The Brotherly Method

We measure the bar.
Then we clear it.

Every market has a real, measurable authority bar for page one. We find yours, put the target on the plan, and build you past it with content, authority, and AI answer visibility. This page shows the whole system, including what it costs.

0+Vetted publishers in our network
0+DA 70+ publications available
0Client properties measured weekly
0AI engines we track answers in

The system

Five moves. Ran in order. Every client, every market.

1

Measure the bar

We pull your market's real page-one and read the authority of every business holding a spot.

2

Set the score

Your plan is priced to an Authority Score target you can verify in any third-party tool.

3

Build the clusters

SADIE, our proprietary engine, builds and feeds the content clusters that own your topics.

4

Earn the authority

Placements from a vetted network of 5,800+ publishers, verified live and indexed or replaced.

5

Own the answer

We engineer your pages into the answers ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI give about your category.

Move one · The Reality Audit

Your market has a number. We measured 33 industries to prove it.

Before we promise anything, we pull the live page one for your money keywords, strip out the directories and media sites, and read the authority of every actual business holding a spot. That gives us two honest numbers: where page one starts, and where the winners sit.

Here is what most agencies will never tell you: the bar is usually lower than you fear. Find your industry below and see the real board for yourself.

Find your industry33 measured

Home Services

Sample keyword: "handyman services phoenix"
Page one starts at9
Page-one median13
Winner band17 to 35
The plan for this marketLocal Authority

We measured 5 real businesses holding page-one spots for this market. The weakest sits at an Authority Score of 9 and the winners run 17 to 35. Our Local Authority plan targets a 30, which puts you above this board with room to hold it.

Measured live from Google page one in August 2026, one representative buying keyword per industry, local industries sampled in the Phoenix metro. Real businesses only, directories and media excluded. Your market gets its own measurement in your audit, and your target goes on the plan in writing as a score you can check in any third-party authority tool whenever you want.

Move two · The score target

You buy an outcome you can verify. Every quarter.

Most agencies sell activity: some links, some posts, a report. We price every plan against an Authority Score target, the same independent 0 to 100 authority measure the whole industry uses. You can open a third-party tool any day of the engagement and see exactly where you stand against the number we committed to.

Authority compounds. Each ten-point climb takes more than the last one, which is exactly why the four plans are shaped the way they are, and why the audit decides which one your market actually requires.

What we will never promise

Authority scores are third-party composites that move in bands. Targets are 12 month trajectories reported quarterly, and the Category Leader climb runs 18 to 24 months. Anyone promising you a fixed score by a fixed month is guessing with your money.

Local Authority
30
Authority Score target
Regional Authority
40
Authority Score target
National Authority
50
Authority Score target
Category Leader
60
Authority Score target

Move three · The content engine

Meet SADIE. The engine behind every campaign.

SADIE is our proprietary marketing engine, and she runs the content side of every engagement: cluster architecture, keyword verification, drafting in your brand voice, internal linking, publishing, and the weekly checks that make sure Google actually indexed what we shipped.

The output is a content operation most agencies need a ten-person team to run, applied to your account every single week, with a human strategist directing every move.

Market measurementCluster architectureKeyword verificationBrand-voice draftingPublishing automationInternal linkingIndexation watchAI answer trackingSADIEPROPRIETARY ENGINE
38 properties watched weekly
5 AI engines monitored
Every stat source-verified

Content clusters, engineered

Every topic gets a pillar page and a planned set of supporting articles. Each article is checked against every page you already own before it is written, so nothing on your site competes with anything else.

A publishing cadence that compounds

Every plan ships at least one new article a week, written in your voice, aimed at a keyword with verified search volume, and internally linked into the cluster it belongs to.

Indexation, watched weekly

Every URL on your site is checked against Google's own inspection data every week, classified by page type, so a money page that falls out of the index gets caught in days.

Zero fabricated anything

Every statistic in every article traces to a verifiable source. Every keyword has real volume data behind it. SADIE enforces this on every single piece before a human ever reviews it.

Move four · Authority building

5,800 vetted publishers. Four gates. Zero excuses.

Authority comes from real publications linking to pages worth linking to. We maintain a hand-vetted network of over 5,800 publishers, including 340+ at DA 70 and above and a marquee tier that reaches USA Today and Newsweek level outlets. Every single placement passes four gates before we spend a dollar of your budget, and gets verified after.

1

Topical fit

The publisher actually covers your world. We read the live site, never a category label.

2

Index check

Google indexes the publisher's recent posts. A link on a page Google ignores is worth nothing.

3

Neighborhood scan

We sweep the publisher's full post feed for sold gambling, CBD, and junk placements. A clean homepage can hide a dirty feed.

4

Placement, verified

After every placement we confirm the page is live, the link is intact, and Google has indexed it. Anything that fails gets claimed and replaced.

The receipts

This is what the method looks like in Search Console.

Real engagement data, measured August 2026. Names withheld to protect our clients' competitive position; the full stories live in our case studies.

National pharma consumer brand

Organic clicks per month, Search Console, Sep 2025 to Jul 2026

+0%Monthly organic clicks
5,0003,3001,700Sep '25Dec '25Mar '26Jun '26Jul '26

Travel health clinic, Phoenix

Organic clicks per month, Search Console, Sep 2025 to Jul 2026

0xMonthly organic clicks
1,8001,200600Sep '25Dec '25Mar '26Jun '26Jul '26

Client rankings we've achieved in high-competition verticals

Real Google positions, measured in Search Console during our engagements

"dry mouth spray"Pharma consumer brand
#3
11,688 impressions
"yellow fever vaccine cost"Travel health clinic
#2
up 10 spots year over year
"yellow fever vaccine phoenix"Travel health clinic
#1
up 9 spots year over year
"travel clinic scottsdale"Travel health clinic
#4
outranking national chains
"dry mouth menopause"Pharma consumer brand
#5
1,219 impressions
"container unloading services"Workforce staffing company
#7
national head term
0.7 to 9Average Google position for a national workforce staffing company, moved from page three territory to page one across 5,400+ tracked queries.
0Distinct search queries a single client campaign reached, every one measured and reported quarterly.
Read the full case studies

Move five · Own the answer

Your next customer is asking ChatGPT.
We make sure it answers with you.

A growing share of buying decisions now starts as a question to an AI assistant. Those answers are winnable, and they follow rules we engineer for: page formats the engines quote, presence in the roundups they read, entity schema that tells them exactly who you are, and crawler access most sites accidentally block.

This is bigger than service businesses. AI assistants now answer "what should I buy" with specific products, and e-commerce brands that engineer for it get recommended by name, with traffic arriving mid-decision.

We track a standing set of buying-intent prompts for your category across five engines and report where you show up, month over month. This layer is built into every plan and runs deepest on National and Category Leader.

ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI Overviews
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Consultations one accounting client booked in a single quarter directly from AI assistants: chatgpt.com, claude.ai, and gemini, all tracked in their own CRM. Real pipeline, from the answer layer.

E-commerce0

ChatGPT-referred sessions in a single week for one DTC supplement brand, shoppers arriving mid-decision with the product already recommended. AI assistants now answer "what should I buy," and our e-commerce clients are showing up in those answers.

Honest ceiling, stated plainly

Nobody controls what an AI engine says, including us. What we control is everything the engines read when they decide: your formats, your authority, your entity data, and your presence in the sources they cite. That is where the winners are decided.

The plans

Four plans. Four score targets. One honest audit decides which one you need.

Every engagement starts with the Reality Audit. If your market says the smaller plan clears the bar, that is the plan we will tell you to buy.

Local Authority

Single-market service businesses

$2,000/month
Authority Score target30
  • The Reality Audit on your market
  • 2 content clusters built and owned
  • 1 new article every week
  • Core authority link program
  • Google Business Profile + local citations
  • On-page and schema on money pages
  • Quarterly score reporting
Start with the audit
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Regional Authority

Competitive local verticals and multi-market brands

$3,500/month
Authority Score target40
  • Everything in Local Authority
  • 3 content clusters built and owned
  • 1 to 2 new articles every week
  • Expanded link program with DA 70+ national placements
  • Comparison and roundup page builds
  • AI answer optimization on existing pages
Start with the audit

National Authority

National niche brands and lead-gen

$5,500/month
Authority Score target50
  • Everything in Regional Authority
  • 4 content clusters built and owned
  • 2 new articles every week
  • Maximum authority program, national-tier publishers
  • AI visibility tracked across all 5 engines
  • Digital PR angles + quarterly strategy reviews
Start with the audit

Category Leader

Enterprise and competitive national categories

$8,500/month
Authority Score target60
  • Everything in National Authority
  • 5 content clusters built and owned
  • 3 new articles every week
  • Marquee placements, USA Today and Newsweek tier
  • Full AI answer engineering + prompt-set monitoring
  • Dedicated quarterly roadmap
Start with the audit

Month to month means exactly that, cancel any time. The 12-month engagement takes 10% off every month in exchange for the commitment. Score targets are 12 month trajectories reported quarterly; the Category Leader climb runs 18 to 24 months. Competing in a category above score 60, or jumping two tiers, is a custom program, and it still starts with the audit.

Find out what your market actually requires.

Book a free consultation and we will run the Reality Audit on your market: your real page-one bar, where you stand against it today, and the exact plan that clears it. You keep the numbers either way.

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