# How AI Builds a Mental Model of Your Company

> A plain-language field guide to how large language models decide what your company is, who it competes with, and whether to mention you at all. AI does not read a homepage the way a customer does. It assembles a mental model from six raw materials - entities, relationships, sources, repetition, consensus, and freshness - and the companies that understand those six levers are the ones that get named when someone asks an AI for a recommendation.

## Achievements

- Reframes AI visibility as an engineering and consistency problem rather than a copywriting one.
- Names the six raw materials AI uses to model a company: entities, relationships, sources, repetition, consensus, freshness.
- Explains why consensus across sources beats any single well-written page.
- Connects abstract knowledge-graph theory to practical actions any company can take.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Published as a YesPress Newsroom field guide framing AI brand perception around six pillars: entities, relationships, sources, repetition, consensus, and freshness.

## Links

- Website: https://yespress.io

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Last updated: 2026-07-20