Publish the evaluations you run. Get found by the buyers who need one.
Every Olive report is a structured evaluation: defined requirements, scored the same way for every vendor. Build one from projects you have already run in Olive, and it goes in front of the buyers evaluating that category, with your name on it.
Why publish
Buyers now ask AI which vendors to shortlist
Buyers describe their company to an AI assistant and ask what to buy, before a consultant is in the room. The sources those answers cite decide who gets the call, and AI engines weight independent evaluations over vendor claims. You already produce them.
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The buyer asks
“We’re a 2,500-person manufacturer. Which vendors should we look at?”
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The AI answers, citing sources
A handful of independent pages shape the answer. This is the moment that decides who gets the call.
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A shortlist forms
Vendors, and the experts named alongside them, are set before any outreach happens.
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The cited firm gets the call
The buyer arrives already trusting the source that named you, and asks for that expert.
94% of B2B buyers used generative AI in their most recent purchase (Forrester, 2026 Buyers’ Journey Survey). 51% of B2B software buyers now begin vendor research in an AI tool rather than a search engine (G2, 2026 Buyer Behavior Report).
Your research
You already run the evaluations. Publish them.
Consultants run vendor evaluations in Olive every week, for their own practice and on behalf of clients. That work is a point of view on a category: which requirements matter, which vendors meet them, and for whom.
Published as a report under your firm’s name, the same work puts that perspective in front of every buyer evaluating the category, and in front of the vendors who want to reach them. Buyers find the expert who knows the category. Vendors find the consultant whose opinion of them counts.
The report carries your name in the directory and on every page, names your firm as the one that runs this evaluation, and links to your practice page for that category. Readers arrive already trusting the research that named you, so the call to action is a conversation with your expert, not a form.
Illustrative: firm name, vendors and scores are examples.
Built from work you have already done
Getting published takes two steps
Report authorship is available to consultants on Olive. Not on Olive yet? See how consulting firms use Olive.
- Step 1
Start a new project from your Olive library
Pull in requirements and vendor answers from evaluations you have already run.
- Step 2
Submit it for publication
The vendors you have already evaluated are enough to publish.
Publication dates are not guaranteed. Submit now and your report is in line for the next publishing pass.
After you publish
Vendors answer your requirements
Ranked vendor lists are among the sources search engines and AI answers cite most, and lists compiled by an independent third party are cited more than vendor-written ones. Olive, with your firm as the author, is that third party. A vendor that wants to be in the answer responds to the requirement set you wrote.
Rankings get cited
Of roughly 400 million AI citations studied, 63% point to ranked lists and comparison pages.
Independence carries
Most cited lists are third-party, not vendor-written. A report your firm authors on Olive is one.
Vendors respond
Any vendor in the category can answer your requirement set. Every response comes to you and to Olive.
The data compounds
Each response is structured data in your library, current for the next engagement and read by the buyers the report attracts.
Citation figures: Search Engine Land × Evertune, 2026; Wix AI Search Lab, 2026. Ranking, vendors and scores are illustrative.
What you get
What you already have, and what publishing adds
Most firms have the data. Turning it into research that gets cited is a publishing job, and that is the part Olive takes on.
- Completed vendor evaluations: structured responses, scoring and side-by-side comparisons
- Scores from real evaluations, not marketing pages or anonymous reviews
- A point of view on which requirements matter, and how much
- Segment-by-segment fit: which vendors suit which kind of buyer
- Expert credibility buyers already trust
- A report under your firm’s name, beside Olive’s own category reports
- Structure people and AI engines can cite, with your name on the requirement set
- Inquiries on your report routed to you first, through your practice page for that category
- Vendor responses to your requirements, landing in your library without the chase
- A consultant profile that grows with every report you publish
Where it lives
Publish on Olive, on your own site, or both
The evaluations in your Olive account can serve your practice in more than one way. Submit them as reports on Olive’s research site and borrow the reach of an established domain, or build the report in Olive and publish it on your own domain, where your site earns the authority. Neither rules out the other.
Publish on Olive’s research site
Submit a report built from your evaluations. Olive hosts and distributes it, with your firm as the author.
- Where it lives
- Olive’s research site, beside Olive’s own category reports
- Reach
- An established domain buyers already read for vendor research
- Attribution
- Your name, your firm and a link home on every report
- Leads
- Inquiries on your report route to you first
Best when you want reach fast, without running a publishing operation.
Start a report submissionPublish your research on your own domain
Build the report in Olive from the same evaluation data and publish it on your site, under your brand.
- Where it lives
- Your domain, so your site earns the authority and the inbound
- Assets
- One evaluation becomes a report, comparisons and segment cuts
- Leads
- Every page ends with your expert
- Refresh
- Rebuild the report as your evaluation data grows
Best when your site and brand are the assets you are building.
Create your own reportFor consultants
Publish the evaluations you run.
Start from a project in your Olive library and submit it for the next publishing pass. Founding authors are listed first, with the most research on record.
Questions
The rules, for everyone
Same rules for every report, including the ones we write.
Does authoring a report set anyone's position?
No. Scores come from vendor answers to the report's requirements, scored mechanically. Authorship does not set anyone's position.
Can any vendor respond to my report?
Yes. Any vendor in the category can respond to a published report. Responses are shared with the report's author.
Will my client be identifiable in the published requirements?
No. Published requirements carry no client-identifying detail.
Can a ranking be bought?
No. Rankings are not for sale, to vendors or to consultants.