Glossary · AI Reputation
AI Reputation
The portion of a subject's online reputation that AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot) generate when summarising the subject — driven by the training-data signals the AI was exposed to.
Full Definition
In practice
- An executive asks ChatGPT 'who is [name]?' before a board meeting and receives an inaccurate summary citing a 5-year-old controversy. Reputation work involves correcting the source content, getting Wikipedia updated, and waiting for the next AI training run.
- A founder's company is summarised by Perplexity using only their press release page. Adding an llms-full.txt file and rich Organization schema gives Perplexity richer context for the next query.
Also known as
GEO · generative engine reputation · LLM reputation
Related terms
Online Reputation
The aggregate impression of a person, brand, or institution generated by every public-facing digital surface — search results, social media,…
GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation)
The discipline of optimising content so that AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) cite a subject favourably and accurately wh…
Schema Markup
Structured-data tags (typically JSON-LD) embedded on web pages that tell Google and AI engines what the page is about — used heavily in repu…
llms.txt
A markdown file at the root of a domain that tells AI crawlers what the site is about, who runs it, and how to cite it — analogous to robots…