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Pitot Group is a strategy and intelligence firm, based in London, that measures how frontier AI systems interpret, rank, recommend and remember organisations. We work with senior leadership in premium categories — automotive, luxury, motorsport and premium consumer — through signal audits, strategic projects and bespoke intelligence platforms.

ARES-C is the proprietary framework Pitot uses to read how large language models describe and rank an organisation. It measures five dimensions: Authority, Reputation, Expertise Visibility, Signal Consistency and Context. Coherence across all five is what the machine rewards. Incoherence, however small, becomes dilution.

ARES-C runs as a continuous surveillance layer across ten frontier AI systems and thirteen premium sectors. Readings are published through Pitot Index on a quarterly cadence for syndicated reports, and live for platform subscribers.

SEO optimises for keyword ranking inside search engines. Pitot operates upstream: we diagnose what frontier AI systems have already concluded about a brand across years of accumulated signal, and advise on the strategic recalibration required before any execution — SEO included — is deployed.

GEO is the tactical layer — content and formatting adjustments designed to improve visibility inside generative answers. Pitot sits above it. We measure the coherence of the underlying signal the machine has already absorbed, identify what the GEO layer cannot fix on its own, and direct how the work should be sequenced.

PR shapes narrative in human-facing media. Pitot reads how machines have already interpreted a brand — including the aggregated effect of every PR cycle, press release, campaign and public statement on the portrait AI now produces. The two are complementary. Pitot operates at the diagnostic altitude; PR is one of several execution layers that inherit the diagnosis.

Automotive, luxury, motorsport, premium consumer, aerospace and selected financial services. Categories where precision is baseline and reputation compounds across decades.

Pitot is designed for senior marketers, strategy leads and boards at established premium organisations. Engagements are selective and senior-led. We are not the right firm for early-stage companies, volume commodity brands, or teams looking for execution-only optimisation services.

Yes. A significant share of our work augments in-house strategy, brand and communications teams — providing the diagnostic layer they cannot produce internally, and working alongside their execution partners.

A Signal Audit is a structured reading of your organisation across the five ARES-C dimensions, benchmarked against a named competitive cohort. Delivered over four to six weeks as a written report, an in-person briefing and a working session with leadership. Outputs include AI visibility analysis, consistency review, risk flags, competitor comparison, strategic recommendations and a priority action plan.

Yes. Bespoke Platforms are one of four engagement types: intelligence dashboards, custom ARES-C deployments, loyalty systems and proprietary software, specified and designed with selected build partners. Application only, limited in number each year.

A Signal Audit runs four to six weeks. Strategic Projects are scoped individually and typically run between eight and twenty weeks. Bespoke Platforms are long-duration engagements scoped privately.

Pitot does not publish rate cards. Engagements are senior-led and priced against scope. Enquiries are read by a senior partner within forty-eight hours, and a proposal follows an initial conversation.