The life & work of Jil Kabir

Jhilik Kabir, Jil to everyone. Researcher, AI SEO strategist and builder; co-founder & CTO at Miraiyo. The work, the papers, the people, and the four dragons who help.

J wakes the dragons

lately on the shelf

Files from the desk: what I’m writing, building and studying, plus a few things worth keeping. Click a file to flip to the next one.

01 / 09
Writing

How to build an agentic SEO workflow without enterprise tools

A practical, human-supervised workflow for small teams: which agents do what, and where the human checks go.

01 / 09Guide · September 2026 · 6 min readRead the guide
Building

AI Research Supervisor

A research-support product for people early in a project: it remembers context, tracks the research stage and ties advice to real sources.

02 / 09Product · ongoing · 2026See the case study
Studying

AI-generated vs human-recorded marketing videos

How viewers trust, feel about and engage with each kind of video, read through the UTAUT model.

03 / 09Research · ongoing at MMUView the study
Studying

Logo background colour and hue perception

A cross-cultural study in an Asian context of how a logo’s background colour changes the hue people see.

04 / 09Research · ongoing at MMUView the study
Published

Exploring Explainable Artificial Intelligence

A comparative analysis of interpretability techniques, published in IJARCCE, Volume 13, Issue 3.

05 / 09Paper · 2024Read the paper
Award

Four papers, three awards

Contributed to four accepted papers at the 8th ASEAN-UEC Workshop on Informatics and Engineering; three received Young Researcher Encouragement Awards.

06 / 09ASEAN-UEC · 2026See the research
Tool

Search Readiness Checker

Check a page’s search, schema and crawler-readiness signals. Free, for SEOs, developers and site owners.

07 / 09Free tool · experimentTry it
Tool

DOI Citation Finder

Paste a DOI and get a verified citation. Free, for students, researchers and writers.

08 / 09Free tool · betaTry it
Community

WordCamp Malaysia 2024

Part of the WordPress community: WordCamps, meetups and technology community days in Malaysia.

09 / 09Community · 2024Read my story

01 Hi

I’m Jhilik. Everyone calls me Jil.

I’m a researcher, AI SEO strategist and builder. My career started in 2018 with web development and digital marketing in Dhaka, grew through SEO and content roles for companies in Bangladesh and the US, and led to heading marketing at HappyMonster.

In December 2024 I co-founded Miraiyo, where I’m CTO. I’m also a postgraduate researcher at Multimedia University in Malaysia, working on creative multimedia, advertising and branding, and in 2026 I learned software development so I could build the research tools I kept wishing existed.

“I’d rather publish less and have it be accurate than publish more and guess.”

02 What I do

Three hats, one desk.

Research feeds the search work, the search work shapes what I build, and building shows me what to research next.

01

Research

How people trust and respond to AI and visual communication: explainable AI, AI-generated vs human-recorded video, and colour perception across cultures.

See the research
02

AI SEO strategy

Helping founders and small teams get found on Google and in AI answers: agentic SEO workflows, AEO and GEO, and WordPress-native implementation.

Explore AI SEO
03

Building

Products and small tools: AI Research Supervisor, a Search Readiness Checker, a DOI Citation Finder, and this hand-built WordPress site.

Try the Research Tool

03 The story so far

From Dhaka to dragons.

The real milestones, in order. Not a highlight reel: the jobs, the degree, the first paper, the company and what’s happening now.

  1. 2014 – 2018

    Computer Science & Engineering

    Studied for a BSc in Computer Science and Engineering at Gono Bishwabidyalay (Gono University).

  2. 2018

    First job: web development & digital marketing

    Joined Genex Infosys Limited in Dhaka. The start of an eight-year career across SEO, marketing and the web.

  3. 2019 – 2022

    SEO specialist, then SEO & content manager

    SEO at Japan Marketing & Consultancy in Dhaka, then SEO & Content Manager for Virtunus, Inc., a US company, from 2020.

  4. 2021 – 2024

    HappyMonster: strategist to Head of Marketing

    SEO & digital marketing strategist from 2021, then Head of Marketing from October 2022 to August 2024.

  5. 2024

    A first paper and a first company

    Published “Exploring Explainable Artificial Intelligence” in IJARCCE, and co-founded Miraiyo as Co-Founder & CTO in December.

  6. Now

    Postgraduate research at MMU

    Researching creative multimedia, advertising and branding at Multimedia University in Malaysia, alongside Miraiyo.

  7. 2026

    Papers, awards and code

    Presented at MECON2026; four accepted papers at ASEAN-UEC 2026, three Young Researcher Encouragement Awards; learned software development and started building research tools.

04 Selected work

The work, with the numbers.

Seven case studies across SEO, analytics, product and growth. Pick one to see its real numbers come to life, then read the full write-up with the method and the limits.

98Health score
8.75KClicks
771KImpressions
1.1%Avg. CTR
11.4Avg. position
  • Issues5,940down from 6,164
  • Errors51down from 53

Technical SEORole: SEO Lead

Technical SEO / Site Health

Ongoing technical SEO ownership: search visibility tracked alongside recurring site-audit crawls, not a one-off clean-up.

Read the case study

All work

05 The agent studio

One human. Four dragons. Every draft checked.

Deany, Judy, Joyee and Arlo are the AI agents I built to handle research, strategy, drafting and QA. I’m the only human in the loop, and nothing publishes without my review.

Researching…

Research

Judy gathers sources and evidence.

Gathers sources and evidence for the topic, and flags what's uncertain instead of guessing.

Structuring…

Strategy

Deany shapes the angle and structure.

Shapes the angle, structure, and SEO framing before anything is written.

Drafting…

Draft

Joyee writes the first draft.

Turns research and strategy into a clear, human first draft.

Verifying…

QA & Data

Arlo checks the work.

Verifies structure, data, and internal links before anything moves forward.

Reviewing…

Human Review

Jil reads and approves.

Every draft is read and approved by a human before it goes live, nothing publishes on its own.

06 Research & tools

Research-led, and published on-domain.

Peer-reviewed papers and studies in progress at Multimedia University, plus small free tools that turn the research into something you can use today.

Free tool · Search Readiness CheckerChecks a page’s crawl, indexing, heading, schema and social-preview signals.Check a page
Free tool · DOI Citation FinderPaste a DOI and get a verified citation.Find a citation

Open the Research Tool page

07 People & places

The bits in between.

Conferences, community days, research trips and ordinary good days. The work happens around all of it.

In SEO since
2018

From a first web job at Genex Infosys in Dhaka to heading marketing at HappyMonster.

Co-founder & CTO
Miraiyo

Co-founded in December 2024.

Papers at ASEAN-UEC 2026
4

Three received Young Researcher Encouragement Awards.

Threads views
50M+

On a personal account, which turned into UGC collaborations.

Community photo at WordCamp Malaysia 2024
WordCamp Malaysia 2024
Jil Kabir at a technology community event
meeting a robot
Jil Kabir at a community event in Malaysia
community day, Malaysia
Jil Kabir, lifestyle portrait with a bicycle
out on the bike
Group photo at the ASEAN-UEC 2026 award ceremony
ASEAN-UEC 2026 awards
Poster session at ASEAN-UEC 2026
poster session
Jil Kabir at an event production desk
behind the production desk
Jil Kabir with a cat
with the cat
Jil Kabir, seaside portrait
by the sea
Jil Kabir at a cultural event
a cultural evening

08 Say hi

Have an idea worth building?

A project, a research collaboration, a search problem, or just hello. I read every message myself, usually with a dragon looking over my shoulder.

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JIL KABIR STUDIO

Client
You
Brief
Your idea
Research
Judy
Strategy
Deany
Drafting
Joyee
QA & data
Arlo
Human review
Jil Kabir ✓

Nothing ships without a human sign-off.