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Dear Analyst: I have 10 questions a day & only ask you 1. With AI, I answer all 10 without you, it's time for a career convo.

Note: This is intended to be a real, raw, honest post. Not full of doom and gloom, but of what you need to do when your C-levels and VPs read posts like these. …

Analytics / Ai

An Olympic-Sized View into How LLMs Actually Think

TL;DR Seer tracked how seven major LLMs updated their answers during the 2026 Winter Olympics, and 97% of web-enabled models picked up breaking news the same da…

Analytics / Ai / Ai Study

What Marketers Should Know About AI in the Ecommerce & Advertising Landscape: Q1 2026

Key Takeaways OpenAI will introduce advertising, giving ecommerce brands new ground to test out Google now allows brands to surface offers directly in AI Mode’s…

Paid Media / Ecommerce / Ai

AI Visibility is a Vanity Metric, here's how to tell your boss

Post written Jan 29 2026 TL;DR AI visibility on its own is a vanity metric, because answers change by prompt and person, and no AI platform reports rankings or …

Geo

Identifying Signal from Noise: 6 Ways to Leverage Query Fan Outs for AI Search Strategy

Query fan-outs are one of the most talked-about elements in AI-Search, which makes sense considering the level of insight they can give us into why AI models me…

Ai / Ai Study

How LLMs Amplify Brand Misconceptions & How to Address Them With GEO

TL;DR AI answers claimed Seer had “high account manager turnover” 67 times in three months, but Seer’s actual team retention rate is 79.2%. The claim traced to …

Ai / Geo / Ai Study

ChatGPT Changed Their Algorithm 46 Days Before Announcing Ads

After ChatGPT's January 16 ad announcement, we looked at the data. What we found was remarkable: the algorithm had been changing since December 1. This is the f…

Ai / Chatgpt / Ai Study

Our AI slack channel had 9,828 posts - this 3 prompt agent moved it from overwhelming to actionable

9,828 messages is 25 messages a day… and that's from just a single channel.

Ai / Agentic

AI Models Provide Incorrect Phone Numbers 36% of the Time: Here’s What You Can Do

TL;DR AI models gave a phone number for 91% of branded prompts, but only 64% matched the brand’s customer service page, so AI got the number wrong 36% of the ti…

Ai

From Tax Credit to Community Support: How Seer Backed Orgs Helping Immigrants

This summer, The Big Beautiful Bill gave Seer a six-figure R&D tax credit. Our CFO shared this news with me and said we had the opportunity to do something …

Community Services

What's The Impact of Google's AI Changes on Holiday Shopping?

We analyzed 90,000 gift-related prompts across Gemini, AI Mode, and AI Overviews. The growing usage of AI platforms has been a consistent conversation throughou…

Google / Ai / Aios / Ai Study