Most people pitch stories. We build authority.

We collaborate with media so our relationships on both sides of the story help our clients get coverage that actually lands. Then we build the digital infrastructure that makes that coverage impossible to miss.

Jason Erkes — Authority Architects

Authority isn't given. It's architected.

When someone searches your name — in Google, in ChatGPT, in Perplexity, or in a newsroom — what they find determines whether they trust you, hire you, or move on. Most people leave that to chance. We don't. We collaborate with media, not for them. Our relationships on both sides of the story are how clients get coverage that actually lands.
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Media

Earned press coverage from credible outlets is the foundation of authority. It creates the third-party validation that no owned channel can manufacture — and the citations that everything else is built on.

Story development & media pitching
Reporter & editor relationships
Spokesperson preparation & media training
Press release development & distribution
Broadcast & podcast placement
Trade & industry press
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Authority

Awards, recognition programs, Wikipedia, and Knowledge Panels signal to the world — and to every AI platform — that you are a credible, established figure in your field. We build and manage every surface that shapes that signal.

Award nomination submissions
Industry recognition programs
Biography development
Wikipedia presence & accuracy
Google Knowledge Panel management
LLM & AI search visibility
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Structure

The technical infrastructure that makes your credibility impossible to miss. Schema markup, indexing, entity records, and email authentication — the layer most firms never touch and most executives never know exists.

Schema markup & structured data
Google Search Console & indexing
Entity recognition & knowledge graphs
Email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
Sitemap & crawlability optimization
Legacy profile cleanup

What authority actually looks like when it's built right.

Earned Media
Your name in the right outlets.

A byline in PRWeek. A quote in the Wall Street Journal. A segment on a major market TV station. Coverage that reporters, investors, and clients find when they search your name — and trust because they didn't get it from you.

Awards & Recognition
Industry validation that follows you.

Industry awards are not just trophies — they are citations that show up in Wikipedia, in Knowledge Panels, and in every AI-generated summary of who you are. Most executives don't know which awards they qualify for. We find them, build the submissions, and manage the process.

Wikipedia & Knowledge Panels
The first thing AI reads about you.

When ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google summarizes who you are, it starts with Wikipedia and your Knowledge Panel. If those are wrong, outdated, or missing — everything downstream is wrong too.

Structured Data
The infrastructure nobody sees — until it's missing.

Schema markup, entity records, Wikidata, and indexed properties tell every search engine and AI platform exactly who you are and why you matter. Without it, even the best press coverage gets lost.

The credentials to build yours come from years of building our own.

Jason Erkes is the founder of Authority Architects. For 30 years he has been in the rooms where reputations are made and lost — as a television journalist who earned an Emmy breaking news under deadline, as a political strategist who earned a Reed Award navigating campaigns where the stakes were real, and as a Chief Communications Officer who led communications for a nationally recognized company through rapid growth and relentless scrutiny.

He has conducted hundreds of media interviews with outlets from CNN to The New York Times — not as a subject, but as the person who put his clients in front of the camera and made sure they were ready. He understands how reporters think, what editors want, and what makes a story worth telling. That's not something you learn in a PR course. It's something you earn over decades.

Today he applies those three decades to one problem: the gap between who his clients actually are and how they show up in the world. He builds the earned media presence, the digital authority infrastructure, and the structured data that closes that gap — permanently.

Jason Erkes — Media appearances, CNN, WGN, speaking engagements
Jason has been seen in/on:
The New York Times, Forbes, Politico, Fox Business, Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Crain's, NBC, The Economist, Inc., Newsweek, CBS, FOX, ABC, CNN
Emmy Award
Emmy Award Winner
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences — Fox News Chicago
Reed Award
Reed Award for Political Media Strategy
Campaigns & Elections Magazine
MarCom
MarCom Platinum Award
Public relations campaign excellence
Crain's
40 Under 40 — Rising Star
Crain's Chicago Business
Inc.
Inc. Best-Led Company
Chief Communications Officer, leadership team
Media
Hundreds of Media Interviews
CNN, The New York Times, WGN TV, and major market outlets nationwide
Media
Media Contributor
Appears in media discussing reputation management and AI trends
30 Years
Three Decades in Communications
TV journalism · Political strategy · Corporate communications · PR
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