"i will not promote" An AI SEO startup just won a European Search Award. Are we underestimating SEO Automation?

I came across something recently that genuinely surprised me. For years (and even now), the common belief has been that successful SEO requires experienced strategists, content teams, technical SEOs, outreach specialists, and a lot of manual work. That's why I was pretty shocked to see an SEO automation startup win a Silver European Search Award. Not an AI writing tool. Not a keyword research tool. An actual platform that appears to automate most of the SEO process end-to-end. From what I've been able to fi