THU / THE ANSWER
Month one: what ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity said about us
We sell AI visibility. So we ran ourselves through the engines on day one - and logged what came back.
GETTING FOUND
Opinions, answers and working notes from inside They Said. Three a week. No gating, no fluff - the same engine we install for clients, running in public.
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GETTING COVERED / CORNERSTONE
Agencies blame editors for not running their news. The problem is upstream - the news was never a story.
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THU / THE ANSWER
We sell AI visibility. So we ran ourselves through the engines on day one - and logged what came back.
GETTING FOUND
MON / THE TAKE
If you're not in Cannes next week, the panels aren't where the signal is. The trade press write-ups are.
THE TAKE
FRI / CORNERSTONE
The diagnostic that should sit under any AI-visibility programme - the prompts, the diffs, the canonical fix.
GETTING FOUND
WED / THE ANSWER
Honest mechanics: four to eight weeks for bylines once positioning is set, days for expert comment, longer for cold.
GETTING COVERED
MON / THE TAKE
When the headcount news lands, the words matter more than they're being given credit for. Tone is leadership in writing.
THE TAKE
FRI / CORNERSTONE
What actually happens in the working session - the questions, the listening, the editing pass that turns opinions into cornerstones.
GETTING GROWING
WED / THE ANSWER
Pick three. The heuristic for which three, and how to know whether you're entering for craft, commercials or both.
GETTING AWARDED
MON / THE TAKE
Two parallel review systems run on the same work. They reward different things. Most agencies optimise for one and get surprised by the other.
THE TAKE
FRI / CORNERSTONE
Six elements every pitch to a UK marketing trade publication should contain. Built from the inbox side of the glass.
GETTING COVERED
WED / THE ANSWER
Two posts a week from founders, one from the agency page. Quality over reach, voice over volume.
GETTING GROWING
MON / THE TAKE
Every Monday the trade press posts the agency new-business round-up. Most readers skim it. There's more in there than that.
THE TAKE
FRI / CORNERSTONE
The same campaign can lose in Effectiveness and win in Craft. Picking the category is the entry.
GETTING AWARDED
MON / THE TAKE
Hiring an AI lead is a position. The announcement should reflect that - not announce a job title and stop.
THE TAKE
RHYTHM: MON - THE TAKE (NEWS-REACTIVE) · WED - THE ANSWER (EVERGREEN AEO) · FRI - THE CORNERSTONE OR ITS ATOMS / PODCAST TRANSCRIPT