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Insights on AI search, SEO and digital strategy — from over twenty years of hands-on experience

Recent articles: digital strategy, SEO, paid media and AI

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Digital Strategy

What paid media managers need to know about AI visibility

Your paid campaigns are running. The numbers look fine. But there's a moment your dashboard never captures: the AI answer that sets the shortlist before anyone clicks your ad. This piece: why paid media and AI visibility aren't competing, and what that means for your attribution.

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AI & Search Engines

Why AI visibility is a different game for financial brands

Financial brands think they have a visibility problem in AI. They have an attribution problem. Their content is processed by language models — but the brand name gets lost in translation. This piece explains why compliance language, product complexity, brand structure and content velocity together create a structural disadvantage that ...

Digital Strategy

Why the best ad today isn’t an ad — it’s an AI answer

There's a moment in the buying process that marketers couldn't reach for decades. AI models have taken it over. In this piece, I explain why AI answers are the new top of funnel, how paid media and AI visibility reinforce each other, and what you can do about it today. ...

The GEO Hub: a knowledge base on AI visibility

How do you become visible in a world where answers are generated
rather than found? That is the central question of Generative
Engine Optimisation — and the subject of the GEO Hub.

Nine clusters build the picture systematically:

1. Basics
2. How AI works
3. Strategy

4. Measurement
5. Platforms
6. Operational

7. Sectors
8. Model bias
9. Defensive GEO

A framework of my own, built in practice. No hype, no noise.

Why Groundbase Digital exists

Digital marketing is a world of abundance. More channels, more data, more tools, more noise. That potential often goes untapped — not for lack of resources, but for lack of focus.

Groundbase is not an agency. It’s a knowledge space where I bring together and share my experience and observations. Grounded, honest and hype-free.

I’ve spent over twenty years studying how people search, choose and decide online. Today, that work centres on a shift most organisations still underestimate: AI is taking over the orientation phase of buying decisions. People no longer ask Google their questions — they ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. And the brands that don’t show up there simply don’t exist in that moment.

SEO, AI visibility, paid media and content are not separate disciplines to me. It’s one story about staying visible in a landscape that keeps changing.

Technology without insight is noise. Technology with insight is growth.