PRception

Sarah Kemp, Narrative Architect and Founder, SJK Labs

If your brand isn't optimised for AI search, you’re already invisible. For decades, companies managed human perception through traditional PR. Today, you must master machine interpretation. PRception is the podcast exploring how people, organisations, and AI engines decide what matters. Hosted by Sarah Kemp (Narrative Architect & Founder of SJK Labs), each episode breaks down the shifting architecture of trust, influence, and AI era visibility. Tune in to hear researchers, founders, and communications leaders reveal: How AI systems crawl, interpret, and cite brand evidenceWhy traditional pitch strategies are destroying investor and media trustPractical frameworks to future proof your organisational reputation Subscribe to stay visible in the AI era. Discover more at prceptionmedia.com.

Episodes

  1. 7 Aug

    Big Tech Is Selling Prediction as “Intelligence” with Stephanie Antonian, Director at Aestora

    Never miss a beat with BONUS episode content! Sign up for PRception briefing - https://prceptionmedia.com/subscribe AI predicts patterns. Big Tech sells that capability using the language of intelligence, rationality and reasoning. Sarah Kemp, Narrative Architect and Founder of SJK Labs, speaks with Stephanie Antonian, founder of Aestora, whose career has included helping to establish DeepMind’s ethics team and working at Google X. Stephanie challenges the idea that today’s AI systems think like humans. She explains why describing prediction as reasoning is a powerful marketing decision, and why the language used around AI shapes what society is willing to trust machines to do. They explore the difference between what is probable and what is possible, the danger of allowing machines to make judgements about people, and why the current “AI revolution” may need to become a human renaissance instead. This is a provocative conversation about intelligence, trust, power and what technology cannot decide for us. PRception is a podcast about how authority actually forms. Before anyone makes a decision, they decide what feels credible, what they trust and what they believe. Now AI is changing how that happens, before anyone speaks to you. Hosted by Sarah Kemp, narrative architect and founder of SJK Labs. Subscribe for conversations about credibility, authority, AI discoverability and the evidence that shapes who gets trusted, shortlisted and chosen. CONNECT: sarah@sjklabs.co / www.linkedin.com/in/sarahjkemp

  2. 23 Jul

    AI Is Reading the Reviews Your Marketing Team Ignores with Katya Rozenoer, Co-Founder & CEO, Blastra

    Never miss a beat with BONUS episode content! Sign up for PRception briefing - https://prceptionmedia.com/subscribe A neglected review profile is not merely a customer service problem. To an AI system researching your company, it can become evidence. Sarah Kemp, Narrative Architect and Founder of SJK Labs, speaks with Katya Rozenoer, co-founder and CEO of Blastra, about the overlooked sources shaping AI’s opinion of software companies. They explore why directories, reviews, Reddit discussions and other independent signals matter; how unanswered complaints can become a reputational time bomb; and why outdated product profiles undermine the story a company tells about itself. Katya also explains why influencing AI requires more than publishing polished content. If your external evidence contradicts your brand narrative, AI can find the contradiction. This episode is for B2B marketers, software founders and reputation leaders trying to understand how their company is being judged outside its own website. PRception is a podcast about how authority actually forms. Before anyone makes a decision, they decide what feels credible, what they trust and what they believe. Now AI is changing how that happens, before anyone speaks to you. Hosted by Sarah Kemp, narrative architect and founder of SJK Labs. Subscribe for conversations about credibility, authority, AI discoverability and the evidence that shapes who gets trusted, shortlisted and chosen. CONNECT: sarah@sjklabs.co / www.linkedin.com/in/sarahjkemp

  3. 23 Jul

    The Pitch Mistakes That Destroy Investor Trust with Tingting Peng, Operator/Advisor/Investor

    Never miss a beat with BONUS episode content! Sign up for PRception briefing - https://prceptionmedia.com/subscribe A polished pitch can win attention. It cannot survive a second, third and fourth question if the underlying story does not hold together. Sarah Kemp, Narrative Architect and Founder of SJK Labs, speaks with Tingting Peng, who has sat on both sides of the table as an operator, fundraiser and investor. They examine the behaviours that build, or destroy, credibility during a pitch: redirecting questions instead of answering them, performing confidence, hiding what has not worked and making claims without sufficient evidence. Tingting explains why intellectual honesty is more persuasive than pretending to have every answer, how customer stories allow other people to sell on your behalf, and why credibility is ultimately operational. It lives in what you consistently do, including when nobody important appears to be watching. This episode is for founders, executives and advisers who need people to believe the business behind the presentation. PRception is a podcast about how authority actually forms. Before anyone makes a decision, they decide what feels credible, what they trust and what they believe. Now AI is changing how that happens, before anyone speaks to you. Hosted by Sarah Kemp, narrative architect and founder of SJK Labs. Subscribe for conversations about credibility, authority, AI discoverability and the evidence that shapes who gets trusted, shortlisted and chosen. CONNECT: sarah@sjklabs.co / www.linkedin.com/in/sarahjkemp

  4. 29 Jun

    Only 2% of PR Targets Match the Sources AI Cites with Iskren Lilov, Global Marketing Lead, Muck Rack

    Never miss a beat with BONUS episode content! Sign up for PRception briefing - https://prceptionmedia.com/subscribe PR teams are pitching one set of sources. AI is citing another. Muck Rack research found just 2% overlap between the journalists PR teams pitch most and those AI engines cite when discussing their brands. Sarah Kemp, Narrative Architect and Founder of SJK Labs, speaks with Iskren Lilov about what this means for media strategy, AI visibility and PR measurement. They explore why recent, niche and context rich coverage matters; why publishers that restrict AI crawling still matter to human audiences; and why AI must be treated as an additional stakeholder, not the only one. They also confront a bigger measurement problem - if AI visibility becomes another vanity metric, has the industry learned anything from impressions and AVEs? This is a practical conversation for PR leaders, communications teams and founders trying to build authority with both humans and machines. PRception is a podcast about how authority actually forms. Before anyone makes a decision, they decide what feels credible, what they trust and what they believe. Now AI is changing how that happens, before anyone speaks to you. Hosted by Sarah Kemp, narrative architect and founder of SJK Labs. Subscribe for conversations about credibility, authority, AI discoverability and the evidence that shapes who gets trusted, shortlisted and chosen. CONNECT: sarah@sjklabs.co / www.linkedin.com/in/sarahjkemp

  5. 29 Jun

    What Makes Content Valuable When Everyone Has AI? with Rick Martin, Content Director, Michael Page

    Never miss a beat with BONUS episode content! Sign up for PRception briefing - https://prceptionmedia.com/subscribe AI can produce generic content at a scale that once required entire teams. That does not make the content valuable. Sarah Kemp, Narrative Architect and Founder of SJK Labs, speaks with Rick Martin, Global Content Director at PageGroup, about what happens when everyone has access to the same content-production cheat code. Rick’s career began in a “content sweatshop,” producing and editing 30 SEO articles a day. Now he leads content strategy in a world where an LLM can generate that volume almost instantly. They discuss why more content no longer creates an advantage, why businesses should be cautious about placing every bet on GEO, and what makes original research involving 60,000 people fundamentally different from something generated in an afternoon. The challenge is no longer producing content. It is producing something credible, useful and difficult for a competitor to recreate with the same prompt. PRception is a podcast about how authority actually forms. Before anyone makes a decision, they decide what feels credible, what they trust and what they believe. Now AI is changing how that happens, before anyone speaks to you. Hosted by Sarah Kemp, narrative architect and founder of SJK Labs. Subscribe for conversations about credibility, authority, AI discoverability and the evidence that shapes who gets trusted, shortlisted and chosen. CONNECT: sarah@sjklabs.co / www.linkedin.com/in/sarahjkemp

  6. 29 Jun

    Why Shiny AI Pilots Don’t Transform a Business with Yemi Olagbaiye, Director AI Advisory at Tessiant

    Never miss a beat with BONUS episode content! Sign up for PRception briefing - https://prceptionmedia.com/subscribe Most organisations do not lack AI ideas. They lack the operating model, ownership and behaviour change required to turn those ideas into value. Sarah Kemp, Narrative Architect and Founder of SJK Labs, speaks with Yemi Olagbaiye about what he calls “AI theatre”: borrowing the language of transformation without doing the difficult work needed to change how the business operates. They discuss why “What is our AI strategy?” is often the wrong question; why a successful pilot proves very little without changes to workflows and decisions; and why leadership requires taste, focus and courage—not merely faster adoption. Yemi also examines what humans contribute in an agentic workplace, how apprenticeships may need to change, why company websites are losing control of the corporate narrative and what it would take to build a genuinely connected, thinking organisation. This episode is for leaders who want AI to change business performance—not simply improve the story told in the boardroom. PRception is a podcast about how authority actually forms. Before anyone makes a decision, they decide what feels credible, what they trust and what they believe. Now AI is changing how that happens, before anyone speaks to you. Hosted by Sarah Kemp, narrative architect and founder of SJK Labs. Subscribe for conversations about credibility, authority, AI discoverability and the evidence that shapes who gets trusted, shortlisted and chosen. CONNECT: sarah@sjklabs.co / www.linkedin.com/in/sarahjkemp

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If your brand isn't optimised for AI search, you’re already invisible. For decades, companies managed human perception through traditional PR. Today, you must master machine interpretation. PRception is the podcast exploring how people, organisations, and AI engines decide what matters. Hosted by Sarah Kemp (Narrative Architect & Founder of SJK Labs), each episode breaks down the shifting architecture of trust, influence, and AI era visibility. Tune in to hear researchers, founders, and communications leaders reveal: How AI systems crawl, interpret, and cite brand evidenceWhy traditional pitch strategies are destroying investor and media trustPractical frameworks to future proof your organisational reputation Subscribe to stay visible in the AI era. Discover more at prceptionmedia.com.