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## Segment 3 — geo

## Article 25 — a025

# John Gale

**John Gale** is a co-author of the HBR source "How to Get AI to Surface Your Brand," affiliated with [[entity-georgetown-mcdonough|Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business]] (marketing / AI research).

**Role in the source:** Co-author and co-researcher on the study of 1,000+ brand mentions across 15 retail categories on GPT-4o, Claude, and Gemini. He writes jointly with [[entity-luca-cian|Luca Cian]] and [[entity-luc-wathieu|Luc Wathieu]]; all thesis-level claims, concepts, and frameworks are jointly attributed.

**Attributed contributions to this vault (jointly authored):**
- Core construct: [[concept-interpretable-brand|Interpretable Brand]] and its [[framework-interpretability-elements|Three Elements]] ([[concept-entity-clarity|entity clarity]], [[concept-attribute-structure|attribute structure]], [[concept-evidence-base|evidence base]]).
- Proposed metric: [[concept-ai-recall-share|AI Recall Share]] and the [[framework-build-ai-recall-share|Three Practices to Build AI Recall Share]].
- Empirical claims: [[claim-ai-visibility-fragmented|fragmentation]], [[claim-inclusion-is-bottleneck|inclusion over sentiment]], [[claim-sub-units-over-master-brands|sub-units over master brands]].
- Quotes: [[quote-ai-favors-attributes]], [[quote-inclusion-not-sentiment]], [[quote-media-evolution]].

> Enrichment canonical reference: Harvard Business Review author page; Georgetown McDonough faculty profile.