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The Perception Stack

The first C-suite investment brief template for AI perception. Built for the comms leader who's been asked for a plan and handed nothing to build one with.

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CMOs have decks.

CFOs have models.

Boards have governance.

Comms had vibes.

Until now.

The Problem

Comms has been carrying the AI perception conversation. Without infrastructure.

You've been in the meeting. The CEO asks what we're doing about AI. The CFO asks what it costs. The board asks why now. And until now, comms has walked into that conversation with a Google Doc and a hope.

01

No shared framework

Every comms leader has been improvising the same conversation in isolation. No common language. No agreed model.

02

No budget template

Marketing has campaign budgets. IT has security budgets. Comms has been asking for a number without a model behind it.

03

No script for the room

Walking into a board meeting without language tested for CEO, CFO, CMO, and board has been the default for too long.

04

No measurement system

"How will we know it's working?" is the question that's killed more AI budget asks than any other. Comms has never had the answer.

The Framework

Three layers. One program. Comms-led, board-reportable.

Every dollar in your budget maps to one of these three layers. Every KPI maps to one. Every hire maps to one.

01

Defense

Identify and correct mis, dis, and untrue information AI is repeating about you. Monthly audit. Correction runbook. Re-test until the fix holds. KPI: time-to-correct.

02

Discovery

Map every persona asking about your category (buyer, hire, investor, journalist, regulator) and the intents driving their questions. KPI: covered intent share.

03

Delivery

Personalize content for each persona-intent pair. Ship at sustained cadence. Anchor articles, AI Notices, bylines, earned coverage. KPI: citation share growth.

"Defense protects what's already there. Discovery tells us what to build. Delivery builds it."

What's Inside

The full bundle. Free.

Everything you need to walk into the room on Monday with an actual proposal.

The Pitch Deck

19 production-ready slides (.pptx)
Title, why-now, new marketing flow, the thesis, audit, cost of inaction, the framework, three layer deep-dives, rate-and-pace, ownership, measurement, four investment tiers, 90-day plan, the decision, plus appendix slides.
Speaker notes on every slide
What to say. What to swap. How to read CEO, CFO, CMO, and board reactions in real time.
Hidden Operator's Checklist (slide 0)
A walkthrough of every placeholder you need to fill in before presenting. Hidden in presentation mode.
Objection handling appendix
The five most likely pushbacks ("isn't this SEO?" / "we already do PR" / "can we wait a year?") with prepared answers.
Glossary appendix
Definitions for every term so the room never has to ask what an AI Notice is.

The Operator's Manual

9-section companion guide (.docx)
Pre-meeting prep, how to run the meeting, how to read the room, the post-meeting recap email template, objection cheat sheet, glossary, and placeholder convention.
2-minute video walkthrough
Sarah walks you through how to use the deck. Watch it before your meeting. Share it with your team.
The Investment Model

Four tiers. Real budget ranges. Pick the one that matches your company.

Total annual envelope including internal headcount, agency support, and tooling. The deck walks you through what each tier funds.

BASIC
Founder-led · <$10M
$50K – $150K
Defense + light Delivery. 1 persona. 1–2 anchors/mo.
SMALL
Brand · $10M – $50M
$200K – $500K
Full 3 layers, low intensity. 2–3 personas.
ENT
Enterprise · $500M+
$1.5M – $5M+
Dedicated team + custom dashboarding + regulatory layer.
Built For

If you've been carrying this conversation alone, this is yours.

In-house comms leaders

Being asked about AI strategy and given no template to build a plan with.

Agency PR leads

Pitching AI services to a client's C-suite and need the framework that lands.

CMOs equipping a team

Want your comms team to walk into the boardroom with the same infrastructure marketing already has.

Founders and VP Marketing

Carrying the comms function yourself and need a real budget conversation, not vibes.

Why I Built This

A rising tide raises all ships.

23 years in PR. Partner at Zen Media. I've sat in hundreds of C-suite conversations where comms was handed the AI strategy question and walked into the room with nothing to build a plan on.

CMOs have decks. CFOs have models. Boards have governance frameworks. Comms has been handed the question without the infrastructure to answer it.

The Perception Stack is the first template that gives every comms leader, in-house or agency-side, the same artifact CMOs, CFOs, and CTOs already have. It's free because the work this discipline does is too important to be gatekept.

If you use it inside your company and a tier gets approved, come back and tell me. I'm tracking the data.

— Sarah Evans · LinkedIn · asksarah.ai

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