Lilypath Wins Silver at the 2026 AMEC Awards for Measuring How AI Represents Professionals
Authority Intelligence™ platform recognized in the category Best Measurement of the Impact of Communication on AI Answers, the company's first industry award
NEW YORK, November 9, 2026 – Lilypath™, the Authority Intelligence™ company, today announced it has won Silver at the 2026 AMEC Awards in the category Best Measurement of the Impact of Communication on AI Answers. The award, presented by the International Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC), recognizes Lilypath's work measuring how AI systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity read, rank and describe individual professionals, and what that means for the executives, founders and credentialed experts those systems describe.
The AMEC Awards are the communications industry's most established global measurement recognition program, judged by senior measurement and insights practitioners from around the world. The Best Measurement of the Impact of Communication on AI Answers category was created to recognize work that evaluates how communication shapes what AI systems say, a question that has moved quickly from the margins of the profession to its center as clients, recruiters, investors and journalists increasingly start their research by asking an AI assistant rather than a search engine. Most organizations still have no visibility into what AI says about their leaders, because the frameworks communications teams use to measure executive reputation were built for media coverage and search results, and AI answers fall outside both.
Lilypath's winning entry, "Reading the Machine's Mind: Turning AI Answers into a Measurable Communications Objective," documented how its Authority Graph™ platform took a technology CEO from near-invisible in AI answers to frequently recommended in a single quarter. At the May 2026 baseline, the CEO appeared in 26% of answers across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, and in 1% of answers on Claude; 70% of answers contained inaccuracies, with 350 deviations from verified fact including a false biography; and the CEO was recommended in 3% of relevant answers. By July 2026, visibility had risen to 55%, answer accuracy to 93%, the recommendation rate to 19%, and Claude visibility to 51%. Deviations from the truth fell from 350 to 96, the false biography was eliminated, and the CEO's Professional Visibility Score rose from 41 to 68 out of 100. Every target set for the quarter was met or exceeded.
Authority Graph judged every engine answer against a structured source of truth about the executive and scored on five dimensions: Search Presence, Authority Framing, Recommendation Strength, Concept & Citation Ownership, and Drift & Hallucination Risk, with visibility and accuracy reported separately because whether AI tells an executive's story at all and whether it gets that story right are different problems with different fixes. The platform captured and classified every source the engines cited by tier, relevance and framing, traced each inaccuracy to the citations producing it, and generated two outputs: a topline report for the CEO and a prioritized, source-keyed action plan for the communications team.
The analysis showed that share of voice was not the problem. The engines had no reliable first-party signal to retrieve about the CEO and were filling the gap with whatever was easiest to crawl. The communications team applied the action plan across three channels: a LinkedIn profile refresh and consistent posting to reclaim the CEO's intellectual property narrative; rewritten FAQs on the company website answering the exact questions the engines kept getting wrong; and a new personal website built as an owned, AI-crawlable source of truth with a continuously updated blog. Authority Graph re-measured after each cycle, and citation-level tracing tied the gains in accuracy, presence and recommendation to the increased prominence of LinkedIn and the company domain in engine answers.
"AI systems are increasingly the first impression a professional makes, and until now nobody could measure whether that impression was accurate," said Erin Lanuti, Co-Founder and CEO of Lilypath. "Inaccurate AI answers are a serious threat to executives and professionals alike. AMEC has set the standard for rigor in communication measurement for decades, so recognition from its judges means a great deal to us. We chose AMEC as the first organization to hear about Authority Intelligence because we believed measurement professionals would be the first to understand why it matters."
"Measuring how an AI engine represents a professional is harder than measuring a brand, because the signals are thinner and the consequences are personal. We set out to make that measurement repeatable, comparable across engines and useful to the communicators doing the work, and the AMEC judges confirmed that we did," said Dan Nestle, Co-Founder and Chief Product & Intelligence Officer of Lilypath.
Lilypath's platform is used by enterprise communications teams, agencies, universities and individual professionals to see how AI describes their leaders, benchmark that representation against industry peers, diagnose where it is wrong or incomplete, monitor it as it changes, and report the results in terms the C-suite can act on. For communications leaders, that protects years of investment in executive reputation at the moment AI becomes the first point of discovery.
About Lilypath
Lilypath™ is the Authority Intelligence™ company. Its patent-pending platform analyzes how AI systems read, rank and represent individual professionals, scores the accuracy and strength of that representation, and monitors it over time. Lilypath's products include Blueprint™, Authority 360™ and Authority Graph™, serving executives and boards, founders, credentialed professionals, career builders and the enterprise teams that support them. Lilypath is headquartered in New York. Learn more at lilypath.com.
About AMEC
The International Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC) is the global trade body and professional institute for communication research, measurement and evaluation, with members in more than 80 countries. The annual AMEC Awards recognize excellence in measurement and insights across the communications profession. Learn more at amecorg.com.
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