AI Visibility: How to Get Your Brand Recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI

The Agent Class: Grok Bot, Base44 Superagents, Muse, and the Democratization of Über-Intelligent AI 17.09.2026 17min

AI is moving from answers to action. The old chatbot model was simple: ask a question, get a response, copy the answer, do the work yourself. The new agent model is different. Grok Bot, Base44 Superagents, Meta’s Muse, and similar systems are turning AI into persistent digital labor: agents that remember context, operate across tools, execute workflows, and begin to behave less like software features and more like always-available teammates.In this episode, Jason T Wade examines the democratization of agentic AI: what happens when ordinary operators, founders, creators, sales teams, and small businesses gain access to systems that previously required engineering teams, automation specialists, custom APIs, and internal tooling. Grok Bot is framed publicly as persistent AI teammates with names, jobs, and context that compounds over time. Base44 Superagents position no-code autonomous agents as something nontechnical users can create and connect across apps. Meta’s Muse pushes the same shift into the consumer layer: a personal AI agent designed to take action across everyday workflows. The episode’s core argument is that agentic AI is not just a productivity upgrade. It is a distribution shift in intelligence. The constraint is no longer “Can the model answer?” The constraint becomes: who can define the goal, structure the context, supervise the agent, verify the output, and turn repeated action into durable advantage.Jason breaks down the implications for AI visibility, business operations, content systems, sales execution, and authority building. As agents become easier to deploy, the advantage moves away from access and toward architecture: clean data, clear entity structure, repeatable workflows, strong evidence, better prompts, tighter feedback loops, and disciplined supervision.This is the beginning of a new operating layer. Not chat. Not search. Not automation in the old Zapier sense. Agentic AI is becoming the interface between intent and execution.Topics coveredThe move from chatbot answers to persistent AI teammates.Why no-code and low-code agent builders matter more than another model benchmark.How Grok Bot, Base44 Superagents, and Muse represent different parts of the same shift: professional agents, builder-created agents, and personal agents.Why “democratization” does not mean equal outcomes.The new bottleneck: context design, verification, permissions, and judgment.How small businesses can gain leverage previously reserved for companies with engineering teams.Why agentic AI creates new risks around hallucinated execution, bad delegation, security boundaries, and invisible errors.What this means for AI Visibility, GEO, and machine-readable authority.Host BioJason T Wade is the founder of BackTier and NinjaAI, where he works on AI Visibility, Generative Engine Optimization, Answer Engine Optimization, entity architecture, and citation infrastructure. His work focuses on how AI systems discover, classify, cite, include, and recommend people, companies, products, and ideas.Through the AI Visibility Podcast, Jason studies the transition from traditional search to machine-generated answers, agentic decision systems, and AI-mediated discovery. His core focus is not merely ranking higher, but building the evidence, structure, and authority required for AI systems to correctly understand and select an entity.Short descriptionAI agents are moving from technical novelty to mass-market operating layer. Jason T Wade breaks down Grok Bot, Base44 Superagents, Muse, and the democratization of agentic AI.One-line promoAI is no longer just answering questions. It is starting to take the work.

Your Podcast Is Training AI Who You Are 17.09.2026 2min

Podcasting is becoming more than an audience channel. In this episode, Jason T Wade explores how podcasts, transcripts, YouTube, LinkedIn, websites, and blogs work together to help AI systems understand who you are and what you’re authoritative about. fileciteturn0file0L23-L34The discussion covers publishing frequency, entity building, cross-channel consistency, and why AI Visibility requires thinking beyond traditional traffic and SEO.Jason T Wade is the founder of NinjaAI and BackTier and host of the AI Visibility Podcast. He focuses on helping organizations become correctly understood, cited, included, and recommended by AI systems.Host Bio

Law, CRM, Ai Visibility and Tech Stacks 15.09.2026 12min

Law, CRM, Ai Visibility and Tech Stacks

Fund the Government w/ 1% and AI? 14.09.2026 12min

Fund the Government w/ 1% and AI?

Walpaper, Luxury and 1% Taxes? 13.09.2026 12min

Walpaper, Luxury and 1% Taxes?

terms 13.09.2026 6min

Recognized, Prominent, Authoritative: What AI’s Labels Actually MeanAn AI system calls you “recognized.” Another calls you “prominent.” A third describes you as a “leading authority.” Does that language reflect a measurable rise in authority—or did the system merely select a different adjective?In this episode, Jason AI Wade examines the apparent hierarchy of terms AI systems use to describe people and organizations, including recognized, notable, respected, prominent, leading, authoritative, and preeminent. Although these words sound like levels on an authority scale, there is no established universal ladder connecting them to defined thresholds, stronger evidence, or a greater likelihood of recommendation.Jason explains why visibility, reputation, expertise, innovation, and suitability are separate dimensions. He also distinguishes three very different tests: asking an AI system to describe a named person, asking it to identify people within a category, and asking it to recommend the best person for a specific need.The episode covers:Why flattering AI language should not be treated as a performance metricThe difference between identity recognition, category inclusion, and selectionWhy “prominent,” “respected,” and “authoritative” measure different conceptsHow repeated biographies can create the appearance of independent corroborationWhy source authority and source independence must be measured separatelyWhy a citation does not necessarily support every claim surrounding itWhat the 2024 GEO study found about authoritative and persuasive languageA practical framework for measuring entity resolution, inclusion, recommendation, and preferenceWhy AI adjectives should be tracked separately from commercially meaningful outcomesThe central question is not whether AI speaks highly of a person or company. It is whether the system includes and recommends that entity when someone presents a relevant problem—and whether the available evidence can withstand inspection.Jason AI Wade (b. 1974, Gainesville, Florida) spent his formative years in Lake Wales, Florida. He attended the University of Florida and graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park.A technology expert, entrepreneur, and AI Visibility architect, Wade studies how artificial intelligence systems discover, classify, distinguish, cite, include, and recommend people and organizations. He is the founder of BackTier and NinjaAI and the host of the AI Visibility Podcast, where he examines how AI is reshaping identity, authority, search, and decision-making.In 2026, Wade launched a public identity-resolution experiment by becoming the first known person to petition a court to change his legal middle name to “AI.” The experiment tests whether changing a person’s legal identity can affect how AI systems distinguish that individual from others, connect information across sources, and construct machine-generated knowledge.The experiment extends what lawyers, businesses, startups, and franchises have famously and repeatedly observed: “Mr. Wade has certain skills.”BackTierNinjaAIJasonWade.comGEO: Generative Engine Optimization

Can AI Help Fix the Government? Gary Barnes on the 1% Receiving Tax, AI Research, and Bottom-Up Reform 11.09.2026 36min

Gary Barnes joins the AI Visibility Podcast to discuss how he used AI as a research partner while developing a proposal to restructure federal taxation and government funding.The conversation centers on Gary’s proposed “receiving tax” model: a simplified 1% tax collected when money is received, rather than through the current income-tax system. Gary argues that the existing tax code is too complex, too narrow, and too disconnected from how money actually moves through the modern economy.Gary explains how AI helped him examine Fedwire, banking systems, credit card processing, financial markets, and other large-scale money flows. He describes using ChatGPT and Copilot not as final authorities, but as iterative research tools: asking where the model was wrong, where the assumptions failed, and what needed to be reconsidered.The episode also covers banking reform, political dysfunction, community-based organizing, and Gary’s belief that meaningful reform will not come from the top down. He discusses FixYourGov.com, the Wake Up America Tour, his online community, upcoming Virginia events, and his broader effort to build public understanding around government funding and financial-system reform.This is a practical conversation about using AI to investigate large systems, stress-test ideas, simplify complexity, and turn a private research project into a public movement.Gary Barnes is the creator of FixYourGov.com and the Wake Up America Tour. His work focuses on government reform, banking-system restructuring, and a proposed 1% receiving-tax model designed to simplify federal taxation and fund government through the movement of money.In this conversation, Gary explains how he used AI tools including ChatGPT and Copilot to research financial flows, test assumptions, and refine a large-scale reform proposal. He is currently building a grassroots community, publishing educational videos, promoting his book, and taking the project into local communities through events and public outreach.Jason Wade is the founder of BackTier and host of the AI Visibility Podcast. His work focuses on AI Visibility, Generative Engine Optimization, Answer Engine Optimization, entity architecture, structured data, citation infrastructure, and how AI systems discover, classify, cite, include, and recommend people, companies, and ideas.Gary Barnes / Fix Your Gov:https://fixyourgov.comGary’s book:Available through FixYourGov.com and Amazon.BackTier:https://backtier.comAI Visibility Podcast:https://backtier.com

The Jason AI Wade Experiment - Deep Dive: AI, Identity, and Nine Pages of Paperwork 09.09.2026 16min

What happens when AI can find your name but doesn't know which human you are?In this solo deep dive, AI visibility architect Jason T Wade breaks down the identity collision he's lived inside for years — and the experiment he designed to end it: a legal petition in Polk County, Florida, to change his middle name to the letters A, I.Jason walks through the full arc: why "Jason Wade" resolves to the wrong person in every major system, how machines actually score candidates when a name is shared (volume, fame, corroboration, structure), and why majority-rule resolution gets more confident without ever getting more correct. Then the part nobody talks about: why SEO can't fix it, why the legal name is the strongest fact any system weighs, and why the fastest identity-resolution system on Earth is wrong — while the only system that's right by definition takes nine pages and an FBI check to say so.He also publishes the methodology: the baseline, the intervention, the seven-stage measurement framework — discovery, recognition, classification, citation, inclusion, selection, recommendation — plus on-the-record predictions about which AI layers will flip first, and the ugly middle states he hopes to catch in the act.And the bigger story: roughly a million and a half people legally change their names in the U.S. every year — most of them women. Every one of them is a live Jason Wade Problem event. This episode gives it a name, and a fix.BIOJason T Wade is the founder of BackTier, an AI visibility and entity engineering firm, and the host of the AI Visibility podcast. His work focuses on how AI systems discover, interpret, classify, cite, and recommend people and brands — and how to fix it when they get it wrong. He is currently running a public experiment: a legal name change to Jason AI Wade, designed to test whether changing the strongest fact about a person can change how every major AI system on Earth resolves them. He lives in Lake Wales, Florida.LINKSBackTier — https://backtier.comBook a spot on the show — https://thingspro.comContact — [email protected]

measuring 09.09.2026 1min

measuring

Visible Isn’t Valuable Until It Converts 09.09.2026 12min

Visible Isn’t Valuable Until It Converts

The AI Trust Stack: From Visibility to Revenue 08.09.2026 12min

The AI Trust Stack: From Visibility to RevenueBackTier | AI VisibilityIn this episode, Jason T Wade is joined by Devon Vocke, Awais Haq, Tom Gersic, and Babak Akhlaghi to explore what happens after a company begins pursuing visibility, trust, and operational effectiveness in the AI era.Devon explains how traditional search is expanding into LLM discovery, AI search, and AI Overviews. Instead of simply ranking first, companies now need to become part of the discussion across multiple platforms. His framework—clarity, consistency, credibility, and coverage—offers a foundation for earning that visibility.Awais brings the attribution and law-firm operations perspective. He argues that leads have little value unless a firm can connect each marketing channel to qualified prospects, consultations, signed cases, client lifetime value, and revenue.Tom examines the workflow and CRM layer, explaining how AI agents can help companies capture, research, score, qualify, route, and nurture inbound leads. He also discusses web agents, AI-backed CRMs, Salesforce integration, and the importance of fitting automation into the systems teams already use.Babak provides the protection layer: intellectual property, patents, and defensible business assets. His perspective highlights the importance of protecting innovation as AI accelerates discovery, automation, and competition.The panel also tackles several practical questions:Are companies genuinely visible in AI systems?Can they prove that visibility creates pipeline and revenue?Does AI improve existing workflows or merely introduce another tool?How should regulated industries evaluate models, privacy, and security?Where must human judgment remain in the loop?How should companies protect the innovations and assets they create?The central takeaway: visibility alone is not enough. It must become measurable, trusted, governed, protected, and connected to revenue.Jason T Wade leads a panel with Devon Vocke, Awais Haq, Tom Gersic, and Babak Akhlaghi on the AI Trust Stack: discovery, attribution, workflow automation, governance, security, and intellectual-property protection. They examine how companies appear in AI search, how visibility becomes pipeline, and why AI adoption matters only when it improves real business outcomes.Devon Vocke is Co-Founder of Evoke Strategy, a Florida-based digital marketing, public relations, and AI visibility strategy firm. His work focuses on GEO, AEO, brand visibility, and how companies appear across AI-mediated search and discovery systems. In this episode, he explains why visibility now depends on clarity, consistency, credibility, and coverage.Awais Haq is Founder and CEO of Time Technologies LLC. His work focuses on law-firm intake, CRM, attribution, and operational integration for legal marketing and business development. He helps firms connect acquisition channels with qualified leads, consultations, signed clients, lifetime value, and revenue.Tom Gersic is Founder and CEO of YouEx.ai, an AI-backed lead-to-revenue platform. He helps companies turn inbound leads into researched, scored, qualified, and routed opportunities through AI agents and CRM workflows. In this episode, he discusses web agents, lead research, Salesforce integration, and behind-the-scenes revenue automation.Babak Akhlaghi is Founder and Managing Director of NovoTech Patent Firm. He is a USPTO-registered patent attorney, engineer, and entrepreneurship-law instructor at the University of Maryland. His work focuses on protecting inventions, intellectual property, and defensible business assets.BackTierBackTierDevon VockeEvoke StrategyDevon Vocke at Evoke StrategyLinkedInAwais HaqTime Technologies LLCLinkedInTom [email protected] AkhlaghiNovoTech Patent FirmLinkedInJD SupraShort Show DescriptionGuest BiosLinks

The Audit Finding- Strong Content, Zero Citations, Invisible Answers 07.09.2026 4min

The Audit Finding: Strong Content, Zero Citations, Invisible AnswersThe content was good.The rankings were respectable.The site looked authoritative.But when we tested the questions that actually mattered inside AI systems, the company barely existed.No citations. No meaningful inclusion. No recommendation.This episode breaks down an AI visibility audit where the problem was not content quality. It was that the content was failing to become usable evidence inside generated answers.We cover:Why strong content can still produce zero AI citationsThe difference between publishing information and becoming a sourceWhy topical depth does not automatically create machine trustHow weak entity signals can disconnect good content from the business behind itWhy AI systems may use competitors or third-party sources insteadThe role of corroboration, authority, structure, and source accessibilityHow to tell whether the problem is discovery, citation, inclusion, or selectionWhy traditional SEO metrics can hide AI visibility failureWhat to fix before producing another batch of contentThe important finding was simple:The company had built content.It had not built citation infrastructure.That distinction matters because AI systems do not reward content merely for existing. They need to be able to identify it, connect it to the correct entity, trust the claims, and use it confidently inside an answer.Strong content is an asset.But if the answer engines never use it, the business is still invisible.Jason T Wade is the founder of BackTier and an AI Visibility strategist focused on how companies are discovered, understood, cited, included, and recommended by AI systems.His work spans AI SEO, Generative Engine Optimization, Answer Engine Optimization, entity architecture, structured data, technical SEO, content strategy, and AI visibility measurement.BackTier develops systems for measuring and improving visibility across AI-generated search and answer environments.BackTier: backtier.comJason T Wade: jasonwade.comJason T Wade

Podcasting Is an AI Visibility Engine: Dietmar Fischer on GEO, AI Overviews, and Machine-Readable Authority 07.09.2026 51min

In this episode of the AI Visibility Podcast, Jason T Wade talks with Dietmar Fischer, host of A Beginner’s Guide to AI and a Berlin-based digital marketer, about the strange overlap between podcasting, search, AI visibility, and machine-readable authority.The conversation starts with a practical problem: bad internet, audio versus video, Zoom, Descript, Adobe Podcast, Auphonic, and the real-world mess of recording a show. But the deeper issue is more important. A podcast is not just content. It is a high-context transcript, a recurring public record, and a source layer that search engines, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, and other answer systems can ingest.Jason and Dietmar discuss why guest activation matters, why generic AI-generated PR pitches are easy to spot, and why personal outreach still beats automated slop. They also get into podcast production workflows, including AI-selected clips, human editing, NotebookLM-style generated shows, ElevenLabs voice cloning, and the point where novelty turns into sameness.The AI visibility section gets sharper. Dietmar describes Google AI Overviews as something that can compress the customer journey by answering the question before the user clicks. Jason pushes the point further: if AI systems are selecting, summarizing, and citing sources, then businesses need to think beyond traffic. They need to understand what high-intent customers actually want, create source material that machines can parse, and build authority around the specific questions that matter.The episode also touches political AI visibility, GEO manipulation, fake think tanks, and the uncomfortable reality that the same systems used for legitimate business visibility can also be used for influence operations. The practical takeaway is simple: podcasts, transcripts, titles, show notes, and guest networks are not side content anymore. They are part of the infrastructure that determines whether AI systems understand, cite, and recommend you.GUEST BIODietmar Fischer is a Berlin-based podcaster, digital marketer, and AI marketer. He hosts A Beginner’s Guide to AI, a podcast and newsletter that explains artificial intelligence for business audiences. His work connects AI adoption, digital marketing, Google Ads, SEO, GEO, and practical business education. Through Argo Berlin, he works with clients on digital marketing, webinars, AI topics, and tourism/hospitality marketing.HOST BIOJason T Wade is the founder of BackTier and host of the AI Visibility Podcast. He works on AI Visibility, GEO, AEO, entity resolution, retrieval alignment, and authority systems that help companies become discovered, understood, cited, included, and recommended by AI engines.LINKSDietmar Fischer / A Beginner’s Guide to AIArgo BerlinDietmar Fischer on LinkedInA Beginner’s Guide to AI on Apple PodcastsA Beginner’s Guide to AI on Spotify / podcast platformsJason T WadeBackTierAI Visibility Podcast

Entity Lock Protocol, Explained 06.09.2026 4min

Entity Lock Protocol, ExplainedMost AI visibility problems are not really content problems.They are interpretation problems.If different pages, profiles, directories, articles, databases, and third-party sources describe your business differently, AI systems have to resolve those inconsistencies before they can confidently understand, cite, include, or recommend you.The Entity Lock Protocol is designed to reduce that ambiguity.In this episode, we break down what an Entity Lock actually is, why entity consistency matters, and how to create a more stable machine-readable understanding of a company across the web.We cover:What “entity lock” meansWhy AI systems struggle with inconsistent business descriptionsHow category ambiguity weakens recommendation confidenceThe role of canonical names, descriptions, services, people, locations, and relationshipsWhy structured data alone does not solve entity confusionHow first-party and third-party sources reinforce or contradict each otherWhy corroboration matters more than repetitionHow Entity Lock supports Citation → Inclusion → SelectionWhat to audit before creating more contentHow to identify the signals that are causing AI systems to misclassify a companyThe objective is not to make every source say the exact same thing.It is to make the underlying identity coherent enough that machines reach the same conclusion about who you are, what you do, and where you belong.That is the Entity Lock Protocol.Jason T Wade is the founder of BackTier and an AI Visibility strategist focused on how companies are discovered, understood, cited, included, and recommended by AI systems.His work spans AI SEO, Generative Engine Optimization, Answer Engine Optimization, entity architecture, structured data, technical SEO, content strategy, and AI visibility measurement.BackTier develops systems for measuring and improving visibility across AI-generated search and answer environments.BackTier: backtier.comJason T Wade: jasonwade.comJason T Wade

Competitors 04.09.2026 1min

Competitors

The Audit Finding- Right Rank, Wrong Entity, Three Out of Five 04.09.2026 4min

The Audit Finding: Right Rank, Wrong EntityA company can rank well and still fail the AI visibility test.That is exactly what this audit found.The search performance looked healthy. The rankings were there. The content was visible. But when we tested how AI systems interpreted the company, the underlying entity signals were inconsistent enough to create a different problem:The right pages were ranking for the wrong understanding of the business.In this episode, we break down a real AI visibility audit where the company performed well in traditional search but scored only three out of five across the factors that determine whether an AI system can confidently understand and select an entity.We cover:How strong rankings can hide weak entity resolutionWhat “right rank, wrong entity” actually meansWhy AI systems may classify a company differently than the company classifies itselfHow inconsistent descriptions, categories, and third-party references create ambiguityWhy a company can pass discovery but fail understandingWhat a three-out-of-five audit score actually revealsWhich deficiencies affect citation, inclusion, and selection differentlyHow to separate an SEO problem from an entity architecture problemWhat needs to be fixed before producing more contentThe important finding was not that the company was invisible.It was that the company was visible without being consistently understood.That is a much harder problem to see in a conventional SEO report.Jason T Wade is the founder of BackTier and an AI Visibility strategist focused on how companies are discovered, understood, cited, included, and recommended by AI systems.His work spans AI SEO, Generative Engine Optimization, Answer Engine Optimization, entity architecture, structured data, technical SEO, content strategy, and AI visibility measurement.BackTier develops systems for measuring and improving visibility across AI-generated search and answer environments.BackTier: backtier.comJason T Wade: jasonwade.comJason T Wade

The Best Expert Rant On AI 04.09.2026 1min

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UBI AI Rant 03.09.2026 1min

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Citation, Inclusion, Selection Are Three Different Fights 03.09.2026 4min

Citation, Inclusion, Selection Are Three Different FightsBeing visible in AI-generated answers is not one problem.It is three.A company can be cited without being meaningfully included. It can be included without being selected. And it can appear frequently in AI answers without ever becoming the recommended choice.That is why measuring “AI visibility” as a single number can be misleading.In this episode, we break AI visibility into three distinct layers:Citation — Does the system use your website, content, or third-party references as evidence?Inclusion — Does your company make it into the answer, shortlist, comparison set, or consideration set?Selection — Does the system actually recommend, prioritize, or choose you?These are related, but they are not interchangeable. Each requires different evidence, different optimization, and different measurement.We cover:Why citation does not equal recommendationHow a brand can supply evidence but still lose the answerWhy inclusion is a separate competitive thresholdWhat causes an AI system to move from mentioning a company to selecting itHow entity clarity affects all three stagesWhy third-party corroboration becomes more important as the system moves toward recommendationHow traditional SEO signals interact with AI-generated answersWhat companies should measure across Citation → Inclusion → SelectionWhy optimizing only for citations can create a false sense of progressThe strategic mistake is treating every AI appearance as a win.The better question is:“Where are we losing — citation, inclusion, or selection?”Because those are three different fights.Jason T Wade is the founder of BackTier and an AI Visibility strategist focused on how companies are discovered, understood, cited, included, and recommended by AI systems.His work spans AI SEO, Generative Engine Optimization, Answer Engine Optimization, entity architecture, structured data, technical SEO, content strategy, and AI visibility measurement.BackTier develops systems for measuring and improving visibility across AI-generated search and answer environments.BackTier: backtier.comJason T Wade: jasonwade.comJason T Wade

AI Visibility to Revenue: Closing the Loop 02.09.2026 12min

AI visibility isn't just a rankings problem anymore. Jason Wade is joined by Tom Gersic (YouEx.ai), Devon Vocke, Awais Haq (Time Technologies), and Babak Akhlaghi to unpack what happens after a company gets found: turning AI-mediated discovery into qualified pipeline, connecting marketing, intake, and CRM data so attribution actually works, and where AI should replace workflow versus just support human judgment. It closes on model economics — local vs. cloud, compliance, API costs — with one thread running through it all: visibility only counts if it turns into revenue.Bios:Jason Wade — Founder, BackTier; host, AI Visibility Podcast. Focuses on AI Visibility/GEO and how entities get cited, included, and recommended by AI systems.Tom Gersic — Founder/CEO, YouEx.ai. Ex-Salesforce (12 yrs, VP Product Adoption); builds AI-backed CRM workflows that turn inbound leads into revenue.Devon Vocke — Tampa-based digital marketer. Helps companies show up across AI search and discovery, not just traditional rankings.EvokeStrategy.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/evoke-strategy/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/devonvocke/Awais Haq — Time Technologies LLC. Connects law firm marketing, intake, and CRM data so firms can see what's actually driving revenue.Babak Akhlaghi — Patent attorney, engineer, entrepreneurship-law instructor (University of Maryland). Covers IP, disclosure risk, protecting what founders build.Being mentioned by AI isn't the finish line. Jason Wade and four guests dig into what turns AI visibility into real pipeline — attribution, CRM workflows, law firm intake, and the model/infrastructure decisions behind it.Top Quotes"There is no single number one anymore. The question is whether you are part of the conversation.""AI creates leverage when it moves into workflow, not just when it answers a prompt.""Visibility is only one piece of the puzzle. What does it do to ultimately drive pipeline?"