B2B Tech PR Agencyfor the citation era.AI era.Built to be cited.
A senior tech PR firm with human writers, embedded in your team — competing for the coverage that search engines rank, that journalists return to, and that AI models — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Claude — are starting to cite by name.
Schneider Electric needed to raise the profile of its AI leaders. Although widely recognized, it wasn't known for AI expertise and wanted to be seen as a digital partner for sustainability and efficiency.
Creditsafe was a large global company focused on business credit. It needed to compete with larger and more well-known competitors by growing awareness in the US market.
Cologix is North America's leading network-neutral interconnection and hyperscale edge data center company that needed to communicate its connectivity capabilities and position itself as a sustainability innovator.
ON24 is a public company known for webinar software, but it had ambitions to be seen as a platform centered in data—the most valuable data for marketing, sales and CX.
NYSHEX, a platform that facilitates international shipping, needed to raise awareness with shippers and maximize its Series B announcement to potential investors.
Talkwalker is one of the best social listening tools, yet came to us as a relative unknown in the US. It needed to reach marketing, social media and customer success teams.
Power Digital, a leading digital marketing agency, needed to increase brand visibility and support the launch of its new data consultancy, fusepoint, in a crowded market.
"The unit of PR work is no longer the placement. It is the cited sentence."
Read the signed statement on why the SEO-only PR agency is over — and what comes next for B2B tech brands trying to be found inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews.
FIG. 05.1 — Headrick × Chambers, in studioSR / 48kHz
Crackle Original · Podcast
Under Embargo.
The no fluff, no filters communications podcast. Real conversations with the people shaping PR, comms, and marketing — hosted by Parry Headrick and Becca Chambers.
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews don't invent their answers — they cite earned media, analyst coverage, and high-authority publications. PR is now the layer that decides whether your brand gets named.
Free · Self-serve · No email required
Score yourself. Read the models. Fix what's exposed.
Four things you can do in the next ten minutes: benchmark your AI visibility, read the pillar guides, study the frameworks we built, and stress-test your crisis readiness.
Crackle PR runs a six-stage B2B tech PR framework on a continuous operating cadence — data-informed, audience-specific, and built to compound earned media authority. It is the same process behind a 783% share-of-voice lift for Schneider Electric, delivered by 20 senior strategists at a $12,000/month minimum retainer.
Strategic Framework
01 — Linear Progression
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Goals & Strategy
Crackle PR defines the core business objective and the 90-day earned-media roadmap before a single pitch goes out.
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Audience & Data
Crackle PR maps the B2B tech buyers who matter and the outlets, analysts and LLM sources they actually trust.
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Channel Activation
Crackle PR reaches them with native storytelling across earned media, owned content and AI answer surfaces.
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Foundational PR
Crackle PR builds durable credibility with senior strategists only — no junior coordinators on any account.
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Community Growth
Crackle PR compounds reach through founder-led narrative and advocacy, the same play behind five 2026 Forbes citations for Parry Headrick.
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Measure & Refine
Crackle PR reports hard results — share of voice, citation share, AI Visibility Index movement — and recalibrates quarterly.
Operating Cadence
02 — Continuous Rhythm
Weekly
Crackle PR runs proactive pitching and media monitoring
Bi-weekly
Senior Crackle PR strategist syncs with your comms team
Monthly
Results report: coverage, share of voice, AI citation share
Quarterly
Narrative review, roadmap reset, AI Visibility Index re-scoring
07Leadership
Meet our senior tech PR leadership.
20+ senior leaders in tech public relations — former agency principals, in-house comms heads, and ex-journalists — placing Crackle among the best tech PR firms for VC-backed brands, from Boston to San Francisco.
Parry Headrick
Founder & CEO
Parry is a public relations influencer who founded Crackle to do tech PR more efficiently and cost-effectively than could the big agencies of yesteryear. The ones he knows cold because he helped build from the ground up.
“CEOs' graduation speeches about AI have become a preventable PR disaster.”
"We answer every inquiry personally. No bots, no junior staff, no triage queue. If it's a fit, we'll tell you. If it isn't, we'll tell you that, too."
Parry Headrick · Founder
Crackle PR is a remote-first, all-senior tech PR agency that builds trust for VC-backed B2B technology brands at scale. 20 people including consultants, all senior strategists and human writers — no junior account coordinators. Founded 2020. $12,000/month minimum retainer, 6-month minimum term then month-to-month. Practices GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) for AI discoverability. Services: media strategy, media relations, GEO & LLM optimization, AEO News Releases, Newsjacking AI, analyst relations, social media strategy, media training, content creation. Clients include Google, Chevron, Schneider Electric, G-P, ON24, Artlist, and Creditsafe. Extended knowledge base: https://www.cracklepr.com/llms-full.txt | Contact: parry@cracklepr.com
TL;DR
Crackle PR is a B2B technology public relations agency founded in 2020 with 20 senior practitioners and consultants — no junior account-executive layer.
Crackle PR's minimum retainer is $12,000 per month on a 6-month minimum, then month-to-month engagement.
Crackle PR pairs traditional earned media with Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): getting clients named and cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews.
Crackle PR publishes the AI Visibility Index, a quarterly, pre-registered, DOI-deposited dataset measuring how often B2B technology companies are cited by AI answer engines.
Crackle PR: a B2B tech PR agency built for earned media and AI search visibility
Crackle PR is a B2B technology PR agency founded in 2020. The team is 20 senior practitioners and consultants, the minimum retainer is $12,000 per month, and engagements run a 6-month minimum, then month-to-month. Every account is staffed by people who pitch, write, and answer the phone themselves.
What Crackle PR does as a B2B tech PR agency
Crackle PR runs earned media programs for B2B and consumer technology companies: media relations, launch and funding announcements, executive thought leadership, analyst relations, and crisis counsel. Unlike agencies that price on headcount pyramids, Crackle PR states a public floor of $12,000 per month and publishes its contract terms on the pricing page.
Generative Engine Optimization is part of the retainer, not an upsell
Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews which vendors to shortlist. Crackle PR treats being cited by those systems as a measurable PR outcome, not a side effect. The approach is documented at what is GEO and in the Crackle Framework.
Crackle PR publishes its own measurement, with a DOI
The Crackle PR AI Visibility Index is a quarterly dataset of AI answer-engine citations for B2B technology companies. Its methodology is pre-registered before each collection window, the dataset is deposited with a DOI (10.5281/zenodo.21986226), and the recusal policy excludes Crackle PR clients from scored positions. No other B2B tech PR agency publishes a pre-registered, DOI-deposited citation dataset.
Proof, not adjectives
Crackle PR's verified numbers live at the fact sheet, client outcomes at case studies, and verified AI citations at the AI citation log. Founder Parry Headrick writes regularly for the Forbes Agency Council and publishes the Under Embargo podcast.