Question 1

Can we hire you for just one announcement?

Accepted Answer

Yes. A single campaign starts at $5,000. We align the story, secure coverage, and set up AI visibility around what ships.

Question 2

Do you offer ongoing retainers?

Accepted Answer

Yes. When the goal is category ownership over time, we run an ongoing program: media execution, on-site GEO assets, and GEOview reporting. Details are scoped in a strategy session.

Question 3

What is Coverage-Based AI Visibility?

Accepted Answer

It is for earlier-stage teams that want credible news and media features plus AI visibility without a monthly retainer. Commercial terms are tied to agreed coverage outcomes, not a retainer. We still use Storyline's full process; only the commercial shape changes.

Question 4

What is GEOview?

Accepted Answer

GEOview is Storyline Pros' AI Visibility Technology. It tracks how AI systems talk about your category and whether you appear in the answers that matter.

Question 5

Where do we start?

Accepted Answer

Book a strategy session: https://cal.com/nik-vassev/30min

Question 6

Will you publish a full price list?

Accepted Answer

No. The only public figure is that a single campaign starts at $5,000. Everything else depends on scope, category difficulty, and the engagement model. We confirm numbers on the strategy call.

Question 7

How do you get AI to recommend my company?

Accepted Answer

Models recommend the names they see repeated across sources they already trust. We engineer that footprint on purpose: a Narrative Map for the claims you should own, then placements across earned media, news, podcasts, community, listicles, and on-site assets. GEOview AI Visibility Technology shows what the answers say before and after.

Question 8

What does performance-based pricing mean?

Accepted Answer

You pay for completed placements, not a retainer that bills whether or not a story lands. A single campaign starts at $5,000. If a placement misses its window, the make-good is yours to choose: we keep pitching at no extra cost, you take a credit, or billing pauses until the work completes. On day one, we benchmark your AI visibility in GEOview across a set of tracked prompts agreed at kickoff. If that visibility hasn’t improved by at least 25% by day 90, you get a full money-back guarantee.

Question 9

What is GEOview AI Visibility Technology?

Accepted Answer

GEOview AI Visibility Technology is the audit and tracking layer. It shows how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI already describe your category: which prompts name you, how often you appear in the shortlist, and who else sits in those answers. It is technology, not an engine. The baseline comes first. Placements exist to move it.

Question 10

What is prompt-level visibility?

Accepted Answer

It is whether a specific buyer question names you. Share of answer is how often you appear across the prompts that matter, next to the other names in that shortlist. Competitor position is who else the model already trusts in your category. GEOview reads those three views. We do not invent a citation percent to go with them.

Question 11

What is a Narrative Map?

Accepted Answer

The map is the claims you should own, tied to the questions buyers already ask AI. Each placement gets a job. We do not spray announcements and hope a model notices.

Question 12

How is this different from a traditional PR agency?

Accepted Answer

A retainer PR shop bills for time and activity. Coverage is a hope. We price completed placements, run a six-channel ecosystem instead of a press-release calendar, and measure whether answers start to include you. Press is one channel. The job is to become a name AI can recommend.

Question 13

Do you only do GEO?

Accepted Answer

No. Generative engine optimization is one layer, not the firm. Storyline Pros is a narrative engineering and AI visibility company. We build the third-party coverage, community proof, and on-site assets models cite. A GEO-only shop that only edits your pages leaves you invisible when buyers ask ChatGPT before they ever visit.

Question 14

Who do you work with?

Accepted Answer

High-growth tech companies with a real product and a story that is still missing from the sources models cite. Founders approaching a milestone, and companies that want to lead the category. If the technology can survive scrutiny, that is the brief.

Question 15

Are you a PR agency?

Accepted Answer

People hire us when they search for a tech PR agency, an AI SEO agency, or a GEO agency. The firm is narrative engineering and AI visibility. Earned media is one channel inside a six-channel ecosystem. We are not a generic PR shop on a retainer.

Question 16

Do you work with emerging-tech founders?

Accepted Answer

Yes, when the product can survive scrutiny. AI, biotech, fintech, cleantech, and adjacent B2B are the usual fit. A focused pilot is available when the milestone is near and we can actually move the public record.

Question 17

Can you guarantee ChatGPT will name us?

Accepted Answer

No honest firm can promise a model will print a specific name. We can build the third-party footprint models already know how to read, track what the answers say with GEOview, and keep adding completed placements. The shortlist either includes you or it does not. We measure that. We do not invent a win rate. On day one, we benchmark your AI visibility in GEOview across a set of tracked prompts agreed at kickoff. If that visibility hasn’t improved by at least 25% by day 90, you get a full money-back guarantee.

Question 18

Will you publish our logo or a named case study?

Accepted Answer

Named pages go up when you approve the name. Official logos stay off until they are cleared. You will not find a logo wall or invented metrics on this site.

Question 19

How do I reach you for press or a partnership?

Accepted Answer

For press and interview requests, email cynthia@storylinepros.com or start on the media page. Partnership intros that are not interview requests can use the contact page. Founders who want to hire us should book a strategy session.

Question 20

How do you verify that a placement actually ran?

Accepted Answer

A placement counts when it is live at the agreed outlet or channel, with a stable URL or equivalent public record we can both open. We share the link, the date it went live, and how it maps to the Narrative Map claim it was meant to support. Syndication copies and secondary pickups are noted separately from the primary placement so billing stays honest.

Question 21

What does the make-good cover if a story misses its window?

Accepted Answer

If a placement we scoped does not land in the agreed window, you choose the make-good: we keep pitching that story at no extra cost, you take a credit toward other completed work, or billing for that item pauses until the placement completes. You pay for completed placements. Missed windows do not turn into retainer hours. On day one, we benchmark your AI visibility in GEOview across a set of tracked prompts agreed at kickoff. If that visibility hasn’t improved by at least 25% by day 90, you get a full money-back guarantee.

Question 22

How long before we see AI answers move?

Accepted Answer

There is no honest fixed calendar. Models refresh from the public record at different speeds. We set a GEOview baseline first, ship placements that target specific prompts, then re-check those prompts. Some categories shift in weeks after strong third-party coverage; others need a denser footprint. We measure what the answers print. We do not publish a fixed calendar for when a model will change an answer. On day one, we benchmark your AI visibility in GEOview across a set of tracked prompts agreed at kickoff. If that visibility hasn’t improved by at least 25% by day 90, you get a full money-back guarantee.

Question 23

Which industries do you work in?

Accepted Answer

High-growth tech with a product that can survive scrutiny: AI, biotech, fintech, cleantech, and adjacent B2B are the usual fit. Clinical-stage science and other deep-tech categories appear when the story is real and the milestone is clear. If the company is still a vapor idea, we will say so on the strategy session.

Question 24

Do you optimize for ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, or both?

Accepted Answer

Both matter, and they do not always cite the same sources. GEOview AI Visibility Technology tracks how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI already describe your category. The six-channel work builds the third-party record those systems read. We do not pretend one on-page tweak covers every surface.

Question 25

What role do Reddit and other communities play?

Accepted Answer

Community is one of the six channels. Buyers and models already treat certain threads as proof or correction of the record. We put the story where people argue and recommend, with the same Narrative Map claims as earned media, not as spam. Community work exists to move prompts, not to farm karma.

Question 26

How is on-page GEO different from the PR and media work?

Accepted Answer

On-page GEO (schema, FAQs, entity clarity, llms.txt) helps a model read your own site. It does not mint the third-party proof models prefer when they shortlist a category. Narrative engineering builds that public record through earned media, syndication, podcasts, community, and listicles. GEOview measures both. On-site alone is rarely enough.

Question 27

What does a Narrative Map include?

Accepted Answer

The claims you should own, tied to the buyer questions people already ask AI. Priority prompts, the proof each claim needs, which channels can carry that proof, and what we will not say. Each placement gets a job against that map. We do not spray announcements and hope a model notices.

Question 28

What is the minimum company stage you take?

Accepted Answer

A real product, a clear category, and a milestone that justifies a public footprint (launch, raise, category push, or similar). Pre-product ideas and pure idea-stage pitches are usually a no. A focused pilot is available when the milestone is near and we can actually move the record. Soft commercial detail stays on the strategy session.

Question 29

Do you work exclusively in a category?

Accepted Answer

We take a limited number of companies each quarter and avoid obvious head-to-head conflicts when two clients would compete for the same buyer prompts. Exact exclusivity terms are scoped per engagement. If a conflict exists, we say so before work starts.

Question 30

Do you work with international companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes when the story can land in English-language sources models and buyers already read, or when a clear regional plan still builds a citeable public record. Newsroom relationships and syndication paths vary by market. Fit is decided on the strategy session, not by a country checkbox.

Question 31

Are podcasts part of the package?

Accepted Answer

Yes when they serve the Narrative Map. Founder appearances whose transcripts become quotable answers are one of the six channels. We do not book podcasts for vanity alone. The episode should help a model and a buyer understand the claim you need to own.

Question 32

Do you create listicles and category reports?

Accepted Answer

Listicles and reports are a channel when they own shortlist queries buyers ask. We build comparison assets and category write-ups that are structured and citeable. They sit beside earned media and syndication, not instead of them.

Question 33

How does syndication fit the performance model?

Accepted Answer

Primary placements and syndication are scoped clearly. You pay for completed work we agree to deliver. Syndication extends the same storyline across outlets AI already reads. We do not bill the same story twice as if it were two unrelated wins without saying so up front.

Question 34

How does GEOview measure progress?

Accepted Answer

GEOview AI Visibility Technology is the audit and tracking layer: prompt-level visibility (does this buyer question name you), share of answer (how often you appear across the prompts that matter), and competitor positions (who else sits in those shortlists). We set a baseline, ship work, then re-read the same prompts. No invented win rate.

Question 35

Can you work alongside our in-house PR or marketing team?

Accepted Answer

Often yes. We bring the Narrative Map, the six-channel motion, and GEOview measurement. In-house teams keep brand, product, and internal approvals. We stay clear on who pitches what so journalists are not double-touched. If the internal team already owns the full footprint and only wants a GEO plugin, we are probably the wrong hire.

Question 36

Are you related to Articulate Storyline?

Accepted Answer

No. Storyline Pros is a narrative engineering and AI visibility firm for high-growth tech companies. We help brands earn media coverage and show up when buyers ask AI who leads a category. Articulate Storyline is e-learning authoring software from Articulate. Different company, different product, different job. If you need course-building software, you want Articulate. If you need media and AI visibility for a tech company, you want Storyline Pros.

Question 37

Are you TrainingPros or storyline.agency?

Accepted Answer

No. We are not TrainingPros, and we are not storyline.agency. Storyline Pros (storylinepros.com) is the narrative engineering and AI visibility firm founded by Nik Vassev and Cynthia Salarizadeh. Those other brands are unrelated. For press or interview requests about our clients, email cynthia@storylinepros.com.

Question 38

I searched for Storyline and landed here. Is this e-learning software?

Accepted Answer

No. Storyline Pros does not sell e-learning software. We build the public record for tech companies: narrative engineering, tier-one media placements, and generative engine optimization so buyers and models can recommend you. If you arrived looking for Articulate Storyline or another Storyline product, you are in the wrong place. If you want coverage and AI visibility for a high-growth tech company, book a strategy session.

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