Content strategy for AI visibility can't treat all citations as equal. Informational content builds the model's understanding of your category, while comparison and validation content builds the model's association between your brand and the buyer's decision criteria.
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Cited: How B2B Brands Win in the Age of AI-Generated Answers is available now on Amazon Kindle.
Preface to the First Edition of Cited: How B2B Brands Win in the Age of AI-Generated Answers
This book is written in a narrow window, the period between when AI-generated answers became a genuine buying channel and when most marketing teams figured out how to operate in it.
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The Committee Member Nobody Invited
There's a new member on every B2B buying committee, and it shapes the consideration set before your sales team ever enters the room.
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GEO Tools Can't Tell You What to Build
GEO tools have done their job: they've made the invisible visible. The next phase is making that visibility actionable at the level of "here's exactly what to build next week."
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Why Proprietary Data Is the Last Content Advantage in AI Search
Original research is emerging as the most reliable path to visibility, because it's the only sustainable way to become a canonical source when competent content is infinite.
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The Trial of Traditional SEO
Arguing that GEO is "just SEO" because both involve structured content is like arguing soccer is "just basketball" because both involve a ball.
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GTM Teams Still Can't Answer the Most Basic Question
Most GTM stacks are a loose federation: dozens of tools, partial APIs, data living in silos, and every team working off a slightly different picture of reality. Until teams unify internal data with external buyer signals, the entire system is guessing.
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Atomic Content: How to Make Your Pages Citable in AI Search
A content atom is the smallest, self-contained unit a model can cleanly cite. One concept, one claim, one answer per URL. Most sites ship sprawling pages with no internal structure; atomic content removes the guesswork by making each claim independently extractable.
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The Discovery Wars: Why AI Answers Are Replacing Search
AI answers are where shortlists form. If you want the buyer, win the mention. The Discovery Wars will be won by those who understand that what matters now is whether the models know you exist when the buyer asks.
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How B2B Buyers Build Shortlists: GEO For AI Overviews, ChatGPT, And Perplexity
A procurement manager opens ChatGPT: “SOC 2 compliant tools with Okta SSO, US-only data residency, under $80 per user.” Thirty seconds later she has five vendor names with links. Maybe she clicks one or two. Maybe she just screenshots the list and closes the tab. Three days later she types your brand name directly into Google. By Thursday she's on a demo. You never saw the referral from ChatGPT, but that's where she built her shortlist.
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