AI Visibility Podcast — Hosted by Jason Todd Wade

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Conversations with AI agency founders, adoption strategists, enterprise AI leaders, and practitioners building the infrastructure of AI-first business. Hosted by Jason Todd Wade, founder of BackTier and NinjaAI.

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Ep. 28
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GEOSEO

Lose Yourself in the GEO: Ann Smarty on SEO, Reddit & AI Visibility

Ann Smarty — Viral Content Bee

Ann Smarty — SEO veteran, founder of Viral Content Bee, and one of the most followed voices in search — joins Jason Todd Wade to b…

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Ep. 27
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Vibe CodingAI Development

Vibe Coding Is Not a Shortcut. It Is the New Learning Loop.

Jason Todd Wade breaks down why vibe coding — building software in collaboration with AI — is not a shortcut but a fundamentally n…

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Ep. 26
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Local SEOAI Visibility

Most Local Businesses Don't Need Complicated SEO. They Need to Stop Being Invisible.

Jason Todd Wade on why the AI visibility problem for local businesses is not a technical problem — it is a clarity problem. Most l…

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Ep. 25
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AI VisibilityAIV Framework

AI Visibility Field Report: Building BackTier, NinjaAI, the AIV Framework, and the Future of AI SEO

A solo field report breaking down what was built, tested, and learned inside the fast-moving world of AI Visibility, AI SEO, GEO, …

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Ep. 24
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ClaudeGPT-5

Claude vs. GPT: 2026 AI Titans Battle

A structured 12-minute breakdown of the 2026 AI landscape — Claude (Anthropic), GPT-5 inside ChatGPT (OpenAI), and Gemini (Google)…

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Ep. 22
AI VisibilityE-E-A-T

The Pre-Click Layer: How AI Systems Decide Which Brands Become Visible

AI visibility is not about referral traffic. It is about whether AI systems include your brand in the answer before a user ever cl…

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Ep. 21
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AI InfrastructureScalable Systems

From COO to AI Infrastructure: How James Lang Builds Scalable Systems That Actually Work

James Lang — AI Infrastructure Consulting

James Lang — former COO turned AI infrastructure architect — joins Jason Todd Wade to break down what scalable AI systems actually…

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Ep. 20
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Brian ElliottScale LLP

The Quiet Rewrite of Legal: Brian Elliott, Scale LLP, and How AI Is Turning Judgment into Infrastructure

What is actually happening in legal AI is not acceleration. It is reclassification. Legal is being converted from a service delive…

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Ep. 19
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Kristen WileyStatusphere

Kristen Wiley, Statusphere, and the Entity Layer: Why Micro-Influencer Marketing Is Now an AI Visibility Infrastructure Play

Statusphere is not a marketing tool in the old sense. It is a distributed signal engine that feeds the exact type of structured, r…

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Ep. 18
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Content MachineAI Content

Building an AI-Powered Content Machine (and Why Most People Miss the Point)

Jason Todd Wade on the architecture of an AI-powered content machine — why most people build content factories instead of authorit…

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Ep. 17
AI AdoptionAI Ecosystems

Amplified Intelligence: Marnie Wills on What AI Adoption Actually Looks Like

Marnie Wills joins Jason Wade to unpack AI adoption at a systems level — from building full AI ecosystems to her concept of Amplif…

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Ep. 16
AI AdoptionKyndryl

AI Is Not a Shortcut Around Complexity. It's an Amplifier of It.

The bottleneck in AI adoption has nothing to do with model capability and everything to do with behavior, trust, and the quiet str…

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Ep. 15
AI LeverageBusiness Scaling

How to Leverage AI to Scale Your Business

Jason Wade breaks down how he leverages AI to drive visibility, automate lead generation, and scale content without hiring more pe…

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Ep. 14
Vibe CodingNo-Code

Vibe Coding, No-Code Reality, and the Future of AI-Built Software

Dan Hafner of DapperNoCode.com breaks down what's actually happening inside the no-code and AI development movement — beyond the h…

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Ep. 13
AI VisibilityLocal SEO

Building Florida Slice: AI Visibility, SEO, GEO, and AEO for Lake Wales and Polk County

Jason Todd Wade breaks down how he applied the AI Visibility framework — SEO, GEO, and AEO — to build Florida Slice, a local disco…

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Ep. 12
AI VisibilityEntity Engineering

Engineering AI Visibility in the Age of Machine Decisions

AI is no longer a tool layered on top of the internet — it is becoming the interface that decides what gets seen, trusted, and cho…

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Ep. 11
PodcastAI Visibility

The 2026 Podcast Manifesto: From Media Channel to Business Infrastructure

The podcast is no longer a media channel. In 2026, it is business infrastructure — the most efficient mechanism for building entit…

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Ep. 10
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International SEODubai Real Estate

International SEO, Dubai Real Estate, and AI Agency Automation with Ayoub Rhillane

Jason Todd Wade sits down with Ayoub Rhillane, founder of RHILLANE Marketing Digital and RankNinja.ai, to unpack how international…

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Ep. 9
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Earned MediaLink Building

Chris Panteli — Why Google Rankings Don't Guarantee ChatGPT Visibility: AI SEO, Earned Media, and Podcast Authority

Chris Panteli of Linkifi joins Jason Todd Wade to break down why Google rankings and ChatGPT visibility are now two completely sep…

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Ep. 8
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AI VisibilityAI Selection

AI Visibility Is Not Traffic. It Is Selection — Jason Todd Wade

Jason Todd Wade breaks down the most important conceptual shift in digital marketing: AI visibility is not about driving more traf…

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Ep. 7
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AI AgentsAI Adoption

AI Agents, Failed Pilots, and the Human Risk Layer w/ Jason Todd Wade of BackTier

Jason Todd Wade and guests Ryan Drumheller and Nikhil Vimal unpack the real-world mess of AI adoption: failed pilots, unclear stra…

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Ep. 6
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Hyperlocal SEOHome Services

Kyle Bailey on Hyperlocal SEO, Entity Visibility, and Home-Service AI Search

Kyle Bailey of Front Burner Marketing joins Jason Todd Wade to break down how hyperlocal SEO, entity visibility, and AI search are…

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Ep. 5
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AI VisibilityEntity Understanding

Concrete Oppressionism and AI Visibility: What Esteban Whiteside Teaches About Being Understood by AI Systems

Jason Todd Wade uses the work of artist Esteban Whiteside and the Concrete Oppressionism movement to explore a profound question a…

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Ep. 4
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DeLand FloridaLocal Authority

DeLand, Florida: The Town That Built Culture Before It Built Hype

Jason Todd Wade explores DeLand, Florida as a case study in organic authority building — and draws direct parallels to how AI visi…

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Ep. 3
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Legal TechAI Legal Infrastructure

Legal Isn't a Service Anymore — It's Becoming Infrastructure: Brian Elliott of Scale LLP

Brian Elliott of Scale LLP joins Jason Todd Wade to argue that legal services are undergoing the same infrastructure shift as soft…

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Ep. 2
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Execution GapAI Strategy

The Execution Gap: Why AI, CRMs, and Great Ideas Still Fail Without Enforced Systems

Jason Todd Wade of BackTier breaks down the execution gap — the space between having the right tools, the right strategy, and the …

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Ep. 1
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Creator MarketingInfluencer AI

Statusphere's AI Creator Revolution: Inside Kristen Wiley's Playbook — Scaling Creators with AI Visibility

Kristen Wiley, founder of Statusphere, joins Jason Todd Wade to break down how AI is transforming creator marketing — and why the …

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About the Show

Built for Practitioners Who Are Building the AI-First Future

The NinjaAI Intelligence Podcast is not a beginner's guide to AI. It is a practitioner-level conversation series that documents how the people actually building AI-first businesses, agencies, and systems think about the problems that matter — entity authority, AI citation architecture, the gap between AI production and AI prioritization, and the structural changes that separate businesses that will be cited by AI systems from those that will be invisible to them.

Each episode is structured as a long-form intelligence document — not a casual conversation, but a deliberate extraction of the frameworks, failure modes, and operational insights that guests have earned through direct experience. The goal is not entertainment. It is transferable knowledge that practitioners can apply to their own AI Visibility architecture immediately.

Topics covered include international SEO and AI, agency automation with Claude Code, enterprise AI adoption frameworks, no-code and vibe coding development, hyperlocal entity engineering, and the structural mechanics of Decision-Layer Insertion — the point at which an entity becomes the default answer AI systems give for a category.

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