CEO Authority Sprint
The people deciding about you have already looked you up.
They have typed your name into an AI engine. They received an answer in seconds.
That answer is now the first impression of you. It was assembled automatically from whatever is publicly indexed about you. You did not write it. You did not approve it. You may not know what it says.
And it is shaping how you are read before you have said a word.
The gap you cannot see until it costs you
You are respected inside your organisation. The people who know you understand what you have built, how you think, and what you are capable of.
The people who do not know you yet are forming a different picture.
Your potential customers look you up before they sign. Your existing customers look you up before they renew. Strategic partners look you up before they agree to the meeting. Investors look you up before they take the call.
They all start in the same place: an AI engine, a search bar, and thirty seconds of attention.
This is what one AI engine returned when asked about a senior executive at a major European company with years of seven-digit EBIT impact behind them:
"This person doesn't appear to be a known public figure or widely documented individual based on available information."
That is the answer their next customer received. That is the first impression that preceded the meeting that never happened.
You will not always know what you lost. That is the most expensive part.
This is not visibility. This is verifiability.
Right now, if the record has not been structured deliberately, two things are happening at once.
The people who matter cannot find you clearly. The ones who do find something are reading a version of you you did not write, did not approve, and may not recognise.
AI engines assemble an answer from what is publicly available. That answer may be incomplete. It may be outdated. It may emphasise the wrong things. You have no view of what it says, and no control over what it does to the conversation before you enter it.
This is not a gap in marketing. It is a gap in the public record, the place where trust is concluded or quietly withheld. Every day it exists, someone else is writing the version of you that the next serious buyer will read.
You do not need to be famous. You need to own what is found when serious people look. Findable, accurate, and clearly yours.
Most accomplished CEOs are not in that position. Not because they lack substance, but because the substance has never been structured for the public record.
The CEO Authority Sprint builds the record that the next serious buyer will find. In 90 days.
What the Sprint builds
HMG's in-house creative team builds the foundational components of your public record across seven domains. Every component is designed with one purpose: that when the people deciding about you look, they find a coherent, credible answer you have authored.
01. Positioning and strategy:
The leadership narrative that becomes the spine of everything else. Extracted from how you actually think and lead. Structured so that AI engines can carry it accurately.
02. Stories:
The specific perspectives, frameworks, and decisions that make your positioning searchable and credible. Written by HMG's journalist in close working sessions with you.
03. Personal website:
Your owned, permanent, AI-indexed infrastructure. The only digital surface you fully control. The hub that every other surface points to.
04. Brand video:
Your leadership perspective on film. Shot on professional cinema equipment. Designed to be cited, embedded, and indexed.
05. Photography:
Professional imagery used across your website, LinkedIn, press materials, and AI-indexed image results. Most CEOs are still using a photo from a corporate event three years ago.
06. Content shoot and podcast:
A fully produced podcast recording handled end-to-end by the Studio. One recording produces a month of indexed content and one new strategic relationship at the same time.
07. Activation
The Sprint does not end when the assets are built. HMG manages 6 to 8 weeks of social media distribution following the build phase. This is the period when the infrastructure begins to work, and your narrative starts reaching the right people consistently.
What movement looks like
One client. Partner of a Service Company in the Netherlands. Four months.
She started at 15.1 on the CEO Authority Score. Silent Operator. Substantial capability, invisible outside her organisation. No owned narrative visible. No ownership or control over what people found when they searched for her.
Four months later: 76.0. Respected Authority. Above the top 5% benchmark for European executives. Three of five dimensions moved from zero to above 75. Every major AI engine now returns a sourced, coherent professional summary when her name is searched. Her owned domain appears in Google results alongside her firm. Her narrative has a spine. She owns what people see.
In her words:
"You helped me find a language to put them, and with that, me, out there. It made accessible the value of those things that, for me, are bread and butter, and therefore hard to identify, let alone think about the value of sharing. It made clear to me how to articulate the trustworthy authenticity of myself."
Before the Sprint, the systems that mattered could not find her story, and she had no control over what they said instead.
Now she does.
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One client. CEO of an Industrial Technology Company in Germany. Six months.
She started at 21.3 on the CEO Authority Score. Emerging Voice. A career built across three decades of complex industrial transitions, cross-border operating roles, and board mandates, but a personal layer that was beginning, not yet structured. The capability was visible inside the company. Outside, it was not.
Six months later: 74.6. Respected Authority. Above the top 5% benchmark for European executives. The owned property moved from zero to 56. Narrative Clarity reached 85, the highest of the five dimensions, because the spine of the work, clarity matters when complexity increases, is what made every other surface possible. AI engines now hold a coherent answer to the question "who is she?" and that answer holds across Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Authority is built. Each dimension compounds when the structure carries the weight.
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What happens next
At the end of the Sprint, you have the foundational record in place, six to eight weeks of distribution data, and early evidence of how AI engines now read you. Most importantly, you own what people find. What they find is accurate, coherent, and yours.
For CEOs who want to keep building and compounding that record over 12 months, the CEO Authority Programme is the natural next step. The Sprint investment carries forward in full.
The starting point
Every Sprint begins with the CEO Authority Audit, conducted as the first phase of the engagement. The Audit establishes the baseline across all five dimensions, shows precisely what the public record currently says, and defines what the Sprint is built to close.
If the Audit has already been completed separately, that EUR 2,500 carries forward in full.
Investment: by conversation.
Your time commitment: approximately two hours per month.