I wanted to go on a quick rant about the perspective of certain groups of AI, how it functions and the lack of clarity in understanding the actual role it can currently serve with what it will likely be able to do in the near future.
I worked for a half-dozen years in the tech-sector in business integration then switched finance directly for 5 years before moving over to financial-marking last year as I started really delving into how AI was evolving.
Over the last 6 months we received our first 3 contracts for groups looking to raise capital, 2 private equity and 1 public.
We work to build integrated systems that moves some of the general search engine optimization away to AI search optimization. This seems particularly important these days given that AI searchs have largely over-taken general SEO.
We presented this change to groups, they all agreed and were happy.
The issue, after presenting the flesh-out of just the webpages they go full boomer and flip tables. "Why are FAQs present here? Why are these headers in this order? why use these colours and fonts?"
You try to remind them that the whole goal is to get AI to be a future promoter on certain keywords by building-out in a certain way.
Each group, essentially, wants to revert back to a standard 2010 optimized page and want the marketing to move back as well even before any actual testing. They even get marginally freaked out by automation anywhere. *sigh*
Aside from actually watching it cost them thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars, has anyone had experience with convincing boomer run groups that the practicality of AI SEO trumps the standard web use the last 10 years?
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