Solo founder of Leads Akolytos, an SEO agency for home service contractors. 24+ years in IT infrastructure and network security. Speaks on local SEO, small business marketing, and pivoting from a technical career into entrepreneurship.
Steve Fleurant is the founder of Leads Akolytos, an SEO agency built exclusively for home service and construction businesses — including electricians, HVAC companies, plumbers, roofers, general contractors, and landscapers. Before founding Leads Akolytos, Steve spent over 24 years leading IT infrastructure, systems engineering, and network security teams, most recently as Team Lead of Systems and Network Engineering, where he oversaw operations, strategy, and infrastructure improvements for an insurance provider. Over the course of his career, he built, maintained, and secured complex technical systems, and trained and managed the teams responsible for keeping them running. That background directly shapes how he now approaches SEO. Rather than treating search visibility as guesswork,...