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Why AI Doesn't Recommend Your Startup
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.
Why Your Company Doesn't Exist to ChatGPT Yet
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.