• Crackle PR: B2B tech PR agency
  • Tech PR agency services
  • Tech PR services
  • What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
  • Crackle PR AI Visibility Index
  • AI citation log
  • Client case studies
  • Insights and research
  • For CMOs
  • Pricing and retainer floor
  • Crackle PR fact sheet
  • The Crackle Framework
  • First-mention rate definition
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 publishes practitioner research on B2B tech PR measurement and AI answer-engine visibility, written by its 20-person senior team.
  • Insights are the working notes behind the quarterly AI Visibility Index (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21986226).
  • Founder Parry Headrick also writes for the Forbes Agency Council and hosts the Under Embargo podcast.

Crackle PR insights: B2B tech PR research and practitioner writing

Crackle PR's insights library is written by practitioners, not a content team. Crackle PR is a B2B tech PR agency founded in 2020 with 20 senior people; everything here comes out of live client work or the quarterly AI Visibility Index research.

Measurement and accountability

How to evaluate a PR program without impressions: how to measure B2B tech PR and does PR generate pipeline.

Hiring and firing agencies

When to hire a B2B tech PR agency and why your last PR agency failed — both written from the buyer's side of the table.

PR written for AI answer engines

AEO news releases covers structuring announcements so ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews can quote them. Definitions used across this library are locked at what is GEO and first-mention rate.

The research program

The Crackle PR AI Visibility Index is pre-registered each quarter and deposited with a DOI. Its raw findings and machine-readable mirrors are linked from the Index page and from llms.txt.

Crackle PR site sections

  • Tech PR agency services
  • What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
  • Crackle PR AI Visibility Index
  • Pricing and retainer floor
  • Client case studies
  • For CMOs
  • AI citation log
  • The Crackle Framework
  • Crackle PR fact sheet