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Build an AI Assessment Response Portfolio to Reduce Your AI FUD Tax

A few weeks ago, I watched a single AI discoverability assessment consume the better part of two days across an enterprise organization. The audit report didn’t arrive through the SEO team or the engineers responsible for the website. It landed in a senior executive’s inbox after a business contact shared it. The question from the […]

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AI Search Research Is Giving Us Better Signals. Please Don’t Turn Them Into Another Checklist.

Originally posted on my Signal & Friction Substack August 14, 2026 As organizations try to understand why brands appear in AI-generated answers, studies such as AirOps’ 2026 State of AI Search are beginning to provide meaningful insights and actions. There is a great deal of useful information in the report. There is a lot here that I agree

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Who Is the GEO Coach?

During a recent AI / GEO workshop for a group of executives, I was asked who owns or manages GEO after suggesting it requires more cross-team collaboration. There was an internal debate about hiring a strategist, an agency, or training someone to help navigate the process. All valid options. As I suggested and outlined in Surviving

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