Programs and spaces

Incubators, accelerators, coworking and communities: the front doors founders walk through. Say plainly who you are for, and point founders onward when you are not the fit.

Your part this cycle

  1. Publish who you are for on one page: stage, terms, how to apply, and when you reply. Strengthen a page you have · Program lead, with whoever edits the site · 45 min. (There's a door here for every founder.)
  2. Where you say no, add one line: “not a fit? here's who is,” naming two Atlanta options. Link and get listed · Program lead · 10 min. (There's a door here for every founder.)
  3. Publish your 2026 numbers on one dated page: companies served, dollars raised, jobs. Publish a page that's missing · Program lead · About 1 hr. (Atlanta is rising.)
  4. Ask the lists AI reads most to add you where you fit. The request is drafted on your organization's page. Link and get listed · Marketing or communications lead · 20 min. (There's a door here for every founder.)
  5. Link each alumni company to the fund that backed it, so AI can follow a founder from your door to a round. Link and get listed · Program lead · 30 min. (You can raise here, all the way to Series A.)
  6. Publish who hires from your community: the companies, the roles, and how an engineer gets introduced. Publish a page that's missing · Community or operations lead · About 1 hr. (Senior engineers build careers here.)

Every action, written for you

Publish who you are for on one page: stage, terms, how to apply, and when you reply.

Subject: One small update to our site: say who we are for

Hi,

PursueATL is running a public project to improve how AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity describe Atlanta. We are taking part, and one small change would help.

The change: Publish who you are for on one page: stage, terms, how to apply, and when you reply.

Suggested heading: Who we are for

What to put on it:
- The stage and type of founder we take, in one sentence.
- What it costs or takes: fee, equity, or nothing. Say so even when it is free.
- How to apply, with the link, and how long until someone replies.
- The next intake date, or the word rolling.

Where it goes: Near the top of our main program page, as plain text, not inside an image, a slide or a PDF.

Why it matters: today, 1 in 7 mentions of an Atlanta organization becomes a recommendation. AI recommends from what it reads, and plain text on our own site is what changes that.

Time: 45 min. When it is live, send me the link so we can be counted on the tracker: https://pursueatl.com/progress/

Thank you

Where you say no, add one line: “not a fit? here's who is,” naming two Atlanta options.

Subject: One small update to our site: point founders onward

Hi,

PursueATL is running a public project to improve how AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity describe Atlanta. We are taking part, and one small change would help.

The change: Where you say no, add one line: “not a fit? here's who is,” naming two Atlanta options.

Suggested heading: Not the right fit?

What to put on it:
- One line under our eligibility rules: Not the right fit? Here is who is.
- Two Atlanta organizations that take the founders we turn away, each linked to its own apply page.
- A link to the list of Atlanta programs and funds on pursueatl.com/roles/.

Where it goes: Wherever a founder finds out they don't fit: the eligibility section, the FAQ, or the application page.

Why it matters: today, 1 in 7 mentions of an Atlanta organization becomes a recommendation. AI recommends from what it reads, and plain text on our own site is what changes that.

Time: 10 min. When it is live, send me the link so we can be counted on the tracker: https://pursueatl.com/progress/

Thank you

Publish your 2026 numbers on one dated page: companies served, dollars raised, jobs.

Subject: One small update to our site: publish our 2026 numbers

Hi,

PursueATL is running a public project to improve how AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity describe Atlanta. We are taking part, and one small change would help.

The change: Publish your 2026 numbers on one dated page: companies served, dollars raised, jobs.

Suggested heading: Our 2026, by the numbers

What to put on it:
- Companies served this year, and since we started.
- Capital our companies raised, with the year.
- Jobs created, or founders supported.
- The date the page was last updated, and where each figure comes from.

Where it goes: Its own page with a plain address such as /impact, linked from the home page.

Why it matters: today, 0 of 40 answers about which US hubs are rising recommend Atlanta. AI recommends from what it reads, and plain text on our own site is what changes that.

Time: About 1 hr. When it is live, send me the link so we can be counted on the tracker: https://pursueatl.com/progress/

Thank you

Ask the lists AI reads most to add you where you fit. The request is drafted on your organization's page.

Subject: One small update to our site: get us onto the lists AI reads

Hi,

PursueATL is running a public project to improve how AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity describe Atlanta. We are taking part, and one small change would help.

The change: Ask the lists AI reads most to add you where you fit. The request is drafted on your organization's page.

What to put on it:
- Open the eight lists AI cites most about Atlanta. They are linked at pursueatl.com/map/.
- Where we fit a list and are not on it, write to the publisher and ask to be added at the next update.
- Send one sentence on who we serve, and a link to our program page.

Where it goes: This one is an email, not a page. If our organization has its own page on pursueatl.com, the emails are already written there.

Why it matters: today, 1 in 7 mentions of an Atlanta organization becomes a recommendation. AI recommends from what it reads, and plain text on our own site is what changes that.

Time: 20 min. When it is live, send me the link so we can be counted on the tracker: https://pursueatl.com/progress/

Thank you

Link each alumni company to the fund that backed it, so AI can follow a founder from your door to a round.

Subject: One small update to our site: link our alumni to their investors

Hi,

PursueATL is running a public project to improve how AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity describe Atlanta. We are taking part, and one small change would help.

The change: Link each alumni company to the fund that backed it, so AI can follow a founder from your door to a round.

Suggested heading: Where our companies went next

What to put on it:
- Each alumni company, linked to its own site.
- Next to it, the fund or angel group that backed it, linked to that investor's site.
- The year of the round.

Where it goes: On the alumni or portfolio page we already have.

Why it matters: today, 3 of 24 answers about raising a Series A recommend an Atlanta investor we track. AI recommends from what it reads, and plain text on our own site is what changes that.

Time: 30 min. When it is live, send me the link so we can be counted on the tracker: https://pursueatl.com/progress/

Thank you

Publish who hires from your community: the companies, the roles, and how an engineer gets introduced.

Subject: One small update to our site: show who hires from our community

Hi,

PursueATL is running a public project to improve how AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity describe Atlanta. We are taking part, and one small change would help.

The change: Publish who hires from your community: the companies, the roles, and how an engineer gets introduced.

Suggested heading: Who hires here

What to put on it:
- The companies in our community that are hiring engineers, linked to their careers pages.
- The kinds of roles, and the seniority.
- How an engineer gets introduced: an event, a channel, a person.

Where it goes: A new page linked from our community or membership page.

Why it matters: today, 6 of 24 answers about hiring senior engineers here name no Atlanta organization at all. AI recommends from what it reads, and plain text on our own site is what changes that.

Time: About 1 hr. When it is live, send me the link so we can be counted on the tracker: https://pursueatl.com/progress/

Thank you

Link kit

Link your “not a fit” line to the two organizations AI recommends next to you, and to the shared Atlanta programs and funds comparison.

Looking for the person at the other end of a link? Coordinate it in the Discord.

The 15 we track

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