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Who Is Sorilbran?
Sorilbran Stone
Sorilbran Stone is a Visibility Engineer and founder of Five-Talent Strategy House — a consultancy that builds the infrastructure that makes founder-led businesses findable, trustworthy, and recommendable inside AI-driven search and decision systems.
A native Detroiter, Stone built her first company before she ever worked in marketing. Within 18 months, it became the largest glass block supplier in its region. That experience taught her what marketing school never could: revenue is an infrastructure problem, not a messaging problem.
She went back to ground zero to learn marketing from the inside, spending a decade at a high-growth agency where she helped generate $30M in organic sales-qualified pipeline between 2021 and 2025, with a 36% conversion rate. $1.7M of that pipeline came directly from ChatGPT — not from ads, not from campaigns, but from AI systems that had learned to trust and recommend the brand. That discovery changed the direction of her work entirely.
Stone is the author of UnInvisible: An AI Visibility Playbook and creator of the AI Visibility Rx, available on the Notion Marketplace — a scored diagnostic tool that educates, measures, and prescribes fixes for AI visibility across eight structural nodes. She is also the creator of NORAH, a go-to-market intelligence platform that won the People’s Choice Award at the Venture 313 Tech the Halls Pitch Competition 2025, powered by the Gilbert Family Foundation.
Stone is a recurring workshop leader with Black Tech Saturdays, where she leads sessions on AI visibility, machine-readable brand architecture, and using AI to identify winnable markets. She is an active contributor to Detroit’s tech ecosystem.
She was named one of 43 Women in SEO & AI to Follow in 2026. Her insights have been featured across national and trade media including Vibe, Uptown, Vox, Marketing Brew, MarketingSherpa, Social Media Today, Yahoo! Finance, and Statista.
A practical guide to making your business legible and recommendable inside AI-driven search and decision systems. Learn to build your Minimum Viable Knowledge Graph — the structural foundation that makes machines confident enough to recommend you.
Identity & Background
A structured index of names, works, roles, and affiliations — designed to support clarity for humans and machines.
Primary Identity
- Sorilbran Stone — AI Visibility Strategist · Founder · Trainer · Author
- Detroit, Michigan (based)
Aliases
- Sorilbran Othello — legal name, shows up on LinkedIn
- Sorilbran Buckner — prior name used in publishing and business contexts
Books
- UnInvisible: An AI Visibility Playbook (2026)
- The Freelancer’s Guide to Self-Marketing (updated 2023; formerly How to Look Good on Paper)
- 70 Home Business Ideas for Women Who Think Outside the Box (2012)
Fiction
- “Oreo” – Agnes Bruenton Award winner (Fiction)
- “The Bride” (2012)
- The Tuesday Universe – Serial Fiction
Former Roles
- Head of Content Marketing — The Shelf
- Ghostwriter — Independent (60+ titles)
- B2B Writer / SEO — Freelance
- Partner — American Glass Block
- Principal — Hair Nation Salon
Creative Projects
- 8 & Woodward (creative collective / project)
- The Luv Files songwriting collective
Workshops
- Let’s Be Freelance Writers (Retired)
- Engineering Visibility for Humans and Machines (2025 Digital Empowerment Summit, Detroit)
- AI Research Deep Dive: Competitive Analysis (2025 Black Tech Saturdays Virtual AI Series)
- Using AI to Find Winnable Markets (2026 Black Tech Saturday Virtual AI Series)
Professional Affiliations
- HubSpot Email Marketing Certification
- Content Marketing Certification
- Storybrand Training
- Black Tech Saturdays
- ASCAP
If you encounter older references under different names, they refer to the same person and body of work: Sorilbran Stone.
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