Empowering organizations to shape their AI story
At Citate we help brands, organizations, and leaders understand and influence how generative AI platforms talk about them. Using patented scientific methodology and deep analytics across major LLMs like ChatGPT and Gemini, we turn AI visibility, sentiment, and bias insights into actions, so you can protect your reputation, expand your reach, and lead confidently in the age of AI-powered answers.
Our team
Management team and advisors
AI luminaries from Harvard and Stanford alongside operators who have scaled real businesses. The science is theirs; the results are yours.

Ed Sussman
Chief Executive Officer
FastCompany.com
Duke Law
Former president of FastCompany.com and Inc.com, where he drove revenue from $1 million to $11 million in three years. CEO of Buzzr.com and WhiteHatWiki.com. Duke Law.

Gil Alterovitz
Chief Research Officer
Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of AI at Harvard Medical School. Expert in complex AI statistical models and author of 80 peer-reviewed AI journal articles.

Walter de Brouwer
Chief Scientific Advisor
Stanford
Sharecare
Soundpatrol
AI faculty at Stanford and CEO of Soundpatrol. Former Chief Scientist of Sharecare, co-founder of Snowcrash, and former CEO of Doc.ai and Scanadu.

Michael Carlon
Chief AI Engineer
AI2 Incubator
Microsoft
Former Senior Applied AI Engineer at the AI2 Incubator (Allen Institute for AI). Former Microsoft developer.

Sikander Khan
Chief Strategy Officer and Patent Counsel
Flagship Patents
Salesforce
An engineer and the founder of Flagship Patents, Sikander’s practice focuses exclusively on AI patents. He has embedded with AI teams at Salesforce and Illumina.

Adam Hanft
Marketing Advisor
NYSE: SMG
NASDAQ: FLWS
Internationally known marketing and branding expert. Serves on the boards of Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE: SMG) and 1-800-Flowers (NASDAQ: FLWS).

Derek Fogge
Director of Product
Technical SEO
Content engineering
Twenty years of technical SEO and content engineering.

Mike Tongwarin
Professional Services Advisor
The Motley Fool
Emerson
Lead SEO at The Motley Fool and Emerson.

Bernard Schoeman
GEO Engineer
GEO engineer on Citate professional services engagements.
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