
How Tech Brands Win in the GEO Era
Tech buyers ask ChatGPT and Perplexity before they open G2. Developer communities, documentation depth, GitHub presence, and structured release notes feed the citation. The discipline.

Tech buyers ask ChatGPT and Perplexity before they open G2. Developer communities, documentation depth, GitHub presence, and structured release notes feed the citation. The discipline.

CeraVe leads at composite 91. The Ordinary #2 at 87. Engines lean on Reddit, INCIDecoder, and dermatologist consensus — not magazine placement. Beauty discovery is now an answer, not a link.

OnlyFans does zero advertising. Every one of its 377.5 million fan accounts came from somewhere else — TikTok, Reddit, X, and now the AI engines. The 2026 off-platform discovery playbook, channel by channel.

Barnes & Noble was supposed to be dead by 2015. Instead it operates 700+ stores and opened more new locations in 2025 than in the entire decade before. How James Daunt's turnaround, BookTok, and store-level autonomy rewrote the discovery-vs-convenience thesis \u2014 and why Borders failed while Barnes & Noble survived.