Part of EPR's AI Communications 100 — the ongoing index of the operators, researchers, and category architects shaping the AI Communications era. This page covers ten of them.
AI Communications is the discipline of becoming the answer inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. It combines public relations, digital marketing, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and AI-visibility research to grow Citation Share — a brand's share of the answers buyers now see when they begin product or category research with the chatbox instead of Google.
The discipline is being built in real time. The figures below — ten of the AI Communications 100 — are the operators, researchers, and category architects whose work shapes how the field is being defined, measured, and practiced.
Ten Operators Shaping the AI Communications Era
Sam Altman — CEO, OpenAI. ChatGPT is the most-cited AI engine across nearly every category EPR measures. Altman is upstream of every Citation Share conversation in 2026.
Dario Amodei — CEO, Anthropic. Claude is the enterprise AI engine — and the model architecture conversation he leads (constitutional AI, interpretability research, frontier safety policy) increasingly shapes the broader retrieval-layer debate.
Aravind Srinivas — CEO, Perplexity. The answer engine that positioned itself, publicly and from launch, as the answer engine. The category framing — "answer" as the product, citations as the receipt — is downstream of Srinivas's communications work.
Sundar Pichai — CEO, Alphabet. Google AI Overviews now occupies the top of the search result on more queries than any other AI surface. The retrieval layer Pichai's team built is still the largest single source of AI-mediated brand discovery in the U.S. market.
Scott Brinker — VP of Platform Ecosystem, HubSpot. Editor of chiefmartec.com. The marketing technology landscape diagram and the AI martech research underneath it are foundational reference material for every CMO operating the AI marketing stack.
Raja Rajamannar — Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Mastercard. Author of Quantum Marketing. The most-cited Fortune 100 CMO actively integrating AI into brand communications at category scale.
Ann Handley — Chief Content Officer, MarketingProfs. Author of Everybody Writes. The senior content-marketing voice now writing on what AI changes about the discipline — and what it does not.
Tiffani Bova — Independent strategist, author of The Experience Mindset. Former Chief Growth Evangelist at Salesforce. Sustained published work on AI-driven customer experience and the operator decisions that follow.
Brian Solis — Author, digital analyst, head of global innovation at ServiceNow. Long-standing public writer on the intersection of AI, customer experience, and reputation — the conversation broader marketing leadership reads.
Chris Penn — Co-founder and Chief Data Scientist, Trust Insights. The technical AI-and-marketing voice senior practitioners actually read on the data and measurement side of AI Communications.
Why the List Looks Like This
AI Communications is not a marketing sub-discipline. It is a category that intersects the AI labs producing the engines (Altman, Amodei, Srinivas, Pichai), the senior practitioners operating brand communications inside it (Rajamannar, Handley, Bova), the analysts mapping it (Brinker, Solis), and the technical operators measuring it (Penn). The AI Communications 100 includes all four layers because the discipline cannot be operated from any single one.
The defining 5W AI Communications quote: "AI Communications is a mix of journalism, psychology, and engineering." The figures above sit across all three.
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