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Last updated: October 2026 By the time most executives start calling reputation management firms, something has already gone wrong. A hit piece ranks on page one. A deposition surfaces in ChatGPT. A board member Googled the candidate and found a decade-old lawsuit. A PE sponsor flagged a profile in diligence. A reporter is circling. The […]
Last updated: October 2026 A company’s reputation is no longer a soft asset. It is a priced one. Deloitte’s global risk survey has consistently found that senior executives put reputation at the top of their strategic risk register, above regulation, competition, and talent. The 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer found that trust in business is now […]
Last updated: October 2026 Dallas–Fort Worth is now the fastest-growing corporate reputation market in the United States, and the work that lands here looks nothing like the work that lands in New York or Los Angeles. The Metroplex is home to more Fortune 500 headquarters than any U.S. metro except New York and Chicago — […]
Last updated: October 2026 A reporter calls you for comment, you decline, the story runs anyway. Two years later the article is still the first thing a client, board member, or recruiter hears about you, except now they are not hearing it from Google. They are hearing it from ChatGPT. Or Claude. Or Gemini. Or […]
Last updated: September 2026 Modern reputation crises no longer happen in one place. A story that used to live on a single reporter’s desk now breaks on X, gets reposted to Reddit within the hour, is re-cut into a TikTok by lunchtime, hits Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts by the end of the day, and […]
Last updated: September 2026 If you are a founder heading into a Series B, a general partner about to close a new fund, or an operating executive at a portfolio company where the board is nervous — the first thing anyone with a checkbook does before speaking to you is Google your name. Not your […]
Last updated: September 2026 Wikipedia is the single most consequential page in most executives’ and companies’ search results — and the one almost nobody knows how to fix. It ranks in the top three Google results for the vast majority of notable names. It is scraped verbatim into Google’s Knowledge Panels. It feeds Wikidata, which […]
Last Updated: September 2026 If you run — or advise — a Council of Governments (COG), a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), a regional planning agency, a Joint Powers Authority, or a special district, you already know the drill: your comms team is small, your policy board is public, your meetings are covered by the Brown […]
Type your name into Google. Watch what appears under the search bar before you finish typing. For most people, autocomplete is a convenience. For anyone dealing with a reputation problem, it is one of the loudest signals on the entire internet. A single ugly word — “scam,” “lawsuit,” “fraud,” “arrested,” “divorce,” “cheating,” “fired” — attached […]
Last updated: September 2026 You have already made the calls. You emailed the reporter. You sent a polite correction request to the editor under their published corrections policy. You had your lawyer draft a demand letter. Maybe you even paid a “reputation” vendor who promised the article would come down in 30 days. It is […]
