Business
Why Corporate Reputation Is Becoming a Machine-Readable Asset
As AI systems become the first stop for research on companies and executives, reputation is shifting from something people perceive to something machines retrieve.
Sunday, September 6th, 2026
As AI systems become the first stop for research on companies and executives, reputation is shifting from something people perceive to something machines retrieve.
Declared obsolete for two decades, the press release has instead become the load-bearing document of the information economy, feeding newsrooms, databases and now AI systems.
Booking agencies, preparation coaches and clip editors have turned the podcast interview into a supply chain, one that increasingly runs on retainers.