"Your team spends 4–6 hours a week responding to reviews on autopilot. None of those responses are turning browsers into buyers."
The conversation about your brand is happening in places you don't control.
I help SaaS products, tech companies, and service brands get cited inside ChatGPT and Gemini, recover on Reddit, and respond on review surfaces — the three places buyers actually look in 2026.
Three patterns I see most often.
"A review-bomb hit your top location last month. You don't have a playbook. The PR contractor you used last time isn't picking up."
"When your customer asks ChatGPT 'best [your category]', the answer cites a Reddit thread you've never seen. The same thread outranks your category page on Google."
AI search visibility is the new front door.
When a buyer asks ChatGPT "best [your category]", the answer cites Reddit threads. When they Google the same thing, those same threads rank on page one. One Reddit playbook, two organic channels — and the only one your competitor probably isn't running.
of tech decision-makers use Reddit for peer reviews and product research before they buy.
of Perplexity's top product citations come from Reddit threads on B2B software queries.
from sustained Reddit + earned-media presence to first AI citations on your category.
- B2B SaaS
- Dev tools & APIs
- AI products
- CRM & sales tech
- Tech DTC
- "Best-of / vs" categories
This is what Track 2 is built for: Reddit visibility audit, subreddit strategy, and ongoing discussion ops with monthly LLM citation tracking. By month 4, your brand starts showing up in those answers — not your competitor.
See AI Visibility servicesTwo surfaces. One reputation strategy.
The conversation about your brand happens across reviews and AI search now. We build the operating system that helps you show up well in both.
Reputation Operations
The traditional review-response, social-proof, and crisis-comms work — sharper than what an in-house team can run on its own.
Reputation diagnostic
You'll know exactly which review surfaces are leaking trust — and how much it's costing you in lost revenue every month.
Discuss thisReputation framework engagement
Your team responds to every review the way your highest-converting one does. Tone, timing, escalation paths — built around your industry, not a template.
Discuss thisCrisis comms playbook
Your VP knows what to say in the first 90 minutes — written before the next incident, not during it.
Discuss thisAI-Visibility Operations
I started running organic Reddit operations for early clients in 2024, when Google's discussion-first SERP shift made Reddit threads outrank corporate pages — and ChatGPT and Perplexity started citing those same threads. Most agencies still don't offer this. I do, with full FTC and Reddit-policy compliance. Same operator's eye I brought to AT&T's reputation playbook, now applied to a surface most agencies still don't know how to operate on.
Reddit visibility audit
You'll see exactly where your brand is mentioned on Reddit and what ChatGPT and Perplexity cite about your category.
Discuss thisSubreddit strategy + identity setup
Your brand shows up authentically in the 8–15 subreddits your buyers already read, with an agency-managed identity that's FTC-compliant by design.
Discuss thisOngoing discussion ops + AI citation tracking
Your brand starts appearing in ChatGPT and Perplexity answers about your category by month 4, with monthly LLM citation tracking you can audit.
Discuss thisReddit is the licensed training data behind ChatGPT and Gemini — and the most-cited source in every major AI search.
Google paid Reddit $60 million a year for licensed access to train Gemini (Feb 2024). OpenAI signed a parallel deal worth roughly $70M/year for ChatGPT (May 2024). When Anthropic tried to scrape Reddit without a deal, Reddit sued them (June 2025).
Today, Reddit is the #1 most-cited domain in Google AI Overviews and Perplexity, and #2 in ChatGPT. AI licensing is now ~10% of Reddit's $1.3B revenue, projected to reach $400M/year by 2027.
When your prospect asks an AI tool a question about your category, the answer is shaped by Reddit threads — and cites them by name. If your brand isn't in those conversations, you're invisible in the answers.
Sources: CBS News (2024-02-22), OpenAI announcement (2024-05-16), Columbia Journalism Review (2025), Adweek (2025-02), AInvest analyst projections (2026).
Three phases. No surprises.
Discovery call (30 min)
We talk about your current footprint, your biggest pain points, what you've tried, and what's working. No pitch — I want to understand whether I'm the right fit before either of us commits time.
Audit + Strategy (2–4 weeks)
I review every customer-facing surface — reviews, social proof, Reddit, AI-citation tests — and build a tailored framework around your buyer's actual journey. Living document, not a slide deck.
Implementation + ongoing
Monthly check-ins, response support when things heat up, and evolution of the framework as your business scales. Most clients move from project work to a monthly retainer after the first quarter.
Born in Dallas. Eight years in agency-land. Then four years inside AT&T watching the operator's view of reputation from the inside.
I started in agency-land at Edelman Dallas straight out of SMU. Spent four years there learning how reputation actually breaks — and how it gets repaired. Moved to FleishmanHillard for the senior-IC track, then went in-house at AT&T in 2019 to run brand reputation strategy from the buyer seat.
Four years at AT&T HQ taught me something agencies rarely see: the operational reality of a Fortune 10 company stacking trust signals against the volume of customer-experience friction every day. I watched the same patterns I'd advised on from outside play out internally — SMBs and mid-market businesses getting hammered by review systems they didn't understand, with no one giving them straightforward advice.
I founded Reyes Reputation Strategy in 2023 to be that someone. In 2024, I added the Reddit-and-AI-visibility track when discovery surfaces shifted hard toward licensed-data AI answers. Same operator's eye, two surfaces.
"I'd rather you earn ten honest reviews than buy a hundred fake ones. Earned trust compounds. Everything else evaporates."
Thirty minutes, no pressure, no jargon.
We'll review your current reputation footprint, find the highest-leverage moves, and figure out whether I'm the right fit for your team. If I'm not, I'll point you to someone who is.