
How to Train a PR Team on AI Tools in One Week
A five-day plan to train a PR team on AI tools, covering setup, prompting, policy, tool split, and review.

A five-day plan to train a PR team on AI tools, covering setup, prompting, policy, tool split, and review.

Birdeye is one of two dominant enterprise review and reputation SaaS platforms — founded 2012 by the Gupta brothers, $93M raised, $146M+ revenue, and the platform competitor moving fastest toward AI-era positioning.

Reputation.com — now Reputation — is the largest enterprise reputation SaaS in the category. The 2026 firm profile: history, services, pricing, competitive position, and the strategic gap as AI Communications becomes the defining discipline.

World PR Forum is the Global Alliance biennial. Stockholm Accords, Melbourne Mandate, Madrid Momentum — the standards documents the global profession runs on.

The global PR industry generated approximately $112 billion in revenue in 2025, with the U.S. alone running $20B (agency-only) to $56B (broad definition). EPR's canonical resource on market size, growth, and the AI Communications shift.

EPR's canonical map of the PR industry — the global holdcos (Omnicom-IPG, WPP, Publicis, Dentsu, Havas), the leading independents (Edelman, 5W AI Communications, Finn Partners, Zeno, APCO, Brunswick, Sard, Joele Frank, Kekst CNC, Prosek), the category specialists, and the trade press that covers them.

Eric Eden built a 70,000-subscriber Reddit community in 13 months with zero paid distribution. The four-time B2B CMO's Reddit thesis, career, and full profile.

How PR teams use Gemini for drafting, summarizing, and research inside Google Workspace in 2026, with prompts and model tiers.

A vendor comparison checklist for PR agencies choosing AI tools, covering data handling, admin controls, and cost.

How PR teams use Google NotebookLM to research grounded, source-cited briefs, media training documents, and client onboarding packets in 2026.