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Definition

Machine-readable PR is the practice of structuring press releases, announcements, and corporate communications to be parseable by AI crawlers and retrieval systems — using explicit entity references, structured data markup, and factual density that makes the content useful as an AI citation source, not just a media pitch. Traditional press releases are written for journalists. Machine-readable PR is written for AI systems too. A press release that uses the company’s full legal name, references its Wikidata QID in schema markup, states specific metrics and outcomes, and uses the precise terminology AI systems associate with the brand’s category produces entity signals and training data that traditional PR does not. For brands making significant announcements, machine-readable PR ensures that the announcement becomes a permanent entity signal, not just a one-cycle media hit.

Entity injection

Content provenance

Structured data

Citable claim

Co-citation

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