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  "markdown": "Founder and Managing Director.\n\nAlex Chudnovsky founded Majestic-12 in 2004 to build a large-scale search engine crawled by a distributed network of volunteers, and launched Majestic, the link intelligence service, in February 2008. He is managing director of Majestic-12 Ltd and began his career as lead CRM developer and analyst at a UK dotcom.\n\n## What Alex builds\n\n- [Majestic API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/majestic.md), graded F, 33.6/100, in SEO \u0026 search visibility. Majestic crawls the web and sells backlink data. Its HTTP API returns backlinks, referring domains, anchor text, Trust Flow and Citation Flow scores and keyword counts from a Fresh and a Historic index, as XML or JSON. Founder and Managing Director, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Steven Pitchford](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/steven-pitchford/), Operations Director; former Development Manager\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Alex Chudnovsky?\n\nAlex Chudnovsky founded Majestic-12 in 2004 to build a large-scale search engine crawled by a distributed network of volunteers, and launched Majestic, the link intelligence service, in February 2008. He is managing director of Majestic-12 Ltd and began his career as lead CRM developer and analyst at a UK dotcom.\n\n### What does Majestic-12 Ltd (trading as Majestic) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Majestic API from Majestic-12 Ltd (trading as Majestic). Majestic crawls the web and sells backlink data. Its HTTP API returns backlinks, referring domains, anchor text, Trust Flow and Citation Flow scores and keyword counts from a Fresh and a Historic index, as XML or JSON.\n\n### How are Alex's tools graded?\n\nMajestic API is graded F, 33.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://majestic.com/company/about\n- https://uk.linkedin.com/in/stevenpitchford\n- https://majestic.com/\n- https://majestic.com/help/contact-us\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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