https://www.jasonwade.com/ Jason Todd Wade is the founder of BackTier and writes about AI visibility, entity resolution, generative search, and agentic commerce. en-US © 2026 Jason Todd Wade email@jasonwade.com (Jason Todd Wade) email@jasonwade.com (Jason Todd Wade) Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-08 https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-08 Classical search infrastructure did not vanish; it moved beneath the answer layer. (Search and Media · 7 min · Published) Jason Todd Wade Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI Dive Search and Media https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-07 https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-07 Separating measurable retrieval work from the packaging sold as generative optimization. (Search and Media · 9 min · Published) Jason Todd Wade Tue, 19 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI Dive Search and Media https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-06 https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-06 Visibility differs by model and retrieval stack; single-assistant measurement misleads. (AI Visibility · 8 min · Revised) Jason Todd Wade Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI Dive AI Visibility https://www.jasonwade.com/the-end-of-checkout https://www.jasonwade.com/the-end-of-checkout How agents, machine-readable commerce, and new payment rails could transform buying by 2030. Jason Todd Wade Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Research Book https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-05 https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-05 Persistent agent memory changes which entities get reconsidered — and which quietly disappear. (Identity and Memory · 10 min · Published) Jason Todd Wade Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI Dive Identity and Memory https://www.jasonwade.com/backtier-os https://www.jasonwade.com/backtier-os The operating system view of AI visibility work: instrumentation, evidence, and repeatable inclusion. Jason Todd Wade Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT Research Framework https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-04 https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-04 What happens to evidence quality when a single community corpus dominates training and retrieval. (Search and Media · 7 min · Published) Jason Todd Wade Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI Dive Search and Media https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-03 https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-03 The interfaces agents need — offers, permissions, identity — barely exist yet. (Agents and Infrastructure · 11 min · Published) Jason Todd Wade Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI Dive Agents and Infrastructure https://www.jasonwade.com/backtier-visibility-path https://www.jasonwade.com/backtier-visibility-path From citation to inclusion to selection to transaction — the sequence an entity moves through inside generative systems. Jason Todd Wade Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Research Essay https://www.jasonwade.com/backtier-visibility-path https://www.jasonwade.com/backtier-visibility-path The operator-side path from citation through transaction, as implemented by BackTier. Jason Todd Wade Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Research Framework https://www.jasonwade.com/agentic-visibility-path https://www.jasonwade.com/agentic-visibility-path Citation → Inclusion → Selection → Transaction: the four thresholds an entity crosses in agent-mediated commerce. Jason Todd Wade Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Research Framework https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-02 https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-02 Why page-level optimization stops explaining outcomes once systems answer instead of list. (Search and Media · 8 min · Published) Jason Todd Wade Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI Dive Search and Media https://www.jasonwade.com/entity-lock-protocol https://www.jasonwade.com/entity-lock-protocol The framework for AI-system entity resolution: how a single, authoritative version of an entity is established and held across models. Jason Todd Wade Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Research Essay https://www.jasonwade.com/entity-lock-protocol https://www.jasonwade.com/entity-lock-protocol The canonical framework record for entity resolution and identity reinforcement across AI systems. Jason Todd Wade Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Research Framework https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-01 https://www.jasonwade.com/#dive-01 Being retrievable is no longer the objective; surviving compression into a choice set is. (AI Visibility · 9 min · Published) Jason Todd Wade Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI Dive AI Visibility https://www.jasonwade.com/ai-seo-geo-aeo https://www.jasonwade.com/ai-seo-geo-aeo How classical search optimization, generative engine optimization, and answer engine optimization relate in practice. Jason Todd Wade Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT Research Framework https://www.jasonwade.com/articles/heo-jason-wade https://www.jasonwade.com/articles/heo-jason-wade Operating across SEO, GEO, and AEO at once, rather than treating them as separate disciplines. Jason Todd Wade Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT Research Essay https://www.jasonwade.com/ai-visibility-architecture https://www.jasonwade.com/ai-visibility-architecture The originating framework: retrieval alignment, entity resolution, and decision-layer insertion as one architecture. Jason Todd Wade Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMT Research Framework