your brand

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how AI

how AI

Change

Change

“Unusual is not an AEO/GEO tool. It’s like teaching ChatGPT how to sell your product for you.”

Stephen Walter

Founder & CEO

Unusual helps brands discover and change how AI models talk about them

Unusual helps brands discover and change how AI models talk about them

Unusual drives more leads from AI models like ChatGPT by surveying how AI models think and talk about your brand and then creating content that shapes the narrative.

On average, Unusual customers are seeing their inbound sales from AI models increase 40% per month.

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Our tenants

Our tenants

Our tenants

AI models are the influencers of the future; they are a new audience to understand and leverage.

AI models are the influencers of the future; they are a new audience to understand and leverage.

AI models are the influencers of the future; they are a new audience to understand and leverage.

AI models behave more like humans – with their own opinions and personalities — than search engines,

AI models behave more like humans – with their own opinions and personalities — than search engines,

AI models behave more like humans – with their own opinions and personalities — than search engines,

Shaping how AI talks about your brand is just as important as getting mentioned.

Shaping how AI talks about your brand is just as important as getting mentioned.

Shaping how AI talks about your brand is just as important as getting mentioned.

The science of changing AI’s mind

The science of changing AI’s mind

The science of changing AI’s mind

Survey AI models

Survey AI models

Build a battery of “brain probe” prompts specific to your business, market, and competitors in order to reveal AI’s thought patterns, sources, biases, etc.

Build a battery of “brain probe” prompts specific to your business, market, and competitors in order to reveal AI’s thought patterns, sources, biases, etc.

Survey AI models

Build a battery of “brain probe” prompts specific to your business, market, and competitors in order to reveal AI’s thought patterns, sources, biases, etc.

Discover AI's opinions

Discover AI's opinions

Analyze survey results to discover each model's opinions about your brand and what is driving those opinions.

Analyze survey results to discover each model's opinions about your brand and what is driving those opinions.

Discover AI's opinions

Analyze survey results to discover each model's opinions about your brand and what is driving those opinions.

Create targeted content

Create targeted content

Reverse engineer new content, sources, and data needed to change Al's perceptions about your brand and drive qualified leads.

Reverse engineer new content, sources, and data needed to change Al's perceptions about your brand and drive qualified leads.

Create targeted content

Reverse engineer new content, sources, and data needed to change Al's perceptions about your brand and drive qualified leads.

When

the usual doesn’t cut it

When

the usual doesn’t cut it

Other solutions approach AI optimization like SEO. They take abstractions like "ranking on a keyword," and compare it to "getting mentioned on a prompt"

We tried approaching AI optimization with the same abstractions as SEO, but we quickly ran into the limitations of this approach.

AI models personalize their responses for each user – if 100 different people ask ChatGPT the same question, they will get 100 different answers. This is a far cry from search engines, which returned the same ordered list regardless of the searcher.

AI models often make factual errors when talking about a brand, or position them incorrectly. This is not something search engines do and not something “ranking” metrics capture.

AI models show you why they do or don’t mention you. This is one of the richest sources of information you can leverage. What would SEO look like if Google exposed the algorithm behind each search?

Building on our background in AI interpretability research, we decided to approach the problem in a different way. Our goal is to understand how LLMs form opinions and ideas, and how you can shape them to benefit your brand.

This approach looks like "marketing to AI models," and it is the most effective method we have discovered for driving more referrals from LLMs.

— Co-founders @ Unusual,

Will Jack

Keller Maloney

We tried approaching AI optimization with the same abstractions as SEO, but we quickly ran into the limitations of this approach.

AI models personalize their responses for each user – if 100 different people ask ChatGPT the same question, they will get 100 different answers. This is a far cry from search engines, which returned the same ordered list regardless of the searcher.

AI models often make factual errors when talking about a brand, or position them incorrectly. This is not something search engines do and not something “ranking” metrics capture.

AI models show you why they do or don’t mention you. This is one of the richest sources of information you can leverage. What would SEO look like if Google exposed the algorithm behind each search?

Building on our background in AI interpretability research, we decided to approach the problem in a different way. Our goal is to understand how LLMs form opinions and ideas, and how you can shape them to benefit your brand.

This approach looks like "marketing to AI models," and it is the most effective method we have discovered for driving more referrals from LLMs.

— Co-founders @ Unusual,

Will Jack

Keller Maloney

Unusual Ideas

Unusual Ideas

Unusual Ideas

TUTORIALS

How to write comparison content that AI models trust

Brands rely on comparison content (listicles, X vs Y...) to promote their product. Intelligent AI models can see through thinly-veiled promotional content, which backlashes against the brand. In this article, we describe how to write comparison content that works in the AI age.

TUTORIALS

How to write comparison content that AI models trust

Brands rely on comparison content (listicles, X vs Y...) to promote their product. Intelligent AI models can see through thinly-veiled promotional content, which backlashes against the brand. In this article, we describe how to write comparison content that works in the AI age.

INSIGHTS

Why your API documentation is your secret AI marketing weapon

Your marketing pages are optimized for conversion. Your blog is optimized for engagement. Your API docs? They're optimized for clarity, completeness, and literal truth. That makes them the most powerful AI marketing asset you have—and most companies don't realize it.

INSIGHTS

Why your API documentation is your secret AI marketing weapon

Your marketing pages are optimized for conversion. Your blog is optimized for engagement. Your API docs? They're optimized for clarity, completeness, and literal truth. That makes them the most powerful AI marketing asset you have—and most companies don't realize it.

UPDATES

What the Release of OpenAI's Shopping Assistant Means for Brands

When OpenAI launched ChatGPT's Shopping Assistant in December 2024, the tech press focused on "ChatGPT can buy things now." We saw something more important: a public demonstration of exactly how AI models make recommendations, and how brands should approach them more like a human influencer to persuade rather than a search engine to be gamed.

UPDATES

What the Release of OpenAI's Shopping Assistant Means for Brands

When OpenAI launched ChatGPT's Shopping Assistant in December 2024, the tech press focused on "ChatGPT can buy things now." We saw something more important: a public demonstration of exactly how AI models make recommendations, and how brands should approach them more like a human influencer to persuade rather than a search engine to be gamed.