A brand persona in 2026 is an entity the AI engines recognize. The Duolingo owl, Geico gecko, Liquid Death voice, Patagonia values, Toyota reliability, American Express premium service — each is a named entity the engines cite and use as a category anchor. Persona is now citation infrastructure.
Crisis response in 2026 operates against a thirty-minute window, not a six-hour news cycle. AI engines extract from breaking news in hours. Social signal escalates in minutes. The brands that figured out the discipline — Toyota, American Express, Apple, Patagonia — protect reputation infrastructure built over decades.
The 10-tactic operating playbook for hedge fund PR in the allocator-research era — founder retrieval anchor, plain-English strategy descriptions, canonical website architecture, structured earned media, GEO, AI engine citation measurement, allocator materials, crisis architecture, recruiting communications, and brand resilience under volatility.
The evolution of search from directories to AI answers. How online search became recommendation-driven, brand-led, citation-weighted — and what GEO does about it.
Malware City is EPR's cybersecurity franchise — vendor profiles, Citation Share indices, and beat reporting on who shapes the cyber answer inside the AI engines.
