The e-commerce software company spent years assembling an all-in-one retention suite. Now it is making a narrower wager: that authentic reviews, useful rewards and the data beneath them will matter even more when shoppers ask AI what to buy.

Botify is an enterprise platform that helps large brands stay discoverable across search engines and AI assistants. Founded in Paris in 2012 and now headquartered in New York, it combines large-scale website crawling, server-log analysis, AI-driven recommendations and automation to protect and grow organic traffic. As search shifts toward AI answers and shopping agents, Botify has repositioned around 'agentic AI' visibility, serving 500+ brands including Marriott, Expedia, Farfetch, Macy's and The New York Times.

A new category of software has one job: making sure ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity name your company when a buyer asks. Five of them measure the gap. One writes the record that closes it.

"Every company has a website. Every company has social media. Every company needs a public record." is the thesis behind YesPress, an editorial engine built for the age of answer engines. The argument is simple: a website is what you say about yourself, social media is what you shout, but a public record is the structured, citable source material that AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity actually learn from and quote back. YesPress builds that record - an always-on newsroom publishing company, people, and product stories under the company's own name, kept honest by editors and a public corrections process.

This YesPress feature examines why many large direct-to-consumer (DTC) fashion brands — despite hundreds of millions in revenue and massive social followings — are underrepresented in AI-generated shopping recommendations. AI assistants tend to favor brands with strong editorial coverage, structured product data, and broad third-party authority over those that rely mainly on paid social, influencer, and email marketing. The piece maps the visibility gap across brands like Fashion Nova, Gymshark, Princess Polly, and Cuts Clothing, and outlines how DTC labels can close it without matching the marketing budgets of legacy giants.
The Fashion AI Visibility Report, published by the YesPress Newsroom in July 2026, examines how AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity are becoming the new gateway for fashion discovery. It argues that established retailers currently out-appear high-growth direct-to-consumer brands in AI recommendations, and lays out a five-pillar framework—technical readiness, content authority, digital PR, community presence, and knowledge graph optimization—for DTC brands to close the gap and win early in the customer journey.
Fashion discovery is moving from search engines to answer engines. When shoppers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Perplexity for the best minimalist label or the most sustainable brand, the names that surface are not the biggest ad spenders but the brands with the most public, structured knowledge for AI to cite. This YesPress Newsroom analysis lays out what large language models look for, why many direct-to-consumer fashion brands underperform despite strong paid-social businesses, and how an always-on newsroom turns internal expertise into compounding, citable assets.
When a customer asks ChatGPT about your company, the answer is not pulled from your website in real time. It is assembled from what the model absorbed during training - Common Crawl web pages, Wikipedia, news, reviews, Reddit threads, job postings and structured databases like Crunchbase and Wikidata - frozen at a knowledge cutoff months before the model shipped. This story explains where that knowledge comes from, why it drifts stale, how gaps and old narratives creep in, and what companies can actually do to correct the record.
The AI Visibility Audit is a step-by-step method for checking how ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini describe a brand. It runs a set of buyer-intent prompts across each engine, measures whether answers stay consistent, flags hallucinated or outdated facts, surfaces missing product knowledge and use cases, and turns the gaps into a ranked list of fixes. The goal is simple: know what the machines are saying about you before your customers ask them.
A field guide to a quiet problem: when a customer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini for the best tool in your category, your startup never comes up. This story breaks down the five reasons AI models skip you - missing authority signals, sparse public information, weak documentation, few third-party mentions, and inconsistent messaging - and lays out how to fix each one. The core idea: AI doesn't invent authority, it reflects it. If the open web doesn't clearly, consistently, and repeatedly describe what you do, the model has nothing to recommend.
YesPress gives any company the always-on newsroom that the world's biggest brands use to stay visible to AI answer engines. Rather than measuring what AI says about a company, YesPress builds the public source material that ChatGPT and other systems learn from and cite — without requiring a fifty-person comms team. Through constant publishing, citation, and retrieval, visibility compounds over time.

YesPress is an editorial engine built for the age of answer engines. It gives a company its own always-on newsroom, publishing structured stories under the company's own name so that ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity have an authoritative public record to cite. The pitch is blunt: your next customer starts with an AI assistant, not your homepage, and AI can only recommend what it can understand. YesPress turns launches, wins, and expertise into machine-readable stories, shipped within 24 hours with entity markup, then tracks which engines quote them.
A strategic breakdown of two philosophies for surviving the age of answer engines. Scrunch AI measures how brands appear inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, then flags the gaps. YesPress argues that measurement is downstream of a deeper problem: whether a company has published enough structured, first-party knowledge to be legible to AI at all. One monitors the mirror. The other builds the record. This is not a feature comparison - it is a look at two different bets on where durable advantage will live.
A 2026 landscape shift shows that being findable on Google no longer means being understood by AI. With 73% of B2B buyers researching purchases through AI tools, and most brands invisible in AI-generated answers despite strong search rankings, YesPress Newsroom argues that companies must build a deliberate 'AI identity' by continuously turning internal knowledge into structured, citable public content — because AI rewards brand mentions, specificity, and authority far more than traditional backlinks or keyword rank.
This YesPress story argues that a company's first impression is no longer its homepage but whatever AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity already know about it. Because most businesses have only scattered facts on the public record, AI guesses and leans on competitors who have published more. The piece reframes the core question from 'What is AI saying about us?' to 'What have we given AI to learn from?' and introduces YesPress Newsroom as an editorial engine that turns internal happenings into a living, structured public record answer engines can discover, retrieve and cite.
YesPress positions itself as the operating system for a company's AI identity — the collective understanding that AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini build about a business. As discovery shifts from search engines to AI, YesPress helps companies measure how AI sees them across three layers (Presence, Identity, and Visibility), then transform the knowledge they already produce internally into structured, authoritative public stories that AI can learn from. The result is a continuous improvement loop that keeps a company's story accurate, complete, and consistent in the AI era.
YesPress is an AI newsroom: a publishing engine that turns a company's raw material into structured, citable stories published on a branded newsroom of its own, so generative engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini understand and retrieve the company when it matters. Where traditional PR chases headlines and GEO dashboards measure visibility, YesPress publishes the source material AI actually reads — consistently — so visibility compounds through citation and trust.
A field report on the quiet reason mid-sized companies vanish from AI answers: not quality, not product, not people, but publishing cadence. Salesforce and Microsoft publish daily. Most companies publish quarterly. The models cite what exists, and the rest becomes a guess.
As buyers increasingly ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot for recommendations, a new marketing discipline called AI Visibility has emerged. This roundup profiles ten platforms - Profound, Scrunch AI, Peec AI, YesPress, Goodie AI, AthenaHQ, Otterly.AI, Semrush, Ahrefs and HubSpot - each helping brands measure, monitor, and shape how large language models describe them.
YesPress Newsroom, powered by Story Engine, publishes the stories that build authority, earn trust, and increase a company's visibility inside AI answers - the recommendations, comparisons, and explanations that millions of people now ask chatbots for before they ever visit a website or run a Google search.
This YesPress story reframes AI visibility not as a search-engine optimization tactic but as the ongoing work of building a public company. The core argument: AI describes your business the way an independent investment analyst would—by assembling a picture from whatever public evidence exists. Most companies generate enormous amounts of information internally but publish almost none of it, leaving AI with little to work with. The fix isn't optimization; it's evidence. YesPress Newsroom, powered by Story Engine, treats a continuously growing public record as infrastructure rather than PR, capturing the product updates, customer breakthroughs, and executive insights that would otherwise never leave the building.
A manifesto arguing that the next era of marketing is won not by ranking higher but by being the company AI understands best. It reframes constant publishing as the act of teaching AI systems who you are: every story becomes a citable source, every citation increases trust, and every increase in trust makes AI more likely to retrieve you. The piece introduces the YesPress Newsroom as an always-on publishing engine that gives startups the same compounding institutional-knowledge advantage that Microsoft, Salesforce, OpenAI, NVIDIA and Stripe already enjoy.

A head-to-head look at two companies fighting the same war from opposite trenches. Profound is the instrument panel — it measures how ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity talk about your brand. YesPress is the printing press — it manufactures the citable, on-the-record stories those engines actually quote. One tells you the score; the other puts points on the board. For scaleups, B2B startups, enterprise sales teams and employer-branding leaders, the two are less rivals than a dashboard and an engine bolted into the same machine.
For twenty years businesses fought for the click: rank #1, get the traffic, win the customer. That war is ending. Millions of buying decisions now begin inside ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, where AI doesn't return ten blue links but a shortlist of a handful of recommendations, sometimes only one. This piece argues that the winners of the next five years won't have better SEO, they'll own the conversations AI has with their market by becoming the most credible, useful, and trustworthy source on the topics buyers care about. It offers a concrete exercise: write down the 25 questions your ideal customer asks before buying, ask the AI, and see whether you appear at all.

YesPress Newsroom gives growth-stage companies the same always-on publishing engine that Fortune 500 firms run — without the massive comms team. It turns launches, hires, partnerships, transcripts, and founder interviews into editorial stories engineered to be cited by journalists, analysts, and AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Plans start free to claim, with full newsrooms from $750/month.
SurePath AI is a Denver-based enterprise software company that helps organizations safely adopt generative AI. Its network-based platform discovers sanctioned and unsanctioned AI use (shadow AI) without app integrations, classifies the intent behind each interaction, redacts sensitive data in prompts, and enforces role-based policies with full audit trails. Founded in 2023 by Casey Bleeker and Randy Birdsall, the company raised $5.2M in seed funding in November 2024 and was acquired by F5 in June 2026 to power the F5 AI Security Platform.