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Every option rendered in the real hero styling, at real display size, desktop and phone. Line counts are measured live, so what you see is what ships.

Currently live: Hook: "Ahrefs checked 15,000 prompts..." + H1: "Leave the free review with a 90 day plan to grow the leads AI search sends you."

The recommendation

The six signals behind a 90 day plan to grow your AI search leads.

The merge works, and the short shape is the one that fits this page. Blue Sense wins here for a structural reason rather than a stylistic one: the hook line above already carries the enemy and the stakes, and the instruction line below already carries free, no card and the human on the other end, so a full Collective Shift H1 would repeat work that is already done above and below it, and would set three or four lines at 42px doing it. So the recommendation is the tight 14 word Blue Sense line as the H1, with SOURC-E and the senior strategist moved into the instruction line, which is where the naming rule says the acronym is safest anyway, and where the best asset of the top scoring long line, a named human that kills bot suspicion on cold paid traffic, survives intact. Straight answer on whether it beats the live line: yes, but modestly. The live H1 is already honest and already carries the plan, the leads and the free review, so the real gain is the ownable mechanism it currently lacks plus a cleaner parse, since Leave the free review with a 90 day plan needs a beat to resolve. If a placement ever renders the H1 alone, in an ad, an email subject or a social card, run the Collective Shift build from the menu instead, because that is the only version that can carry the audience, the enemy and the mechanism without a hook line propping it up.

Honesty note: Nothing in the H1 needs new substantiation. The timeframe is welded to the document, 90 day plan, not to a market response, so there is no time-to-result claim and no transferred client result. Two things must stay true on the page: the Ahrefs hook keeps its full attribution, Ahrefs, 15,000 prompts, 12 percent of cited URLs in Google's top 10, and the instruction line keeps free, no card and the senior strategist, all of which the offer already delivers. Swap the hl class for whatever highlight class the H1 already uses.

What the research established

The menu

Blue Sense shape 8.5
Desktop 1280

The six signals behind a 90 day plan to grow your AI search leads.

Phone 375

The six signals behind a 90 day plan to grow your AI search leads.

The tightest Blue Sense transposition in the set. 14 words, two lines at 42px, and it references the framework by shape exactly the way the comparable uses 3-Part System, so cold traffic parses it without meeting an acronym. Cost: the word free is not in the H1, so the instruction line has to carry it, and the definite article, The six signals, presumes a framework the reader has not met yet, which the hook line has to set up.

Blue Sense shape 8.17
Desktop 1280

The Six-Part System Behind Your 90 Day Plan to Grow AI Search Leads.

Phone 375

The Six-Part System Behind Your 90 Day Plan to Grow AI Search Leads.

The literal transposition of The 3-Part System Behind Profitable eCommerce Growth, slot for slot, with 90 Day welded onto Plan so no time-to-result reading is available. Cost: system is the least ownable word available when signals is right there, and the reader has to hold two nested objects, a system and a plan, in the two seconds an H1 gets.

Blue Sense shape 7.83
Desktop 1280

The Six SOURC-E Signals Behind Your 90 Day Plan to Grow AI Search Leads.

Phone 375

The Six SOURC-E Signals Behind Your 90 Day Plan to Grow AI Search Leads.

The option if the framework has to be named in the H1 itself rather than in the line beneath it. It never opens on SOURC-E, so it obeys the naming rule, and Six Signals carries the reader past the unfamiliar word. Cost: it scored lowest of the Blue Sense group because an unexplained acronym lands before a cold reader has any reason to care, and one judge called it weaker than the live line.

Plan forward 8.67
Desktop 1280

Leave with a plan to grow your AI search leads over 90 days, built on the six SOURC-E signals.

Phone 375

Leave with a plan to grow your AI search leads over 90 days, built on the six SOURC-E signals.

The most literal fulfilment of the brief. It carries the requested phrase almost verbatim, names the framework, and keeps Leave with, the verb the live H1 already earns, so it is the smallest wording jump available while still adding the mechanism. Highest scorer that sits inside the merge brief at 8.67. Cost: built on the six SOURC-E signals hangs off the end as an appositive rather than driving the sentence, and at 17 words it sets to three lines.

Plan forward 8.5
Desktop 1280

Walk out with the six-signal scorecard and a 90 day plan to grow your AI search leads.

Phone 375

Walk out with the six-signal scorecard and a 90 day plan to grow your AI search leads.

Names two physical things the visitor keeps, which is the strongest honest form of a free offer for an affluent skeptic, and it matches the described deliverable of a written scored gap list sequenced across 90 days. Cost: walk out is odd for a call that is probably video, so leave with or you keep is safer, and scorecard introduces a fourth noun the page then has to honor.

Collective Shift shape 8.17
Desktop 1280

Six SOURC-E signals, scored on your site, sequenced into a 90 day plan to grow AI search leads.

Phone 375

Six SOURC-E signals, scored on your site, sequenced into a 90 day plan to grow AI search leads.

The best solution to the naming problem in the long shape. It opens on Six so the acronym reads as a label rather than a demand, and scored then sequenced is a literal description of what the 30 minutes produces. Cost: three commas across three lines is staccato at display size, the acronym arrives in word two before the reader has a stake, and one judge rated it weaker than the live line.

Collective Shift shape 7.5
Desktop 1280

Cost per lead across industries is up 72 percent in three years, WordStream. AI answers are quietly deciding who gets named.

How established US businesses find out why AI skips them: six signals scored, one 90 day plan to grow leads.

Phone 375

Cost per lead across industries is up 72 percent in three years, WordStream. AI answers are quietly deciding who gets named.

How established US businesses find out why AI skips them: six signals scored, one 90 day plan to grow leads.

The fullest Collective Shift build in the set, every slot filled: audience is established US businesses, enemy is AI answers that skip you, mechanism is the six signals, deliverable is the 90 day plan. 20 words, three lines, still inside the measure, and why AI skips them is the most curiosity-loaded phrase available. Cost: it is written in third person about other companies rather than to the reader, the closing grow leads drops AI search, which is the one thing the page is about, and it duplicates the stakes the hook line is already setting.

Hybrid 8.83
Desktop 1280

Six signals decide whether AI cites you. Leave with a 90 day plan to grow those leads.

Phone 375

Six signals decide whether AI cites you. Leave with a 90 day plan to grow those leads.

The highest scoring line in the whole set at 8.83. A flat declarative sets the mechanism in six words, then the second sentence is pure offer, and splitting into two sentences isolates the plan from the mechanism so neither reads as a promised outcome. Cost: it is not either of the two model shapes, so it only answers half the brief, and Six signals decide whether AI cites you is an absolute claim about how AI systems work, which is the one line here that could be asked to prove itself.