Essays and framework records on AI visibility, entity resolution, generative search, and agentic commerce. https://www.jasonwade.com/#feed-research 2026-08-24T12:00:00.000Z Jason AI Wade https://www.jasonwade.com/author email@jasonwade.com © 2026 Jason AI Wade https://www.jasonwade.com/guides/rag-explained 2026-08-24T12:00:00.000Z 2026-08-24T12:00:00.000Z

What Retrieval-Augmented Generation actually is, how the four-stage pipeline works, and why RAG is foundational for AI visibility and authority systems.

https://www.jasonwade.com/guides/ai-for-smbs-2026 2026-08-24T12:00:00.000Z 2026-08-24T12:00:00.000Z

A practical operating guide for turning AI experimentation into measurable business leverage. Start with workflows, not tool stacks.

https://www.jasonwade.com/guides/compute-capital 2026-08-24T12:00:00.000Z 2026-08-24T12:00:00.000Z

AI compute is becoming an input commodity, infrastructure asset, collateral base, and eventually a financial market. A strategic guide to the capital stack, compute treasury, and the benchmark problem.

https://www.jasonwade.com/guides/ai-memory-agents 2026-08-24T12:00:00.000Z 2026-08-24T12:00:00.000Z

A practical reference on Claude auto-memory, token costs, vector search vs. grep, Cowork success rates, and MCP connectors — sourced from 2026 research and official docs.

https://www.jasonwade.com/guides/do-not-confuse-relief-with-truth 2026-08-24T12:00:00.000Z 2026-08-24T12:00:00.000Z

A philosophical essay on why relief is not a verdict, why withdrawal is underrated, and how founders can build the habit of separating comforting narratives from accurate conclusions.

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/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.