Media and storytellers

Newsrooms, magazines, newsletters, public radio and the podcasts that cover how Atlanta works and who is building it. 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

Is Atlanta rising? We asked four AI engines, and not one of them said so. Publish a page that's missing · Business or economy desk · A reported piece. (Atlanta is rising.)
AI sends most student founders to one campus. What is being built on the others? Publish a page that's missing · Education or metro desk · A feature. (Every campus here launches companies.)
What Georgia really offers a company that moves here, and who picks up the phone. Publish a page that's missing · Politics or economy desk · A reported piece. (Georgia backs the companies that build here.)
Can a startup raise a Series A without leaving Atlanta? Publish a page that's missing · Business desk · A reported piece. (You can raise here, all the way to Series A.)
Where Atlanta's senior engineers actually work, and who is hiring them. Publish a page that's missing · Business or technology desk · A feature. (Senior engineers build careers here.)
Transaction Alley in 2026 numbers: what is processed here, by whom, and who is starting up next to them. Publish a page that's missing · Business desk · An explainer. (Atlanta is where payments get built.)
A field guide to Atlanta's front doors: who each program, fund and space is really for. Link and get listed · Startup or community desk · A guide, kept current. (There's a door here for every founder.)
We asked AI about Atlanta more than a thousand times. Here is what it said. Publish a page that's missing · Any desk · A short piece. (Atlanta is rising.)

Each idea, with the data behind it

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

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?

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.

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]

Can a startup raise a Series A without leaving Atlanta?

Story idea: Can a startup raise a Series A without leaving Atlanta?

The angle: Founders asking whether they must leave for a Series A lead mostly hear yes. Who has led rounds here, at what size, and who flew in? The answer, with names and dates, does not exist in one place.

What the data says today: 3 of 24 answers about raising a Series A recommend an Atlanta investor we track. An investor comparing regions hears Atlanta recommended in 7 of 84 answers. Austin: 17.

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/capital/
- 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: Atlanta's venture funds, Venture Atlanta, and founders who closed a Series A in the last two years.

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]

Where Atlanta's senior engineers actually work, and who is hiring them.

Story idea: Where Atlanta's senior engineers actually work, and who is hiring them.

The angle: Ask AI how to hire senior engineers in Atlanta, or whether to take a job here, and it rarely recommends anyone here to talk to. Where do experienced engineers actually work in this city, and what do they earn against what it costs to live here?

What the data says today: 6 of 24 answers about hiring senior engineers here name no Atlanta organization at all. A senior engineer weighing an offer hears Atlanta recommended in 3 of 44 answers. Austin: 11.

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/talent/
- 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: Engineering leaders at Atlanta's largest technology employers, the universities' career offices, and engineers who moved 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]

Transaction Alley in 2026 numbers: what is processed here, by whom, and who is starting up next to them.

Story idea: Transaction Alley in 2026 numbers: what is processed here, by whom, and who is starting up next to them.

The angle: Payments is the reason AI gives most often for naming Atlanta at all. Yet ask what a fintech founder should do here and few answers recommend an Atlanta program or fund. The sector story, told in current numbers, connects the two.

What the data says today: 8 of 32 answers about support for a fintech startup here recommend an Atlanta organization. Payments is still the reason AI gives most for naming Atlanta: 231 answers

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/fintech/
- 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: FinTech Atlanta, the ATDC fintech program, the payments companies headquartered here, and the founders who left them to start up.

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]

A field guide to Atlanta's front doors: who each program, fund and space is really for.

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]

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

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]

Publications, each with ideas chosen for it

Publications only, never individual writers.

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.

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The 2 we track

Hypepotamus: Not yet in the picture
Atlanta Inno: Not yet in the picture

Published by PursueATL. Research by Resonate Labs. Data collected September 2026.