Featured Title

Recognized Before Recommended

How Businesses Get Found, Understood, and Chosen When AI Gives the Answer

Front cover of Recognized Before Recommended by Dean Jessop
Published by Bold Quill Publishing

Recognized Before Recommended

A practical examination of what happens before a business reaches the shortlist when AI gives the answer.

Customers can now ask one complete question and receive a direct response without first opening a page full of choices. That changes what it means for a business to be found.

The book introduces Recognized Before Recommended (RBR), Retrieval Engine Guidance (REG) and the Digital Handshake as plain-language ways to examine whether a business is identified correctly, whether the right facts can be retrieved and whether the customer can take the next step.

Featured Author

Dean Jessop

Dean Jessop is a Canadian entrepreneur, business builder, author and founder and CEO of IRefer Club. His work focuses on business discovery and the changing relationship between businesses and the people looking for them.

Recognized Before Recommended continues his work of translating technological change into direct, practical language for people operating businesses and supporting their visibility.

About Dean Jessop

Book Details

First edition · 2026

ISBN 9798997824228 · ASIN B0HH2PBKPB · 211 pages

RBR, REG and the Digital Handshake are author-developed concepts. They are not official systems of any search or AI platform and do not guarantee ranking, inclusion or recommendation.

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