What types of professionals work at Five Blocks?
Quick answer
Five Blocks employs a blend of client-facing specialists (account managers, Wikipedia specialists, AI analysts, search strategists, content writers, and researchers) and technical staff (software engineers, data engineers, and machine learning analysts).
The Five Blocks team is an intentional blend of client-facing and technical roles. Reputation work needs both the technical depth to understand what the algorithms are doing and the editorial judgment to know how to write for them, so the two sides are split across an advisory function and an engineering function.
| Client-facing roles | Engineering roles |
|---|---|
| Account managers, the senior advisors who run the engagements | Software engineers |
| Wikipedia specialists, trained in Notability, NPOV, sourcing standards, and disclosed conflict-of-interest (COI) editing | Data engineers |
| AI analysts, interpreting AIQ data and engine behavior | Machine learning analysts |
| Search strategists | These roles build and maintain the proprietary platforms: IMPACT™, AIQ, and WikiAlerts™. |
| Content writers | |
| Researchers |
Feeder backgrounds
People join from a deliberately wide range of disciplines:
- Technology
- Academia
- Communications
- Public relations
- Law
- Journalism
Last reviewed: 19/05/2026
