Be the answer.
The Hills Agency is the world’s first pure-play AEO, GEO & AI SEO agency. We position your brand inside the answers of ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok — on the queries that create your customers and revenue.
Limited capacity this quarter — one brand per sector.
Global brands we have made unavoidable for AI
Search has changed. Authority is the new ranking.
Your customers no longer only search on Google. They ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity — engines that name only three to five brands. If you are not among them, you are not in the conversation.
27%
Google’s share of total search
3–5
Brands named by AI
4×
Higher conversion from AI traffic
90d
To enter the top AI answers
Los Angeles · The Hills Agency
Rise above the noise. Own the answer.
The Hills AI Domination System™
We position your brand inside AI answers — in three precise movements.
AI Mapping
We diagnose your current standing across every major model and identify the queries that move your business.
AI Influence
We deploy the assets, content and authority signals that models rely on to build their answers.
Positioning Control
We continuously monitor, defend and compound your position against competitors.
The proprietary method
The A.N.S.W.E.R. Protocol™
We reverse-engineered how large language models actually decide which brands to cite. The result is a six-layer protocol that maps every mechanism an AI uses to build an answer — with no blind spot left for a competitor to exploit.
Authority Graph
How the model identifies you
We turn your brand into an unambiguous entity in the knowledge graphs models trust — consistent naming, schema.org, Wikidata and Wikipedia signals — so every engine knows exactly who you are before it answers.
Narrative Corpus
What the model learned
We engineer the owned, answer-ready content models ingest during training and retrieval: the exact questions, entities and phrasings your buyers use, written so an LLM can lift them verbatim.
Source Consensus
Who the model believes
Two thirds of AI citations come from sources you don’t own — press, industry rankings, review platforms, Reddit, expert communities. We earn those mentions through real editorial PR, transparent expert contributions and authentic client-review programmes — never fabricated reviews, never astroturfing, never anonymous accounts posing as users. The consensus is genuine, and that is what makes a model confident enough to name you.
Web-Retrieval Readiness
What the model fetches live
For retrieval engines (Perplexity, ChatGPT Search, Gemini) we optimise freshness, llms.txt, AI-crawler access (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) and a retrieval-ready architecture, so you are pulled into answers at query time.
Extractable Structure
What the model can quote
We format every strategic page to be machine-liftable: direct answers up top, clean heading hierarchy, structured data and comparison tables — the shapes LLMs extract and cite most often.
Reinforcement Loop
How we stay ahead
We track every strategic prompt across all engines each month, detect drift the moment a model updates and re-inject signals — compounding your position and defending it against competitors. The protocol never stops.
Because the protocol owns all six mechanisms an LLM uses — not just content, not just links — a competitor optimising a single lever cannot dislodge a brand that holds every one. That is what makes the method hard to copy and hard to counter.
The A.N.S.W.E.R. Protocol™
Every mechanism a model uses to choose a brand — mapped.
Brands we made AI-recommended
Luxury Automotive
Rolls-Royce
#1
Cited ultra-luxury EV
+65%
AI share of voice
5
AI engines covered
“What is the best ultra-luxury electric car?”
Sportswear
Nike
Top 3
AI running answers
x3
AI mentions
150+
Prompts tracked
“What are the best running shoes for everyday training?”
Sport & Entertainment
Paris Saint-Germain
#1
AI answer, match experience
+120%
AI citations
5
Languages covered
“How can I experience a football match in Paris?”
Luxury & Travel
Orient Express
#1
AI “best luxury train”
+50%
AI citations
+41%
Qualified traffic
“Best luxury train journeys in the world”
Healthcare
Cedars Sinai
+62%
AI citations in 90d
#1
On 9 queries
90d
Results
“Best telehealth services in the US”
SaaS · Fitness
Ladder Fitness
#1
ChatGPT & Perplexity
+58%
AI citations
✓
Multi-LLM coverage
“Best female-focused fitness apps”
How we measure these results
Every result is measured by querying a pool of 50–150 real buying prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Grok. We track citation presence, position, sentiment and frequency — before, during and after the engagement. Raw data is shared with each client, prompt by prompt, in live reporting sessions.
Choose your level of AI dominance
One discipline — AEO · GEO · AI SEO, fuelled by content — across four levels of maturity. Start where you are, prove the results, and climb from measuring your AI visibility to owning your category.
One discipline — AEO · GEO · AI SEO, fuelled by content — delivered through four levels of maturity. Enter where you are today, prove the results, and climb: from measuring your AI visibility to owning your category.
Hills AI Awareness Diagnostic
Awareness
On request
4 weeks
Before conquering, you need the map. In 4 weeks we scan how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok talk about you — and about your competitors — across hundreds of real buying prompts. You walk away with hard numbers: where you are cited, where you are invisible, who owns your category today — and a prioritized roadmap to flip the balance. The fastest way to know if the AI opportunity in your market is still open, or already taken.
Ideal for: brands that have never measured their AI visibility and need a factual starting point before investing.
- • Full LLM visibility audit
- • AI competitive analysis
- • Prioritized action plan
- • Positioning report
Understand and fix your AI presence
Hills AI Consideration Engine
Consideration
On request
2–3 months
This is where your brand starts existing in AI answers. We build your first layer of machine-readable authority: ten answer-ready assets engineered for LLM retrieval, schema markup deployed across your site, and your brand entity cleaned and consolidated. Within weeks, the engines stop guessing who you are — and start citing you. Ideal for brands who want proof of traction before scaling up.
Ideal for: brands ready to publish and structure content so AI engines start citing them — with proof of traction before scaling.
- • Everything in Diagnostic +
- • AI-ready content (10 assets)
- • Schema markup deployed
- • First citation signals
Start being cited and credible in AI
Hills AI Conversion Domination
Conversion
On request
4–6 months
Our flagship engagement — the one most clients choose, because it is where AI visibility turns into revenue. We industrialise your citation machine: 25+ answer-ready assets, digital PR placements in the sources LLMs actually quote, and continuous monitoring across the five major engines. The objective is explicit and contractual: enter the top recommendations on your money queries. If we do not move you into the answers, we keep working until we do — that is the guarantee.
Ideal for: brands with revenue targets that want to enter — and stay in — the top AI recommendations on the queries that actually drive sales.
- • Everything in Consideration +
- • AI-ready content (25+ assets)
- • Digital PR & citations
- • Multi-LLM monitoring
- • Results guarantee
Enter the top AI recommendations
Hills AI Category Ownership
Domination
On request
6–12 months
The endgame: not being one of the answers, but being the answer — and making sure no challenger can take your place. We build a defensive moat around your category: proprietary share-of-voice strategy, counter-positioning against emerging competitors, monthly C-Level reporting your board will actually read, and privileged access to the Hills AI Lab where tomorrow's visibility tools are tested first. This is how category leaders stay category leaders in the AI era.
Ideal for: category leaders (or challengers who intend to become one) that want to be THE default answer in their market — and build a moat no competitor can cross.
- • Everything in Conversion +
- • Category ownership strategy
- • AI defensive layer
- • Monthly C-Level reporting
- • Hills AI Lab access
Own your category — build a defensive moat
One brand per sector
The category leader is the one AI names first.
What our clients say
The Hills Agency didn’t just improve our visibility — they made us the default answer. In 90 days we went from invisible to #1 on the queries that matter most.
— VP Marketing, Orient Express
In a fiercely competitive sector, The Hills Agency gave us an edge our competitors don’t even understand yet. We are the AI’s answer.
— CMO, Regent Santa Monica
Frequently asked questions
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of optimizing brand content so it is selected and cited by AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok. Unlike classic SEO that targets Google rankings, AEO targets direct recommendation by AI.
The window is still open.
AI rankings are not yet settled. The first brands to act will define their categories. Book a thirty-minute strategy call.
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