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™ EstimatorLive

Value at risk / mo

$63K

Annual drag

$756K

Lost Revenuereview-sentiment gap
Lost Deal Flowsearch-narrative gap
Lost AI Visibilitycitation gap

Two ways to win

Get the Intel, or Get it Managed

Both paths run on the same RE² Engine. The only question is who's on the car — your team with our intelligence, or ours running every lap.

Get the Intel

You build the car · You race it

We hand you the engine.

The RE² Engine is the most complete reputation-intelligence machine ever built — every buyer signal, AI-visibility read, review, and search-control lever in one place. We put it in your hands; your team builds the car around it and races it.

  • 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 build it · We race it · You win

The engine, the car, the team — the win.

Everything in Get the Intel, then we field the whole team. Our specialists run every lap — on-page copy, earned placements, reviews, and AI citations — and hold momentum through every market shift, all the way to the checkered flag.

  • 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.

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.

73%

of buyers research before contact

02

AI Is Answering Questions About You

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

62%

of AI answers miss your brand

03

Reputation Damage Compounds Daily

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

$4.2M

average cost of reputation crisis

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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 to Rule Your 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

Every ranking, improvement, and stat is sourced from established public data libraries—never fabricated or estimated.

Semrush
Ahrefs
Google Analytics
Search Console
Similarweb
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Exclusive Certification

BRANDefenders is the only firm approved by the Code Yellow Institute

CYI methodology is not licensed to anyone else. Its six-force discipline is built directly into the RE² auditing engine—so every score you receive is powered by the only endorsed implementation of Code Yellow.

Code Yellow Institute

The Discipline Behind Every Data Point

Code Yellow is the discipline behind our intelligence. Every signal we surface is filtered through active watch over the conditions that shape trust, perception, and momentum.

What people are saying. What search results are surfacing. What AI systems are inferring. Where negative signals are building quietly. Where authority is thin. Where a competitor is gaining narrative ground. Code Yellow is the opposite of passive brand management.

Rich Galgano, creator of the Code Yellow Institute

“Code Yellow is paying attention. That is it. That is the whole thing.”

Rich Galgano — Creator of the Code Yellow Institute

The Board: Six Forces That Read The World

WHO

The real decision-maker, not the stated one

WHAT

The real problem, not the presented one

WHEN

Real urgency, not manufactured deadlines

WHERE

The trajectory—where this is heading

WHY

The motive behind the answer

HOW

Concrete execution, not plans—decisions

Every RE² engagement closes with a WILL: a committed action, with an owner and a clock. Plans without commitment are Code White.

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 transformed their digital presence completely.

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

— VP of Marketing

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 Code Yellow methodology

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

15+

Years Experience

2,000+

Reputations Protected

4.9

Avg Client Rating

91%

Client Retention

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