Research gets scattered
Keyword data, competitor notes, client inputs, and buyer questions live in different places, making it harder to see what the client should actually own.
Pillarbase gives agencies the platform, workflow, and step-by-step guidance to run pillar-based marketing for every client, directly guided by Ryan Brock.
Find the right pillar topics
Map the content plan
Build connected assets
Measure search + AI visibility
Improve and compound results
The work is happening, but it is often spread across tools, docs, reports, and meetings. That makes it harder to connect each piece of content to the larger authority plan, defend the strategy, and show clients the full visibility story across search and AI.
Keyword data, competitor notes, client inputs, and buyer questions live in different places, making it harder to see what the client should actually own.
Without a repeatable process, strategy becomes harder to explain, defend, and repeat across client accounts.
Writers may get the assignment, but not the full topic context, buyer questions, or pillar structure needed to build authority.
Rankings and traffic matter, but clients also need to see the larger visibility story across search and AI.
Identify the topics, questions, and opportunities that should anchor your client’s authority strategy.
Build a clear pillar strategy your team can explain, repeat, and defend across client accounts.
Give writers the structure, questions, and connected assets they need to build real authority.
Track rankings, visibility, share of voice, representative queries, and client progress in one place.
Surface the next actions that help each pillar improve, compound, and keep building authority over time.
Pillarbase is not just software with a workflow attached. It is the platform version of the pillar-based marketing process Ryan Brock helped create, teach, and implement with agencies and brands.
Ryan developed the pillar-based marketing methodology agencies use to build authority around the topics their clients should own.
He authored Pillar-Based Marketing, the practical guide behind the system.
Ryan has taught pillar-based marketing across the marketing conference circuit, speaking to marketers, agency leaders, and content teams about how to turn organic strategy into a repeatable process.
Pillarbase helps your team turn search behavior, topic relationships, and performance signals into a client-ready authority program your agency can explain, defend, and improve.
Use real search behavior to identify the pillar topics, questions, and opportunities your clients should own.
Turn topic data into a structured content plan your team can explain, repeat, and defend across client accounts.
Give writers briefs built around the full pillar structure, not disconnected keywords or loose instructions.
Show clients the visibility story across search and AI, then use the data to keep improving what is already live.
The process behind Pillarbase has helped brands move from scattered content activity to measurable authority, visibility, and client-ready results.
Check out moreAn HOA management platform built authority across 48 active topic pillars, earning 2,082 page-one rankings and a 27.6% AI query citation rate.
A learning and development platform went from zero measurable search presence to 516 total rankings across pages 1–3 in just five months.
A Big Ten business school became a trusted source in AI search, reaching a 25.4% peak AI citation rate for high-value MBA decision queries.
Book a demo to see how Pillarbase works, or send us a client you’d like to analyze and we’ll show you what a pillar-based opportunity report looks like.
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