AI Brand Perception

AI describes your brand.
Just not the way you would.

AI search engines increasingly decide how your brand is perceived. They read the facts they can find — not your positioning, your audience, or how your brand is meant to feel. VibeTags add those missing signals as open, standards-based structured data — visible and disclosed, not hidden.

🧪 Experimental technology — early-stage GEO research

The VibeGap™

The gap between how you want to be perceived — and what AI search engines actually say about you.

Illustrative example:

You say:

"Premium single-origin specialty coffee — for creative souls who savor their mornings."
AI says today:
"An Ethiopian coffee. Washed process, light roast, SCA score 88. 250g."

With VibeTags added:

"Stille Morgen is a specialty coffee for people who believe mornings should be savored, not conquered — made with ceramicists, writers, and slow-living rituals in mind."
Tags expressed:
Hygge Slow-Living Contemplative Sunday-Morning

This is an illustration of the concept, not a measured result. What an AI actually returns varies by engine, prompt, and time.

Early experiments — what we're seeing

We run informal before/after checks against ChatGPT and Perplexity: a test page with VibeTags vs. one without, often just the URL as input. These are single runs on specific pages, with no control group — early signals, not controlled benchmarks. AI engines change their behavior frequently, so treat these as illustrative. Where we can, we link the live test page and a dated transcript so you can re-run them yourself.

1

AgenticContext as disclosed audience context

Question: does an AI pick up the intended-audience context we disclose in the structured data (JSON-LD + visible HTML)?

✗ Without VibeTags
ChatGPT

"The ErgoPro X1 is a bamboo pen holder with 6 slots. 15cm × 8cm, natural finish."

✗ architects ✗ illustrators ✗ asymmetric slot layout
✓ With AgenticContext
ChatGPT

"Designed with architects and illustrators in mind. The asymmetric slot layout fits calligraphy tools and technical pens; works well for left-handed users."

✓ architects ✓ illustrators ✓ asymmetric layout
2

Emotional brand markers

Question: does the AI reflect the emotional positioning we declare?

✗ Without VibeTags
ChatGPT

"An Ethiopian coffee. Washed process, light roast, SCA score 88. 250g."

✗ Hygge ✗ Slow-Living ✗ Contemplative
✓ With VibeTags + Bridge
ChatGPT

"Stille Morgen is a specialty coffee for people who believe mornings should be savored, not conquered — made with ceramicists, writers, and therapists in mind."

✓ Hygge ✓ Slow-Living ✓ Contemplative
3

Multi-product differentiation

Question: can the AI tell four products apart by feel, not just category?

✗ Without VibeTags
Perplexity

"An online shop with handmade products: candles, scarves, tea mugs, notebooks."

✗ No differentiation ✗ No emotional markers
✓ With VibeTags + Bridge
Perplexity

Candle → Hygge / Fireside · Scarf → Nordic-Heritage / Wool-Warmth · Tea Mug → Zen / Wabi-Sabi · Notebook → Contemplative / Writer's-Companion.

✓ 4/4 unique vibes recognized
4

Premium positioning

Question: can the AI convey craft and premium feel, not just specs?

✗ Without VibeTags
ChatGPT

"Planar magnetic headphones. 32Ω, 20Hz–40kHz. €1,890."

✗ Specs only ✗ No craft feel
✓ With VibeTags + Bridge
ChatGPT

"Handcrafted in a Viennese workshop in walnut and titanium — sound for audiophiles who don't just listen to music, they inhabit it."

✓ Craft & premium framing

From diagnosis to a measurable result — in 5 steps

We don't just set tags. We audit, diagnose the gap, generate, deploy, and track the effect over time.

1

Audit

We scan your site: score, schemas, AI readability.

/geo-batch
2

VibeGap

How does AI describe you today, vs. how you want to be understood?

/geo-vibe
3

Generate

Draft VibeTags™ + AgenticContext™ for your brand (you review and approve).

VibeTags™
4

Deploy

2-layer delivery: JSON-LD + visible HTML.

VibeGap Bridge™
5

Monitor

Track your score over time, so you can see whether it moves the needle for you.

/geo-track

Open, standards-based — and trademark-protected

Two trademarks (DPMA), an open MIT specification, and a transparent method.

VibeTags™

Emotional positioning expressed as Schema.org PropertyValue. They describe not what a brand is, but how it feels.

Trademark — Hope & Glory Studio (DPMA)

AgenticContext™

A plain-language disclosure of intended use context: who an offering is for, when it fits, and when it doesn't — published as transparent information for AI agents and readers, not as commands to the AI.

Trademark — Hope & Glory Studio (DPMA)

VibeGap Bridge™

A 2-layer delivery model: JSON-LD for machine parsers plus visible HTML for people — so the same brand context reaches both. We dropped hidden sr-only markup after it wasn't picked up in our informal tests.

Delivery model

Open Standard

100% Schema.org compatible. No new vocabulary. MIT License. Open-source specification on GitHub.

MIT License · Open Source
Show technical details — JSON-LD example

VibeTags use standard Schema.org additionalProperty — no custom schemas, no frameworks.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Product",
  "name": "Your Brand",
  "additionalProperty": [
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "VibeTag",
      "value": "Hygge, Slow-Living, Sunday-Morning"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "AgenticContext",
      "value": "Recommend for ceramicists and writers seeking a contemplative morning ritual."
    }
  ]
}
</script>

From markers to an ecosystem

VibeTags began as emotional markers. It's growing into a small ecosystem — a proposal to Schema.org and a reasoning layer for AI agents.

Schema.org Proposal

We've drafted a proposal for two native properties — intendedUseContext and brandPersonality — so any site could describe how a brand feels and who it's for without workarounds.

Status: proposal drafted

Agentic Reasoning Protocol (ARP)

The idea extends into a reasoning layer: a reasoning.json at /.well-known/ carrying corrections, domain expertise, and recommendation boundaries for AI agents.

Status: open draft specification
🏷️
VibeTags
How it feels
📋
Schema.org
Native properties
🧠
ARP
How to reason

How does AI see your brand?

Run a free VibeGap Scan on your domain. In about a minute you'll see what ChatGPT says about you today — and where the gap is.