Operator: Claude Code (Cowork, scheduled)

Window: Saturday 16 May 2026, weekend bonus run (Day -2 before the formal Mon May 18 start)

Mode: Verify Run 1 still live, deepen the AI citation baseline, expand competitive intel, build an ICP-matched prospect list, surface what the May 6 Google AI Overviews update changes for the plan. No production writes (git push to remote still blocked from Run 1; nothing to ship until Shilika cherry-picks 499bbae).

TL;DR

Run 1's foundation is still live: robots.txt (24 user-agent blocks, last-modified 2026-05-15 12:05 UTC), llms.txt (200 OK, served as text/markdown), sitemap.xml (9 URLs, all lastmod=2026-05-15, cached via Vercel edge). No regression since Run 2.

Google shipped a meaningful AI Overviews / AI Mode update on May 6 2026 (10 days ago, confirmed via TechCrunch, Nieman Lab, 9to5Google). Three changes that bear on this plan:

  1. Subscribed-publication highlighting — AI Overviews now visibly flag when a cited source is one the searcher subscribes to (Nieman Lab). For a Web3/AI founder buying PR, that means Forbes / CoinDesk / The Block placements become more valuable than already-priced-in, because the AI engine now annotates the citation. Tier-1 outlet pursuit thesis confirmed.
  2. Reddit + forum perspective injection — AI Mode and AI Overviews now include "a preview of perspectives from public online discussions, social media, and other firsthand sources" (TechCrunch). Reddit citations were already ~46.7% of Perplexity's source list (per Run 2). This pulls Week 9 task 9.5 (seeding 10 authentic Reddit / HN / Lenny's answers) materially forward in priority — Reddit is now a Google citation surface too, not just a Perplexity one.
  3. In-line citation placement — links now sit "right next to the relevant generated text" rather than in a side panel (9to5Google). Implication: sentence-level claim/citation alignment matters more than page-level. Every named stat ("50+ protocols", "100K+ mentions/quarter") needs to be immediately adjacent to a sourceable line, not buried in a paragraph.

AI citation baseline re-run across 8 expanded buyer queries: Shilika still cited zero times across all of them. The competitive set is consolidating around High Vibe PR (now explicitly marketing "LLM visibility" / GEO), EAK Digital, MarketAcross, Coinbound, Lunar Strategy, NinjaPromo, Outset, Chainbull. For cybersecurity: Otrenix, Crackle PR, 10Fold, 100Signals, Corporate Ink, CyberTheory, Merritt Group. For AI startup PR: SlicedBrand, MVPR, Mission North, Highwire, Method, Bospar.

The direct competitive threat is High Vibe PR — they're the only Web3 PR firm openly positioning around "AI Search Visibility" (LLMO) and they already rank for that angle. Shilika's GEO/AEO build needs to ship before HVPR locks the category.

ICP prospect intelligence: pulled 25+ recently funded Web3 / AI / cybersecurity startups from April–May 2026. ICP-matched shortlist of 12 is in the table below — companies that fit "recently funded, low Google presence, expanding" and map cleanly to one of the three Shilika service lines.

Production verification — Run 1 still live

Asset HTTP Last-Modified Note
/robots.txt 200 2026-05-15 12:05 UTC 24 user-agent blocks; 19 AI crawlers explicitly allowed; cached 86,400s
/llms.txt 200 2026-05-15 Served as text/markdown; charset=utf-8; H1 + blockquote pitch + curated links
/sitemap.xml 200 2026-05-15 9 URLs (homepage, blog, testimonials, articles 1–6); priority raised on articles 4–6 to 0.9
Homepage / 200 2026-05-15 Schema graph + meta + OG all intact; 307 → www.shilikajain.com (clean redirect)
Vercel edge HIT — gzip, HSTS max-age=63072000, cache-control correct

No regression since Run 2 (24 hours ago). Run 1 commit 499bbae is still local-only — the Shilika push action is the only remaining blocker for the new title/meta rewrites to ship.

What changed in search since Run 2 (May 6 → 16, 2026)

Google AI Overviews / AI Mode — May 6 2026 update (confirmed 10 days ago)

Three changes worth building against, all confirmed by multiple independent sources (TechCrunch, Nieman Lab, 9to5Google, Google blog):

Change What it does Implication for the 90-day plan
Subscribed-publication callouts If the searcher subscribes to a cited outlet, the AI Overview visibly flags it Tier-1 placements (Forbes, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, The Block, Blockworks) now have a second-order value beyond the link. Sales narrative: "placed in publications your buyer already pays for." Use this line in /services/ai-startup-pr and /services/web3-pr-campaigns.
Reddit + forum perspective injection AI Mode now pulls "firsthand" voice from Reddit, Hacker News, niche forums into the answer body Move Week 9 task 9.5 (seed 10 authentic Reddit / r/cryptocurrency / r/startups / HN answers) into Week 5 prep. Build a 6-week posting cadence, not a one-shot sprint. Cite shilikajain.com playbook posts where on-topic. The user objective "find more leads" depends on this — Reddit is now where AI engines look for buyer-perspective signal.
In-line citation placement Citations sit immediately next to the generated text they support, not in a side panel Sentence-level claim/citation alignment beats page-level. Every named stat in a Shilika post must be one sentence away from a sourceable line (link or quote). Audit pass on article-4, article-5, article-6 needed: pull every stat to its own line with a publication tag in brackets.

Other items confirmed this week