About Cultured Digital
Experience, not a department.
Cultured Digital is an independent technical SEO and digital consultancy. Founded in 2018 and rooted in SEO work that began in 2001, it is built around expertise, direct involvement and the ability to make the changes it recommends.
History
Twenty-plus years of watching search change.
- 2001
First SEO work. The start of a career spent on how websites are found.
- In between
- Independent consultancy
- In-house SEO
- Agency environments
- SEO advocacy
- 2018
Cultured Digital founded in Sunderland. Independent consultancy and development, under one roof.
- 2026
Still hands-on
Founder
Dean Cruddace
Dean has worked in SEO for more than twenty years, across independent consultancy, in-house roles and agencies. He leads the technical and strategic work at Cultured Digital, and builds the things that need building.
Also: web development, agency and client-side SEO advocacy, AI and search technologies.
How we think
Transparent, practical, specific.
And what is not. SEO involves inference, and clients deserve to see which is which.
Read the insights →A recommendation that nobody implements has achieved nothing. We implement where required.
How we implement →Clients work with the person doing the thinking. No account layer in between.
Get in touch →Specialist expertise tends to beat generic agency process on hard problems.
Technical SEO →Where we are
Sunderland-based. UK-wide and international.
Based in Sunderland, working with businesses and agencies across the UK and internationally, from startups through to enterprise. Being local is useful for meeting. It is not a limit on who we work with.
Want to work with Dean?
Get in touch. You’ll hear back from Dean.