The Wishper Journal

How AI decides who gets mentioned.

Field notes on AI search, answer engines and the new shape of brand visibility — what changes when the answer is one sentence long.

SEO

Why ranking on Google is no longer the whole story

Position one still matters. It just isn't where the decision gets made anymore.

6 min read →
Brand

The new battle for brand visibility

7 min read
GEO

What is Generative Engine Optimization?

A working definition of GEO, and why it's less about tricks than about being worth quoting.

8 min read
AI Visibility

How AI decides which brands to mention

Inside the quiet selection process that happens between a question and its answer.

10 min read
AEO

From search rankings to AI citations

6 min read
AEO

Answer engines don't have a page two

When there's only one answer, being nearly relevant is the same as being absent.

4 min read →
Insights

The anatomy of an AI recommendation

Sources, associations, sentiment. What sits underneath a single sentence of advice.

9 min read
AI Visibility

Share of voice, rewritten for AI

Measuring presence when the conversation happens inside a model, not a feed.

5 min read
SEO

Citations are the new backlinks

7 min read
Brand

Brand consistency in a probabilistic world

Models don't memorise your positioning. They average it. Here's what that means for your story.

6 min read →
Insights

When the model forgets you

Visibility decays. A field note on how brands drift out of AI answers — and back in.

5 min read
AI Search

Search is becoming a conversation

Queries are turning into questions, and questions into dialogue. What survives the shift.

6 min read