How AI Agents Choose Businesses

The decision criteria behind AI recommendations.

When an AI is asked to name the best firm in a category, it is not doing a keyword match. It is assembling trust signals — credentials, third-party citations, authored content — and ranking the firms those signals form a clean picture of. Read what those signals actually are and how they differ from traditional SEO.

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Content Strategy for LLM Narrative Control

Getting cited in your own framing, not a competitor's.

AI systems paraphrase whoever wrote the cleanest extractable paragraph on the topic. If that isn't you, the category gets defined around your competitor's positioning — and you end up arguing against a framing someone else established. Here's how to get there first.

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GEO Measurement: Invest Anyway

Imperfect data is not a reason to wait.

The most common objection to GEO investment is attribution — "we can't measure it precisely yet." True, and insufficient. The firms waiting for perfect measurement will be late to the citation share that compounds over the next 18 months. Here's the case for measuring what you can and moving anyway.

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More to come

New pieces every ~2 weeks.

Upcoming: the state of AI visibility for NYC law firms (measurement data), what changed when OpenAI added shopping flows, and a long read on what a post-SEO competitive landscape looks like for professional services firms.

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