Meet Kristian
Hello, I'm Kristian.
I run Dog on the Table, an independent marketing consultancy based in Brighton. I help businesses understand how they're found through search and AI, improve their websites and make recurring work easier to manage.
You'll work directly with me, from the first conversation through to the work itself.
My background
My background is in SEO. I've worked in agencies, in-house and independently, across businesses ranging from ecommerce and retail to software, finance and betting.
Those roles have given me experience of both planning the work and putting it into practice. A recommendation needs to make sense for the people carrying it out, including the time, tools and budget they have available.
Search has changed a great deal along the way, and I'm still learning. My work now includes how AI tools describe and recommend businesses, alongside the website and search work that remains part of helping people find them.
Working with me
I like getting to know a business and staying involved as the work develops. Working independently means I can be the person you discuss the problem with and the person helping you do something about it.
I can work alongside your team or an existing agency. We'll agree what I take on, what stays with you and how we'll keep the work moving. If something falls outside my experience or the time I have available, I'll say so.
I also build and use automation in my own business, particularly for research, reporting and monitoring. Some of it uses AI; some is a script doing a repetitive job. That experience helps me understand what needs testing, what needs maintaining and where a person still needs to check the result.
What I can help with
These areas often overlap. You don't need to know which service you need before we talk.
- SEO. Understanding what's holding a website back in search and working through improvements to its structure, content and technical setup. This includes support with website migrations.
- AI visibility. Checking how AI tools describe and recommend your brand, looking at the evidence behind their answers and identifying useful improvements.
- Websites and digital projects. Building and improving websites, with attention to how people use them, how quickly they load and how they'll be maintained.
- Automation. Reducing repetitive work through scripts, connections between tools and AI where it helps. That can include reporting, research and preparing content for someone to review.
Why Dog on the Table?
The name comes from a much-loved family spaniel who liked to sit on the kitchen table.
He'd jump up and settle among the plates and the post, apparently quite satisfied with the arrangement. A dog on a table is an odd sight, and it was one I was very fond of.
He's been gone a while now, but the name stuck. He was a most contrarian hound with his own views on where dogs should sit. Does that tie in to marketing? Not really. Just thought it was a funny name. And now you know.
Tell me what you're working on.
If there's something you'd like help with, tell me a little about your business and what you'd like to change. You don't need a finished brief. We can talk it through and work out whether I can help.
For a little more about what I'm working on and thinking about, visit my now page.