Category: Brand

  • Stop Buying AI Visibility Tools: Get Real SEO Data From Search Console Instead

    I am now more convinced than ever that AI visibility softare is bullshit. Inspired by Lily Ray, I grabbed all my very long query data out of Google Search Console via the API and started looking at it to see what kinds of AI chats were getting passed along as queries in GSC. First, a…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What’s the New Premium Brand Differentiator?

    Summary In today's episode, I examine what becomes the new premium differentiator for brands when AI drives the cost of content creation to near zero. Here's what this means for you. Shifting your marketing budget from endless content production toward scarce, meaningful experiences unlocks genuine value because your audience's attention and time stay finite no…

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  • Why Reddit AI Citations Dropped: The robots.txt Reality and Your Next Move

    Everyone in AEO/GEO/AIO/GAIO/LLMO/EIEIO is losing their mind about Reddit AI citations dropping like a rock. There’s a super simple explanation, folks. Look at Reddit’s robots.txt: User-agent: * Disallow: / If you’re unfamiliar, robots.txt tells search engines and AI robots how to crawl a site and what to do on the site. Reddit’s basically says “GO…

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  • Why Claude Haiku Is Outclassed: The Case for Hybrid AI Strategy

    Claude Haiku is the single biggest weakness in the Anthropic ecosystem now. Haiku is intended as a low cost, fast, and cheap model to do basic work – reading, summarization, web search, etc. And at the time of its release almost a year ago, it did those things reasonably well. But times change. Models change.…

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  • Good Times Buy Ideas, Bad Times Buy Action: What Marketing and Sales Leaders Need to Know

    When times are good, people buy ideas. When times are bad, people buy action. When times are good, people buy strategy. When times are bad, people buy tactics. When times are good, people buy brand. When times are bad, people buy price. When times are good, people buy growth. When times are bad, people buy…

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  • Stop Silent AI Failures: Tell Your Model What Wins to Resolve Conflicting Instructions

    Tell AI what wins. One of the things that will degrade AI performance the most – and silently – is conflicting instructions where the AI has to determine what you mean. If you look at the reasoning traces (internal chat) when you give conflicting instructions, you’ll see AI models literally chasing their tails. It looks…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Training LLMs for Brand Voice

    Summary In today's episode, I walk through a three-layer framework for training large language models to capture a specific brand voice instead of sounding like generic corporate copy. Here's what this means for you. You gain a repeatable system that combines good and bad examples, prompts aligned to how models think, and quantitative QA loops…

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  • DeepSeek v4 Flash vs. Claude Sonnet 5: Why Paying 17.8x More for AI Is a Mistake

    This one hastily made slide explains pre-IPO jitters better than anything else when it comes to AI. DeepSeek released its v4 Flash model earlier this year, on April 24. At its release, it was widely regarded as pretty smart and stupid cheap for its size. For a lot of folks using agentic AI, its pay…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Why AI Visibility Reports Are Snake Oil?

    Summary In today's episode, I break down why most AI brand visibility tools are unreliable and what you should actually measure instead. Here's what this means for you. You can stop paying for snake oil dashboards and instead use free, vendor-sourced data to track how AI systems actually interact with your site. You'll also learn…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Drawing the Line on AI Review?

    Summary In today's episode, I explain how to decide where to draw the line for human review in AI marketing tasks based on risk levels. Here's what this means for you. You'll calibrate your review process to match the consequences of each AI output so you scale low-risk work without exposing your brand to high-risk…

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