Zain Kazmi
Zain founded DevMarDe and has been a director of Designn Space Ltd, the UK company DevMarDe trades through, since July 2022. He is a product designer who also builds, and has designed and shipped web and mobile products since 2020: a fashion marketplace at CleanEase Technologies, a B2B budgeting tool at Onit Financials, and every DevMarDe product since. He trains UX and UI designers for TEVTA x Corvit. At DevMarDe he leads marketing, decides what the studio takes on, and writes the long-form guides on this site, including the guide to AI search optimisation.
What Zain Kazmi is the one to ask about
- Search, paid and content under one plan
- Tracking wired to the CRM so an enquiry carries its source
- AI visibility work from a Crawl Audit baseline
- One weekly report with one number on it
Doing this since 2020
- Founder and director, Designn Space Ltd (DevMarDe)
Registered in England, company 14258316.
- UI/UX trainer, TEVTA x Corvit
Wrote the curriculum and mentors new designers.
- Volunteer designer, Code for Pakistan
Design for community projects.
- Design researcher and developer, Onit Financials
User research, flows and an analytics dashboard for a B2B budgeting product.
- Product designer and developer, CleanEase Technologies
Designed and built a pre-loved fashion marketplace for web and mobile, on Shopify.
- Bachelor of Business Administration, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST), Islamabad (2017 to 2021)
- Interaction Design Specialization, University of California San Diego (2023)
- Google UX Design, Google (2023)
- Google Data Analytics, Google (2023)
- Google Project Management, Google (2023)
5 pieces, oldest at the bottom
- Crawl audit checklist, including the AI crawlersA crawl audit checks that bots can reach, fetch and read every page that matters. The checklist, our own numbers, and the AI-crawler half most audits skip.
- How to tell if AI search optimization is workingSix free ways to measure AI search optimization, in the order to check them: Google and Bing AI reports, ChatGPT referrals, crawler logs and a prompt panel.
- Is your firewall blocking ChatGPT? How Cloudflare and WAFs block AI bots by accidentrobots.txt can say yes while your firewall says no. How Cloudflare's AI bot controls, bot-fight modes and WAF rules block ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity search bots by accident, how to spot it, and how to fix it.
- Can ChatGPT read my website? Check it in 60 secondsFour quick tests show whether ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can fetch and read your site: robots.txt, a crawler fetch, the raw HTML and your server logs. Free, no sign-up.
- AI Search Optimization: The Complete GuideAI search optimization is how a business gets found and cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. How it works and where to start.
Work with Zain and the team.
Reply within one business day. Every engagement starts with a two-week scoping sprint at a fixed price.