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PerspectivesApr 22, 20267 min read

What communications teams get wrong about the AI era

By Nicholas Carlton

The instinct of every comms team is to move faster. Faster alerts, faster responses, faster reports. Speed still matters — but it's no longer the edge. The edge is understanding the whole conversation at once.

Channels don't exist in isolation

A story rarely lives on one channel. It starts on social, gets picked up by a podcast, makes the news, and within days reshapes how AI assistants describe you. Teams that watch each channel separately miss the connective tissue — the way a narrative travels and compounds.

The conversation about your brand is one conversation. Tooling that splits it apart hides the most important signal.

The teams that win in the AI era are the ones that see it whole: news, social, podcasts, broadcast and AI in a single view, ranked by what matters. That's not a faster firehose — it's a different kind of listening.

First to know. First to move.

Your first topic takes two minutes. The mentions start landing right away.