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  <title>Research — Jason Todd Wade</title>
  <subtitle>Essays and framework records on AI visibility, entity resolution, generative search, and agentic commerce.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-04-14T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
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    <name>Jason Todd Wade</name>
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    <email>email@jasonwade.com</email>
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  <rights>© 2026 Jason Todd Wade</rights>
  <entry>
    <title>The End of Checkout</title>
    <id>https://www.jasonwade.com/the-end-of-checkout</id>
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    <published>2026-04-14T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-14T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary type="text">How agents, machine-readable commerce, and new payment rails could transform buying by 2030.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>BackTier OS</title>
    <id>https://www.jasonwade.com/backtier-os</id>
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    <published>2026-03-24T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-24T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary type="text">The operating system view of AI visibility work: instrumentation, evidence, and repeatable inclusion.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>BackTier Visibility Path</title>
    <id>https://www.jasonwade.com/backtier-visibility-path</id>
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    <published>2026-02-10T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-02-10T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary type="text">From citation to inclusion to selection to transaction — the sequence an entity moves through inside generative systems.</summary>
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    <title>BackTier Visibility Path (framework record)</title>
    <id>https://www.jasonwade.com/backtier-visibility-path</id>
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    <published>2026-02-10T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-02-10T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary type="text">The operator-side path from citation through transaction, as implemented by BackTier.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>The Agentic Visibility Path</title>
    <id>https://www.jasonwade.com/agentic-visibility-path</id>
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    <published>2026-02-10T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-02-10T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary type="text">Citation → Inclusion → Selection → Transaction: the four thresholds an entity crosses in agent-mediated commerce.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Entity Lock Protocol</title>
    <id>https://www.jasonwade.com/entity-lock-protocol</id>
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    <published>2026-01-20T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-20T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary type="text">The framework for AI-system entity resolution: how a single, authoritative version of an entity is established and held across models.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Entity Lock Protocol (framework record)</title>
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    <published>2026-01-20T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-20T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary type="text">The canonical framework record for entity resolution and identity reinforcement across AI systems.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>AI Search, SEO, GEO, and AEO</title>
    <id>https://www.jasonwade.com/ai-seo-geo-aeo</id>
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    <published>2025-11-04T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2025-11-04T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary type="text">How classical search optimization, generative engine optimization, and answer engine optimization relate in practice.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Hybrid Engine Optimization</title>
    <id>https://www.jasonwade.com/articles/heo-jason-wade</id>
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    <published>2025-09-15T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-02T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary type="text">Operating across SEO, GEO, and AEO at once, rather than treating them as separate disciplines.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>AI Visibility Architecture</title>
    <id>https://www.jasonwade.com/ai-visibility-architecture</id>
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    <published>2025-06-10T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-06T12:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary type="text">The originating framework: retrieval alignment, entity resolution, and decision-layer insertion as one architecture.</summary>
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