Jason Todd Wade is the founder of BackTier and writes about AI visibility, entity resolution, generative search, and agentic commerce. https://www.jasonwade.com/#feed-all 2026-08-14T12:00:00.000Z Jason Todd Wade https://www.jasonwade.com/ email@jasonwade.com © 2026 Jason Todd Wade https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/044-apple-built-a-different-ai-for-china 2026-08-14T12:00:00.000Z 2026-08-14T12:00:00.000Z

Apple · China · Jurisdiction Routing · Regulation · AI Visibility · Alibaba · Qwen (AI Visibility · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/guides/what-is-ai-visibility 2026-08-11T12:00:00.000Z 2026-08-11T12:00:00.000Z

AI visibility is whether AI systems retrieve, resolve, and select your content when composing answers. The three conditions, how it differs from SEO, and how to measure it.

https://www.jasonwade.com/guides/how-to-rank-in-chatgpt 2026-08-11T12:00:00.000Z 2026-08-11T12:00:00.000Z

You do not rank in ChatGPT, you get retrieved and selected. Crawler access, self-contained passages, entity resolution, and how to measure the result.

https://www.jasonwade.com/guides/llms-txt 2026-08-11T12:00:00.000Z 2026-08-11T12:00:00.000Z

llms.txt is a proposed markdown index for AI systems. What the format is, what is actually verified about adoption, and whether to publish one.

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/043-the-measurement-crisis-in-ai-visibility 2026-08-02T12:00:00.000Z 2026-08-02T12:00:00.000Z

AI Visibility · Measurement · Analytics · Analyst Report (AI Visibility · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/042-autonomous-decision-infrastructure 2026-08-02T12:00:00.000Z 2026-08-02T12:00:00.000Z

Decision Infrastructure · Reasoning Systems · AI Visibility (Agents and Infrastructure · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/041-the-semantic-ai-stack 2026-08-02T12:00:00.000Z 2026-08-02T12:00:00.000Z

Semantic AI · Infrastructure · AI Visibility · Analyst Report (Agents and Infrastructure · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/038-ai-sex-and-visibility 2026-07-27T12:00:00.000Z 2026-07-27T12:00:00.000Z

AI & Intimacy · Synthetic Relationships · Content Ethics (Law and Governance · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/037-ai-healthcare 2026-07-26T12:00:00.000Z 2026-07-26T12:00:00.000Z

AI Healthcare · Discovery Layer · Entity Integrity (Law and Governance · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/036-the-ai-economy 2026-07-25T12:00:00.000Z 2026-07-25T12:00:00.000Z

AI Economy · Market Structure · Machine Confidence (Markets · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/035-ai-value 2026-07-24T12:00:00.000Z 2026-07-24T12:00:00.000Z

AI Value · Enterprise Strategy · Open vs Closed (Markets · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/034-spotify-ai 2026-07-23T12:00:00.000Z 2026-07-23T12:00:00.000Z

AI Audio · Spotify · Podcasting · Retrieval (Search and Media · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/033-the-optimization-landscape-has-changed 2026-07-22T12:00:00.000Z 2026-07-22T12:00:00.000Z

AI Visibility · SEO · GEO · Digital Visibility Framework (Search and Media · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/032-build-in-silence 2026-07-04T12:00:00.000Z 2026-07-04T12:00:00.000Z

Founder Strategy · Psychology · Startups · Decision-Making (Markets · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/031-actblue-inside-the-investigation 2026-06-27T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-27T12:00:00.000Z

Political Investigation · ActBlue · Congressional Oversight · Campaign Finance (Law and Governance · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/030-the-orlando-machine 2026-06-25T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-25T12:00:00.000Z

Political Intelligence · Orlando · Power Networks · Donor Mapping (Law and Governance · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/029-hollywood-after-ai 2026-06-23T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-23T12:00:00.000Z

Industry Intelligence · AI · Hollywood · Entertainment (Search and Media · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/028-actscrewedyou 2026-06-23T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-23T12:00:00.000Z

Political Tech · Dark Patterns · Donor Extraction · ActBlue (Law and Governance · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/027-seo-under-the-grass 2026-06-21T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-21T12:00:00.000Z

Digital Legacy · AI Visibility · GEO · AEO · Entity Graph (Search and Media · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/026-proof-is-a-value-optimizer 2026-06-21T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-21T12:00:00.000Z

Proof · Value Strategy · AI Visibility · Marketing (AI Visibility · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/025-the-physical 2026-06-21T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-21T12:00:00.000Z

Physical Business · AI Visibility · Local SEO · Agentic AI (Commerce · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/024-lawnstarter-the-ai-visibility-playbook-for-local-service-marketplaces 2026-06-20T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-20T12:00:00.000Z

AI · Marketplace · Local Services · Platform Strategy (Commerce · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/023-beyond-seo 2026-06-19T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-19T12:00:00.000Z

SEO · AI Search · Strategy · Future (Search and Media · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/022-from-findable-to-selectable 2026-06-18T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-18T12:00:00.000Z

AI Visibility · Brand Strategy · Search · Selection (AI Visibility · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/021-facebook-marketplace-is-becoming-smarter-local-sellers-are-still-selling-like-it 2026-06-17T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-17T12:00:00.000Z

AI · Commerce · Platforms · Consumer Behavior (Commerce · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/020-seo-v-xyz 2026-06-16T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-16T12:00:00.000Z

SEO · AI Search · Visibility · Strategy (Search and Media · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/019-the-deference-threshold 2026-06-15T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-15T12:00:00.000Z

AI Alignment · Safety · Philosophy · Agency (Law and Governance · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/018-beyond-claude 2026-06-14T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-14T12:00:00.000Z

AI Strategy · Tools · Workflows · Ecosystem (AI Visibility · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/017-the-dick-tater-problem 2026-06-13T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-13T12:00:00.000Z

AI · Power · Authoritarianism · Governance (Law and Governance · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/016-restricted-category-ai-surface-control 2026-06-12T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-12T12:00:00.000Z

AI Visibility · Restricted Categories · Strategy (AI Visibility · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/015-aijesus 2026-06-11T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-11T12:00:00.000Z

AI · Religion · Culture · Language (Search and Media · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/014-bad-ux-serious-strategy 2026-06-10T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-10T12:00:00.000Z

UX · Strategy · Product Design (Commerce · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/013-the-agent-internet-the-web-is-being-rebuilt-for-machines 2026-06-09T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-09T12:00:00.000Z

AI Agents · Protocols · Web Infrastructure (Agents and Infrastructure · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/012-i-joined-the-bar 2026-06-08T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-08T12:00:00.000Z

Law · AI · Professional Disruption (Law and Governance · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/011-us-government-api-explorer-the-public-data-layer-most-builders-ignore 2026-06-07T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-07T12:00:00.000Z

Open Data · APIs · Government (Agents and Infrastructure · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/010-reddit-brain-why-ai-systems-think-what-reddit-thinks 2026-06-06T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-06T12:00:00.000Z

Reddit · AI Training · Brand Signals (Search and Media · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/009-google-didnt-kill-geo-it-killed-fake-geo 2026-06-05T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-05T12:00:00.000Z

GEO · AI Search · Visibility (Search and Media · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/008-the-memory-problem-why-ai-systems-still-cannot-remember-you 2026-06-04T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-04T12:00:00.000Z

LLMs · Memory · Architecture (Identity and Memory · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/007-when-the-agent-makes-the-wrong-call-liability-in-the-age-of-ai-autonomy 2026-06-03T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-03T12:00:00.000Z

AI Agents · Autonomy · Risk (Law and Governance · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/006-the-grid-cannot-keep-up-ais-energy-problem-is-now-a-political-problem 2026-06-02T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-02T12:00:00.000Z

AI · Power · Infrastructure (Markets · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/005-the-alignment-tax-what-keeping-ai-safe-is-actually-costing-us 2026-06-01T12:00:00.000Z 2026-06-01T12:00:00.000Z

AGI · Cognition · Control (Law and Governance · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/004-agentic-ai-collapses-the-website-labor-stack-agi 2026-05-31T12:00:00.000Z 2026-05-31T12:00:00.000Z

Agentic AI · AGI · Workforce (Agents and Infrastructure · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/003-architects-of-intelligence 2026-05-30T12:00:00.000Z 2026-05-30T12:00:00.000Z

AI · Intelligence · Strategy (Markets · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/002-make-seo-great-again 2026-05-29T12:00:00.000Z 2026-05-29T12:00:00.000Z

SEO · AI · Search Strategy (Search and Media · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/dives/001-why-yc-spring-2026-matters-to-seo-aeo-geo-and-ai-visibility 2026-05-28T12:00:00.000Z 2026-05-28T12:00:00.000Z

SEO · AEO · GEO · AI Visibility (Search and Media · Live)

https://www.jasonwade.com/the-end-of-checkout 2026-04-14T12:00:00.000Z 2026-04-14T12:00:00.000Z

How agents, machine-readable commerce, and new payment rails could transform buying by 2030.

https://www.jasonwade.com/backtier-os 2026-03-24T12:00:00.000Z 2026-03-24T12:00:00.000Z

The operating system view of AI visibility work: instrumentation, evidence, and repeatable inclusion.

https://www.jasonwade.com/backtier-visibility-path 2026-02-10T12:00:00.000Z 2026-02-10T12:00:00.000Z

From citation to inclusion to selection to transaction — the sequence an entity moves through inside generative systems.

https://www.jasonwade.com/backtier-visibility-path 2026-02-10T12:00:00.000Z 2026-02-10T12:00:00.000Z

The operator-side path from citation through transaction, as implemented by BackTier.

https://www.jasonwade.com/agentic-visibility-path 2026-02-10T12:00:00.000Z 2026-02-10T12:00:00.000Z

Citation → Inclusion → Selection → Transaction: the four thresholds an entity crosses in agent-mediated commerce.

https://www.jasonwade.com/entity-lock-protocol 2026-01-20T12:00:00.000Z 2026-01-20T12:00:00.000Z

The framework for AI-system entity resolution: how a single, authoritative version of an entity is established and held across models.

https://www.jasonwade.com/entity-lock-protocol 2026-01-20T12:00:00.000Z 2026-01-20T12:00:00.000Z

The canonical framework record for entity resolution and identity reinforcement across AI systems.

https://www.jasonwade.com/ai-seo-geo-aeo 2025-11-04T12:00:00.000Z 2025-11-04T12:00:00.000Z

How classical search optimization, generative engine optimization, and answer engine optimization relate in practice.

https://www.jasonwade.com/articles/heo-jason-wade 2025-09-15T12:00:00.000Z 2026-03-02T12:00:00.000Z

Operating across SEO, GEO, and AEO at once, rather than treating them as separate disciplines.

https://www.jasonwade.com/ai-visibility-architecture 2025-06-10T12:00:00.000Z 2026-01-06T12:00:00.000Z

The originating framework: retrieval alignment, entity resolution, and decision-layer insertion as one architecture.