Honest comparison of Ottawa SEO Inc. and Razorfish — track record, specialization, pricing, and contract terms.
**Choose Razorfish if:** Publicis-network global capability, full digital and brand offerings.
**Choose Ottawa SEO Inc. if:** you want a founder-led engagement with twelve years of continuous operating history across twenty verticals, transparent month-to-month pricing, and direct access to the decision-maker on every call.
**Razorfish** — based in New York / global (Publicis), founded 1995, ~2,500 staff. Strengths: Publicis-network global capability, full digital and brand offerings. Considerations: enterprise positioning, agency-team delivery model.
**Ottawa SEO Inc.** — founded 2014 (twelve continuous years), founder-led by Martin Vassilev, manages a 500+ domain portfolio across Canadian and US markets producing real-time visibility into Google algorithm changes.
Founder-led custom strategy without holding-company overhead. Comparable SEO discipline at SMB-friendly pricing.
Razorfish typically operates on agency-tier pricing with quarterly or annual minimums. Ottawa SEO Inc. operates on month-to-month terms — no annual minimums, no setup fees, no termination penalty. Engagement floor $1,200/month for solo practitioners, scaling to enterprise without the agency-overhead premium. Use the Ottawa SEO Cost Calculator for a defensible monthly range.
Publicis-network global capability, full digital and brand offerings. If those capabilities are the primary decision criteria, Razorfish is a credible choice. We'd rather you choose them and succeed than choose us and find we weren't the right fit.
Useful filters: (1) founder-led or agency-team delivery? (2) month-to-month or annual contracts? (3) generalist or specialist for your vertical? (4) realistic monthly budget? Use the cost calculator for budget anchoring, then book a free 30-minute call.
No. Razorfish is a credible agency. The only meaningful question is whether their operating model fits your needs better than ours.
For SEO, yes — across technical, on-page, content, and link-acquisition. For broader services, evaluate scope-by-scope.
Run our free 15-point audit and request the same from Razorfish. The depth of the audit is the most predictive single signal of how the engagement will go.