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Press coverage, company announcements, and articles from GridStrat on AI visibility, growth strategy, and how AI systems represent B2B companies.

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The Globe and Mail · August 16, 2025

ExpandCommunication Launches, Defining Intelligent PR

Launch coverage of GridStrat partner ExpandCommunication, the Calgary-based Intelligent PR firm founded by Dalyce Semko — including the strategic partnership with GridStrat Clarity that powers sector-curated industry intelligence and AI visibility audits for ExpandCommunication clients.

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Yahoo Finance · August 16, 2025

ExpandCommunication Launches, Defining Intelligent PR

The announcement as carried on Yahoo Finance, subtitled by the GridStrat partnership: AI visibility audits that analyze what large language models know about a company and translate those findings into communication strategies that close reputation gaps.

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Press coverage reflects each outlet's own reporting.

Blog

Blog · August 7, 2026 · By Ryan McDonald · 12 min read

How PR Influences What AI Tells B2B Buyers About Your Company

Web-connected AI systems build answers about your company from earned media, journalism, press releases, partner sites, and reviews — not your homepage alone. What Muck Rack's 25M-citation study shows about which sources get cited, why the question determines the source mix, and a practical 90-day plan to close your AI visibility gap.

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Blog · July 21, 2026 · Updated July 26, 2026 · By Ryan McDonald · 17 min read

The 21-Day AI Visibility Benchmark: How to Find Where AI Systems Miss, Misrepresent, or Displace Your Company

When buyers ask AI assistants to compare vendors or recommend solutions, your business is being summarized before the sales conversation begins. This article lays out the full benchmark framework: the seven dimensions of buyer-level AI visibility, the day-by-day 21-day process, the winnability ladder for contested positions, and how to prove corrections worked.

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Blog · July 26, 2026 · By Ryan McDonald · 8 min read

Why AI Assistants Give Different Answers About Your Company

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot sit on four different retrieval environments — and cite substantially different sources for the same question. Why one assistant recommends you while another has never heard of you, why the engines should be weighted rather than averaged, and why persona context must be transmitted rather than typed.

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GridStrat News

Product release · August 2026

Clarity August 2026 release: ranking positions, campaign planning, and the Strategy Inbox

The August 2026 Clarity release adds recommendation-list ranking positions to the AI Visibility dashboard, anchor-content campaign planning, a Strategy Inbox for growth decisions, scenario-based persona audits, and long-term report summaries — nine changes in total.

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Announcement · August 16, 2025

GridStrat launches GridStrat Clarity

GridStrat announced the launch of GridStrat Clarity, a business-aware AI platform that continuously analyzes a company and its operating environment to improve how AI systems answer questions about the business and to surface live market signals. Limited Early Access programs were also announced for new modules built on the same core, including Target ID & Account Radar and Capital Signals & Grant Finder.

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Milestone · June 2026

Cellar Insights reaches #1 across three surfaces

GridStrat client Cellar Insights, an agricultural storage monitoring SaaS company, holds the first position across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and organic search for its rot-detection-in-storage prompt set — a scenario-defined position achieved through structured benchmarking and correction.

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