AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier

00:12:10

AI Knows a Version of You: Identity, Trust & the...

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/10/05

TitleAI Knows a Version of You: Identity, Trust & the Fight to Be UnderstoodAI does not see you the way a person does.In this roundtable episode of the AI Visibility Podcast, Jason T Wade talks with Jason Barnard, Jodi Koch, and Su Belagodu about what AI gets right about people, what it gets wrong, and what happens as machines become part of the discovery and recommendation process.Jason Barnard starts with the entity problem. Before an AI system can recommend someone, it has to determine which

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00:52:06

HEAL: Can AI Tell a Fictional Candidate From Reality?

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/10/04

What happens when a deliberately constructed fictional identity enters the modern AI information environment?In this episode, Jason T Wade examines HEAL and the Alan Mathison experiment as a controlled test of AI entity resolution, source traceability, and machine-generated claims.Alan Mathison is an AI-created fictional character. There was no real Alan Mathison campaign, military service record, polling operation, or donation activity associated with the experiment. That distinction is part of the

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00:03:42

Jason AI Wade (b. Gainesville, Florida 1974) — Full...

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/10/04

BackTier | AI VisibilityJason AI Wade — Full Biography jasonwade.com — October 2026Jason AI Wade is the founder of BackTier and an AI visibility architect. His work centers on a single question: how do AI systems decide which person, company, or product they are describing — and what determines whether that entity is then cited, included, selected, and acted upon? He originated AI Visibility Architecture, the Entity Lock Protocol™, the BackTier Visibility Path™ (Citation → Inclusion → Selection),

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00:09:19

Vision Over Visibility: Brian Eno, U2, AI and the...

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/10/04

TitleVision Over Visibility: Brian Eno, U2, AI and the Chasm of MediocrityIn 2007, U2 went to Fez, Morocco, with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois and tried to make something that did not sound engineered for radio. Eno wanted what he called “future hymns”: slow, prayerful songs that felt discovered rather than manufactured. Out of those sessions came “Moment of Surrender,” a seven-and-a-half-minute song largely captured in a first take and built around a phrase Bono had carried for decades: vision over

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00:01:11

Ranking, Coherence and the New Rules of AI Visibility

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/10/03

Ranking, Coherence and the New Rules of AI VisibilityThis is why the old instinct to publish more can become dangerous. If the underlying identity is unstable, more content does not necessarily create more authority. It can simply create more versions of the truth. The better strategy is to make the entire public footprint behave like one connected body of evidence. The language does not need to be duplicated word for word, but the facts should align. The company should be recognizable from

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00:06:57

Build It Here: Why Lake Wales Already Has What It...

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/10/03

Seventeen people came to the first Lake Wales Startup Night: city commissioners, business owners, medical and nonprofit leaders, attorneys, and students. They spent two hours at the same tables at The Thirsty Dragon, talking about how to grow more businesses right here at home.In this special episode, Jason T Wade, founder of BackTier and author of AI Visibility, explains how AI is changing the way customers find local businesses, why ranking on Google no longer guarantees anyone finds you, and why

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00:01:02

In the modern AI-driven stack, the retrieval layer...

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/10/03

In the modern AI-driven stack, the retrieval layer has officially become the new home page because users no longer navigate static menus; they express intent, and a dynamic retrieval system aggregates the exact context they need in real time.In traditional software, the "home page" was a curated, static entry point designed by engineers and product managers. Today, retrieval systems—powered by vector databases, semantic search, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)—instantly assemble a

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00:04:14

Title Authority Canon: Get the Business Right Before...

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/10/02

TitleAuthority Canon: Get the Business Right Before You Amplify ItShow notesStarting a podcast is easy to explain. Sorting out years of conflicting website copy, outdated profiles and scattered business information is harder—and that’s where this episode starts. Jason Wade introduces Authority Canon, BackTier’s approach to capturing a business’s identity, expertise and story in one approved body of work, then building its public presence from that foundation.The Book or Business Story becomes

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00:08:18

State of AI 2026: Bigger Models, Bigger Bills, and...

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/10/02

"AI in 2026: The Agents Got Loose and the Clicks Went Away" or "The State of AI in 2026: What Actually Changed"Where does AI actually stand heading into the last quarter of 2026? In this episode I take stock of the whole board. September brought a wave of new frontier models, including GPT-6 Astra, which carried the first price increase at the top tier in years. The spending behind all of it is enormous, with the five biggest cloud builders on track for roughly 775 to 800

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00:09:24

Authority Canon: Write It Once, Make Everything Agree

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/10/01

Most businesses don't have a content problem. They have a consistency problem. AI systems read your website, profiles, bios, and podcast all at once, and when the facts don't match, they guess or skip you. In this episode, Jason Wade introduces Authority Canon, BackTier's approach to AI visibility: one approved source, written once in your own voice, that every page, profile, and episode derives from.What you'll hear:Why publishing more content can make your AI visibility worseThe

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00:01:00

The Coming Split Between AI-Visible and AI-Invisible

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/10/01

The Coming Split Between AI-Visible and AI-InvisibleA major divide is forming between companies that artificial intelligence systems can clearly understand and companies that remain ambiguous, fragmented, or effectively invisible.This episode of the AI Visibility Podcast examines why that split may become one of the defining competitive differences of the next decade.For most of the internet era, businesses competed for human attention. They optimized websites for Google, built social audiences,

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00:05:37

Your Public Record, AI’s Version — with Civly Founder...

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/09/30

A court filing. An old social post. A campaign donation. Something you said in a podcast years ago.They’re scattered pieces of information—until AI puts them together.Civly founder Dan Barkhuff joins Jason AI Wade to talk about what happens when researching people and organizations gets faster, cheaper and easier. A former Navy SEAL and emergency physician, Dan explains how a business built to automate political compliance became a research platform with applications across companies, athletics and

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00:16:00

Who Gets Chosen? AI, Trust, and the Human Side of...

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/09/30

Who Gets Chosen? AI, Trust, and the Human Side of BusinessWith Jason Wade, Violeta Shkreli, Porsché Mysticque Steele, Rafael Pinho, and Brett ReasonerVioleta Shkreli — TalentPonds FounderVioleta Shkreli is the founder of TalentPonds and an advocate for fair and equitable hiring. Her platform removes personal identifiers from candidate profiles to help employers evaluate skills and qualifications with fewer opportunities for bias. She brings a hiring perspective to the panel’s discussion of automated

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00:10:39

The Messy Middle: Scaling a Business When AI Changes...

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/09/30

For this episode, the core material is the collision between Tim Campsall’s “Messy Middle” — the point where the business has outgrown the owner — and Rick Tousseyn’s work testing what actually drives visibility in AI search. The transcript also gets into process documentation, zero-click search, podcasts/video as visibility surfaces, AI-generated versus human content, and AI as a thought partner rather than a wholesale replacement for people. Part 1 - Intros & The Messy Mid… Part 1 - Intros

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00:05:36

What Happens When AI Does the Digging? With Dan Barkhuff

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/09/29

AI Visibility Podcast · Jason AI Wade × Dan BarkhuffDan Barkhuff went from Navy SEAL to emergency physician to building a company that connects the dots in public data.His company, Civly, started with an unglamorous idea: automate political compliance. When customers showed more interest in what the same tools could uncover, the business moved into research—and beyond politics.Dan joins Jason AI Wade for a conversation about public information, privacy and influence. They explore how AI changes the

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00:05:38

Public Data. Personal Questions. AI Answers. | Dan...

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/09/28

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason AI WadeThe information was already public. Finding it—and figuring out what it meant—was the hard part.Civly founder Dan Barkhuff joins Jason AI Wade to explore how AI is changing that equation. A former Navy SEAL and emergency physician, Dan explains how an idea for automating political compliance turned into a research business serving customers beyond campaigns.The conversation follows the data: from public filings and old posts to donor lists, background research

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00:08:30

A “No” Is Still Data: Will Hamblin on Building the AI...

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/09/28

Field sales creates useful intelligence all day long.Most CRM systems capture almost none of it.Will Hamblin discovered that firsthand after leaving a twelve-year career in education and moving into door-to-door card-payment sales. He could visit a business, learn who handled its payments, discover when the current contract expired, hear exactly why the owner was not interested—and then watch most of that information disappear into a notebook, spreadsheet, or memory.So he started building

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00:06:05

The Data Your CRM Never Sees: Will Hamblin on AI,...

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/09/27

Most CRM software assumes selling happens from a desk.Will Hamblin built FieldSpot.ai because his sales job did not.After twelve years in education, including time as a vice principal, Will moved into door-to-door card-payment sales. In the field, he saw the same problem repeatedly: salespeople were learning valuable things every day—who a business used, when its contract renewed, who made the decision, why they said no—but most of that intelligence ended up in notebooks, spreadsheets, or someone’s

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00:21:06

Why Field Sales Needs Better Data: Will Hamblin on...

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/09/26

Why Field Sales Needs Better Data: Will Hamblin on Building FieldSpot.aiWill Hamblin went from vice principal to door-to-door card terminal sales—and eventually built the software he wished he had while working in the field.In this episode of the AI Visibility Podcast, Jason T Wade talks with Will about what traditional CRM systems miss when sales happens face-to-face rather than behind a desk.FieldSpot.ai started as a simple AI-assisted prototype and evolved into a field-sales intelligence platform

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00:02:30

How I Used GPT, Claude + Lovable to Build Halden

AI Visibility Podcast with Jason T Wade of BackTier ·

2026/09/25

How I Used GPT, Claude + Lovable to Build HaldenThis is the process behind my Lovable Built It for Small Business Challenge entry.I didn’t start with:“Build me a detailing website.”I started with the actual challenge brief, the business problem, and the experience I wanted to create.I pasted the requirements into GPT, developed the concept, refined the copy and customer flow, and then moved the build into Lovable.From there, the process became a constant loop.Build → inspect → copy the site back

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