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Machine time

What is Machine time?

Machine time is the timescale an AI resume actually moves on: days to weeks for retrieved sources, months for pattern-level change, and model release cycles for anything held in memory.

Who uses the term Machine time?

The book's own phrase for the thing it says protects you from both panic and grift.

No settled industry equivalent, which is part of why the timescale gets misrepresented.

How does Machine time differ from related terms?

Campaign time is a schedule you set. Machine time is a schedule the evidence sets.

Nothing here works by Friday. Anyone promising that is selling against the timescale rather than working with it.

What does Online Reputation Management for Your AI Resume say about Machine time?

The chapter's line is that everything in the book works, and none of it works by Friday. It uses the timescale as a test: a supplier promising a fast fix to a slow system is telling you which of the two they understand.

Read about the book's argument.

Related terms

  • Memory layer

    The memory layer is what a model carries from training: the impression of you already inside it before any search happens.

  • Retrieval layer

    The retrieval layer is what a model fetches live when it is asked about you: your site, reviews, coverage, listings and whatever else it can reach at that moment.

  • Reputation interrogation

    The reputation interrogation is a fixed set of questions asked of every major model on the same schedule, logged verbatim, so that change in your AI resume is measured rather than guessed at.

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