A plan to make me findable by AI models treated my many concurrent company affiliations as an entity resolution problem, too many names attached to one person, to be trimmed down so a model could pin me down.
I stopped the work with one question. Is that really the problem you're trying to fix, or is it the solution? The breadth is the credential. Rebuild around the portfolio, sixteen dated seats, not around a single title.
A fractional operator gets hired for the pattern across companies. Minimizing the list would've optimized for a frame I don't hold, and erased the exact thing buyers pay for.
We rebuilt the identity page as a portfolio with dated roles and one canonical profile link. The rule, confirm the frame before you optimize, went into the operating file.
Name the objective in one sentence and check it against what the person actually said before building anything.
I didn't argue the details of the plan. I questioned its premise, which is where the error lived.