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AI PR Agency for B2B

Turn Earned Media Into AI Authority

AI recommends the companies the market has already validated. Directive combines PR strategy with AI-powered intelligence to build authority buyers recognize and answer engines repeat.

AI Made PR Faster. Earned Authority Still Matters.

OUR AI PR AGENCY METHODOLOGY

AI has made public relations faster, more connected, and more commercially important. It can surface rising narratives, identify the reporters and analysts shaping them, personalize outreach, and show how earned coverage travels across search, social, and AI answer engines. It also raises the stakes. When every team has access to the same tools, speed and volume are no longer differentiators. The advantage comes from knowing which story the market will believe, which voices can validate it, and how to build authority that compounds beyond a single news cycle.

Directive combines AI-powered research, targeting, optimization, monitoring, and measurement with the media relationships and editorial judgment behind effective traditional PR. Through DiscoverabilityOS™, we earn coverage that shapes how buyers see your company, how search engines understand it, and how AI answer engines decide whether to include it.

AI Visibility Is Already Changing Which Vendors Win

69%
of B2B software buyers chose a different vendor than initially planned based on AI chatbot guidance.
AI chatbots are no longer just helping B2B buyers research vendors. They are actively changing which companies make the shortlist and which ones win. G2 found that 69% of B2B software buyers selected a different vendor than initially planned based on AI chatbot guidance, while 85% think more highly of a vendor when AI includes it in a recommendation. Those answers are shaped by the credible third-party sources, expert perspectives, reviews, and earned coverage available across the market. Directive builds that external authority and narrative consistency so AI platforms have stronger evidence to recognize, describe, and recommend your brand. As AI becomes a more influential gatekeeper, companies without a visible and credible market presence risk being eliminated before buyers ever reach their website or sales team.
G2, The Answer Economy: 2026 AI Search Insight Report

Directive’s Approach to AI PR

HOW IT WORKS

Directive uses PR, executive authority, social search, and expanded content formats to shape the narratives AI platforms surface about your brand. We strengthen the sources behind generated answers, then track citation volume, sentiment, share of voice, and pipeline impact in Stratos.
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Our Comprehensive AI PR Agency Services

Executive Thought Leadership
We turn executive expertise into credible perspectives that strengthen market authority across media, social media, search, and AI-generated answers.
Original Research And Data Reports
We develop proprietary research that gives journalists something worth covering and answer engines a credible source worth citing.
AI Citation And Visibility Monitoring
We track where your brand appears in AI-generated answers, which sources influence those mentions, and where authority gaps remain. Our outreach earns mentions in citations that shape the narrative.
Analyst And Review Site Relations
We strengthen your presence across the analyst reports, review platforms, and third-party evaluations influencing buyer and AI-generated shortlists.
Reactive Commentary And Newsjacking
We position executives inside timely industry conversations where credible commentary can earn coverage and shape the sources AI platforms reference.
Podcast And Media Interviews
We secure deeper conversational opportunities where executives can demonstrate expertise, challenge assumptions, and build authority beyond a single quote.
Creative PR Campaigns
We build earned-first campaigns designed to generate coverage, conversation, backlinks, and third-party signals that compound across discovery channels.
PR Measurement And Pipeline Attribution
Stratos connects earned authority, AI visibility, branded demand, account engagement, and influenced pipeline to show what PR changed.
Press And Product Announcements
We turn company news into prompt-optimized stories with a clear market consequence that earn coverage and strengthen the sources shaping AI-generated answers.

Modern PR With Measurable Impact

OUR PROCESS & IMPACT
We run AI PR on a structured process built to compound authority and produce measurable revenue impact, not a monthly stack of clippings.

The AI PR Problems We Solve.

THE STRUGGLE
Most B2B PR programs were built for a search results page buyers no longer visit first. We rebuild the program around the sources AI engines cite and prove what the coverage returns.

Missing From AI Answers

A buyer asks an AI assistant to compare solutions, explain a category, or recommend vendors, and your company never appears. The model found plenty of information, just not enough credible third-party evidence about you to recommend it for your ICP’s specific need. We earn the coverage, commentary, and references that are optimized to be cited and strengthen your authority beyond your own website.

Late To The Narrative

By the time a monthly report shows a competitor gaining coverage or a brand narrative starting to shift, the opportunity to Influence narratives and outcome becomes progressively more challenging. We monitor coverage, sentiment, competitor movement, and AI presence as the conversation develops so our team can act while attention is still available.

Expertise Stuck Inside

Your executives, customer teams, and product leaders understand the market better than most of the people commenting on it, but that knowledge remains trapped in meetings and internal documents. We turn it into timely perspectives, original research, commentary, and media opportunities the LLMscan actually discover.

Impact Leadership Cannot See

A list of placements and estimated impressions does not tell leadership whether the program changed buyer behavior. We connect earned coverage to LLM message pull-through, share of voice, branded demand, account engagement, AI referrals, and influenced pipeline.

A buyer asks an AI assistant to compare solutions, explain a category, or recommend vendors, and your company never appears. The model found plenty of information, just not enough credible third-party evidence about you to recommend it for your ICP’s specific need. We earn the coverage, commentary, and references that are optimized to be cited and strengthen your authority beyond your own website.

By the time a monthly report shows a competitor gaining coverage or a brand narrative starting to shift, the opportunity to Influence narratives and outcome becomes progressively more challenging. We monitor coverage, sentiment, competitor movement, and AI presence as the conversation develops so our team can act while attention is still available.

Your executives, customer teams, and product leaders understand the market better than most of the people commenting on it, but that knowledge remains trapped in meetings and internal documents. We turn it into timely perspectives, original research, commentary, and media opportunities the LLMscan actually discover.

A list of placements and estimated impressions does not tell leadership whether the program changed buyer behavior. We connect earned coverage to LLM message pull-through, share of voice, branded demand, account engagement, AI referrals, and influenced pipeline.

Frequently Asked Questions About AI PR

FAQ
An AI PR agency optimizes earned media, executive thought leadership, original research, reviews, and social content to strengthen how a brand appears in AI-generated answers. Directive builds the third-party authority and narrative consistency AI platforms use to understand, cite, and recommend B2B technology and SaaS brands, then measures the impact through AI visibility, share of voice, branded demand, and influenced pipeline.
AI changes public relations on two fronts at once. Buyers now research through AI assistants that build answers from independent sources, so earned coverage decides whether you appear. That research warms buyers before they reach your website or sales team, making conversions more efficient and increasing the leads that arrive through AI referrals and direct traffic after encountering your PR-driven narrative.
AI platforms increasingly shape how buyers discover categories, compare vendors, and decide which brands deserve consideration. PR coverage intentionally optimized for AI visibility gives those platforms credible third-party evidence to cite, helping your brand appear more often, carry the right narrative, and enter more buying journeys. That stronger discoverability warms demand, increases direct and AI-referred leads, and creates more efficient paths from research to revenue.
We combine media databases, AI journalist matching, coverage and sentiment monitoring, AI citation tracking, and share-of-voice analytics with the Stratos platform for TAM verification and pipeline attribution. The tools serve better coverage and cleaner measurement, never the other way around.
AI answer engines assemble responses largely from independent editorial, community, and reference sources rather than vendor websites, so earned coverage is the most direct lever on whether your brand gets named. That makes public relations a core part of any serious AI search visibility program.
We report share of voice, AI citation presence and sentiment, ICP reach, AI referral traffic, branded demand increases, influenced pipeline, and conversion efficiency, connecting coverage to CRM opportunities through Stratos. Every retainer includes a quarterly pipeline influence review so the program is judged on revenue.

Build The Authority Behind Every Answer

Partner with Directive to create an AI PR program that strengthens media visibility, shapes market perception, and turns third-party credibility into AI visibility that drives measurable pipeline impact.