Insights

Insights.

Notes on leadership communications, executive voice, and where audiences actually pay attention.

28 July 2026

The EU AI Act’s label for AI-written comms.

Article 50 applies from 2 August. The exemption for human-reviewed text is narrower than most teams hope.

28 July 2026

Nobody owns AI visibility yet.

73% of PR professionals call visibility in AI answers important. 29% say nobody in their organisation owns it.

28 July 2026

AI answers quote people, not pages.

75% of the LinkedIn content AI assistants cite comes from individual profiles. Being quotable is the job now.

28 July 2026

Going quiet is not going silent.

Support for corporate stance-taking has fallen from 89% to 55% in three years. Presence is a different question.

28 July 2026

Where the reach actually lives.

Personal profiles run at 4.7% engagement; company pages at 1 to 2%. The gap is decided by whose name is on the post.

28 July 2026

Manage the floor, not the ceiling.

The hardest piece of executive content to get right is never the first one.

28 July 2026

One clear voice beats volume.

AI made making more content easy. It did nothing for whether your leader sounds like the same person everywhere.

28 July 2026

Follower count barely matters to AI answers.

Half the people AI assistants quote have under 10,000 followers. Expertise, not reach, decides who gets cited.

1 July 2026

LinkedIn company pages are declining.

Company-page reach has fallen around 64% since 2024. The reach has moved to people, and that changes where communications work sits.

26 June 2026

Most comms teams measure the wrong thing.

69% of corporate affairs functions still report on reputation, not results. Boards fund what they can read in business terms.