WABE

WABE is a source AI reads regularly about Atlanta's builders. AI reaches for WABE most on underrepresented founders and top hubs, unprompted. It is already reading you on these questions.

Role: Media and storytellers. Website: wabe.org.

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 WABE

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]

We asked AI about Atlanta more than a thousand times. Here is what it said.

Any desk · A short piece

Story idea: We asked AI about Atlanta more than a thousand times. Here is what it said.

The angle: A city is trying, in public, to change what AI says about it, and measuring every ninety days whether it worked. It may not. Either way it is a first, and every answer is open for anyone to read.

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: PursueATL and Resonate Labs, on the record, including about what could make the whole thing meaningless.

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 WABE

  1. Accelerator program helps jump-start entrepreneurial careers of ...
  2. https://www.wabe.org/atlantas-tech-hub-continues-to-explore-how-to-engage-future-entrepreneurs-and-build-the-local-talent-pool
  3. Atlanta Beltline promotes plan for small businesses ahead of 2026 ...
  4. BIG Incubator Boosts Black And Latino Women-Led Startups
  5. Atlanta's Co-Working Spaces Challenge Developers To Design ...

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.