Brand24 review
Brand24 is easy to deploy and strong on usability, but shallow historical retrieval and restricted social-platform access limit its value for more demanding reputation work.
Levi Mastarel
Levi Mastarel writes on legal exposure, industry pressure and the fundamentals of reputation, with a focus on where public judgment begins to affect business risk.
Executive sign-off is a weak defense for AI-written content
Companies may need to show who actually examined AI-written public-interest text before publication, not simply who approved it.
Reddit AI search raises the cost of old brand complaints
Its AI search can pull years-old threads into present-day answers, extending the usable life of consumer criticism.
The FTC is putting review agencies inside the liability chain
Firms that once treated fake reviews and suppression tactics as client risk now face exposure for the methods they execute themselves.
Google’s AI search report can make a crisis look like growth
Generative impressions can rise when Google is surfacing incident statements, legal pages or other adverse-context material.
How to build a corporate source-of-truth register
A practical guide to governing public corporate facts across pages, systems and AI-generated communications.
The EU AI Act leaves brands holding the disclosure risk
Machine-readable AI marking can satisfy a provider rule while leaving the company that publishes the content with a separate disclosure obligation.
AI visibility firms are selling unstable numbers
GEO scores can move when the brand has done nothing, making vendor attribution harder to defend.
A single GEO audit can mistake variance for progress
AI search can change its sources and brand recommendations between identical queries, weakening the case for one-time visibility scores.
How to map vendor responsibility before an incident
A practical guide to assigning vendor and company responsibility for investigation, notification, customer response and remediation.
What is machine-readable trust?
AI agents increasingly compare prices, policies, ownership, reviews, certifications, product history, and public evidence before companies have the chance to explain their value.