Frequently Asked Questions
Your professional history is more than a résumé or a collection of search results. Learn how DigitallyKnown™ helps bring its substance and evidence into a cohesive, discoverable presence.
Understanding DigitallyKnown™ and BiographLink™
What is DigitallyKnown™?
DigitallyKnown™ is a bespoke professional identity consultancy. We help accomplished individuals bring credentials, achievements, contributions, and supporting evidence into a more complete, credible, and discoverable professional digital presence.
What is BiographLink™?
BiographLink™ is a bespoke professional digital HOME that brings the documented record of your career together in a cohesive presentation. It can connect your professional narrative with credentials, leadership, publications, innovations, recognition, and other relevant evidence.
How is BiographLink™ different from LinkedIn or a personal website?
LinkedIn supports professional networking, and a personal website can be useful. BiographLink™ is architected around the fuller record of your professional work. LinkedIn and other existing online profiles can remain part of your digital presence and be linked directly from your BiographLink™ Web Presence, bringing your professional information together into one cohesive, accessible experience.
What is the Recognition Gap?
The Recognition Gap is the difference between professional distinction already established and the completeness of the information discoverable about that work online. We assess opportunities to represent existing achievements more accurately and coherently.
Who is DigitallyKnown™ for?
We work with accomplished professionals across disciplines, including executives, founders, attorneys, advisers, researchers, inventors, consultants, and institutional leaders—particularly when their work spans multiple areas or is documented across disconnected sources.
The Individual, Evidence, and Ownership
Do I need DigitallyKnown™ if I already have an established reputation?
An established reputation is valuable. Our goal is not to create distinction, but to help others discover, understand, and appreciate the professional record that supports it.
Is the BiographLink™ design customized for each client?
A surgeon, an entrepreneur, an attorney, and an institutional leader should not be represented through an identical professional narrative or presentation. Even individuals within the same profession may have distinctly different BiographLink™ experiences, reflecting the unique breadth of their accomplishments, contributions, expertise, and professional journeys.
How do you approach my personal story and privacy?
We seek to understand the person behind the professional record while respecting boundaries. Private experiences do not have to become public content. Proposed information is reviewed with the client before publication.
How do you verify professional information?
We work from client-provided materials and relevant sources, distinguishing documented evidence from unconfirmed statements. The depth of independent verification is determined by the agreed scope, and clients review proposed content before publication.
Will I own my BiographLink™?
Your agreement will specify ownership and licensing of approved content, design, domain, hosting, third-party tools, and other deliverables, as well as any transfer or continued-service arrangements. We clarify these terms before development.
Services and Digital Continuity
What is Identity Equity?
Identity Equity is the accumulated professional value reflected in an individual’s expertise, accomplishments, contributions, credibility, recognition, and documented body of work. DigitallyKnown™ helps organize and represent the evidence of that value; it does not invent the underlying accomplishments or promise a financial return.
What is the Digital Continuum Suite™?
The Digital Continuum Suite™ is our broader framework for professional identity architecture, discoverability, visibility, and digital stewardship. It accommodates different levels of complexity and ongoing needs.
What Professional Service Packages are available?
Our Professional Service Packages are Digital Enterprise, Digital Distinction, Digital Authority, and Digital Renown. Digital Distinction, Digital Authority, and Digital Renown also include progressively broader resources intended to support relevant professional opportunities and client-acquisition momentum. Exact deliverables, service levels, and commitments are described in an individual proposal.
Can my professional digital HOME grow with my career?
Yes. Subject to your service arrangement, new roles, accomplishments, publications, and recognition can be incorporated over time so the record remains current.
What is BuzzFire?
BuzzFire is our branded system for client relationship and workflow coordination. It is separate from the public-facing BiographLink™. Any dashboard, automation, reporting, or other features depend on the services and implementation agreed for the engagement.
Discovery and Getting Started
Will DigitallyKnown™ make me appear higher in Google or AI search results?
We can structure professional information for clarity and discoverability through appropriate technical SEO, content, source connections, and related work within scope. We do not guarantee rankings, knowledge panels, AI-generated responses, or specific search-engine treatment.
What happens during a private consultation?
We discuss your professional history, the audiences you need to reach, the material currently available, and your priorities. We then consider what engagement, if any, could be appropriate.
What information should I prepare?
A résumé, existing biographies, public profiles, credentials, selected achievements, publications, projects, media, and relevant source links are helpful. You do not need to have everything organized before speaking with us.
How much does an engagement cost, and how long does it take?
Investment and timing depend on research depth, content readiness, complexity, technical scope, and review requirements. A tailored proposal details the deliverables, schedule, fees, and payment terms.
How do I begin?
Start with the Recognition Gap Diagnostic or request a Private Consultation. We will use that conversation to understand your needs and recommend an appropriate next step.
Your professional record deserves to be understood.
Explore your Recognition Gap or begin a private conversation.
