Public Words

Public Words is a Cambridge, MA business whose own site puts it this way: "Public speaking coaching and communication services for executives, professional speakers, and thought leaders." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity it is one of the more visible businesses we measure, scoring 7.0 out of 10.

On the page itself the strengths are clear: structured data describing the business, a clear heading structure, a clearly stated business identity, crawler access and the files AI engines look for and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow. It is passable on a few credibility markers.

Away from its own site, other sites link to it. There is some, but not much, sign that the domain is only lightly established. Beyond that, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business, there is no press coverage to draw on, nobody is discussing it where AI engines look and it does not come up on Reddit. Those are earned elsewhere on the web, not fixed on the site itself.

AI crawlers have visited once in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic). The business dates to 1997.