GEO Founder Assessment

Before meeting you, they have already asked the AI about you.

Analysis and monitoring of what AI engines say about the people who run the company — to investors, journalists and senior candidates.

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Example sample: 480 questions to five engines, one dot per answer
ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityClaudeCopilot
  • 51%Correct
  • 18%Dated facts
  • 12%Unattended sources
  • 19%Doesn't name you
ChatGPT · the circled answer in the sample, annotated with its sources

Question“Who is Marco Velari, CEO of Velaria Group?”

AI answerMarco Velari is the chief executive of Velaria Group. He is still associated with the 2021 reorganisation and the related controversy.1 Some sources describe him as a centralising manager.2 [No mention of recent results, initiatives launched or the most relevant public appearances.]3

  1. DatedThe most cited sources on the CEO are three 2021 articles on the reorganisation.national press · 2021
  2. UnattendedThe judgement comes from an interview with a former executive, picked up by a blog.blog · 2022
  3. MissingConference talks and results of the last two years have no page that collects them.no public source

Illustrative example with a fictitious company. In the assessment every note links to the source URL.

The GEO Founder Assessment is the service that analyses what generative AI engines say about CEOs and founders: the biography they return to investors, journalists and senior candidates, the sources it comes from and the actions to align it with real results.

What has changed

Investors, journalists and talent no longer read the bio. They ask the AI who you are.

“Who is [Full name]?”

“What is the reputation of the CEO of [Company]?”

“Is the management of [Company] reliable?”

×2ChatGPT weekly users doubled in a year: from ~400 to ~800–900 million
8%click-through when an AI answer appears (vs 15% without): your bio is not opened
60%of searches already end without a single click: the summary is enough

Sources: OpenAI / press 2025 · Pew Research 2025 · SparkToro 2024 — US / cross-industry data, to be read as a trend.

The problem

Your biography is written by AI. With the sources it finds.

And the first impression is now made by a generated summary.

The sources that matter

Where the answer comes from, for this audience

The person's Wikipedia and Wikidata

If they exist, they define the biography; if not, AI assembles it from interviews and namesakes.

Interviews and articles

A dated interview weighs more than the official bio; a namesake can attribute other people's facts.

LinkedIn

Current role, career history, published content: the source Copilot reads first.

Official bio and public appearances

They count if aligned across website, LinkedIn and Wikipedia, and if recent appearances are published with dates.

The solution

How the GEO Assessment works

1

We ask the AI engines

We put the real questions of your audience to several models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot), by market and role.

2

We find the sources

We identify the actual articles and pages that form that perception, with verified URLs.

3

We give you the plan, and carry it out

Score, gaps and concrete actions per touchpoint. Your team executes them, or we do: content, sources, presence. Then we measure again.

What you receive: GEO Score A–F · Visual SWOT · Source map · Reputational risks · Action plan · Competitor comparison. One branded report, exportable to PDF, generated by the proprietary ReputAction platform. And with monitoring, the same snapshot repeated over time: you see how far your positioning has moved.

The method in detail →

A case, anonymised

CEO of a scale-up, funding round in preparation

"Who is [Name]" returned a profile anchored to the 2021 reorganisation and, in one case in three, facts about a namesake. The plan created the person's Wikidata entry with identifiers, aligned the official bio and LinkedIn, published three recent appearances with dates and secured an interview with data on results. At 90 days the namesake is gone and the reorganisation appears in one answer in five, after the recent results.

All results →

Inside the platform

The sources that make up your public profile

Bio, Wikipedia, interviews, reviews: every source weighted by how much it influences what AI says about you — with the URL to fix.

Source map of the profile with weights, sentiment and verified URLs

ReputAction platform interface, with sample data about a fictitious company.

Frequently asked questions

GEO Founder Assessment: the essential answers

What is the GEO Founder Assessment?

The GEO Founder Assessment is the service that analyses what generative AI engines say about CEOs and founders: the biography they return to investors, journalists and senior candidates, the sources it comes from and the actions to align it with real results.

How does the analysis work?

We ask several AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot) the real questions your audience asks, identify the sources that shape the answers, with verified URLs, and deliver a GEO Score from A to F, a SWOT, reputational risks and an action plan per channel. The demo audit is ready in 48 hours.

Is it needed if the CEO already has an official bio and a Wikipedia entry?

Yes: official bio, LinkedIn and Wikipedia are often not aligned with each other, and AI engines also draw on interviews and third-party sources. The assessment measures what the AI actually answers, where the profiles diverge and which sources to fix first.

The CEO has no Wikipedia entry: is that a problem?

Not necessarily. Wikipedia requires encyclopaedic notability; Wikidata does not, and it is enough to give AI a stable entity with role, company and profiles. The official bio and LinkedIn do the rest if they are aligned.

Do you also analyse the leadership team?

Yes: the assessment can cover the CEO, founders and first-line leaders. Each person is an entity with their own sources; the report shows them separately and in relation to the company.

Who carries out the actions in the plan?

Your team, or us: every action in the report is operational (updating sources, making pages and listings readable by AI, looking after reviews and Wikipedia) and we can carry it out directly, or work alongside whoever already runs your channels.

How do I measure results (ROI)?

Through monitoring: periodic runs of the same questions on the same AI engines, GEO Score over time and a before/after comparison for each intervention. You see how far your positioning has moved against the investment, and an alert warns you if a negative narrative emerges.

How do we start, and what does it cost?

You start with a free demo audit, presented on a call within 48 hours: real AI answers about your brand and an indicative GEO Score. The full GEO Assessment starts from €5,000 for one audience and one country, with the baseline actions carried out by us and the 90-day re-analysis; the GEO Program, for serial content, PR, communities and monitoring, is quoted on the plan. Details are on the Pricing page.

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The next step

Start with the free 48-hour audit; then the GEO Assessment, from €5,000, with the baseline actions carried out by us and the 90-day re-analysis; the GEO Program for everything else.

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