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Gemini might associate your products primarily with ceramic tile when porcelain, natural stone, mosaics, or large format tile are important parts of your market. Claude might understand your product range but associate it with applications or installation conditions that do not accurately represent what you manufacture.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Those differences matter when contractors, distributors, architects, specifiers, purchasing departments, and other buyers use AI searches to research manufacturers or products for a particular application.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/order-now.html\">Frank Masotti AI Business Understanding Report<\/a> examines what ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini actually understand about your company. I manually research your business across all three systems, compare their conclusions, and document what they understand correctly, what they misunderstand, what they leave out, and how they may interpret your company when someone is researching the market.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">For a tile adhesive manufacturer, the important question is not simply whether AI knows your company exists.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">It is whether AI understands what you actually manufacture.<\/p><h2>What Does AI Understand About Your Tile Adhesive Manufacturing Business?<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Tile adhesive is not one uniform product category.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">EN 12004, for example, distinguishes three types of tile adhesives: cementitious adhesives, dispersion adhesives, and reaction resin adhesives. Additional classifications identify characteristics including normal or improved performance, fast setting, reduced slip, extended open time, and deformability. Product selection can also depend on factors such as tile type and size, substrate, interior or exterior installation, wet areas, and environmental conditions.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That creates considerably more for an artificial intelligence search engine to understand than the phrase &#8220;tile adhesive manufacturer.&#8221;<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Suppose your company specializes in polymer modified cementitious adhesives for porcelain and large format tile. An AI model that simply describes the company as a manufacturer of adhesives for ceramic tile has not necessarily stated anything false.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">But it has lost important information.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The same problem could occur if your company manufactures ready to use dispersion adhesives, reaction resin products, rapid setting formulations, highly deformable products, adhesives intended for exterior installations, or products developed for particular substrates or installation conditions.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The broad category can be right while the useful understanding is wrong.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That is exactly the kind of distinction an AI search engine audit should investigate.<\/p><h2>Does AI Understand the Types of Tile Adhesives You Manufacture?<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The formulation category can fundamentally change what a tile adhesive is and where it belongs.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Cementitious adhesives are supplied in powder form and mixed with water or another appropriate liquid before use. Dispersion adhesives are ready to use pastes based on polymers in water dispersion. Reaction resin adhesives use components that are mixed before application and set through a chemical reaction.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Those are not trivial variations of the same product.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">If your company manufactures one category but an AI model associates you broadly with all three, the model may be overstating your product range. If you manufacture several categories but AI consistently recognizes only one, part of the business may effectively disappear from the model&#8217;s description.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The same issue applies within individual product families.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">A manufacturer may offer normal setting and fast setting products, different adhesion performance levels, reduced slip formulations, extended open time, or products with different degrees of deformability. Those distinctions can affect which products are appropriate for particular installations.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">An AI system researching manufacturers therefore needs to understand more than your industry classification. It needs enough accurate information to connect your company with the products and capabilities that actually define it.<\/p><h2>Ceramic, Porcelain, Stone, and Large Format Tile Are Not Interchangeable<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The material being installed creates another layer of interpretation.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">A company associated primarily with conventional ceramic tile installation may be understood differently from one whose products are designed for low absorption porcelain, natural stone, mosaics, or large format tile.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Tile size can matter as well.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">For example, Sika&#8217;s guidance describes C1 cementitious adhesives as typically used with ceramic and smaller format tiles under general conditions, while C2 products provide improved adhesion and are commonly used for applications including porcelain, larger format tiles, and conditions requiring greater bond strength.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That means a generic AI description such as &#8220;Company X manufactures tile adhesive for floors and walls&#8221; may tell a buyer very little about the manufacturer&#8217;s actual position.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">If porcelain and large format applications are major parts of your product line, does ChatGPT understand that?<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Does Gemini?<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Does Claude?<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">And do all three reach the same conclusion?<\/p><h2>Substrates and Installation Conditions Can Change the Recommendation<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Tile does not get installed in a vacuum.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The substrate and installation environment matter. Interior walls, exterior surfaces, wet areas, heated screeds, floors, ceilings, and other conditions can create different product requirements.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The characteristics of the adhesive can matter just as much. Extended open time may matter in one situation. Reduced slip may matter in another. Deformability can become important where movement or particular installation conditions need to be accommodated.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">This creates a specific problem for AI recommendations.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">A person may not ask:<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">&#8220;Who manufactures tile adhesive?&#8221;<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">They may ask something much narrower, such as which manufacturers make products appropriate for porcelain tile, exterior applications, large format installations, wet environments, or a particular substrate.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Now the AI system has to move beyond recognizing companies.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">It has to understand enough about those companies to decide which ones belong in the answer.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">A manufacturer can therefore have some degree of AI visibility while still being absent from the situations where its actual products should make it relevant.<\/p><h2>Does AI Confuse the Manufacturer With a Distributor or Installer?<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Tile adhesives pass through a market that includes manufacturers, distributors, retailers, tile suppliers, contractors, and installers.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Those entities can appear together repeatedly across product pages, dealer networks, technical documents, project references, and other online material.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">For an AI model, identifying the correct relationship matters.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Your company may manufacture the product. Another company may distribute it. A retailer may sell it. An installer may use it.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Those are four different businesses.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">If an AI system understands the brand but misunderstands the company&#8217;s role in the supply chain, it can produce a description that sounds plausible while being fundamentally wrong about what the company actually does.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That becomes particularly important in business to business research. Someone looking for a manufacturer, private label supplier, production partner, or commercial source does not necessarily want a retailer or installation contractor.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">I would want to know whether the models make that distinction correctly.<\/p><h2>Technical Product Language Can Help AI or Confuse It<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Tile adhesive manufacturers naturally publish technical information.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Classification codes, product data sheets, standards references, substrates, working properties, application limitations, performance characteristics, and installation instructions can provide AI systems with useful evidence about a product.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">But technical information also creates opportunities for incomplete interpretation.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">A model might recognize a classification without connecting it correctly to the manufacturer&#8217;s broader product range. It might emphasize one heavily documented product while barely recognizing another. It could associate a technical characteristic with the entire company when that characteristic actually belongs to one product.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The question is not whether the technical information exists.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The question is what conclusions ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini form after encountering that information.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That is something you cannot determine simply by reading your own website.<\/p><h2>What Happens When the Three AI Models Disagree?<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">One of the reasons I evaluate three AI systems is that there is no reason to assume they have built identical versions of your company.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">ChatGPT could have a reasonably detailed understanding of your tile adhesive product categories.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Claude could recognize the company but provide a much narrower description.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Gemini could emphasize different products, applications, or company attributes entirely.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">One model might associate your company strongly with commercial tile installation products while another sees it as a more general adhesive manufacturer.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That disagreement is useful information.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">My <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/methodology.html\">AI Business Understanding Report methodology<\/a> is designed to compare those interpretations rather than treating one AI response as the answer.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">One model gives you one version of the business. Comparing three helps expose where that version changes.<\/p><h2>Would AI Recommend Your Company for the Right Reason?<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Recognition and recommendation are different questions.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">An AI system may know your company&#8217;s name without selecting it when someone asks for manufacturers meeting particular requirements.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That distinction becomes especially important in a technical product category.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">A buyer could ask for manufacturers associated with fast setting tile adhesives. Another might be researching adhesives for porcelain or natural stone. Someone else might need products suitable for exterior installations, large format tile, demanding substrates, or applications requiring particular performance characteristics.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Whether your company appears in those conversations can depend on how the model understands the relationship between your company and those needs.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Your company might be absent because the AI system does not know enough about it.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">It might appear for a category you barely serve.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Or it might be accurately recognized and appropriately associated with the applications that matter to your business.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">You do not know which situation you have until you look.<\/p><h2>What Does the AI Business Understanding Report Show You?<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">I manually evaluate your business across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and compare what the three systems understand.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The analysis looks for recognition patterns, misunderstandings, omissions, attributes associated with the company, recommendation visibility, disagreements between models, outdated or incorrect information, interpretation drift, and other findings that emerge from the research.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">For a tile adhesive manufacturer, that means paying particular attention to how the models interpret your manufacturing role, product categories, applications, capabilities, specialties, and the characteristics that distinguish your company from other businesses in the market.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">You receive a 10+ page PDF containing the findings, cross model comparison, strategic observations, and recommendations based on what the research reveals.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The report costs <strong>$495 as a one time purchase<\/strong> and is delivered the next business day after the analysis is completed.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">This is manual analysis, not an automated AI visibility scanner.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">I also do not sell SEO, GEO, AI optimization, implementation, or a marketing retainer afterward. If the report identifies something you decide should be addressed, you can take the findings to your own web, marketing, communications, or technical team.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The purpose of the report is diagnosis.<\/p><h2>Do ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Actually Understand Your Tile Adhesive Business?<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">You probably know exactly where your products belong.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">You know which formulations you manufacture, which tile materials and substrates they are designed for, which performance characteristics distinguish them, and which applications matter most to your customers.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The unanswered question is whether the AI systems increasingly being asked to research manufacturers and products know those things too.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">And there is no reason to assume ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have reached the same conclusions.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/order-now.html\">Frank Masotti AI Business Understanding Report<\/a> gives you a documented answer. 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Gemini might associate your products primarily with ceramic tile when porcelain, natural stone, mosaics, or large format tile are important parts of your market. Claude might understand your product range but associate it with applications or installation conditions that do not accurately represent what you manufacture.<\/p><p>Those differences matter when contractors, distributors, architects, specifiers, purchasing departments, and other buyers use AI searches to research manufacturers or products for a particular application.<\/p><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/order-now.html\">Frank Masotti AI Business Understanding Report<\/a> examines what ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini actually understand about your company. I manually research your business across all three systems, compare their conclusions, and document what they understand correctly, what they misunderstand, what they leave out, and how they may interpret your company when someone is researching the market.<\/p><p>For a tile adhesive manufacturer, the important question is not simply whether AI knows your company exists.<\/p><p>It is whether AI understands what you actually manufacture.<\/p><h2>What Does AI Understand About Your Tile Adhesive Manufacturing Business?<\/h2><p>Tile adhesive is not one uniform product category.<\/p><p>EN 12004, for example, distinguishes three types of tile adhesives: cementitious adhesives, dispersion adhesives, and reaction resin adhesives. Additional classifications identify characteristics including normal or improved performance, fast setting, reduced slip, extended open time, and deformability. Product selection can also depend on factors such as tile type and size, substrate, interior or exterior installation, wet areas, and environmental conditions.<\/p><p>That creates considerably more for an artificial intelligence search engine to understand than the phrase \"tile adhesive manufacturer.\"<\/p><p>Suppose your company specializes in polymer modified cementitious adhesives for porcelain and large format tile. An AI model that simply describes the company as a manufacturer of adhesives for ceramic tile has not necessarily stated anything false.<\/p><p>But it has lost important information.<\/p><p>The same problem could occur if your company manufactures ready to use dispersion adhesives, reaction resin products, rapid setting formulations, highly deformable products, adhesives intended for exterior installations, or products developed for particular substrates or installation conditions.<\/p><p>The broad category can be right while the useful understanding is wrong.<\/p><p>That is exactly the kind of distinction an AI search engine audit should investigate.<\/p><h2>Does AI Understand the Types of Tile Adhesives You Manufacture?<\/h2><p>The formulation category can fundamentally change what a tile adhesive is and where it belongs.<\/p><p>Cementitious adhesives are supplied in powder form and mixed with water or another appropriate liquid before use. Dispersion adhesives are ready to use pastes based on polymers in water dispersion. Reaction resin adhesives use components that are mixed before application and set through a chemical reaction.<\/p><p>Those are not trivial variations of the same product.<\/p><p>If your company manufactures one category but an AI model associates you broadly with all three, the model may be overstating your product range. If you manufacture several categories but AI consistently recognizes only one, part of the business may effectively disappear from the model's description.<\/p><p>The same issue applies within individual product families.<\/p><p>A manufacturer may offer normal setting and fast setting products, different adhesion performance levels, reduced slip formulations, extended open time, or products with different degrees of deformability. Those distinctions can affect which products are appropriate for particular installations.<\/p><p>An AI system researching manufacturers therefore needs to understand more than your industry classification. It needs enough accurate information to connect your company with the products and capabilities that actually define it.<\/p><h2>Ceramic, Porcelain, Stone, and Large Format Tile Are Not Interchangeable<\/h2><p>The material being installed creates another layer of interpretation.<\/p><p>A company associated primarily with conventional ceramic tile installation may be understood differently from one whose products are designed for low absorption porcelain, natural stone, mosaics, or large format tile.<\/p><p>Tile size can matter as well.<\/p><p>For example, Sika's guidance describes C1 cementitious adhesives as typically used with ceramic and smaller format tiles under general conditions, while C2 products provide improved adhesion and are commonly used for applications including porcelain, larger format tiles, and conditions requiring greater bond strength.<\/p><p>That means a generic AI description such as \"Company X manufactures tile adhesive for floors and walls\" may tell a buyer very little about the manufacturer's actual position.<\/p><p>If porcelain and large format applications are major parts of your product line, does ChatGPT understand that?<\/p><p>Does Gemini?<\/p><p>Does Claude?<\/p><p>And do all three reach the same conclusion?<\/p><h2>Substrates and Installation Conditions Can Change the Recommendation<\/h2><p>Tile does not get installed in a vacuum.<\/p><p>The substrate and installation environment matter. Interior walls, exterior surfaces, wet areas, heated screeds, floors, ceilings, and other conditions can create different product requirements.<\/p><p>The characteristics of the adhesive can matter just as much. Extended open time may matter in one situation. Reduced slip may matter in another. Deformability can become important where movement or particular installation conditions need to be accommodated.<\/p><p>This creates a specific problem for AI recommendations.<\/p><p>A person may not ask:<\/p><p>\"Who manufactures tile adhesive?\"<\/p><p>They may ask something much narrower, such as which manufacturers make products appropriate for porcelain tile, exterior applications, large format installations, wet environments, or a particular substrate.<\/p><p>Now the AI system has to move beyond recognizing companies.<\/p><p>It has to understand enough about those companies to decide which ones belong in the answer.<\/p><p>A manufacturer can therefore have some degree of AI visibility while still being absent from the situations where its actual products should make it relevant.<\/p><h2>Does AI Confuse the Manufacturer With a Distributor or Installer?<\/h2><p>Tile adhesives pass through a market that includes manufacturers, distributors, retailers, tile suppliers, contractors, and installers.<\/p><p>Those entities can appear together repeatedly across product pages, dealer networks, technical documents, project references, and other online material.<\/p><p>For an AI model, identifying the correct relationship matters.<\/p><p>Your company may manufacture the product. Another company may distribute it. A retailer may sell it. An installer may use it.<\/p><p>Those are four different businesses.<\/p><p>If an AI system understands the brand but misunderstands the company's role in the supply chain, it can produce a description that sounds plausible while being fundamentally wrong about what the company actually does.<\/p><p>That becomes particularly important in business to business research. Someone looking for a manufacturer, private label supplier, production partner, or commercial source does not necessarily want a retailer or installation contractor.<\/p><p>I would want to know whether the models make that distinction correctly.<\/p><h2>Technical Product Language Can Help AI or Confuse It<\/h2><p>Tile adhesive manufacturers naturally publish technical information.<\/p><p>Classification codes, product data sheets, standards references, substrates, working properties, application limitations, performance characteristics, and installation instructions can provide AI systems with useful evidence about a product.<\/p><p>But technical information also creates opportunities for incomplete interpretation.<\/p><p>A model might recognize a classification without connecting it correctly to the manufacturer's broader product range. It might emphasize one heavily documented product while barely recognizing another. It could associate a technical characteristic with the entire company when that characteristic actually belongs to one product.<\/p><p>The question is not whether the technical information exists.<\/p><p>The question is what conclusions ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini form after encountering that information.<\/p><p>That is something you cannot determine simply by reading your own website.<\/p><h2>What Happens When the Three AI Models Disagree?<\/h2><p>One of the reasons I evaluate three AI systems is that there is no reason to assume they have built identical versions of your company.<\/p><p>ChatGPT could have a reasonably detailed understanding of your tile adhesive product categories.<\/p><p>Claude could recognize the company but provide a much narrower description.<\/p><p>Gemini could emphasize different products, applications, or company attributes entirely.<\/p><p>One model might associate your company strongly with commercial tile installation products while another sees it as a more general adhesive manufacturer.<\/p><p>That disagreement is useful information.<\/p><p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/methodology.html\">AI Business Understanding Report methodology<\/a> is designed to compare those interpretations rather than treating one AI response as the answer.<\/p><p>One model gives you one version of the business. Comparing three helps expose where that version changes.<\/p><h2>Would AI Recommend Your Company for the Right Reason?<\/h2><p>Recognition and recommendation are different questions.<\/p><p>An AI system may know your company's name without selecting it when someone asks for manufacturers meeting particular requirements.<\/p><p>That distinction becomes especially important in a technical product category.<\/p><p>A buyer could ask for manufacturers associated with fast setting tile adhesives. Another might be researching adhesives for porcelain or natural stone. Someone else might need products suitable for exterior installations, large format tile, demanding substrates, or applications requiring particular performance characteristics.<\/p><p>Whether your company appears in those conversations can depend on how the model understands the relationship between your company and those needs.<\/p><p>Your company might be absent because the AI system does not know enough about it.<\/p><p>It might appear for a category you barely serve.<\/p><p>Or it might be accurately recognized and appropriately associated with the applications that matter to your business.<\/p><p>You do not know which situation you have until you look.<\/p><h2>What Does the AI Business Understanding Report Show You?<\/h2><p>I manually evaluate your business across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and compare what the three systems understand.<\/p><p>The analysis looks for recognition patterns, misunderstandings, omissions, attributes associated with the company, recommendation visibility, disagreements between models, outdated or incorrect information, interpretation drift, and other findings that emerge from the research.<\/p><p>For a tile adhesive manufacturer, that means paying particular attention to how the models interpret your manufacturing role, product categories, applications, capabilities, specialties, and the characteristics that distinguish your company from other businesses in the market.<\/p><p>You receive a 10+ page PDF containing the findings, cross model comparison, strategic observations, and recommendations based on what the research reveals.<\/p><p>The report costs <strong>$495 as a one time purchase<\/strong> and is delivered the next business day after the analysis is completed.<\/p><p>This is manual analysis, not an automated AI visibility scanner.<\/p><p>I also do not sell SEO, GEO, AI optimization, implementation, or a marketing retainer afterward. If the report identifies something you decide should be addressed, you can take the findings to your own web, marketing, communications, or technical team.<\/p><p>The purpose of the report is diagnosis.<\/p><h2>Do ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Actually Understand Your Tile Adhesive Business?<\/h2><p>You probably know exactly where your products belong.<\/p><p>You know which formulations you manufacture, which tile materials and substrates they are designed for, which performance characteristics distinguish them, and which applications matter most to your customers.<\/p><p>The unanswered question is whether the AI systems increasingly being asked to research manufacturers and products know those things too.<\/p><p>And there is no reason to assume ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have reached the same conclusions.<\/p><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/order-now.html\">Frank Masotti AI Business Understanding Report<\/a> gives you a documented answer. I manually examine your business across all three AI systems and show you what they currently understand, where they disagree, what they may have wrong, what they leave out, and how your company appears when AI is asked to make sense of the market.<\/p><p><strong>The report is $495, one time.<\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3613,"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions\/3613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}