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The Real Secret to AI Search Optimization
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How Asana, Rella, and a Deeply Specific Client Made Me a Better Project Manager for B2B Social
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Xponent21 Launches CARL Intelligence, a Standalone AI Visibility Tool Built on Two Years of Proprietary Research
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The Richmond-based agency’s Cognitive AI Ranking Lab expands the CARL suite with a prompt intelligence platform that measures and improves how brands appear in AI-generated...
The Search Result Just Stopped Being Public
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TL;DR: At I/O 2026, Google made personalized search free and global. For customers who opt in, the same query returns different answers from their Gmail...
The Whole Pie: Why AI Visibility Is a Business Operations Problem
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There is no such thing as an AI visibility strategy. There is only a marketing strategy — and AI either reflects it or exposes the...
Built For Whom: Who Gets to Shape the Future
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A few weeks ago, I attended the annual Tom Tom Festival in Charlottesville for the first time. Will Melton, our CEO, and Will Willis, Director...
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We have more ways to reach each other than at any point in human history. We are still genuinely bad at communicating. Not bad at...
You Don’t Have to Vibe Code. You Have to Understand It.
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There’s a concept in meditation practice that I keep coming back to lately. When you tell a meditation teacher that you’re too busy to meditate,...
The Semantic Centroid Distance Principle: Why Relevant Content Doesn’t Always Get Cited by AI
By: Courtney Turrin
Most brands entering AI search optimization start with the same assumption: if my content is relevant and authoritative, AI platforms will cite it. It’s a...
The CARL Model: The Research Framework Behind Our AI Search Results
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AI citation behavior is not random. It is not purely a function of domain authority, content length, or keyword density. There is a structural logic...
Xponent21 Launches Liberating Facilitator, a Free Interactive Tool Covering All 33 Liberating Structures
By: Will Melton
The Richmond-based AI marketing agency makes professional facilitation frameworks freely accessible to teams, leaders, and organizations of any size RICHMOND, Va. — Xponent21, a Richmond-based digital...
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