

A 30-minute build sync weekly and a full pipeline-against-plan read monthly. Anything longer than an hour is a planning session, not a status call.

OS.04Measurement

Pipeline as the north star

Every dashboard terminates at qualified inquiries, booked consults, and census-line impact. Rankings and traffic are leading indicators - not the scoreboard.

OS.05Scope

Quarterly roadmap, rolling

We plan in 12-week horizons and revisit every four weeks. Strategy that can survive contact with your intake data, not PDFs that age in a drawer.

OS.06Exit

Handoff-ready by design

Our work documents itself. If you want to bring it in-house at month 18, you leave with the playbooks, dashboards, and training - not a dependency.

Engagement shape

What the first twelve months usually looks like.

Aggregated across 30+ long-running engagements. Your mileage will vary - intake capacity, payer mix, and clinical model all bend the curve.

Months 0–3 · DiagnoseFoundations
Focus
25%

Audits across SEO, GEO, CRO, UX, and web. Measurement plan installed. Entity map drafted. Early technical cleanup ships. Most of what you'll see in the dashboard this quarter is groundwork, not growth.

Months 4–8 · CompoundAcquisition ramp
Focus
58%

Content systems, GEO entity work, and CRO sprints all shipping in parallel. Search impressions usually turn the corner around month 5; qualified inquiries follow 2–3 months later.

Months 9–12 · ProgramPipeline cadence
Focus
90%

The system is running. Monthly reads against pipeline, not rankings. Experiment backlog is the bottleneck - not ideas. Most clients renew into a second year and a second service line.

Fit check

We're a narrow fit. Better to say so now.

Not a fit if -

We're probably wrong for you if you need…

  • -A single-channel retainer (SEO only, paid only). We won't be the fastest or cheapest point solution.
  • -Weekly executional tickets and monthly content volume targets. We plan in quarters, not SKUs.
  • -A category we haven't worked in. We turn down engagements outside behavioral health, pediatric therapy, and adjacent provider lines.
  • -Lead generation disconnected from clinical intake capacity. We won't flood a queue we can't see.
Good fit if -

We click with teams that…

  • Run a real clinical operation - ABA, autism services, pediatric therapy, behavioral or mental health - with intake teams we can talk to.
  • Want a partner for the next 18–24 months, measured against census and pipeline, not monthly deliverables.
  • Have the appetite to let one pod run SEO, GEO, CRO, UX, web, and PR as a single program.
  • Value honest "no" answers when the real constraint is payer mix, staffing, or service design - not marketing.
Start the conversation

See if we're the right studio for your next 24 months.

A 20-minute call is usually enough to tell. We'll look at your search, AI, and conversion footprint together and say plainly whether we're a fit - and where you should start either way.