Kevin Dulaney

Kevin Dulaney

EVP, Innovation and Integrated Marketing
SourceCode Communications

The argument, stated plainly

AI is your first audience. The human still decides.

AI answers aggregate every human preference signal, reviews, listings, communities, press, forums, into a single output. Most marketing organizations are still structured around twelve channels rather than one answer.

A brand's credibility is now decided in rooms it cannot see, by systems that read earned media as evidence. I help brands and leaders win the answer.

Category

AI visibility. Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) are the mechanics underneath it.

Evidence

Across seventeen adtech and martech prompts, 58% of the sources the engine cited were vendor-owned.

One engine, one pass per prompt, one day. A signal, not a benchmark. The direction is the point. The answer layer is quoting the vendors.

Practice

I build. I built the agency's AI infrastructure, including the measurement system behind its AI visibility work. Dozens of production automations, shipped and running.

Credential

2026 PRNews Person of the Year, AI Communicators. 2025 PRNews Person of the Year, Innovator. 2024 The Marketing Academy Scholar. 2023 PRWeek Dashboard 25.

Speaking

Open to keynotes, panels, and podcast interviews on AI visibility and executive positioning. Email · LinkedIn

Heard on PRWeek and AI Loves PR.

The newsletter

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Audience

One argument, worked out in public. What the answer layer is doing, what it means for people who explain a brand for a living, and what I have actually tested.