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The diversified bank: one reason to buy per ad, filmed whole.

Cold direct response ads for the free AI Search audit at sh.studiohawk.com, built from Jeremy's original SOPs rather than the vault summaries. The rule that changes the format comes from SOP-31, Ad Diversification, and it is blunt: post-Andromeda, swapping hooks onto one shared body "lasts for a much shorter duration"; what holds is an ad built from hook to CTA around a single reason someone would buy, and fifteen to twenty of those a month, each a genuinely different reason. So every entry below is one reason, one ad, one 30-second and one 60-second cut, with its own headlines and primary text for Dynamic Creative. The seventeen angles already on the film day page are indexed here as reasons, and thirty-one new ones are scripted in full, which is three months of production at Jeremy's floor. Reasons 39 to 46 were added on 4 September from the full 222-call analysis on the persona page, and 47 to 51 from the ICP brief the same day. Migration is the only substantial theme that rises as a deal progresses, from 31% of Discovery calls to 40% of Proposal calls, which is why it now has the largest segment in the bank.

SOP-31 one reason per adSOP-26/27 hook, reasons, CTASOP-35 say everything on the list49 reasons, 32 newBar: $1M+One CTA: apply
Read this first: the six rules from the originals that shape every script here.
1. One reason to buy per ad, filmed as one unit (SOP-31). Not a hook swapped onto a shared body. If you want a different opener, that is a different reason and a different ad. The film-day page's "three hooks, one body" format predates this rule and is retired for cold DR; it still holds for Hammer Them pieces, which are not DR.
2. Timing (SOP-27): hook in the first 3 to 5 seconds, 10 to 20 seconds of reasons, 5 to 10 seconds of CTA. The body carries one quick proof or stat, one mini-story, and one objection in a 30-second cut, two or three in a 60 to 90 second cut. Never end on the objection; the last note is the invitation.
3. No time to breathe (SOP-27): no name, no "hey guys", no "I'm here in my office". First words are the payoff or the frustration. The one-liner test applies: if the reason cannot be said in under ten words, it is not ready to film.
4. Speak to the in-market 3 to 4 percent (SOP-26 Part 2, SOP-35): they already believe search matters and already pay someone for it. Never argue that SEO matters. Argue that theirs is missing the channel that now decides. Use the openers Jeremy gives: "you already know", "you're doing this, but", and the circumstance opener.
5. Qualify inside the ad (SOP-26 Part 2 §5): every cut carries "businesses past a million a year" in the CTA. Talking to money (SOP-35): vision and ROI, no audacious claims, no hype, no red on screen. "The bigger the claim, the lower the quality of the person you attract."
6. One CTA everywhere: apply below. The page is sh.studiohawk.com, the VSL plays at the top, the application is five questions in about 45 seconds and a senior person reviews it. That sentence is the Bridge (SOP-35): the ad promises the audit, the page shows the process, the call personalises. Do not say "book a time", the calendar sits behind the review.
SOP-31 · the dog food exercise for this offer

Every reason a $1M+ owner would take a free AI Search audit.

Jeremy's instruction is to write down every reason somebody would buy, and to say all of them across the bank rather than pick favourites, because "you never know which point is going to be the one that hooks them" (SOP-35). Grouped by the major points the application form already asks about in question three, so the ad a person clicked and the reason they tick on the form can be read against each other. Category is SOP-31's hook taxonomy. Status says whether the ad already exists on the film day page or is scripted below.

#Reason to buyMajor pointSOP-31 categoryHook styleStatus
1AI keeps naming one competitor, and you know which oneNamed competitorEnvyCall-out/ads-call #1
2Competitors show up in AI answers, you do not, and no report shows the lossLeft behindFearPain/ads-call #2
3A second opinion on the report you already pay forAgency doubtFrustrationObjection-first/ads-call #3
4Samsung found us through ChatGPT, not an ad, not a referralProofSocial proofBold claim/ads-call #4
5Traffic went flat and nobody can say whyLeft behindFrustrationPain/ads-call #5
6A scored answer to "am I in the answer or not"MechanismSpecific questionQuestion/ads-call #6
7Why an agency would do this for free, said out loudMechanismObjection-firstObjection-first/ads-call #7
8Sylvane: 621 percent more AI mentionsProofTransformationBold claim/ads-call #8
9Be the owner who saw it early, not the one who got toldLeft behindIdentityCall-out/ads-call #9
10The room you walk into: senior people, your data, no deckMechanismIdentityCircumstance/ads-call #10
11272 strangers already asked the machine about your category this weekNamed competitorSocial proofShock stat/ads-call #11
12The shortlist happens without you in the roomLeft behindProblem agitationPain/ads-call #12
13Who actually reads your site now: a model, not a personNamed competitorSocial proofCuriosity/ads-call #13
14How a citation actually gets wonMechanismTacticalBold claim/ads-call #14
15What the machine says about you, read liveNamed competitorCuriosityQuestion/ads-call #15
16You are the ingredient, someone else is the dishNamed competitorProblem agitationPain/ads-call #16
17Second place costs more to fix than first cost to winLeft behindUrgency (honest)Bold claim/ads-call #17
21We ran the audit on ourselves, and we passProofSocial proofBold claimnew, below
22Case-Mate: 95 percent revenue growth from organic, in US retailProofTransformationBold claimnew, below
23First Fence of Georgia: this is not only for SamsungProofSocial proofObjection-firstnew, below
24Your ads did not get worse, your rent went upRising ad costProblem agitationPainnew, below
25Last month's ad spend times twelve: circle that numberRising ad costTacticalShock statnew, below
26Nobody can outbid you for a recommendationRising ad costCuriosityBold claimnew, below
27Build the second channel before you need itRising ad costUrgency (honest)Circumstancenew, below
28What a 30 percent organic mix does to your blended CACRising ad costTacticalQuestionnew, below
29If you feel left behind on AI search, you are probably right, and earlyLeft behindUrgency (honest)Questionnew, below
30Your rankings look fine. That is the problem.Left behindProblem agitationMyth-bustingnew, below
31Is your agency talking about AI SEO yet?Agency doubtFrustrationQuestionnew, below
32The three numbers your agency should be reportingAgency doubtTacticalCuriositynew, below
33Ranking reports against revenue reportsAgency doubtProblem agitationMyth-bustingnew, below
34Hand it to your current agency the same afternoonAgency doubtObjection-firstObjection-firstnew, below
35Ask ChatGPT for the best of what you sell in your city. Now.Named competitorTacticalCall-outnew, below
36You already pay for SEO. Here is the part the invoice does not cover.In-market openerProblem agitationYou already knownew, below
37The CEO asked why the competitor is winning. This is the answer.In-market openerIdentityCircumstancenew, below

Numbering starts at 21 for the new reasons so the angle tags never collide with the topic test (1 to 7) or the film day bank (1 to 17); the dashboard groups on the tag and reads the words after it. Where a new reason overlaps an existing one, the note on the ad says which to film first. Two categories are still thin after this pass, Transformation and Tactical, which is where the third month's reasons should come from: more named results as they land, and more "here is exactly how it works" pieces cut from the audit itself.

Major point · proof

Social proof, four more ways.

Samsung stays the flagship. These three give the proof point three different psychological doors: we pass our own test, a US retail number, and a local service business that says this is not only for the big names.

21 · We ran the audit on ourselves

Social proofBold claimTalking head + screen

Reason to buy: an agency that sells AI-search visibility should be visible in AI search. We are, and we will show it, which makes the audit credible before it starts.

60-second cut
0-5s

Every agency will tell you they can get you recommended by AI. Ask the AI about them first.

5-18s

Here's ours. Open ChatGPT, ask for the best AI SEO agency, and StudioHawk comes back. Same channel Samsung used to find us. Same channel your customers are starting to use to find you.

Live screen capture, no blur, the whole answer visible.

18-32s

We get named because of how our site is built, what it publishes, and whether the engines can read and trust it. Six signals. We score every one on our own site, and if we didn't pass, we'd have no business selling the audit.

Scorecard for studiohawk.com filling in, six rows, all green.

32-46s

So here's the offer. We run the same six signals on your site, free, pull the exact answers where the engines name a competitor instead of you, and give you the three moves that close the biggest gap first.

46-53s

Why free? Because a fair number of the businesses we audit ask us to run the plan. That's the whole mechanic.

53-60s

Thirty minutes, a senior strategist, and you keep the plan either way. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
Ask The AI About The Agency First We Pass Our Own Test. Most Do Not. Recommended By The Machine We Audit
Dynamic creative · primary text
Before you let anyone audit your AI search visibility, ask ChatGPT about them. Ask it about us and StudioHawk is in the answer, the same way Samsung found us. We run the same six-signal framework on your site, free, and show you where the engines name a competitor instead of you. Thirty minutes with a senior strategist, and you keep the plan. For businesses doing $1M+. An agency that sells AI search visibility should be visible in AI search. We are, on the record, and we will show you the answer on the call. Free 30-minute audit of your site against the framework Samsung found us through. For businesses doing $1M+ a year. Apply below.
Objection handled · tag · file name
Trust: "does this actually work, or is it a pitch". Handled by proof on our own domain. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_21_We_Pass_Our_Own_Test SH_Call_21_OwnTest_TalkingHead_30s / _60s

This is SOP-34's honest half made into an ad and it is the single most defensible credibility asset the funnel has. Film the screen capture the same day; the answer must be real and current. If the answer ever stops naming us, pull the ad the same day.

22 · Case-Mate, 95 percent

TransformationBold claimCase study snapshot

Reason to buy: a US retail brand grew organic revenue 95 percent. For an owner who thinks in revenue, not rankings, this is the number.

30-second cut
0-5s

Ninety-five percent more revenue from organic search. A US retail brand. No extra ad spend.

The number as plain on-screen text, nothing else.

5-23s

Case-Mate sells phone cases in one of the most crowded categories online. We rebuilt how the engines read their site and what it publishes, and organic revenue nearly doubled. Not traffic. Revenue. That's the case study, it's linked on the page.

Case-study card cutaway, the +95% exactly as published on the site.

23-30s

We'll grade your site against the same framework, free. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
95% More Revenue From Organic Search Recommended Beats Ranked. Here Is The Number. A US Retail Brand, No Extra Ad Spend
Dynamic creative · primary text
Case-Mate grew revenue from organic search by 95 percent in one of the most crowded categories online, without outspending anyone. They became the site the engines read, trust and quote. Free 30-minute audit: your site graded on the same six signals, the answers where competitors are cited instead of you, and the three moves in order. For businesses doing $1M+. Ninety-five percent more organic revenue is the difference between ranking on a page and being recommended in an answer. We will show you which one you are, free, and what it would take to be the other. Senior strategist, thirty minutes, you keep the plan. For businesses doing $1M+ a year.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"My category is too competitive." Handled by the category itself. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_22_CaseMate_95_Percent SH_Call_22_CaseMate_CaseStudy_30s / _60s

23 · First Fence of Georgia

Social proofObjection-firstCase study snapshot

Reason to buy: "this is for Samsung, not for a business like mine" is the objection the Samsung ad creates. A local fence company with top-three rankings up 172 percent answers it.

30-second cut
0-5s

You think this AI search stuff is for Samsung and not for a business like yours. Here's a fence company in Georgia.

To camera, half smile.

5-23s

First Fence of Georgia. Local, service business, real customers who need a fence this month. Top-three rankings up a hundred and seventy-two percent. Same six-signal framework, same method we run for QuickBooks and Weber, scaled to a business that answers its own phone.

Case-study card. Then a plain map pin, Georgia.

23-30s

Free audit, thirty minutes, you keep the plan. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
Not Only For Samsung. Here Is A Fence Company. Top-3 Rankings Up 172% For A Local Business The Same Method, Scaled To Your Size
Dynamic creative · primary text
You might think AI search visibility is a big-brand game. First Fence of Georgia is a local service business, and their top-three rankings rose 172 percent on the same six-signal framework we run for QuickBooks and Weber. Free 30-minute audit of your site, the answers where competitors are cited instead of you, and the three moves in order. For businesses doing $1M+. The six signals that decide whether AI recommends a business do not care how big the business is. A fence company in Georgia proved it. We will grade your site on the same signals, free, and you keep the plan whether you work with us or not. For businesses doing $1M+ a year.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"Not for a business my size." Handled head on, in the hook. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_23_First_Fence_Georgia SH_Call_23_FirstFence_ObjectionFirst_30s / _60s

38 · Seven and a half times

Social proofBold claimTalking head + chart

Reason to buy: StudioHawk owns the largest published study of what AI search actually cites. Tools, templates and calculators earned AI traffic at seven and a half times their share of pages. Comparison pages, the format every agency sells, came fifth. Statistics round-ups came last. Nobody else can quote this because nobody else has the data, and it reframes the audit from an opinion into a read against a measured benchmark.

Source: Hitches, L., "Format Leverage", StudioHawk, 24 August 2026, studiohawk.com.au/blog/ai-search-format-leverage/. 1,203,748 AI referral sessions across more than 600 businesses and 7.5 million classified pages, 15 January to 14 July 2026. Quote the study by name on screen. Do not round "seven and a half times" up.

60-second cut
0-5s

Everyone has an opinion about what AI search rewards. We went and measured it.

5-20s

One point two million AI referral sessions. Six hundred businesses. Seven and a half million pages, classified by format. Then we asked a simple question: which formats earn more AI traffic than their share of the internet says they should?

The three figures on screen one at a time. Source card, small: StudioHawk, Format Leverage, August 2026.

20-36s

Tools, templates and calculators won, at seven and a half times their share of pages. Comparison pages came fifth. And statistics round-ups came last, which is the interesting one, because pages carrying statistics get cited thirty to forty percent more often. That is not a contradiction. A statistic is an ingredient, not a format. A number on a page that does a real job is evidence. A page whose only job is holding numbers is a summary, and summarising is the one job the machine never needed you for.

Ranked chart, then the two findings side by side as plain text.

36-50s

If your content plan is comparison posts and statistics round-ups, you are spending at the wrong end of our own data. On the free audit we show you where AI search sends buyers in your market, grade your site against the six signals that decide it, and tell you which formats are worth building in your category. Thirty minutes with a senior strategist.

Scorecard cutaway.

50-60s

You keep the plan whether you hire us or not. The study is public, and it is linked below. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
We Measured 1.2 Million AI Referrals Tools Beat Blogs By 7.5x In AI Search Comparison Pages Came Fifth. Statistics Came Last. The Format Your Agency Sells You Came Fifth
Dynamic creative · primary text
We classified 7.5 million pages against 1,203,748 AI referral sessions from 600+ businesses to find which formats AI search actually cites. Tools, templates and calculators won at 7.5x their share of pages. Comparison pages came fifth. Statistics round-ups came last. Most content budgets are aimed at the bottom of that list. Free 30-minute audit of where yours sits and the three moves to fix it. For businesses doing $1M+. Pages carrying statistics get cited 30 to 40% more often, and pages that exist only to hold statistics earn the least AI traffic of any format. Both are true, and the gap between them is where most content budgets are being wasted. Our study of 1.2 million AI referrals says tools and calculators earn 7.5x their share. Free audit: which formats are worth building in your category, and where AI already sends your buyers. For businesses doing $1M+ a year.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"Everyone says the same things about AI search." Handled with proprietary data nobody else holds. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_38_Format_Leverage SH_Call_38_FormatLeverage_Proof_30s / _60s

Added 4 September from the SOURCE manuscript. This is the strongest unused proof asset in the business: original research, published, quotable by name, and impossible for a competitor to copy. SOP-26 Part 5 calls this the credibility mechanism, a specific measured claim that makes every softer claim in the ad believable by association. It is also the only reason in this bank that attacks the buyer's current content plan rather than their agency or their ad spend, which makes it the natural pairing with reason 33. Film it with the chart on a screen behind Harry, not as a motion graphic; the SOPs are consistent that a plain chart reads as data and an animated one reads as an ad.

Major point · rising ad cost

Five reasons, from the same fact.

Paid is getting dearer and it stops the day you stop. That is one fact and it can be entered through five different doors: the price of a click, the size of the annual bill, the auction you cannot win, the insurance argument, and the finance argument. Verified figures only. Both contested numbers are now sourced, from Harry's own book: cost per lead up 72 percent 2022 to 2025 ($40.74 to $70.11, WordStream/LocaliQ) and paid clicks down 68 percent where an AI Overview appears (Seer Interactive, September 2025). Reasons 24 and 25 were rewritten on 4 September to use them. See the flag at the bottom.

24 · Your rent went up

Problem agitationPainTalking head + text

Reason to buy: cost per lead is up 72 percent since 2022 and paid clicks are down 68 percent where an AI Overview appears, and the traffic stops the day the spend stops. Paid is rent; the audit shows the channel you can own.

30-second cut
0-5s

Your ads didn't get worse. Your cost per lead is up seventy-two percent since 2022.

On-screen, plain: $40.74 to $70.11. Small source line: WordStream.

5-23s

So the same budget buys fewer buyers every year, and the day you stop paying, the traffic stops. That's rent. Meanwhile AI engines answer your buyers directly and name two or three businesses, free, every time. We'll check, free, whether you're one of them in your market.

Cutaway: a live AI answer naming three businesses, none of them us.

23-30s

Thirty minutes, plan's yours either way. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

60-second cut
0-5s

Your ads didn't get worse. Your rent went up.

5-18s

In 2022 the average cost per lead on Google Ads was forty dollars seventy-four. In 2025 it was seventy dollars eleven. Seventy-two percent, in three years. And on the searches that now show an AI answer at the top, paid clicks are down sixty-eight percent. The rent went up and the street got quieter, and it's the same landlord doing both.

Two figures on screen one at a time, then the 68 percent. Small source lines: WordStream/LocaliQ, 2022 and 2025; Seer Interactive, September 2025.

18-32s

If paid is your only channel, you're one cost spike from a margin problem you can't fix quickly. The businesses that come through it built a second channel before they needed one, and that channel is AI search: your buyers ask, the engines name two or three businesses, no auction, no cost per click, and it compounds.

32-46s

We'll grade your site against our six-part framework, free, and pull where the engines currently send buyers in your market. Thirty minutes with a senior strategist, three moves in order.

Scorecard cutaway.

46-53s

Why free? Because a fair number of the businesses we audit ask us to run the plan. That's the mechanic, and there isn't a catch under it.

53-60s

You keep the plan whether you hire us or not. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
Your Cost Per Lead Is Up 72% Since 2022 The Rent Went Up. The Street Got Quieter. Paid Is Rent. Build The Channel You Own. $40.74 To $70.11. Same Landlord.
Dynamic creative · primary text
Average cost per lead on Google Ads rose 72% between 2022 and 2025, from $40.74 to $70.11. Over the same stretch, paid clicks fell 68% on searches showing an AI Overview. The same budget buys fewer buyers every year and stops the day you stop paying. AI search names two or three businesses per answer, free, and it compounds. Free 30-minute audit of where AI search sends buyers in your market and what it would take to own that channel. For businesses doing $1M+. Paid search is rent. It works the day you pay and stops the day you stop, and someone else sets the price. AI engines recommend two or three businesses in every answer and nobody can outbid you for the spot. We will show you, free, whether you are in the answer for your category and the three moves that change it. For businesses doing $1M+ a year.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"Ads still work for us." Conceded, then reframed as rent. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_24_Your_Rent_Went_Up SH_Call_24_Rent_Pain_30s / _60s

25 · Circle that number

TacticalShock statDemo, phone calculator

Reason to buy: the annual ad bill, seen as one figure, is the qualifier. A forty-thousand-a-month spender circles $480,000 and feels it. Someone spending nothing has no number and self-excludes.

30-second cut
0-5s

Get your phone calculator out. Last month's ad spend, times twelve.

Harry does it on his own phone, screen to camera.

5-23s

That's your annual rent. It works the day you pay, stops the day you stop, the price is set by someone else, and it's up seventy-two percent per lead since 2022. Now here's the other channel: AI engines answering your buyers directly and naming two or three businesses, free, no auction. We'll price what owning that would take, against the number you just circled.

23-30s

Free audit, thirty minutes, bring the number. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
Last Month's Ad Spend x 12. Circle That Number. That Is Your Annual Rent Priced Against The Number You Just Circled
Dynamic creative · primary text
Multiply last month's ad spend by twelve. That is your annual rent: it works the day you pay, stops the day you stop, and someone else sets the price. AI engines recommend two or three businesses in every answer and there is no auction for the spot. Free 30-minute audit of where AI search is sending buyers in your market, priced against the number you circled. For businesses doing $1M+. The rent went up and the street got quieter. Same landlord. We will show you the channel nobody can price you out of and what it would take to own it in your market, free, in thirty minutes with a senior strategist. Bring the number. For businesses doing $1M+ a year.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"How much would this cost me?" Handled by anchoring against what they already spend. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_25_Circle_That_Number SH_Call_25_RentLedger_Demo_30s / _60s

Lifted from the deck's day-one exercise (M2 on the topic tests page) and rebuilt as a cold ad. Jeremy's SOP-26 Part 8 calls this the demo framework: showing a process on screen convinces people it is real. The exercise does the qualifying inside the creative.

26 · Nobody can outbid you for a recommendation

CuriosityBold claimTalking head

Reason to buy: in an auction the biggest budget wins. In an AI answer there is no auction, so the best-built site wins, which is a game a $1M business can actually play against a $100M one.

60-second cut
0-5s

You will never outspend the biggest player in your category. You don't have to.

5-18s

Every paid channel is an auction, and in an auction the deepest pocket wins. AI search isn't an auction. When a buyer asks the machine who to use, it names two or three businesses based on whether it can read the site, trust it, and lift an answer out of it. Budget doesn't enter the room.

18-32s

That's the first time in fifteen years the channel that decides has been winnable on quality rather than spend. A fence company in Georgia got recommended in its area on the same six signals we run for Samsung. Nobody bought that spot.

32-46s

The free audit scores your site on those six signals, shows the exact answers where a competitor is named instead of you, and gives you the three moves in order. Thirty minutes with a senior strategist.

46-53s

Why free? A fair number of the businesses we audit ask us to run the plan. That's the whole model.

53-60s

You keep the plan either way. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
There Is No Auction For A Recommendation The One Channel Budget Cannot Buy Winnable On Quality, Not Spend
Dynamic creative · primary text
Every paid channel is an auction and the deepest pocket wins. AI search is not. When a buyer asks the machine who to use, it names two or three businesses on whether it can read, trust and quote the site. Budget does not enter the room. Free 30-minute audit of your site on the six signals that decide it. For businesses doing $1M+. For the first time in fifteen years the channel that decides who gets the customer is winnable on quality rather than spend. We will show you, free, whether you are in the answer for your category and what it would take to be. For businesses doing $1M+ a year. Apply below.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"The big players will always beat us." Handled in the hook. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_26_No_Auction SH_Call_26_NoAuction_TalkingHead_30s / _60s

27 · The second channel, before you need it

Urgency, honestCircumstanceTalking head

Reason to buy: single-channel dependence is a risk the owner already half-knows. This is the insurance argument, addressed to the condition "cash-flow positive but capped" (SOP-35).

60-second cut
0-5s

You're doing over a million a year and most of it walks in through one door. That's the problem nobody raises until the door gets expensive.

SOP-26 circumstance opener: name their situation, then the risk in it.

5-18s

Every year the same ad budget buys a little less. One algorithm change, one new competitor in the auction, one bad quarter in the platform, and the door narrows. If it's your only door, that's a margin problem you can't fix in a month.

18-32s

The businesses that survive the next spike built a second channel while the first one still worked. AI search is that channel: buyers ask the machine, it names two or three businesses, there's no auction, and being named compounds. Samsung found us that way.

32-46s

The free audit shows you where AI search is already sending buyers in your market, grades your site on the six signals that decide it, and gives you the three moves that close the biggest gap first. Thirty minutes with a senior strategist.

46-53s

This isn't a pitch to stop running ads. Keep them. It's a plan for the day they stop being enough.

The objection: "we can't just turn off paid". Conceded outright.

53-60s

Free, you keep the plan. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
Build The Second Channel Before You Need It One Cost Spike From A Margin Problem Keep The Ads. Plan For The Day They Are Not Enough.
Dynamic creative · primary text
If paid ads are your only channel you are one cost spike from a margin problem you cannot fix quickly. The businesses that come through the next price rise built a second channel first. AI search names two or three businesses per answer with no auction, and it compounds. Free 30-minute audit of where it is already sending buyers in your market. For businesses doing $1M+. This is not a pitch to stop running ads. It is a plan for the day they stop being enough. We will show you, free, where AI search sends buyers in your market and what it would take to own that channel. Senior strategist, thirty minutes, you keep the plan. For businesses doing $1M+ a year.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"We can't turn off paid." Conceded: keep it, this is the second door. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_27_Second_Channel SH_Call_27_SecondChannel_Circumstance_30s / _60s

The same reason as the topic test's dropped Angle 5, rewritten around the condition rather than the fear. Angle 5's round-one numbers were on the wrong audience and do not count against it.

28 · Thirty percent organic and your blended CAC

TacticalQuestionDemo, whiteboard

Reason to buy: the finance version. For the owner or CFO who runs the business on CAC, the argument is arithmetic, not fear. Circles want vision; this is the one ad written for the Triangle who has to build the case.

60-second cut
0-5s

If you run your business on cost per customer, this is the only AI search ad written for you.

5-18s

Here's the arithmetic. Say a hundred customers a month, all paid, at your current CAC. Now thirty of them arrive because a machine recommended you when someone asked. Same hundred customers, thirty of them cost you nothing at the click. Blended CAC drops by roughly a third, and next quarter it drops again, because recommendations compound and auctions don't.

Whiteboard, three lines, no more. Keep the numbers illustrative and say so on screen: "illustrative".

18-32s

That's the second channel in finance terms: not more traffic, cheaper customers, and a number you can put in a board deck. Case-Mate grew organic revenue ninety-five percent on exactly this.

32-46s

The free audit tells you where you stand on the six signals that decide whether you get recommended, where competitors are named instead of you, and the three moves in order. Thirty minutes with a senior strategist, and the plan is yours to model.

46-53s

Why free? Some of the businesses we audit ask us to run the plan. That's the mechanic.

53-60s

Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
What 30% Organic Does To Your Blended CAC Cheaper Customers, Not More Traffic The AI Search Ad Written For Your CFO
Dynamic creative · primary text
If thirty percent of your customers arrived through a channel with no cost per click, your blended cost per customer drops by roughly a third, and it keeps dropping because recommendations compound and auctions do not. Free 30-minute audit of how far your site is from being one of the two or three businesses AI names in your category. For businesses doing $1M+. The second channel in finance terms: not more traffic, cheaper customers, and a number you can put in a board deck. Case-Mate grew organic revenue 95 percent on it. We will show you where you stand, free, and you keep the plan to model yourself. For businesses doing $1M+ a year.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"Show me the business case." The whole ad is the business case. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_28_Blended_CAC SH_Call_28_BlendedCAC_Whiteboard_30s / _60s

The one ad in the bank aimed at the person who reports upward rather than the owner. Keep the arithmetic labelled illustrative on screen; SOP-35 is explicit that big specific claims attract the wrong buyer and this one is a model, not a promise.

Major point · the migration you already did

Eight reasons, from the strongest condition in the data.

32% of all 222 recorded sales calls have the prospect raising a rebuild, migration or re-theme, and it is the only substantial theme that rises as a deal progresses, from 31% at Discovery to 40% at Proposal. It is the strongest positive signal in the corpus and there was not one ad about it. It now has proof: Sylvane is a migration case study whose headline results are AI-search results, which is the exact intersection this whole funnel argues for, and it is reason 52 below. Underneath the headline number the corpus splits into distinct situations, and the reasons below are written one per situation: 27 companies raise redirects, deleted pages or URL structure (the largest single technical subject anywhere in 222 calls, and almost always as a question); 9 are about to migrate or are mid-build; 4 describe a build done by someone who was never hired to protect search; and one asked, unprompted, for someone to stay ninety days past go-live. The fear is specific, dated and self-inflicted, which makes it the easiest genuine urgency in the whole bank: nobody has to be told a migration is risky, they already suspect theirs went wrong. ATF Services watched monthly traffic fall from around 10,000 to 2,900 after theirs. Dermapenworld: "before we migrated to this new headless, our SEO reports were like the best." Never blame them for it, and never blame the developer by name; the person watching almost certainly signed off the build.

39 · The traffic went down after the new site and nobody can tell you why

Problem agitationYou already knowTalking head + screen

Reason to buy: the most common story in the dataset, said back to them in one sentence. They already suspect the rebuild cost them something; nobody has been able to show them what, because the agency that built it is not the agency that measures it.

Film the 30-second cut. A recognition hook. The whole ad is the sentence "you already know when it happened", and length dilutes it.

30-second cut

0-5s

You got a new website, and the traffic never came back. You know the exact month it happened.

Harry to camera, flat, no preamble. No on-screen text for the first five seconds; the line has to land alone.

5-23s

Everyone told you it was Google. Usually it isn't. It's a few hundred URLs that never got redirected, a page template that lost its headings, and a robots file nobody read. That damage is quiet, it compounds, and the people who built the site are not the people who measure it.

Screen: a real crawl showing 404s on old URLs. Real data, not a mockup.

23-30s

Free thirty-minute audit. We'll tell you what the migration cost you, in writing. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

60-second cut

0-5s

You got a new website, and the traffic never came back.

5-20s

This is the most common thing we see. One business we spoke to went from around ten thousand visits a month to under three thousand after a migration, and eighteen months later still could not tell you why. Another said their reports were the best they'd ever had, right up until the rebuild.

Two plain text cards for the numbers. No logos, no names.

20-36s

It is almost never the design. It is redirects that were never mapped, templates that dropped their heading structure, and pages that were quietly removed because someone decided they did not matter. None of that shows up in a design review, and all of it shows up in revenue about two months later.

36-50s

We'll crawl the old site against the new one, find what was lost, and give you the fix list in priority order. Thirty minutes with a senior strategist, free, and you keep the list whether you work with us or not.

Scorecard cutaway.

50-60s

If you're about to migrate instead, that's a better call to have. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
You Got A New Website And The Traffic Never Came Back You Know The Exact Month It Happened The Rebuild Looked Great. The Traffic Disagreed. Nobody Has Told You What The Migration Cost You
Dynamic creative · primary text
More than half the businesses we get on a call with have just rebuilt, migrated or re-themed their site. A large share of them watched organic traffic fall afterwards and were told it was a Google update. Usually it wasn't. It was redirects nobody mapped, templates that lost their heading structure, and pages quietly removed. Free 30-minute audit: what the migration actually cost you, in writing. For businesses doing $1M+. The people who build a website and the people who measure it are almost never the same people, which is why migration damage is invisible for months. We will crawl the old site against the new one and hand you the fix list in priority order. Free, 30 minutes, and you keep the list. For businesses doing $1M+ a year.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"It's probably just the algorithm." Answered with the more likely and more fixable cause. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_39_Traffic_Never_Came_Back SH_Call_39_MigrationDrop_Pain_30s / _60s

The highest-confidence new reason in the bank. 45 of 175 companies raise a migration or rebuild in their own words, and unlike every other theme it grows rather than fades as the deal gets real. One caution on the hook: genuinely unexplained traffic loss is rarer than it sounds, only about 1% of calls state it outright, so the ad should lead on the migration and let the traffic drop be the consequence rather than the claim. Do not name a platform in the hook: the condition spans Shopify, WordPress, Drupal, headless and custom builds, and naming one halves the audience.

40 · You are about to migrate. This is the call to have first.

Urgency, honestCircumstanceTalking head

Reason to buy: the same condition caught before the damage instead of after. Cheaper for them, far better for us, and it is the one version of this message with a real deadline attached that we did not invent.

Film the 60-second cut. A risk argument needs the counterfactual, and the counterfactual is the sell. At 30 it reads as scaremongering.

60-second cut

0-5s

If you're rebuilding your website right now, there's a conversation you want to have before it goes live, not after.

5-20s

Because the pattern is always the same. The build runs late. The launch date does not move, because it is tied to a season you cannot argue with. And the redirect map, which is the single thing that protects every visitor you already have, is the last job on the list and the first one that gets rushed.

On screen, plain: BUILD LATE. DATE FIXED. REDIRECTS RUSHED.

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One business we spoke to was going live weeks before Black Friday for the second year running, and told us they knew it was too close and could not do anything about it. That is a normal, well-run business, not a careless one. The problem is that nobody in the room owns search, so it gets picked up last.

36-50s

We'll review the build before it ships: URL mapping, templates, headings, internal links, and what happens to the pages you are quietly dropping. Thirty minutes, free, and the checklist is yours whether you hire us or not.

Scorecard cutaway.

50-60s

Do it before launch and it is a checklist. Do it after and it is a recovery project. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
Rebuilding Your Site? Have This Call First. Before Launch It's A Checklist. After, It's A Recovery Project. The Redirect Map Is Always The Last Job And The First One Rushed Your Launch Date Won't Move. Plan For That.
Dynamic creative · primary text
If you are rebuilding or replatforming right now, the redirect map is the last job on the list and the first one that gets rushed, because the build runs late and the launch date is tied to a season that will not move. We will review the build before it ships: URL mapping, templates, heading structure, internal links, and what happens to the pages you are quietly dropping. Free, 30 minutes, checklist is yours either way. For businesses doing $1M+.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"We'll sort SEO after launch." Answered with the cost difference between before and after. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_40_Before_You_Migrate SH_Call_40_PreMigration_Urgency_60s

Pair this with reason 39 in the same ad set and let the algorithm sort pre from post. They are the same condition at two different moments and the creative cost is one extra take on the same film day.

41 · Your designer and your agency have never spoken

Problem agitationMyth-bustingTalking head

Reason to buy: names the ownership gap without blaming anyone in it. This is the version of "nobody owns search" that a buyer can forward to the colleague who chose the developer, which matters because 56% of these calls have more than one person on them.

Film the 30-second cut. One structural observation, said once. It gets weaker with elaboration, and elaboration is where it starts sounding like blame.

30-second cut

0-5s

Your web designer and your SEO agency have probably never been in the same meeting.

5-23s

That is not anybody's fault, it is just how it gets bought. One is a project, the other is a retainer, and the handover between them is a zip file. Which is why the template changes and nobody flags it, and why the pages get dropped and nobody costs it. Search does not have an owner, so it gets picked up last by whoever is nearest.

23-30s

Free thirty-minute audit, and we'll show you the gap in your own site. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
Your Designer And Your SEO Agency Have Never Spoken The Handover Between Them Is A Zip File Search Doesn't Have An Owner, So It Gets Picked Up Last It's Not A Knowledge Problem. It's An Ownership Problem.
Dynamic creative · primary text
One is a project, the other is a retainer, and the handover between them is a zip file. That is why a template change goes unflagged and dropped pages go uncosted: search has no owner inside most businesses, so it gets picked up last by whoever is nearest. Not a knowledge problem, an ownership problem. Free 30-minute audit of what that has cost you. For businesses doing $1M+.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"We already have an agency." Reframed as a structural gap rather than an agency failure. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_41_Never_Spoken SH_Call_41_OwnershipGap_30s

Written deliberately so it does not attack the incumbent. Only 12% of parsed calls criticise their agency and 63% have one, so an ad that says "your agency is failing you" insults the majority and the person who hired them, who is often on the call.

42 · Bring your agency to the audit

Objection-firstObjection-firstTalking head

Reason to buy: removes the largest silent objection in a market where 63% already have an agency, and does it by being generous rather than competitive. It also makes the ad safe to show to the colleague who owns that relationship.

Film the 30-second cut. Pure objection handling: one concern, one reassurance, one CTA, per SOP-27.

30-second cut

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If you already have an SEO agency, bring them to the audit. Seriously.

5-23s

Most people assume a free audit is a pitch with a scorecard stapled to it. Put your agency on the call and it stops being that immediately. Either they already knew about everything we find, which is worth knowing, or they didn't, which is worth more. You keep the findings either way, and you are allowed to just hand them the list.

23-30s

Thirty minutes, free, no obligation to move anything. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
Bring Your Agency To The Audit. Seriously. Either They Already Knew, Or They Didn't. Both Are Worth Knowing. You're Allowed To Just Hand Them The List A Free Audit You Can Invite Your Current Agency To
Dynamic creative · primary text
Most people assume a free audit is a pitch with a scorecard stapled to it. So bring your current agency to it. Either they already knew about everything we find, which tells you something good, or they did not, which tells you something more useful. You keep the findings either way and you are welcome to just hand them the list. 30 minutes with a senior strategist, no obligation to move anything. For businesses doing $1M+.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"We're already with someone." Handled by inviting them instead of competing with them. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_42_Bring_Your_Agency SH_Call_42_BringThem_ObjectionFirst_30s

The most under-priced idea in this rewrite. It converts the single biggest structural objection in the market into a reason to say yes, it is provably what the audit already does (Property Inspectors chose StudioHawk precisely because the audit was blunt), and it is the only ad in the bank that a buyer can forward to their agency without embarrassment.

43 · Nobody can tell you if redirects hurt you

TacticalQuestionTalking head + whiteboard

Reason to buy: redirects are the single most-raised technical subject in the entire call corpus, 27 companies out of 175, and almost always as a question rather than a statement. "Will we be punished for having redirects?" "Should they live in WordPress or Cloudflare?" "What happens if someone lands on a URL we deleted?" Nobody has given these people a straight answer, and the ad that does earns the call.

Film the 60-second cut. It teaches, and teaching needs room. This is the one reason in the bank where being useful on camera is the entire mechanism.

60-second cut

0-5s

"Will redirects hurt our rankings?" It's the most common question we get, and the honest answer is: not the redirect. The missing one.

Harry to camera. No preamble, no name.

5-20s

A redirect is a forwarding address. Putting one in place is close to free. What costs you is the page that got deleted with no forwarding address at all, because every link pointing at it, every bit of authority it earned, and every person who bookmarked it, hits a dead end.

Whiteboard, drawn live: OLD URL to NEW URL with an arrow, then a second OLD URL with the arrow going nowhere. Draw it, do not animate it.

20-36s

And it happens for a reasonable-sounding reason every time. Someone looks at a page for a product you no longer carry, or a service you no longer offer, and says: that's not relevant any more, delete it. Which is right about the content and wrong about the address.

36-50s

On the free audit we crawl what your site used to have against what it has now, and hand you the list of addresses that lead nowhere, in order of what they were worth. Thirty minutes with a senior strategist.

Screen: a real crawl, real 404 list, real numbers.

50-60s

You keep the list either way, and most of it is an afternoon of work for whoever runs your site. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
Will Redirects Hurt Our Rankings? It's Not The Redirect That Costs You. It's The Missing One. The Page Wasn't Relevant. The Address Still Was. The Most Common Question We Get, Answered Properly
Dynamic creative · primary text
"Will redirects hurt our rankings?" is the most common technical question we get asked, and the answer is no, not the redirect. What costs you is the page deleted with no forwarding address, because every link pointing at it and every bit of authority it earned hits a dead end. It happens for a reasonable-sounding reason every time: the product was discontinued, so someone deleted the page. Right about the content, wrong about the address. Free 30-minute audit: every address on your site that leads nowhere, ranked by what it was worth. For businesses doing $1M+.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"We're not technical enough to judge an SEO agency." Handled by being useful before asking for anything. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_43_Redirect_Question SH_Call_43_Redirects_Teaching_60s

Grounded in more corpus evidence than any other reason in the bank: 27 companies raised redirects, URLs or deleted pages unprompted, including Knightcorp asking "if we do update these, will we be punished for having redirects?", Loan Market asking whether to run them in WordPress or Cloudflare, and Clicksend finding 750 pages of redirect chains. Answer the question properly on camera and the audit sells itself.

44 · Your developer is excellent at a different job

Problem agitationObjection-firstTalking head

Reason to buy: the reason migrations break, said without blaming anyone. Web development and search are genuinely different disciplines, and the person who built the site was hired for the first one. This is the only safe way to say "your build cost you traffic" to a buyer who chose the builder, which matters because only 8% of the corpus criticises their suppliers.

Film the 30-second cut. A single reframe. Said once it is generous; elaborated it becomes an accusation.

30-second cut

0-5s

Your web developer probably did a great job. On a different job to the one you needed.

5-23s

Building a website and keeping a website findable are two industries that happen to share a browser. One is judged on how it looks and whether it works. The other is judged on things that are invisible on launch day and expensive six months later. Nobody hires a developer to protect their organic traffic, so nobody does.

23-30s

Free thirty-minute audit of what your build missed. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
Your Developer Did A Great Job. On A Different Job. Two Industries That Share A Browser Invisible On Launch Day. Expensive Six Months Later. Nobody Hires A Developer To Protect Organic Traffic
Dynamic creative · primary text
Building a website and keeping a website findable are two different industries that happen to share a browser. One is judged on how it looks and whether it works, on launch day. The other is judged on things nobody can see until about six months later. Nobody hires a developer to protect their organic traffic, so nobody does, and that is why so many rebuilds quietly cost the business money. Free 30-minute audit of what your build missed. For businesses doing $1M+.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"Our developers are good." Conceded completely, then reframed as scope rather than competence. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_44_Different_Job SH_Call_44_DifferentJob_30s

Four companies described exactly this: Bstore's previous hire was "a bit junior" and did not know how to migrate cleanly, Olga Berg's developers pushed pages live that should not have been, and one prospect described watching a developer carry over none of the SEO architecture and the site tank overnight. Say it generously. The person watching hired that developer.

45 · Stay for ninety days after go-live

Objection-firstCircumstanceTalking head

Reason to buy: a prospect asked for this unprompted, in these words: they wanted StudioHawk around at least 90 days post-migration in case anything happens. That is a buyer describing the shape of the engagement they want. Sell it back to them as an offer rather than waiting for them to ask.

Film the 30-second cut. It is an offer, not an argument. Offers get worse when they are explained.

30-second cut

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The riskiest ninety days of your website's life start the day it goes live, not the day before.

5-23s

Everyone plans the launch. Almost nobody plans the three months after it, which is when the damage actually shows up: rankings settling in the wrong place, pages nobody noticed were gone, a template change nobody costed. By the time it appears in revenue, the project is closed and the team has moved on.

23-30s

We'll tell you what to watch and for how long. Free, thirty minutes. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
The Riskiest 90 Days Start The Day It Goes Live Everyone Plans The Launch. Nobody Plans The Quarter After. By The Time It Shows In Revenue, The Project Is Closed What To Watch After Go-Live, And For How Long
Dynamic creative · primary text
Everyone plans the launch. Almost nobody plans the ninety days after it, which is when migration damage actually surfaces: rankings settling in the wrong place, pages nobody noticed were missing, a template change nobody costed. By then the project is closed and the team has moved on. Free 30-minute session on what to watch after go-live and for how long, whether or not we are the ones watching it. For businesses doing $1M+.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"We'll get someone once the site is live." Reframed so that being live is the start of the risk, not the end. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_45_Ninety_Days SH_Call_45_NinetyDays_30s

Straight from a buyer's own words rather than invented, which is the strongest kind of offer. It also sells a bounded engagement, which suits the 40% of the corpus asking about ongoing work without committing them to an open-ended retainer on day one.

46 · The pages you are about to delete

TacticalYou already knowDemo, screen

Reason to buy: catches the exact decision, at the exact moment it is made, by a person who is right about the content and wrong about the address. Neota Logic put it perfectly: the pages are no longer relevant, they do not want them surfaced, but they do not know what to do if someone lands on that URL. That is not ignorance, it is a genuinely unanswered question.

Film the 30-second cut. A demo. The viewer recognises their own spreadsheet and the ad is over.

30-second cut

0-5s

Somewhere there's a spreadsheet of pages you're about to delete. Discontinued products, old services, last year's campaign.

Screen: a real spreadsheet with URLs and a delete column. Cursor moving.

5-23s

You're right that the content is dead. But some of those addresses are still earning: still linked to from somewhere, still bringing people in. Delete the page and you lose both. Point the address at the closest thing you do still sell, and you keep them. It's the same afternoon of work either way. It just depends on whether anyone checked first.

Show one real example: a dead URL, its referring links, its monthly visits.

23-30s

Send us the list before you press delete. Free, thirty minutes. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
Send Us The List Before You Press Delete You're Right That The Content Is Dead. The Address Isn't. Same Afternoon Of Work. Very Different Outcome. The Pages You're About To Delete Are Still Earning
Dynamic creative · primary text
Somewhere there is a spreadsheet of pages you are about to delete: discontinued products, old services, last year's campaign. You are right that the content is dead. Some of those addresses are not: still linked to, still bringing people in. Delete the page and you lose both. Point the address at the nearest thing you still sell and you keep them, for the same afternoon of work. Send us the list before you press delete. Free 30-minute audit. For businesses doing $1M+.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"That content isn't relevant any more." Agreed with, then separated from the question of the URL. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_46_Before_You_Delete SH_Call_46_BeforeDelete_Demo_30s

The most specific CTA in the bank and the easiest yes: it asks for a spreadsheet rather than a meeting. Worth testing as a lead magnet in its own right, because "send us the list before you press delete" is a smaller commitment than a thirty-minute call and lands the same conversation.

52 · The migration that gained instead of lost

TransformationBold claimCase study snapshot

Reason to buy: every other ad in this segment describes what a migration costs. This one is the counter-example, and it is the only case study in the business where a migration and AI search meet, which is the exact intersection the whole funnel argues for. Sylvane, a 25-year-old HVAC retailer competing against Home Depot and Lowe's, moved off a custom platform onto Shopify and came out of it with more visibility than they went in with.

Film the 60-second cut. A proof story with four numbers in it. At 30 seconds it becomes a stat dump and stops being a story.

60-second cut

0-6s

Most site migrations quietly cost you traffic. Here's one that didn't, and it's the one I'd point at if you only look at a single thing we've done.

6-22s

Sylvane sell air quality equipment. Twenty-five years old, genuinely expert, and competing against Home Depot and Lowe's. They were moving off a custom platform onto Shopify, which is exactly the moment most businesses lose ground.

Screen: the real case study page. Do not recreate it in a graphic.

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We mapped every URL before the move, ran crawl parity between the old site and staging, and rebuilt the category pages around what people actually search for rather than what they were called internally. Post-launch: keyword visibility up twenty-seven percent, top-three positions up fifteen. And on the AI side, brand mentions in the language models up six hundred and twenty-one percent, with AI referral revenue up a hundred and forty-five percent month on month.

Numbers as plain cards, one at a time. Source line: StudioHawk case study, Sylvane.

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They also took position three for "dehumidifier", a term they had never ranked for in twenty-five years of selling them.

53-60s

Free thirty-minute audit, same six signals. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
The Migration That Gained Instead Of Lost 621% More Brand Mentions Inside The AI Models They'd Sold Dehumidifiers For 25 Years And Never Ranked For One Moving Platforms Is Where Most Businesses Lose Ground
Dynamic creative · primary text
Sylvane have sold air quality equipment for 25 years against Home Depot and Lowe's. Moving off a custom platform onto Shopify is exactly where most businesses lose ground. We mapped every URL before the move, ran crawl parity against staging, and rebuilt the category pages around what people actually search for. Post-launch: keyword visibility +27%, top-three positions +15%, brand mentions inside the language models +621%, and AI referral revenue +145% month on month. They also took position 3 for "dehumidifier", which they had never ranked for. Free 30-minute audit on the same six signals. For businesses doing $1M+.
Testimonial · cleared for use
"Great to work with! Five stars, no notes." Ryan Dobrin, Content Marketing Manager, Sylvane Published on the Sylvane case study, so no fresh approval needed.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"Won't a migration wreck our rankings?" Answered with the one migration that went the other way. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_52_Sylvane_Migration SH_Call_52_Sylvane_Proof_60s

Verified against the published case study on 4 September. Say the numbers exactly as written: 621% is LLM brand mentions, not traffic, and 145% is AI referral revenue month on month, not total revenue. Overstating either turns the strongest proof in the bank into a liability.

Major point · left behind in AI search

Two more doors into the fear, both played flat.

Two reasons, and a warning that now has a number on it. 40% of all 222 calls have the prospect raising AI search themselves, and the split by stage is the useful part: 50% at Discovery against 26% at Proposal. AI search is what gets them on the call and not what they are still discussing when they are choosing. So these reasons belong in cold advertising, where they are doing real work, and the VSL and the proposal should not be built on them. Corrected on 4 September against the full corpus: an earlier version of this note said 71% and told you to stop selling the category everywhere. Sell it at the top, drop it lower down.

External number, for the marketing-manager audience. G2's buyer behaviour study, presented by G2's CMO on 6sense's Revenue Makers in October 2025, puts half of B2B buyers now starting their journey inside an LLM rather than Google, and notes AI is shrinking vendor shortlists. That second half matters more than the first: a shorter shortlist is the argument for acting now, and it is the only stat here that comes from outside StudioHawk, which is exactly what a marketing manager needs when they are the one carrying the case upstairs. Flag: this is 6sense reporting G2's study, and I have not seen G2's primary research. Get the source document before it goes in a paid ad.

29 · You are probably right, and you are early

Urgency, honestQuestionTalking head

Reason to buy: the viewer's own feeling of being behind, met and then reframed: almost nobody has done the work yet, so the window is open. Fear and permission in one ad.

60-second cut
0-5s

If you feel like you're getting left behind on AI search, you're probably right.

5-18s

Here's the part nobody says out loud. Almost nobody in your industry has done the work yet. The window is still open. That's the good news and the deadline in one sentence.

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Because right now somebody in your market is becoming the business the AI names. Your buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google's AI, and they get two or three names back. There's no page two. And it happens quietly, because your rankings can look completely healthy while it does.

Underplayed. No eyebrow, no cutaway.

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We make it visible, then fixable. Free. We grade your site against the six-part framework Samsung found us through, pull the exact answers where the engines cite a competitor instead of you, and give you the three moves that close the biggest gap first.

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Why free? Because a fair number of the businesses we audit ask us to run the plan. That's the whole mechanic.

53-60s

Thirty minutes with a senior strategist, and you keep the plan. Businesses past a million a year, apply below. If you've been feeling behind on this, this is the catch-up.

Dynamic creative · headlines
Are You Getting Left Behind In AI Search? The Window Is Still Open. Not For Long. Somebody In Your Market Is Becoming The Answer
Dynamic creative · primary text
Somebody in your market is becoming the answer AI gives, and there is no report that tells you whether it is you. Almost nobody in your industry has done the work yet, so the window is open. Free 30-minute audit: where you stand on the six signals, where the engines cite a competitor instead of you, and what to fix first. For businesses doing $1M+. If you feel behind on AI search you are probably right, and you are also early. We will show you exactly where you stand, free, and you keep the plan whether you work with us or not. Senior strategist, thirty minutes. For businesses doing $1M+ a year.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"It's too late to catch up." Handled: almost nobody has started. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_7_Left_Behind_In_AI_Search SH_Call_29_LeftBehind_Question_30s / _60s

Keeps the topic test's Angle 7 tag so the dashboard history stays in one row. In round one this reason had the best engagement of the seven on the wrong audience.

30 · Your rankings look fine. That is the problem.

Problem agitationMyth-bustingTalking head + report B-roll

Reason to buy: a healthy ranking report can hide a shrinking channel, because the click is being resolved before it reaches the page. Distinct from "traffic went flat" (film day 5): here nothing looks wrong yet.

30-second cut
0-5s

Your rankings look fine. That's the problem.

A monthly SEO report scrolling, all green.

5-23s

Because more of your buyers now ask a machine who to use, get an answer with three names in it, and never see the page you rank on. The report says position three. The customer went to whoever the machine said. We'll show you, free, whether that's you or a competitor.

Cutaway: a blue-links page beside an AI answer.

23-30s

Thirty minutes, you keep the plan. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
Your Rankings Look Fine. That Is The Problem. The Report Is Green. The Channel Moved. Position Three, Read By Fewer People Every Month
Dynamic creative · primary text
A ranking measures where you sit on a page of ten links. A growing share of your buyers never reach that page: they ask a machine who to use and get three names back. Your position three is real, it is just read by fewer people every month. Free 30-minute audit of the thing the report does not measure: whether you get named. For businesses doing $1M+. The most dangerous SEO report is the one that looks fine. We will show you, free, whether AI search names you or a competitor in your category, and the three moves that change it. Hand the plan to your current agency if you like. Senior strategist, thirty minutes. For businesses doing $1M+ a year.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"Our SEO is working, look at the report." Handled: the report measures the wrong thing. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_30_Rankings_Look_Fine SH_Call_30_RankingsFine_MythBust_30s / _60s
Major point · agency doubt

The already-paying segment, four ways in, none of them an accusation.

The largest pool of businesses that can switch this quarter is the ones already paying an agency. "Am I being ripped off" attracted the suspicious in round one. These four keep the buyer's dignity: doubt, a missing metric, a wrong metric, and the no-switch-required route.

31 · Is your agency talking about AI SEO yet?

FrustrationQuestionTalking head

Reason to buy: their agency may be fine and behind at the same time. The audit is a second opinion on one specific thing, and asking costs nothing.

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Is your SEO agency talking about AI SEO yet? Not in a newsletter. To you, about your site.

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Because more of your buyers now ask ChatGPT where to buy before they open Google, and most agencies are still sending ranking reports for a results page fewer people see. The report looks fine. The channel under it is moving. We'll put their last report next to what AI search actually rewards, free, run on your domain.

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If they're ahead of it, we'll say so. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

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Is Your Agency Talking About AI SEO Yet? A Second Opinion On One Specific Thing Either They Are Ahead Of This, Or You Found Out First
Dynamic creative · primary text
If you are paying an agency for SEO and they are not talking to you about AI SEO yet, that is the first thing to fix. Your customers are asking ChatGPT where to buy before they open Google. Free 30-minute review of your site and your agency's last report against what AI search actually rewards, and if they are ahead of it we will tell you. For businesses doing $1M+. This is not a pitch to fire anyone. It is a second opinion on one specific thing, run on your own domain, free, with a senior strategist. Hand the plan to your agency the same afternoon if you like. Either they are ahead of this or you found out first. For businesses doing $1M+ a year.
Objection handled · tag · file name
Status quo: "what I have is fine". Handled by making the check free and non-binding. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_1_Agency_Talking_AI_SEO_Yet SH_Call_31_AgencyAISEO_Question_30s / _60s

The hook wording is Harry's. Keeps the ANGLE_1 tag so this replaces "Am I Being Ripped Off" in the dashboard's history rather than sitting beside it.

32 · The three numbers your agency should be reporting

TacticalCuriosityTalking head + whiteboard

Reason to buy: a curiosity gap with a payoff they can act on Monday. The three numbers are named on the call, not in the ad; the ad gives one so the promise is credible.

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Open your last SEO report. If it doesn't have these three numbers on it, it's measuring the wrong decade.

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Number one: how often you're named. When someone asks an AI who to use in your category, are you one of the two or three businesses in the answer, and how often. That's the one that decides who gets the customer now.

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Number two: who's named instead of you, by query. Not a rank, a list of the exact answers where a competitor got the recommendation. Number three: your score on the six signals the engines use to decide, so you know which of the six to fix first. Rankings are a trailing indicator of all three.

Whiteboard fills in 2 and 3. Keep it to three lines.

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The free audit pulls all three for your domain and walks you through them with a senior strategist in thirty minutes. Then you can ask your agency for them every month, or hand them the plan and let them run it.

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Why free? Some of the businesses we audit ask us to run the plan. That's the whole model.

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Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

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The 3 Numbers Your SEO Agency Should Be Reporting Rankings Are A Trailing Indicator Of These Three Is Your Report Measuring The Wrong Decade?
Dynamic creative · primary text
Three numbers decide who gets the customer now: how often AI names your business when someone asks, who is named instead of you and for which questions, and your score on the six signals the engines use to decide. Rankings are a trailing indicator of all three. Free 30-minute audit pulls them for your domain. For businesses doing $1M+. If your last SEO report does not have these three numbers on it, it is measuring the wrong decade. We will pull them for you, free, with a senior strategist, and you can ask your agency for them every month from then on. For businesses doing $1M+ a year. Apply below.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"My agency already reports on this." Handled: name the three and let them check. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_32_Three_Numbers SH_Call_32_ThreeNumbers_Curiosity_30s / _60s

33 · Ranking reports against revenue reports

Problem agitationMyth-bustingTalking head + report B-roll

Reason to buy: the report they pay for measures positions; the business runs on revenue. The audit reframes what SEO should be accountable to.

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Here's the difference between the SEO report you get and the one you should be getting.

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The one you get: positions. Page one for this, position four for that, up two, down one. The one you should get: how many customers arrived because of search this month, and how many arrived because a machine recommended you when someone asked. Positions are an input. Customers are the output.

Two report screens side by side, the second one plain.

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The gap between the two is widening because AI answers now sit between the buyer and the page you rank on. You can hold position three all year while the customer goes to whoever the machine named. Case-Mate measured the output, and organic revenue rose ninety-five percent.

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The free audit measures the output for your domain: where you're named, where a competitor is, and the three moves in order. Thirty minutes with a senior strategist, and a plan you can hold your agency to.

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Keep your agency. Give them a better report to be accountable to.

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Free. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

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Ranking Reports Tell You Where You Sit. Not Whether It Mattered. Positions Are An Input. Customers Are The Output. A Better Report To Hold Your Agency To
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A ranking report tells you where you sit. A revenue report tells you whether it mattered. The gap between them is widening because AI answers now sit between your buyer and the page you rank on. Free 30-minute audit measures the output for your domain: where you are named, where a competitor is, and the three moves in order. For businesses doing $1M+. Keep your agency. Give them a better report to be accountable to. We will show you, free, how many answers name your business when someone asks who to use, and what that is worth against the positions you pay to hold. Senior strategist, thirty minutes. For businesses doing $1M+ a year.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"We're happy with our rankings." Handled: rankings are the input, not the output. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_33_Ranking_vs_Revenue SH_Call_33_RankVsRevenue_MythBust_30s / _60s

34 · Hand it to your agency the same afternoon

Objection-firstObjection-firstTalking head

Reason to buy: the loyalty objection, answered before it forms. You do not have to change anything to find out where you stand, and the plan is theirs to give away.

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You don't have to fire your SEO agency to find out whether AI search recommends you.

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The free audit is a second opinion on one specific thing: whether the engines name you or a competitor when your buyers ask who to use. You get a score, the answers where someone else is cited instead of you, and three moves. Hand all of it to your current agency the same afternoon. Plenty of good agencies just haven't built a method for this yet.

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Thirty minutes, senior strategist, it's yours to give away. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
You Do Not Have To Fire Anyone To Find Out Hand The Plan To Your Agency The Same Afternoon A Second Opinion On One Specific Thing
Dynamic creative · primary text
You do not have to fire your SEO agency to find out whether AI search recommends you. The free audit is a second opinion on that one thing: a score, the answers where a competitor is cited instead of you, and three moves. Hand it to your current agency the same afternoon. For businesses doing $1M+. Plenty of good agencies have not built a method for AI search yet, because it is new and it works differently to ranking. We will show you where you stand, free, in a document that is yours to give away. Thirty minutes with a senior strategist. For businesses doing $1M+ a year.
Objection handled · tag · file name
Loyalty: "we already have an agency". Handled in the hook, the whole ad is the answer. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_34_Same_Afternoon SH_Call_34_SameAfternoon_ObjFirst_30s / _60s

Same answer as the confirmation-page module "We already have an SEO agency", said to a cold audience. SOP-26 Part 8 names objection-first as a framework in its own right; this is the one objection in the bank that deserves the whole ad.

Major point · the named competitor

The mirror, as a cold ad.

Six reasons already exist for envy on the film day page (1, 11, 13, 15, 16, and the topic test's Beat The One Competitor). This adds the exercise: the viewer runs the check themselves, in the ad, and whatever they find is the reason to apply.

35 · Ask the machine about your own category, now

TacticalCall-outDemo, phone

Reason to buy: the fastest audit they will ever run, done before the ad ends. Three results are possible and two of them are the reason to apply. Envy is factual here, because the model genuinely will name somebody.

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Do this before the ad ends. Open ChatGPT. Ask: best whatever you sell, in your city.

Phone up, thumb typing, screen hidden.

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It'll name three or four businesses. If you're in there, good. If you're not, someone in your category is, and they're being recommended to a buyer who never sees your site, never sees your ads, and never learns you exist. That's the gap. On the free audit we run the full version against your actual competitors and show you exactly why the machine picks them.

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Whatever it said, bring it. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
Open ChatGPT. Ask For The Best Of What You Sell In Your City. Are You In The Answer? The Fastest Audit You Will Ever Run
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Ask ChatGPT: best [what you sell] for [your customer] in [your city]. Three results are possible: named, missing, or wrong. Most businesses come back missing. If you are not in the answer, that is the gap, and on a free 30-minute audit we run the full version against your actual competitors and show you exactly why the machine picks them. For businesses doing $1M+. Your buyer already asked the machine who to use. The answer already had names in it. Run the prompt, then bring whatever it said to a free thirty-minute audit with a senior strategist, and leave with the three moves that put you in the answer. For businesses doing $1M+ a year.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"Does this apply to my industry?" Handled: they test it themselves. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_35_Ask_The_Machine SH_Call_35_Mirror_Demo_30s / _60s

Rebuilt from the deck's day-one exercise and the Hammer Them piece "Does this actually apply to my industry?". SOP-26 Part 2 §6: real-time contextual hooks get served cheaper to people who just did the thing; a viewer who runs this prompt is now exactly that person.

Major point · the questions they have not said out loud

Five reasons, from what the buyer is thinking and not saying.

The ICP lists the questions running in this person's head: am I being ripped off right now, I don't actually understand what I'm paying for, is any of this working and would I even know, I should have sorted this out years ago, is this a stupid question, and if I stop paying does it all disappear. Set that against the corpus and something useful falls out. Only 8% of 222 recorded calls criticise their agency out loud. Both facts are true: they think it, and they will not say it to a stranger who is recording. So none of these ads attack the incumbent. They say the private question on the buyer's behalf, which is a thing none of their actual conversations do, and which stays safe to watch with the person who hired that agency sitting next to them.

47 · The question you haven't said out loud

Problem agitationYou already knowTalking head

Reason to buy: names the single loudest private thought in the ICP without accusing anyone of anything. It also qualifies hard in the first line: it speaks only to people already paying for SEO, which is the ICP's stated filter.

Film the 30-second cut. A recognition hook. The whole ad is someone else finishing their sentence, and elaboration turns it into an accusation.

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If you're paying for SEO right now, here's a question you probably haven't said out loud to anyone: is any of this actually working, and would I even know if it wasn't?

Harry to camera, calm. Not a gotcha. The tone is finishing someone's sentence, not catching them out.

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It's a fair question and it's hard to answer, because the reports you get are built to look busy rather than to answer it. So we'll answer it for you, free, in thirty minutes, against your actual revenue rather than a rankings chart.

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Businesses past a million a year, already doing something on search. Apply below.

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Is Any Of This Actually Working? Would You Know? The Question You Haven't Said Out Loud Your Report Is Built To Look Busy, Not To Answer That Revenue, Not Rankings
Dynamic creative · primary text
If you're paying for SEO right now, there's a question you probably haven't said out loud: is any of this actually working, and would I even know if it wasn't? It's a fair question and a hard one, because most reports are built to look busy rather than to answer it. Free 30-minute audit that answers it against your revenue, not a rankings chart. You keep the findings either way. For businesses past $1M already doing something on search.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"Am I being ripped off?" Named without ever using the word, so it stays safe to watch next to the person who hired them. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_47_Havent_Said_Out_Loud SH_Call_47_Unsaid_Pain_30s

The highest-leverage line in the ICP. Note what it deliberately does not say: no mention of being ripped off, no suggestion the current agency is bad. 92% of the corpus never criticises theirs, and a third of calls have more than one person on them, one of whom probably signed that contract.

48 · There is no stupid question here

TrustObjection-firstTalking head

Reason to buy: the ICP infers this one from how often clients volunteer relief that nothing they asked was treated as stupid. Nobody advertises on it, and it speaks directly to the fear underneath the whole category: not knowing who to trust in a market full of charlatans.

Film the 30-second cut. A promise about behaviour. Explaining it undermines it.

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If you've ever sat in a marketing meeting and not asked the question because you thought it'd sound stupid, this is for you.

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Half this industry runs on making you feel slow. Acronyms, dashboards nobody reads, and a quiet implication that if you don't follow, that's your problem. It isn't. If your agency can't explain what you're paying for in words you'd use yourself, that's a failure of theirs, not a gap in you. On our audit you can ask anything, twice, and nobody will do the face.

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Thirty minutes, free, and you keep the plan. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
You Can Ask Anything. Twice. Nobody Will Do The Face. If You Can't Explain It, That's Your Failure, Not Their Gap Half This Industry Runs On Making You Feel Slow The Question You Didn't Ask Because It Sounded Stupid
Dynamic creative · primary text
If you've ever sat in a meeting and not asked the question because you thought it would sound stupid, this is for you. Half this industry runs on making you feel slow: acronyms, dashboards nobody reads, and a quiet implication that not following is your problem. It isn't. If an agency can't explain what you're paying for in words you'd use yourself, that's a failure of theirs. Free 30-minute audit where you can ask anything, twice. For businesses doing $1M+.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"I don't actually understand what I'm paying for." Reframed as the supplier's failure, not the buyer's. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_48_No_Stupid_Questions SH_Call_48_NoStupidQuestions_30s

The most differentiated ad in the bank because it competes on how it feels to be a client rather than on results. It is also the only one that works equally well for the owner and for a marketing manager who has to look competent internally.

49 · The goal is for you to not need us

Bold claimContrarianTalking head

Reason to buy: the ICP names a secret desire to eventually bring this in-house and stop paying an agency. Every agency's incentive is to hide from that. Saying it out loud is disarming, it is true of how StudioHawk already works, and it directly answers the fear of being locked into something you do not understand.

Film the 60-second cut. A counterintuitive claim needs its reasoning immediately or it reads as a trick.

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Here's something an agency isn't supposed to say. The goal is for you to not need us.

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Most of the businesses we work with would quietly love to bring this in-house one day. That's not disloyalty, it's just sensible. And the agencies that pretend otherwise are the ones who keep the method vague on purpose, so the knowledge never transfers and the invoice never stops.

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We work the other way. No lock-in contract, ever, month to month with sixty days notice. You talk directly to the specialist doing the work, not an account manager relaying it. And we show you the method as we go, because a client who understands it is a better client, and because if you outgrow us that's a good outcome, not a lost one.

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Start with the free audit. Thirty minutes, we grade your site against the six signals that decide whether you get recommended, and you keep the plan whether you hire us or not.

Scorecard cutaway.

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Businesses past a million a year, already doing something on search. Apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
The Goal Is For You To Not Need Us If You Outgrow Us, That's A Good Outcome No Lock-In. No Account Manager. No Vagueness On Purpose. An Agency That Wants You To Understand It
Dynamic creative · primary text
Most businesses would quietly love to bring search in-house one day. That's not disloyalty, it's sensible, and the agencies that pretend otherwise are the ones keeping the method vague on purpose so the knowledge never transfers and the invoice never stops. We work the other way: no lock-in contract, month to month, direct access to the specialist doing the work rather than an account manager, and we show you the method as we go. Free 30-minute audit to start. For businesses doing $1M+.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"Am I going to be locked into something I don't understand?" Answered with all three differentiators at once. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_49_Not_Need_Us SH_Call_49_NotNeedUs_Contrarian_60s

Carries all three of the how-we-operate differentiators without listing them like a features slide. It is also the only ad in the bank that speaks to the ICP's stated secret desire, which by definition no competitor is addressing.

50 · If you stop paying, does it all disappear

TacticalQuestionTalking head + whiteboard

Reason to buy: a question the ICP says is genuinely in their head, and the honest answer is the entire argument for the channel. It is also the cleanest way to make the paid-media comparison without sounding anti-ads.

Film the 30-second cut. One question, one honest answer, one consequence.

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People ask us this and I don't think they expect a straight answer. If we stop, does it all disappear?

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No. That's the actual difference. Turn off your ads and the traffic stops that afternoon. Stop investing in search and what you've built keeps working, then slowly erodes over months as competitors move. One is a tap. The other is an asset that depreciates. They are not the same purchase and they shouldn't be judged the same way.

Whiteboard, drawn live: one line dropping off a cliff, one line easing down over months. Draw it, do not animate it.

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Free thirty-minute audit of what you'd actually own. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
If You Stop Paying, Does It All Disappear? One Is A Tap. The Other Is An Asset. Turn Off Ads And It Stops That Afternoon They're Not The Same Purchase
Dynamic creative · primary text
"If we stop paying, does it all disappear?" People ask us that and rarely expect a straight answer. No. Turn off your ads and the traffic stops that afternoon. Stop investing in search and what you built keeps working, then erodes slowly as competitors move. One is a tap, the other is an asset that depreciates. Not the same purchase, and they shouldn't be judged the same way. Free 30-minute audit of what you'd actually own. For businesses doing $1M+.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"If I stop paying, does it all disappear?" Answered honestly, including the erosion, which is what makes it believable. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_50_Stop_Paying SH_Call_50_StopPaying_30s

Admitting the erosion is what makes this land. An agency claiming search is permanent gets disbelieved instantly by anyone who has watched rankings slide; conceding the slow decay buys the rest of the argument.

51 · The competitor you already have in mind

EnvyCall-outDemo, screen

Reason to buy: the ICP is explicit that this buyer usually has one specific competitor they want to beat or are being beaten by. Naming that private target is far sharper than talking about competitors in general, and it turns the whole audit into a single answerable question.

Film the 30-second cut. A demo. They picture the name before you finish the sentence, and the ad is over.

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You already have a name in your head. One competitor you'd genuinely like to beat, or one who's been beating you.

Hold. Give them a beat to actually think of it.

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On the free audit we'll pull you and them side by side. What they're being cited for that you aren't, where the gap is, and whether it's a content problem, a technical one or an authority one. Usually it's smaller than it looks and it's almost never what people assume.

Screen: a real side-by-side, two real domains, real numbers.

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Bring the name. Thirty minutes, free. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
You Already Have A Name In Your Head Bring The Competitor You Want To Beat You And Them, Side By Side, Free Usually The Gap Is Smaller Than It Looks
Dynamic creative · primary text
You already have a name in your head: one competitor you'd like to beat, or one who has been beating you. Bring it to the audit. We'll pull the two of you side by side, show what they're being cited for that you aren't, and tell you whether the gap is content, technical or authority. Usually it's smaller than it looks, and almost never what people assume. Free, 30 minutes, you keep the findings. For businesses doing $1M+.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"Is this vague agency stuff or will I get an answer?" Answered by making the deliverable one specific comparison. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_51_Bring_The_Name SH_Call_51_BringTheName_Demo_30s

"Bring the name" is the most specific CTA in the bank after reason 46's spreadsheet, and specificity is what separates a booked call from a saved post. A competitor overtaking them appears in 12% of the corpus, so this is a sharp minority trigger rather than a broad one: run it as a distinct ad set, not as the whole strategy.

In-market openers · SOP-26 part 2

Two ads that open on the buyer's own situation.

Jeremy's three in-market openers: "you already know", "you're doing this, but", and the circumstance opener. The first two above are spread through the bank. These two are pure circumstance: the invoice they already pay, and the question the CEO already asked.

36 · The part the invoice does not cover

Problem agitationYou already knowTalking head

Reason to buy: they already pay for search. The audit covers the one line the invoice cannot: whether the machine names them. In-market by construction.

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You already pay for SEO. Here's the part your invoice doesn't cover.

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Whether a machine names you when your buyer asks who to use. That's not a ranking, it's a recommendation, and it's decided by six signals most agencies haven't built a method for yet. We score all six on your domain, free, and show you the answers where a competitor got named instead of you.

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Thirty minutes, senior strategist, you keep the plan. Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
You Already Pay For SEO. Here Is The Part The Invoice Misses. The Missing Line Item That Now Decides Who Gets The Customer Ranking Is One Job. Being Recommended Is Another.
Dynamic creative · primary text
You already pay for search. The part the invoice does not cover is whether a machine names you when your buyer asks who to use. That is decided by six signals most agencies have not built a method for yet. Free 30-minute audit scores all six on your domain and shows the answers where a competitor got named instead. For businesses doing $1M+. Being recommended by AI is a different job from ranking. It is the line item that is missing from most SEO invoices and the one that now decides who gets the customer. We will score it for you, free, with a senior strategist, and you can hand the plan to whoever sends the invoice. For businesses doing $1M+ a year.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"We already do SEO." Conceded in the first line; the ad is about what SEO does not cover. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_36_Invoice_Does_Not_Cover SH_Call_36_Invoice_YouAlreadyKnow_30s / _60s

37 · The CEO already asked

IdentityCircumstanceTalking head

Reason to buy: the marketing lead who has been asked upward why a competitor is winning, and needs an answer with a plan attached. Written for the Triangle, in the language of the Circle who asked.

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If your CEO has asked why a competitor keeps showing up where you should be, this is the answer with a plan attached.

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The reason is usually that the competitor is the one the AI engines name when a buyer asks who to use, and there's no report on your desk that shows it. We pull the exact answers, score your site on the six signals that decide them, and give you three moves in order. Free, in thirty minutes, and it's a document you can walk into the next meeting with.

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Businesses past a million a year, apply below.

Dynamic creative · headlines
The CEO Asked Why The Competitor Is Winning. Here Is The Answer. "The Algorithm" Will Not Hold Up In The Next Meeting An Answer With A Plan Attached
Dynamic creative · primary text
If you have been asked why a competitor keeps showing up where you should be, the reason is usually that they are one of the names AI gives when a buyer asks who to use, and there is no report on your desk that shows it. Free 30-minute audit: the exact answers, your score on the six signals that decide them, and three moves in order. A document you can take into the next meeting. For businesses doing $1M+. The shortlist gets built before your rankings or your ads are seen. We will show you where it is being built without you, free, with a senior strategist, on your own domain and your real competitors. For businesses doing $1M+ a year. Apply below.
Objection handled · tag · file name
"I need something I can present." The deliverable is the document. https://sh.studiohawk.com/?a=ANGLE_37_CEO_Already_Asked SH_Call_37_CEOAsked_Circumstance_30s / _60s
SOP-26 parts 3, 6, 7 and SOP-27 · how to run it

Campaign settings, test windows, scaling, refresh.

SettingJeremy's rule, from the originalsApplied here
ObjectiveConversions, on a real downstream event (SOP-26 P3 §3)Optimise to the application submit at /call-apply, never to a tap-fireable event. Round one's lesson.
Dynamic Creative2 to 4 videos, 2 to 3 headlines, 2 to 3 copy blocks per ad set; let the platform combine (SOP-27 step 4)Each reason above ships with exactly that. One reason per ad set; do not mix reasons in one ad set, it defeats the SOP-31 read.
Short and longHalf the assets 30 seconds, half 60 to 90 (SOP-26 P1 §2)Both cuts filmed for every reason.
AudienceIn-market first: interest stacks, lookalikes of best clients, custom audiences; exclude anyone who applied or booked (SOP-26 P3 §3)Not open Advantage+. A real audience, US, with the exclusions. Placements manual, Audience Network excluded ("it's trash", SOP-02).
Budget and read$100 to $300 a day shows real differences in 48 to 72 hours; under that, run a full 5 to 7 days (SOP-26 P3 §4)Do not judge a reason on 30 clicks. Cost per 3-second view reads the hook; cost per application reads the ad.
Swap, scale, scrubKill at 2 to 3x the best ad's cost per result; scale a consistent winner; if everything bombs, the audience or the in-market messaging is wrong, not the edit (SOP-26 P3 §5 to 6)Same thresholds.
ABO or CBOABO under about $300 a day, CBO over $500 (SOP-26 P6 §3)Start ABO so no reason starves.
Scaling10 to 20 percent every 2 to 3 days, or duplicate; watch for a 20 to 30 percent CPL creep, frequency, and sales-team feedback on quality; scale in waves (SOP-26 P6)Same. The strategist's read on call quality is the leading indicator, per SOP-02 too.
RefreshEvery 2 to 4 weeks: new opener, new environment, updated proof, seasonal line, second-order and minority hooks, language lifted from sales calls (SOP-26 P7, SOP-27 step 5)Month one films reasons 21 to 30. Month two films 31 to 37 plus the strongest three from month one re-cut with new openers. Month three comes from Transformation and Tactical, the two thin categories.
Batch shootHalf a day a month, 4 to 6 ads, then re-edits (SOP-26 P9 §9)Two half-days for month one at 30s and 60s each. Film every 60s cut first; the 30s is usually a re-edit.
Five per segmentAt least five different creatives per audience segment, so a person who ignores video A gets an entry point in B (SOP-33, the 5-Video Rule; SOP-12 runs five per step for the same reason)Every major point above carries at least five reasons once the film-day bank is counted. Do not launch a segment with fewer.
Majority or minority hookReach against audience size is the diagnostic: targeting a million people and reaching twenty thousand with frequency past 2 to 3 is a minority hook, it converts a sliver and fatigues fast. Majority hooks are the ones a grandfather would nod at (SOP-33)Samsung, rent and left behind are majority hooks. Blended CAC (28) and the CEO ad (37) are minority by design; expect them to spike then fade, and read them on cost per application inside their segment, not on reach.
Affluent edit styleCalm, authoritative, professional background, no cartoonish editing, no five-second cuts; "even for higher-end markets, monotone corporate speak kills trust". Shorter VSL funnels suit 15 to 30 second ads; in anything past a minute, repeat the CTA once mid-body (SOP-04)Lead every reason with its 30-second cut. The 60-second cuts here carry the CTA once in the body and once at the end.
Asset mix per ad setUp to 10 videos, 5 headlines, 5 primary texts; in practice 3 to 5 short videos plus 2 to 3 statics, two short copy blocks and one or two long, headlines of 3 to 4 words and of about 10 (SOP-04)Each reason ships two primary texts (one short, one long) and three headlines of mixed length. Add one static per reason: the graphic text on a plain card.
Fatigue triggerFrequency 3.0 and rising with CTR dipping and cost climbing means refresh, not scale; at this spend tier monitor weekly with two or three backup creatives cut and waiting (SOP-04, SOP-12, SOP-33)Month two's reasons are the backups for month one. Never wait for the decline to show in cost per application; it shows in frequency first.
Pixel conditioningFire the main conversion only on qualified leads; route unqualified answers to a page with no event, or the pixel learns the wrong audience (SOP-04 "brokie bait", SOP-12)The application already routes sub-bar turnover away from the calendar. Make sure the event fires after that routing, not on form submit.
Naming"Airbnb_HookA_BoldClaim_Sept2025" (SOP-27 step 1H)SH_Call_<n>_<Reason>_<Framework>_<30s|60s> as written on each ad.

How SOP-33's hook iteration fits SOP-31's one-reason rule. Jeremy's Ad Scaling SOP says you should be able to write five to ten variations of any successful hook inside a day, by three methods: restate the core concept, run the same fact through four emotional lenses (fear, opportunity, urgency, social proof), or address the same hook to different segments (the owner, the marketing lead, the CFO). That is not the hook-swapping SOP-31 retires. Each variation is a different reason, filmed whole. The rent point above is one core concept through five doors, and the agency point is one fact addressed to four conditions. When a reason wins, iterate it that way: same concept, new lens or new segment, whole new ad. Two camera angles on every shoot (SOP-33's multi-cam rule) turn each script into several distinct edits without changing a word.

Where this bank departs from the film day page on purpose: no three-hook variants (SOP-31), the objection handled is named on every ad so no ad ends on it (SOP-26 P5 §8), and the qualifier is spoken in every CTA rather than left to the form (SOP-26 P2 §5). Where it departs from Jeremy on purpose: no urgency devices except the one honest form, that citation position compounds, because the framework page rules countdowns and seat counts out for this buyer.

SOP-20 · the headline swipe file, from the original

Seventy templates. The ones that fit this buyer, filled in.

Jeremy's swipe file is a bare list of seventy hooks and headlines with no commentary. The twenty quoted templates and the fourteen real headlines most transferable to a $1M+ owner paying for search are below, each with a filled-in version for the ad build. Use them for Dynamic Creative headlines and for the graphic text on statics; SOP-04 wants some headlines at three or four words and some at about ten.

Template, verbatimFilled in for the audit
Who Else Wants [blank]?Who Else Wants To Be The Business ChatGPT Names?
The Secret of [blank]The Secret Of Getting Recommended By AI
Here is a Method That is Helping [blank] to [blank]Here Is A Method Helping US Businesses Get Named By AI
Little Known Ways to [blank]Little Known Ways To Be Cited By ChatGPT
Get Rid of [problem] Once and For AllGet Rid Of The Rising Cost Per Click Once And For All
Here's a Quick Way to [solve a problem]Here's A Quick Way To See If AI Names You
[Do something] like [world-class example]Get Found The Way Samsung Found Us
What Everybody Ought to Know About [blank]What Everybody Ought To Know About AI Search
Do you make these mistakes in English?Do You Make These Mistakes In AI Search?
Car insurance at low cost, if you are a careful driverA Free AI Search Audit, If You Do Over $1M A Year
I Regret to Inform You Expensive Vacuums Are Worth ItI Regret To Inform You Your Rankings Are Not The Metric
Truckers are furious they didn't know about this GPS trackerBusiness Owners Are Annoyed Nobody Told Them About This Channel
It's well known that X works or doesn't workIt's Well Known That Ads Get Dearer Every Year
Is 500% Growth For Your Roofing Company Too Much?Is 621% More AI Mentions Too Much For Your Business?
You may not want to buy a new car after reading thisYou May Not Want To Raise Your Ad Budget After Reading This
If it wasn't that good, we wouldn't make buckets of itIf It Didn't Work, Samsung Wouldn't Have Found Us Through It
It's time to take real estate investing seriouslyIt's Time To Take AI Search Seriously
iPhone 13: mostly disappointingYour Ranking Report: Mostly Irrelevant
"How to [accomplish a goal] Without [common obstacle]"How To Get Recommended By AI Without Rebuilding Your Site
"Are You Making These [number] Common Mistakes with [topic]?"Are You Making These 3 Mistakes With AI Search?
"The Surprising Truth About [blank]"The Surprising Truth About Where Your Buyers Ask First
"Avoid [number] [topic] Mistakes"Avoid 3 AI Search Mistakes
"Discover the [number] Proven Techniques for [solving a problem]"Discover The 6 Signals That Decide Whether AI Names You
"The Hidden Benefits of [blank]"The Hidden Benefits Of A Second Opinion On Your SEO
"Overcome [obstacle] to [accomplish goal]"Overcome The Auction To Win The Recommendation

The full seventy are saved with the originals. Left out on purpose: every template with "unlock", "revolutionize", "ultimate" or "shocking" in it. SOP-35's talking-to-money rule and SOP-13's spam list both rule them out for this buyer.

Verification flags

What is not settled.

Resolved 4 September: both contested numbers are now sourced, from Harry's own book. The SOURCE manuscript's Notes settle what the hub could not. Cost per lead on Google Ads rose 72 percent between 2022 and 2025, $40.74 to $70.11 (WordStream/LocaliQ Search Advertising Benchmarks, 2022 and 2025 reports). Paid clicks fell 68 percent on searches where an AI Overview appears (Seer Interactive, "AIO Impact on Google CTR", September 2025). Both also appear on slide 20 of the live webinar deck with those sources printed beside them. Reasons 24 and 25 were rewritten to run on them, replacing the weaker cost-per-click framing: 72 percent on a lead is a bigger and better-attributed number than 50 percent on a click, and the two together give the "rent went up, street got quieter, same landlord" close a factual spine. The floating 57 percent figure is superseded rather than sourced, and should be struck from the topic tests page wherever it still appears. The illustrative CAC arithmetic in reason 28 is still labelled illustrative on screen.

Proof provenance. Every result spoken here is already published on grow.studiohawk.com/growth-confirmed or in the approved call VSL: Sylvane +621 percent, Case-Mate +95 percent, First Fence of Georgia +172 percent, Samsung, QuickBooks, Weber, HelloFresh, seven-time best large SEO agency. Nothing new is claimed. Reason 21 depends on ChatGPT actually naming StudioHawk when asked; capture the answer the day of filming and pull the ad the day it stops being true.

The VSL says eight questions; the form has five. The live application is five questions in about 45 seconds. The existing call VSL's CTA beat says eight. That is a Bridge break (SOP-35) and it is fixed on the production page. Every ad here says "apply below" and nothing more specific, so it stays true either way.