General FAQs

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• How does Five Blocks approach client communication and reporting cadence?

  Five Blocks' standard cadence is weekly written updates, biweekly-to-monthly calls, detailed monthly reports, and ad hoc same-day or same-hour alerts during active situations. The cadence flexes with the situation - tightening toward daily during a crisis and easing toward quarterly during quiet maintenance periods - with the default being responsiveness with restraint.

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• What does a monthly Five Blocks report include?

  A monthly Five Blocks report covers six sections: search standing for key terms, Wikipedia page status, AI narrative summaries across the AI engines, competitive benchmarking, work completed during the month, and recommended focus areas for the next period. Reports are customized to the scope of each engagement.

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• How does Five Blocks measure success?

  Five Blocks measures success against engagement-specific KPIs defined at the outset - typically search prominence for priority keywords, Knowledge Panel status and accuracy, AI narrative sentiment and source quality, Wikipedia article stability, and client satisfaction - with IMPACT and AIQ supplying the underlying quantitative data.

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• What happens when our Five Blocks engagement ends – do results last?

  Results generally persist after a Five Blocks engagement ends because the work builds durable assets - Wikipedia and Wikidata entries, structured-data signals on owned properties, and ranked authoritative content - that earned their positions and remain in place. What does not continue on its own is the watching: monitoring, defense against new negative content, and Wikipedia article upkeep all require ongoing investment, which is why light-touch maintenance is recommended.

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• Is Five Blocks’ work confidential?

  Yes. All Five Blocks engagements are conducted under strict confidentiality, and we do not publicly disclose client relationships without the client's explicit written permission.

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