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Who is Jordan Chavis?

Jordan Chavis is a full-stack, T-shaped B2B SaaS marketer based in Durham, NC. He has 10+ years of experience building inbound engines for B2B SaaS companies, with three exits so far. His current focus is AI search visibility (AEO/GEO), AI agent skills for marketing teams, and autonomous content creation.

Where is Jordan Chavis based?

Durham, North Carolina. He's open to remote roles anywhere in the US, or hybrid and on-site roles in the Triangle region of NC.

What is jordanchavis.io?

It's Jordan's personal site, built as a 3D coffee shop you can walk around in. Each spot in the café leads somewhere: his work history, his AI Lab, writing, videos, and an arcade. He built it with Claude Code, Astro, and three.js, and every model and sound is generated in code. See the AI Lab.

Is Jordan Chavis the same person as DJ Forge?

Yes. Before marketing, Jordan DJed as DJ Forge. He was a two-time Red Bull Thre3style NC champion, a tour DJ for Supastition, and the official DJ of UNC Athletics (primarily football and men's basketball).

Hiring Jordan

Is Jordan Chavis open to new roles?

Yes. Full-time roles first, fractional work too. Remote (US), or hybrid/on-site in Durham, NC.

What roles is Jordan Chavis a fit for?

Principal Marketing Manager, Head of Organic Visibility, Head of AEO/SEO, Principal Demand Generation Manager, and related roles in organic growth, AI search visibility (AEO/GEO), SEO, and demand generation. See his résumé.

Does Jordan Chavis do fractional or consulting work?

Yes, under his own name. He takes fractional growth marketing work for Seed to Series B B2B SaaS teams: SEO and content strategy that turns into pipeline, AEO/GEO (getting cited in AI search), and AI-powered content workflows. He can also pull scattered programs like paid ads and content syndication together into programs that produce pipeline.

How can I contact Jordan Chavis?

Email jordan@jordanchavis.io or message him on LinkedIn. His résumé is on the site.

What is AEO/GEO, and what does Jordan Chavis do with it?

AEO (answer engine optimization) and GEO (generative engine optimization) mean getting a brand cited and recommended in AI answers from tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google's AI results. Jordan grows AI search visibility through traditional SEO tactics, content built to be cited using AI-powered workflows, and off-site mentions. At Tiger Data, he increased AI search visibility 143% (from 30% to 73%) in the first few months.

What results has Jordan Chavis had in AI search?

At Tiger Data:

  • AI search visibility rose 143%, from 30% to 73%, in the first few months.
  • Citation share and AI agent traffic grew 20%+.

At DroneDeploy, LLM attribution grew 70% quarter over quarter, with SOPs that optimized every asset for AI citations.

What tools does Jordan Chavis use for AI search and SEO?

  • AI visibility tracking: Ahrefs, Profound, Peec, and Scrunch.
  • Data for AI assistants: DataForSEO and custom agent skills.
  • Automation: custom Claude Code skills and agents for research and content briefs.

What are Jordan Chavis's Claude Code marketing skills?

A collection of skills Jordan built for Claude Code that handle tedious SEO, AEO, and Google Ads work: audits, meta tags, keyword research, and more. They're on GitHub and in the AI Lab.

Career

Where has Jordan Chavis worked?

The résumé has them all with dates.

What did Jordan Chavis do at Tiger Data?

As Senior Growth Marketing Manager, Jordan:

  • increased AI search visibility 143% (from 30% to 73%) in the first few months
  • grew citation share and AI agent traffic 20%+
  • built Claude Code skills and agents on top of Ahrefs and Profound

What did Jordan Chavis do at DroneDeploy?

As Senior Web Marketing Manager, Jordan:

  • ran an A/B test on a landing page redesign that lifted conversion from 11.8% to 15.2% and demo requests 69%
  • grew SEO-sourced pipeline 30% quarter over quarter
  • grew LLM attribution 70% quarter over quarter

What did Jordan Chavis do at ProsperOps?

As Senior Demand Generation Marketing Manager, Jordan:

  • more than doubled MQLs in his first six months
  • grew non-branded organic traffic 35% year over year
  • launched the company's first paid search and paid social programs, which drove $1M+ in attributed revenue

What did Jordan Chavis do at Spreedly?

As Senior Growth Marketing Manager (promoted after two years), Jordan:

  • built $12M+ in pipeline from organic channels
  • built $5.3M in pipeline from paid search on $400K of spend
  • recovered $1M in otherwise lost pipeline
  • helped make Spreedly the leader in payment orchestration through early category content

What did Jordan Chavis do at Lenovo?

As Digital Marketing Manager and Marketing Operations Manager, Jordan ran digital demand generation for Lenovo's flagship commercial software, plus HubSpot, Pardot, and the Salesforce integration behind them.

What did Jordan Chavis do at Premier, Inc?

As Social Media Strategist, Jordan grew the following of Aperek, a healthcare technology company that Premier acquired while he was there, by 20%+ in nine months. He also managed the CEO's social presence.

What is Forgematic?

Forgematic is Jordan's holding company. From 2021 he ran fractional growth marketing through it (SEO, AEO/LLM visibility, and AI-powered content production) for Seed to Series B B2B SaaS teams in dev tools, healthtech, and logistics. He now takes fractional work under his own name.

Café TV and writing

What is Café TV?

Café TV is Jordan's video series on marketing, SEO, and AI search, on the site and on YouTube (Marketing of Tomorrow). It started with recaps of Tech SEO Connect 2026 in Durham, NC.

Does Jordan Chavis write?

Yes. His writing covers copywriting frameworks (PAS, AIDA), storytelling, and marketing as experimentation. It's on the bookshelf in the café.