For Direct Sales & Network Marketing

Catch Reputation Risk Before It Spreads|

Track sentiment across every distributor market and channel, and see what a slipping narrative is quietly costing you in recruits, retention, and revenue.

Trust Tax™ EstimatorSample

Value at risk / mo

$63K

Annual drag

$756K

Lost Revenuereview-sentiment gap
Lost Deal Flowsearch-narrative gap
Lost AI Visibilitycitation gap
The Blind Spot

Your Team Can't Act on Signals They Can't See

You have the people to execute, but the buyer signals, AI answers, and search shifts that should direct them are scattered across a hundred sources. We turn that noise into a single intelligence feed your strategists can act on the same day.

01

Search Results Are Controlled by Others

Competitors, review sites, and news outlets own your first impression. You react instead of control.

02

AI Is Answering Questions About You

ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity are recommending your competitors. Your brand narrative is being written without you.

03

Reputation Damage Compounds Daily

Every day without control, negative perceptions spread through search algorithms and AI training data.

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Don't guess what reputation costs you. Put a number on it.

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The Code Yellow MethodA discipline of awareness, not a deliverable

Twelve questions we answer before we touch your brand.

Six about how the market actually sees you. Six about what you are actually going to do. They come from Rich Galgano, who ran them for 26 years building the company he sold for $465 million in 2020. He is our chairman. We are the only marketing firm licensed to use them.

It is a way of thinking before it is a way of working, twelve prompts that force us, and you, to stop and see clearly before a single decision gets made.

The Board

The external landscape, what the world sees.

WHO

Who the customer actually is: a real person with a daily reality, a frustration, and a reason to buy.

WHAT

What the brand actually says, and whether the promise is clear in five seconds to a total stranger.

WHEN

When customers are reached, and whether the message meets them where they are in the buying journey.

WHERE

Where customers find this business, and whether it is dominant on the right channels or spread thin.

WHY

Why a customer should choose this business over a competitor, and whether that difference is visible.

HOW

How the brand builds what cannot be copied: trust, content authority, and an identity that compounds.

The Mirror

Internal accountability, what the organization will do about it.

IS

What is actually true about this brand right now, underneath the messaging and the internal story.

AM

Who the business really is in this market today, not who it used to be or hopes to become.

WILL

Whether the business will actually act on what the findings say, or file them away and move on.

HAVE

What the business has genuinely earned in reputation, authority, and trust, versus what it claims.

DO

What the business is actually doing right now, day to day, versus what it says its priorities are.

SHOULD

Whether the business should be doing what it is doing, the way it is doing it, or change course.

Rich Galgano, creator of the Code Yellow Doctrine
“Code Yellow is paying attention. That is it. That is the whole thing.”
Rich Galgano, Creator of the Code Yellow Doctrine
The Intelligence Layer

The Reputation Equity Engine™

The same engine, delivered as intelligence. We measure everything and hand your team the benchmarks and prioritized playbook, you supply the strategy and action that moves the score across search, AI, and stakeholder touchpoints.

01

Measure

Intelligence, Delivered to You

The full RE² dataset, buyer signals, AI answers, review velocity, and entity health, packaged as the RE² Score your team can act on the same day.

  • RE² Audit
  • RE² Score (0-100)
  • RE² Index Benchmarking
  • RE² Pulse Monitoring
02

Move

Your Team Runs the Plays

We hand your strategists the prioritized playbook, what to publish, correct, and suppress, with the data behind every call. Your team executes, because insight without action never moves the score.

  • Prioritized Playbooks
  • Opportunity Scoring
  • Competitor Gaps
  • Signal Alerts
03

Monetize

Prove the Return, Internally

Board-ready attribution your team can present, tying every point of RE² movement they drive back to influenced pipeline and retained revenue.

  • REV Attribution
  • Pipeline Influence
  • Valuation Metrics
  • Board Reports

Inputs

Search Results
AI Outputs
Stakeholder Data
RE²Engine

Outputs

Controlled Narrative
Protected Brand
Proven ROI
RE² Score

One Score for Your Whole Reputation

The RE² Score quantifies your reputation equity across all digital touchpoints. Track progress, benchmark competitors, and prove ROI to stakeholders.

Your Current RE² Score

72
+14vs last quarter

Percentile

Top 15%

in your industry

7 Weighted Score Components

Search Control
20%82
AI Representation
20%68
Authority Coverage
15%74
Narrative Quality
15%71
Trust/Review Signal
10%76
Volatility/Risk
10%65
Commercial Influence
10%79

12-Month Trend

+38% improvement
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Competitive Landscape

1

Your Brand(You)

72

+14

2

Competitor A

68

+8

3

Competitor B

61

+3

4

Competitor C

54

-2

5

Competitor D

47

-5

23%

Higher than industry avg

4

Positions gained

Measured across

Google
Bing
ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini

Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & more

The dashboard above is an illustrative sample. In a live RE² audit, rankings and score movements are measured from established public data sources, not fabricated or estimated.

Semrush
Ahrefs
Google Analytics
Search Console
Similarweb

Two ways to win

Get the Intel, or Get it Managed

Both paths run on the same RE² Engine. The only question is who does the work: your team with our intelligence, or ours end to end.

Get the Intel

You run the strategy

We hand you the engine.

The RE² Engine brings every buyer signal, AI-visibility read, review, and search-control lever into one place. We put it in your team's hands to turn into strategy and action.

  • The full RE² dataset, buyer signals, AI visibility, review velocity, and search control.
  • Strategies mapped to your company goals, investor expectations, and target markets.
  • Built for organizations with a team ready to execute enterprise marketing in-house.
Get the Intel

Get it Managed

Most trusted

We run it for you

The engine, the team, the results.

Everything in Get the Intel, then we field the whole team. Our specialists handle on-page copy, earned placements, reviews, and AI citations, and hold momentum through every market shift.

  • Full-service execution, start to finish, we run all of it for you.
  • Your always-on team and insurance policy against reputation risk.
  • Enterprise specialists accelerating brand and enterprise value growth.
Get it Managed

Not sure which fits? Start with a free RE² Score, the intel comes first either way.

Proven ROI

Reputation That Pays Dividends

Every point of RE² Score improvement translates to measurable business impact, but the score only moves when the work gets done. Here's what the numbers your team acts on are worth.

The RE² Value Equation

Step 1

Reputation Movement

Step 2

Trust Delta

Step 3

Conversion Impact

Result

Revenue Lift

This equation only pays out when every piece is executed. RE² shows you exactly what to move, your team writes the on-page copy, earns the third-party placements, and runs the review strategy that convert reputation into revenue. Data points the way; action collects the return.

01

28%1

Reputation's Share of Value

Portion of S&P 500 market capitalization, roughly $11.9T, attributable to corporate reputation.

02

82%2

Buyer Trust

Consumers who say trust in the company behind a brand is a deciding factor in whether they buy.

03

5–9%3

Revenue Per Star

Revenue increase associated with each one-star improvement in a business's online rating.

04

22%4

Cost of Negative Search

Prospective customers lost for every negative result that ranks on page one of search.

Case Study

Healthcare SaaS Company

A leading healthcare technology company was losing deals because of outdated negative press appearing in search results. After 6 months with RE², they reshaped how their brand showed up across search and AI.

"We went from explaining away bad search results to having prospects tell us they chose us because of what they found online."

Lauren H., VP of Marketing

Client name withheld under NDA. Results shared with permission.

Brand Search Ranking

Page 3

Before

Position 1

After

AI Recommendation Rate

12%

Before

89%

After

Average Review Score

2.8

Before

4.7

After

RE² Score

47

Before

78

After

Calculate Your Potential ROI

See what controlled reputation could mean for your business

Free RE² Score

Get the Intel on Your Brand

Get your free RE² Score, the reputation report card that shows your team where your brand stands across search engines, AI platforms, and stakeholder touchpoints.

No commitment required. Results delivered within 48 hours.

The Audit Includes

  • Complete RE² Score assessment (7 weighted dimensions)
  • Search control audit across priority queries
  • AI representation analysis (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude)
  • Authority coverage and narrative quality review
  • Volatility/risk identification with prioritization
  • Strategic roadmap aligned to the Code Yellow doctrine

The RE² Path to Controlled Reputation

1

Free RE² Score

See where you stand

2

Activation Sprint

Fix the gaps fast

3

Operating Retainer

Run continuously

4

Platform License

Scale across portfolio

7+

Years Experience

1,000+

Reputations Protected

4.9

Avg Client Rating

91%

Client Retention

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