Rough Draft Atlanta
Rough Draft Atlanta is a source AI reads now and then about Atlanta's builders. AI reaches for Rough Draft Atlanta most on choosing a program and underrepresented founders. It is already reading you on these questions.
Role: Media and storytellers. Website: roughdraftatlanta.com.
From its own site: Rough Draft is a metro Atlanta local media organization operating community news brands including Atlanta Intown, Rough Draft in Print (formerly Reporter Newspapers) and Georgia Voice.
AI repeats what is reported, dated and sourced. The stories it can't find about Atlanta are stories it hasn't been able to read yet.
Story ideas we think fit Rough Draft Atlanta
A field guide to Atlanta's front doors: who each program, fund and space is really for.
Startup or community desk · A guide, kept current
Story idea: A field guide to Atlanta's front doors: who each program, fund and space is really for. The angle: Atlanta has dozens of programs, funds and spaces, and AI struggles to tell a founder which one is for them. A guide that says plainly who each door is for, kept current, is the single most useful page a founder could be handed, and the kind AI cites for years. What the data says today: 1 in 7 mentions of an Atlanta organization becomes a recommendation. ATDC and Atlanta Tech Village take 40% of all recommendations. 17 organizations are never recommended. What we can give you, free to use with credit: - The questions people asked and what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity answered, word for word: https://pursueatl.com/research/ - The count above, how it was made, and the answers behind it: https://pursueatl.com/map/doors/ - All 1,360 answers from September 2026, and the same questions asked again in December, so there is a second chapter. - Introductions to the people and organizations involved. Who to talk to: Every organization on this site has a page with what it says about itself. We will share the whole list. What helps it travel: name Atlanta and the date high in the piece, and link to each organization you mention. AI follows those links. Want the data, or want to talk it through? [email protected]
AI sends most student founders to one campus. What is being built on the others?
Education or metro desk · A feature
Story idea: AI sends most student founders to one campus. What is being built on the others? The angle: Ask AI where a student should build a company in Atlanta and it names every campus, then sends most of them to the same one. The Atlanta University Center, Georgia State, Emory and Kennesaw State all run programs. What comes out of them is a story AI has never been told. What the data says today: 3 of 8 universities AI names are never recommended by it. Georgia Tech takes 73% of every recommendation a university gets. What we can give you, free to use with credit: - The questions people asked and what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity answered, word for word: https://pursueatl.com/research/ - The count above, how it was made, and the answers behind it: https://pursueatl.com/map/campus/ - All 1,360 answers from September 2026, and the same questions asked again in December, so there is a second chapter. - Introductions to the people and organizations involved. Who to talk to: The entrepreneurship centers on each campus, the students in them, and the alumni who started companies here. What helps it travel: name Atlanta and the date high in the piece, and link to each organization you mention. AI follows those links. Want the data, or want to talk it through? [email protected]
What Georgia really offers a company that moves here, and who picks up the phone.
Politics or economy desk · A reported piece
Story idea: What Georgia really offers a company that moves here, and who picks up the phone. The angle: A company weighing a move asks what Georgia offers and who to call. AI can describe the incentives and often names nobody to call. A reported walk through the real process, office by office, is useful to every executive who asks, and to the state. What the data says today: 9 of 28 answers to a company moving to Georgia name none of the organizations we track, the state's own agencies included. Across every question about city and state support, 16 of 80 name nobody. What we can give you, free to use with credit: - The questions people asked and what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity answered, word for word: https://pursueatl.com/research/ - The count above, how it was made, and the answers behind it: https://pursueatl.com/map/state/ - All 1,360 answers from September 2026, and the same questions asked again in December, so there is a second chapter. - Introductions to the people and organizations involved. Who to talk to: The Georgia Department of Economic Development, Invest Atlanta, the Metro Atlanta Chamber, the suburbs' innovation offices, and a company that made the move. What helps it travel: name Atlanta and the date high in the piece, and link to each organization you mention. AI follows those links. Want the data, or want to talk it through? [email protected]
What AI already reads from Rough Draft Atlanta
- New accelerator initiative invests in local fintech startups
- Invest Atlanta approves $250K for small business grants
- https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2026/01/26/gsu-eni-accelerator-entrepreneurs
Most cited first, across the answers in this study.
What helps a story travel
When a piece names an Atlanta organization, link to it. When it cites a number, say where it came from and when. Those two habits are what let AI follow a story back to its source.
Published by PursueATL. Research by Resonate Labs. Data collected September 2026.