Hop AI
Hop AI is a paid media, SEO, and GEO agency in New Orleans and Sofia that now focuses on cybersecurity lead generation and sells its own GEOforge software for AI search visibility. Its consulting fees ran from $2,000 to $5,000 a month on its last published price list, plus a client ad budget, and its published case studies are mostly paid media and SEO.
Facts
| Website | hoponline.ai |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | New Orleans, Louisiana, and Sofia, Bulgaria (agency site) |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Ownership | Founder-led |
| Stance | Full-service with GEO |
| Typical buyer | Cybersecurity marketing teams, plus B2B SaaS, fintech, and education companies |
| Delivery | Founder-led agency with offices in New Orleans and Sofia and a remote team, with software sold separately |
| Verticals | B2B SaaS |
| Specialties | B2B SaaS, Lead Generation |
Buyers, use cases, price, and similar agencies
| Who uses it | Its clients are cybersecurity companies first, with past case studies in B2B SaaS, fintech, education, HR tech, and travel tech. Named clients in its results include Recruiterflow and Itilite. |
|---|---|
| What for | Teams hire it for Google and LinkedIn ad management, SEO, content, audits of paid search, GEO, and GA4, and for GEOforge to track AI share of voice and produce citation-ready content. |
| Price | Hop AI is in the $ band, the lowest of our four monthly cost bands. 11 of the 85 agencies we review are in that band. Its 2024 pricing page lists consulting fees of $2,000, $3,500, and $5,000 a month plus a $10,000 to $15,000 monthly ad budget, and GEOforge costs $350 to $695 per brand a month. |
| Similar agencies | Skale, Growthner, and Position Digital are also listed under B2B SaaS in our GEO agency reviews. All three are in the $ monthly cost band. |
GEO / AEO philosophy
Hop AI argues that large language models cite content for relevance, clarity, credibility, and structure rather than keywords and backlinks, and that SEO visibility does not carry over to AI answers. It describes GEO as prompt-triggered tracking, schema markup, and citation hubs.
The agency pairs that view with a cost argument: a distributed team in Bulgaria that puts more talent on a project for the same budget. Its published results lean toward paid media and SEO, so its GEO claims rest mainly on the method and software.
Offering
- Manages Google Ads and paid social, with SEO, content, analytics, and creative production, mainly for cybersecurity lead generation.
- Runs GEO work that includes prompt and citation tracking, content built from a client's own research and interviews, and off-site citation outreach.
- Sells GEOforge so in-house teams can track share of voice in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode, and produce and publish content from a brand knowledge base.
Editorial scores
We scored the agency on eight dimensions to show a buyer where it is strong and where it is thin. Scores run from 1 to 10. The last column shows each score's difference from the median for all reviewed agencies.
| Dimension | Score | Score bar | Vs median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical GEO | 5 | = | |
| Lead generation | 6 | = | |
| Thought leadership | 4 | 1 | |
| Entity / knowledge graph | 4 | = | |
| Local / multi-location | 1 | 2 | |
| Enterprise readiness | 3 | 3 | |
| Innovation | 7 | 2 | |
| Measurement | 6 | 1 |
Service mix
We estimated how the agency's work splits across service types, which shows a buyer where its effort goes.
Best At
- paid search, paid social, and SEO for cybersecurity lead generation
- GEO software for tracking AI share of voice and producing content
- a distributed Bulgarian team that adds capacity at consulting fees from $2,000 a month
Poor Fit When
- the goal is a GEO program backed by published GEO client results
- you need a team based in the United States for daily work
- the hire is for a company outside cybersecurity, where the agency's focus is narrowest
Clients
| Name | Status |
|---|---|
| Recruiterflow | Named in case study |
| Itilite | Named in case study |
Innovation
Hop AI builds GEOforge, a four-part software suite with AI agents and human review gates, and offers free audits for paid search, GEO, SEO, and GA4.
Pricing
Hop AI's pricing page, last dated 2024, lists three programs: Lead Generation at a $2,000 monthly consulting fee with a $10,000 minimum ad budget, Demand Generation at $3,500 with a $10,000 minimum, and Full-Funnel Growth at $5,000 with a $15,000 minimum. The agency publishes no price for its GEO service. Its GEOforge software costs $350 to $695 per brand a month, with annual billing saving 15 percent.
Pricing vs Performance Spectrum
Practice timeline
2009
Founded
Founded by Paris Childress, according to the agency's structured data.
2026
GEOforge listed
The agency sells GEOforge from $350 per brand a month.
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Agency Leadership
| Name | Title | Background |
|---|---|---|
| Paris Childress | CEO and Founder | Founded the agency in 2009. He describes his job as matching motivated marketers with high-growth companies, equipping the team, and getting out of the way. |
Evidence
| Type | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Figures reported by the agency | Case studies that cover paid media, SEO, and AI consulting; no published GEO study or GEO client result was found. | Hop AI results page |
| Method and product | GEOforge, a GEO software platform with share-of-voice tracking, content production, and citation outreach. | GEOforge homepage |
| Third-party writeups | Hop AI pricing page; GEOforge homepage |