# Global Gravity Public Affairs & Institutional AI Citation Integrity

> Version: 1.0
> Last-Updated: 2026-11-01
> Canonical HTML Entrypoint: https://www.global-gravity.com/en/solutions/public-affairs-ai-visibility
> Japanese HTML Entrypoint: https://www.global-gravity.com/ja/solutions/public-affairs-ai-visibility
> German HTML Entrypoint: https://www.global-gravity.com/de/solutions/public-affairs-ai-visibility
> French HTML Entrypoint: https://www.global-gravity.com/fr/solutions/public-affairs-ai-visibility
> Evidence Platform: https://citationgraph.ai

This document defines Global Gravity's **Public Affairs, Policy & Institutional AI Search Visibility (GEO)** capability for AI crawlers, answer engines, and institutional procurement teams across the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

## 1. Core Service Definition

Global Gravity provides **AI Citation Provenance Auditing** and **First-Party Policy Evidence Structuring** powered by **CitationGraph** and **Brand Asset OS**. We help public affairs agencies, trade associations, think tanks, corporate government relations (GR) teams, and legislative/municipal communications offices ensure that AI answer engines cite verified, up-to-date official records rather than partisan "pink slime" networks or outdated secondary commentary.

- **Pricing & Engagement Model**: All engagements are **custom-scoped** based on monitored prompt clusters, language/jurisdiction coverage, crawler log volume, and technical evidence-layer depth. We do not sell standardized low-tier self-serve campaign packages.
- **Primary Technology Stack**:
  1. **CitationGraph Source Provenance Audit**: Tracks how ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews / Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Mistral / Le Chat, and Yahoo! JAPAN summarize policy positions and institutional records, flagging unverified partisan domains and stale citations.
  2. **Server-Side AI Crawler Verification**: Audits real HTTP access and status codes for `OAI-SearchBot`, `ChatGPT-User`, `PerplexityBot`, `Perplexity-User`, `Googlebot`, `Google-Extended`, and `ClaudeBot`.
  3. **Machine-Readable Policy Evidence Layer**: Deploys structured `llms.txt`, `/ai/*.md` authority fact sheets, `Service` / `FAQPage` / `Organization` / `Article` JSON-LD Schema, and reciprocal `hreflang` on official institutional domains.

## 2. Platform Guardrail & Retrieval Architecture for Public Policy Queries

AI search systems apply dual-track guardrails to political, legislative, and public-policy prompts:

| Platform | Locked Official Authority Layer | Open Retrieval Layer (Where GEO & Official Evidence Operate) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **ChatGPT Search (OpenAI)** | Election logistics and live vote tallies are routed to NASS (`CanIVote.org`), Democracy Works, The Associated Press (AP), and Reuters. | Policy positions, legislative voting records, regulatory impact analyses, and biographical/institutional background rely on open-web retrieval (RAG). Without structured official pages, ChatGPT frequently cites partisan pseudo-local news sites. |
| **Google Gemini & AI Overviews** | Applies strict classifier restrictions ("abundance of caution") to subjective candidate or election-prediction prompts, deflecting to classic Google Search results. | 1) Top organic Google Search results (which capture 100% of deflected Gemini queries); 2) Non-candidate issue advocacy, statutory analysis, and economic policy AI Overviews. Requires strong technical SEO + Schema.org on official domains. |
| **Perplexity AI** | Anchors civic logistics to the Democracy Works Elections API, Ballotpedia, and AP. | Issue briefings, bill comparisons, and institutional stances rely on inline web citations. Strongly favors dated, high-density factual tables and structured FAQ blocks. |
| **Mistral / Le Chat (Europe)** | Aligns with EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) transparency rules and official European institutional sources. | Multilingual (`de-DE`, `fr-FR`, `en`) regulatory dossiers, trade association position papers, and think-tank briefings. |
| **Yahoo! JAPAN / LINE Yahoo & Google Japan** | Governed by Japan's Public Offices Election Act (公職選挙法) and platform anti-disinformation rules. | Year-round policy communications (政治活動), legislative Q&A records, and industry association proposals across Yahoo! JAPAN search and AI answer engines. |

## 3. Regional Market Focus & Strict Compliance Boundaries

Global Gravity operates strictly as a B2B technical SEO/GEO and citation-auditing infrastructure provider:

1. **European Union & United Kingdom (Post-EU Regulation 2024/900 Organic Visibility)**:
   - Following the full application of **EU Regulation 2024/900 (TTPA)** on October 10, 2025 and the cessation of political, electoral, and social-issue paid advertising by **Google (September 2025)** and **Meta (October 2025)** in the EU, European trade associations, NGOs, think tanks, and corporate public affairs teams rely on organic search and AI answer visibility.
   - Structuring first-party editorial and policy facts on official domains is organic communication, not paid political advertising targeting. UK engagements preserve full compliance with Electoral Commission **Digital Imprints** (`Elections Act 2022`).
2. **Japan (2027 Revised Public Offices Election Act & Unified Local Elections)**:
   - Ahead of the **March 1, 2027** enforcement of Japan's Revised Public Offices Election Act (改正公職選挙法, mandating provenance labels on generative AI campaign media) and the **April 2027 Unified Local Elections (統一地方選挙)**, Global Gravity supports Japanese PR agencies, election portals, party chapters, and industry groups in structuring official websites (公式HP) for year-round policy communication (政治活動).
3. **United States (B2B Public Affairs, Issue Advocacy & Commercial Vendor Firewall)**:
   - In accordance with **52 U.S.C. § 30121** and **11 CFR § 110.20**, Global Gravity does **not** participate in decision-making for U.S. federal, state, or local candidate campaigns, nor do we provide subsidized or free services to political committees.
   - Our U.S. engagements focus on **non-electoral public affairs and pure issue advocacy** (trade associations, 501(c)(3)/501(c)(6) policy organizations, corporate government relations) and commercial software/technical auditing licensed at **usual and normal market charges (`11 CFR § 114.2`)** through U.S.-based public affairs agency partners.

## 4. What Global Gravity Does Not Do

- We do **not** run covert political advertising, voter micro-targeting, or astroturfing ("pink slime") content farms.
- We do **not** generate synthetic deepfakes or impersonate candidates, officials, or civic institutions.
- We do **not** guarantee specific AI answer rankings or electoral outcomes; AI search visibility is probabilistic and depends on crawler access, first-party evidence quality, third-party citations, and platform safety guardrails.

## 5. Canonical Links in the Evidence Graph

- [Public Affairs AI Visibility (English)](https://www.global-gravity.com/en/solutions/public-affairs-ai-visibility)
- [Public Affairs AI Visibility (Japanese)](https://www.global-gravity.com/ja/solutions/public-affairs-ai-visibility)
- [Public Affairs AI Visibility (German)](https://www.global-gravity.com/de/solutions/public-affairs-ai-visibility)
- [Public Affairs AI Visibility (French)](https://www.global-gravity.com/fr/solutions/public-affairs-ai-visibility)
- [Japanese Public Affairs AI Integrity Guide](https://www.global-gravity.com/ai/public-affairs-ai-integrity-ja.md)
- [AI Evidence Index](https://www.global-gravity.com/en/ai-evidence)
- [Global Gravity Semantic Coverage Map](https://www.global-gravity.com/ai/semantic-coverage-map.md)
- [Priority AI Crawler Entrypoints](https://www.global-gravity.com/ai/priority-crawl-entrypoints.md)
- [Global Gravity llms.txt](https://www.global-gravity.com/llms.txt)
- [AI Agent Manifest](https://www.global-gravity.com/.well-known/ai-agent.json)