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About the founder

Michelle Legge

Founder of Everwilde One · AI search & content strategy

I have spent 20+ years standing at the seam between humans and machines, helping brands explain themselves clearly enough that the next system can understand them. AI search is the latest system. It will not be the last.

20+ years experience 3 continents EMEA focus
20+ Years across
search & content
3 Continents:
ZA, AU, UK
2,000+ Content assets
published
45%+ Sign-ups from organic
search at Koinly
In short

A communication specialist, working the frontier of organic discovery.

I am Michelle Legge, founder of Everwilde One, an EMEA-focused AI search visibility agency. I am a senior content and search strategist with two decades of experience building organic search programmes that deliver measurable revenue growth.

My strength is rapidly mastering complex industries, going deep into research, and then building content systems that perform long-term. I combine branded storytelling with rigorous SEO and performance data, and I have led both agency and in-house teams since 2012 on major content builds.

I do not see AI visibility as a new discipline. It is the same job it always was. Make a business clear enough that the next system can understand it, find it, and recommend it. The interfaces change. The acronyms change. The underlying question does not. You can read more about that view in my essay on why I founded Everwilde One.

What I do

Where the work lives.

AI visibility & GEO

Generative Engine Optimization, answer engine optimisation and LLM citation strategy. Making brands visible across human and machine-led search journeys.

Entity strategy

Defining what a business is, who it serves and why it matters, in language consistent and specific enough for machines to describe it correctly.

Organic SEO

Keyword intelligence, SERP analysis, schema markup, internal linking architecture and E-E-A-T optimisation across technical and editorial work.

Content strategy

Site, blog, email, PR, video and social. Content audits, calendars, production pipelines and distribution built to perform long-term.

Brand storytelling

Editorial direction, tone of voice and positioning. A creative and brand perspective, grounded in a degree in advertising and a specialism in copywriting.

Digital PR & citations

Earned media, original research and third-party mentions that build the corroboration signals AI systems rely on to recommend a brand with confidence.

Experience

Two decades, one question, twelve different rooms.

2026 to present

Everwilde One

Founder · Cape Town, EMEA

The agency I always wanted to hire. Senior-led, opinionated, and built for the work that actually moves the needle in AI search. Search Everywhere Optimization for brands that need to be found, cited and recommended.

2021 to 2026

Koinly

Head of Content & Partnerships · London

Owned global organic search and content strategy for a crypto tax platform serving 1.5M users across 20+ tax jurisdictions. Organic search grew into the primary growth channel, driving 70% of sessions and 45%+ of new sign-ups. From early 2025, led GEO work that took ChatGPT attribution to 15% of organic sign-up traffic within nine months.

2015 to 2020

Insured by Us

Head of Content & Community · Sydney

Led end-to-end digital marketing across four in-house travel insurance brands. Created and launched Travel with Jane, a world-first gender pay gap discount campaign that generated an estimated 450,000 AUD in earned media coverage.

2013 to 2015

CHE Proximity, BBDO

Head of Branded Content · Melbourne

Built and scaled a new content department, The Newsroom, within the fastest-growing agency in the BBDO group. Briefed, wrote and edited branded content for Telstra and GE Money.

2012 to 2013

Qantas

Content Strategy & Social Media Manager · Melbourne

Launched the content and social ecosystem for Hooroo, the Qantas hotel booking platform. Defined editorial direction, CMS taxonomy and information architecture, and oversaw 1,000+ original content assets.

2002 to 2012

Agency & in-house roles

Copywriter, content & community lead · Melbourne

A decade of agency creative work. Social and content for Garnier, adidas and Maybelline at Citrus. FMCG content for McCormick and Cobram Estate at Hard Hat Digital. PR, editorial and copywriting across fashion, retail and government, beginning with a copywriter and studio manager role at The Brandpower Group.

Background

Education and brands.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Advertising

RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

A degree in advertising with a specialism in copywriting. The creative and brand foundation that complements two decades of technical SEO and content strategy work.

Selected brands

Category-defining work

Across SaaS, fintech, travel, retail and FMCG
Koinly Qantas TEDx Telstra GE Money Garnier adidas Maybelline McCormick
Work with me

Ready to turn AI search visibility into your next growth channel?

Everwilde One builds the content infrastructure that gets your business found, cited and recommended across search and AI.