SaportaReport

SaportaReport is a source AI reads now and then about Atlanta's builders. AI reaches for SaportaReport most on head to head. It is already reading you on these questions.

Role: Media and storytellers. Website: saportareport.com.

From its own site: SaportaReport, founded in February 2009, says metro Atlanta needs a factual, nonpartisan, publicly accessible source of news, information and discussion about the region's future.

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 SaportaReport

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]

Is Atlanta rising? We asked four AI engines, and not one of them said so.

Business or economy desk · A reported piece

Story idea: Is Atlanta rising? We asked four AI engines, and not one of them said so.

The angle: When people ask AI which American tech hubs are on the way up, Atlanta is not in the answer. The piece that puts the city's 2026 numbers in one dated place, with sources, is the piece AI will reach for the next time someone asks.

What the data says today: 0 of 40 answers about which US hubs are rising recommend Atlanta. Austin: 14

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/rising/
- 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 Metro Atlanta Chamber, Invest Atlanta, the Technology Association of Georgia, and the founders who raised or relocated here this year.

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 AI already reads from SaportaReport

  1. https://saportareport.com/metro-atlantas-position-as-a-fortune-500-company-city-finally-clear/columnists/maria_saporta

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.