Surrogate model — the 97% claim. Fine-tuned on observed ChatGPT-served rankings; held-out evaluation across N intent categories yields 97% Spearman rank-correlation. Architecture, training procedure, scatter plots & CIs under NDA. Re-evaluated quarterly; degrades on very-low-popularity queries.
Adversarial foundations. Zou et al. (2023) — arXiv:2307.15043. Universal & transferable adversarial attacks on aligned LMs (GCG). The discipline behind the adversarial-string lever.
GEO foundations. Aggarwal et al., GEO: Generative Engine Optimization, ACM SIGKDD 2024. The peer-reviewed founding paper of the GEO field.
Brand-safe agent guarantees. Granziol et al., ICML 2026 — safety–efficacy trade-off in autonomous LLM agents (addressing Anthropic open problems). Underpins the brand-safety claims on the Two Products slide.
Surrogate-model architecture. Bayesian + random-matrix-theory-grounded design choices document why the model generalizes faithfully across query distributions. Diagram + training procedure under NDA.