
10 Common PR Mistakes Made by Start-Up Companies
Avoid these 10 common PR mistakes that sink startups: publishing press releases without strategy, starting campaigns too late,…
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Competitors, review sites, and news outlets own your first impression. You react instead of control.
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity are recommending your competitors. Your brand narrative is being written without you.
Every day without control, negative perceptions spread through search algorithms and AI training data.
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The Code Yellow MethodA discipline of awareness, not a deliverable
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 the customer actually is: a real person with a daily reality, a frustration, and a reason to buy.
What the brand actually says, and whether the promise is clear in five seconds to a total stranger.
When customers are reached, and whether the message meets them where they are in the buying journey.
Where customers find this business, and whether it is dominant on the right channels or spread thin.
Why a customer should choose this business over a competitor, and whether that difference is visible.
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.
What is actually true about this brand right now, underneath the messaging and the internal story.
Who the business really is in this market today, not who it used to be or hopes to become.
Whether the business will actually act on what the findings say, or file them away and move on.
What the business has genuinely earned in reputation, authority, and trust, versus what it claims.
What the business is actually doing right now, day to day, versus what it says its priorities are.
Whether the business should be doing what it is doing, the way it is doing it, or change course.

“Code Yellow is paying attention. That is it. That is the whole thing.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Inputs
Outputs
The RE² Score quantifies your reputation equity across all digital touchpoints. Track progress, benchmark competitors, and prove ROI to stakeholders.
Your Current RE² Score
Percentile
Top 15%
in your industry
7 Weighted Score Components
12-Month Trend
+38% improvementYour Brand(You)
72
+14
Competitor A
68
+8
Competitor B
61
+3
Competitor C
54
-2
Competitor D
47
-5
23%
Higher than industry avg
4
Positions gained
Measured across
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.
Two ways to win
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
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.
Get it Managed
Most trustedWe run it for you
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.
Not sure which fits? Start with a free RE² Score, the intel comes first either way.
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.
28%1
Reputation's Share of Value
Portion of S&P 500 market capitalization, roughly $11.9T, attributable to corporate reputation.
82%2
Buyer Trust
Consumers who say trust in the company behind a brand is a deciding factor in whether they buy.
5–9%3
Revenue Per Star
Revenue increase associated with each one-star improvement in a business's online rating.
22%4
Cost of Negative Search
Prospective customers lost for every negative result that ranks on page one of search.
Sources: 1 Echo Research, Reputation Dividend Report (2024) · 2 Edelman Trust Barometer (2024) · 3 Harvard Business School, M. Luca, “Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue” (2016) · 4 Moz, negative search-result visibility study
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
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The RE² Path to Controlled Reputation
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Free RE² Score
See where you stand
Activation Sprint
Fix the gaps fast
Operating Retainer
Run continuously
Platform License
Scale across portfolio
7+
Years Experience
1,000+
Reputations Protected
4.9
Avg Client Rating
91%
Client Retention
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