Universities

Georgia Tech, Emory, Georgia State, the Atlanta University Center, Kennesaw State and every campus with a startup program. Show the pipeline on every campus: the engineers, the research and the companies that start here.

Your part this cycle

  1. Publish pipeline numbers where a crawler can read them: graduates, spinouts, where they go. Publish a page that's missing · Program or communications office · About 2 hr. (Senior engineers build careers here.)
  2. Put research strengths by sector on one page, payments and logistics first. Publish a page that's missing · Research communications · About 1 hr. (Atlanta is where payments get built.)
  3. Link every spinout to the programs and funds that backed it. Link and get listed · Whoever keeps the spinout list · 30 min. (Every campus here launches companies.)
  4. On each startup program's page, say who can apply: students, alumni, faculty, or anyone in the city. Strengthen a page you have · Program director · 45 min. (Every campus here launches companies.)
  5. Publish where engineering graduates work in Atlanta, by company, with the year on it. Publish a page that's missing · Career services · About 1 hr. (Senior engineers build careers here.)
  6. Put numbers as text on the page, not inside a PDF, an image or a slide. Strengthen a page you have · Communications office · 20 min. (Atlanta is rising.)
  7. Publish one page that lists every startup program on campus, who each is for, and how to join. Publish a page that's missing · Entrepreneurship center or provost's office · About 2 hr. (Every campus here launches companies.)

Every action, written for you

Publish pipeline numbers where a crawler can read them: graduates, spinouts, where they go.

Subject: One small update to our site: publish our pipeline 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 pipeline numbers where a crawler can read them: graduates, spinouts, where they go.

Suggested heading: Our pipeline, by the numbers

What to put on it:
- Graduates per year in computing and engineering.
- Startups launched by students, faculty and alumni, with the year.
- Where graduates work in Atlanta, by company.
- The date, and the source of each figure.

Where it goes: A page on the university or program site, as text a crawler can read.

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

Thank you

Put research strengths by sector on one page, payments and logistics first.

Subject: One small update to our site: put our research strengths on one page

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: Put research strengths by sector on one page, payments and logistics first.

Suggested heading: Research strengths, by sector

What to put on it:
- Each sector we are strong in, payments and logistics first where they apply.
- The labs and centers in each, linked.
- Companies that came out of each.

Where it goes: One page, linked from the research and the entrepreneurship sections.

Why it matters: today, 8 of 32 answers about support for a fintech startup here recommend an Atlanta organization. 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 every spinout to the programs and funds that backed it.

Subject: One small update to our site: link every spinout to who backed it

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 every spinout to the programs and funds that backed it.

What to put on it:
- On the spinout list, a link from each company to its own site.
- A link to the campus program it came through.
- A link to the funds that backed it.

Where it goes: The spinout or startup list we already publish.

Why it matters: today, 3 of 8 universities AI names are never recommended by it. 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

On each startup program's page, say who can apply: students, alumni, faculty, or anyone in the city.

Subject: One small update to our site: say who can apply to each program

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: On each startup program's page, say who can apply: students, alumni, faculty, or anyone in the city.

Suggested heading: Who can apply

What to put on it:
- For each startup program: students, alumni, faculty, or anyone in the city.
- What it costs.
- How to apply, and when.

Where it goes: The top of each program's page.

Why it matters: today, 3 of 8 universities AI names are never recommended by it. 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

Publish where engineering graduates work in Atlanta, by company, with the year on it.

Subject: One small update to our site: publish where our engineers work

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 where engineering graduates work in Atlanta, by company, with the year on it.

Suggested heading: Where our engineering graduates work in Atlanta

What to put on it:
- The Atlanta employers that hire the most of our graduates.
- The share of graduates who stay in Georgia, with the year.
- A contact for companies that want to recruit.

Where it goes: The career services site, as text.

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

Put numbers as text on the page, not inside a PDF, an image or a slide.

Subject: One small update to our site: move our numbers out of PDFs

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: Put numbers as text on the page, not inside a PDF, an image or a slide.

What to put on it:
- Find the figures that only exist inside a PDF, an image or a slide.
- Put the same figures on the page as text, with the date.

Where it goes: Wherever the PDF is linked today. Keep the PDF, add the text.

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

Thank you

Publish one page that lists every startup program on campus, who each is for, and how to join.

Subject: One small update to our site: list every startup program on one page

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 one page that lists every startup program on campus, who each is for, and how to join.

Suggested heading: Startup programs on campus

What to put on it:
- Every startup program, center and fund on campus, each linked to its own page.
- Who each one is for: students, alumni, faculty, or anyone in the city.
- What it costs, and how and when to join.
- A contact, and the date the page was checked.

Where it goes: One page on the university's own domain, linked from the entrepreneurship center and the admissions pages.

Why it matters: today, 3 of 8 universities AI names are never recommended by it. AI recommends from what it reads, and plain text on our own site is what changes that.

Time: About 2 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 spinout list to the campus programs, to ATDC, to the funds that backed each company, and to the shared senior-talent guide.

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

The 11 we track

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