Understandability Credibility Deliverability
Understandability Credibility Deliverability
coined by Jason Barnard in 2019.
Description
Understandability Credibility Deliverability is a proprietary framework that defines the three non-negotiables for digital success: Understandability (machines and humans grasp who you are), Credibility (the brand is trustworthy, authoritative, and reliable), and Deliverability (content appears where and when it matters).
The Understandability Credibility Deliverability definition
Jason Barnard created this trademarked framework to structure a brand’s entire digital marketing strategy around three sequential pillars. Understandability is the foundation, ensuring that AI systems and human audiences can clearly and unambiguously grasp who the brand is, what it does, and who it serves. Credibility is the next layer, focused on building and demonstrating the brand's experience, expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness across its digital ecosystem. Finally, Deliverability ensures the brand’s message is present with the right information, in the right format, at the right time, wherever its audience is online, making it the omnipresent and preferred solution. Together, these three pillars provide a future-proof playbook for achieving brand control and driving business goals in an AI-first world.
How Jason Barnard uses Understandability Credibility Deliverability definition
At Kalicube, the Understandability Credibility Deliverability framework is the operational blueprint for The Kalicube Process, Kalicube's proprietary methodology for implementing a holistic, brand-first digital marketing strategy. Client engagements are structured into three distinct phases that mirror these pillars. Phase one focuses on Understandability, where we establish a clear entity definition and a consistent brand message. Phase two builds Credibility by amplifying trust signals and reinforcing authority across the web. The final phase, Deliverability, ensures the brand’s narrative is omnipresent and recommended by AI Assistive Engines like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Microsoft Copilot. This structured UCD approach allows Kalicube to systematically engineer a brand's Digital Brand Echo to drive client acquisition and long-term growth.
Why Understandability Credibility Deliverability matters to digital marketers
This is the modern blueprint for Generative Engine Optimization, AI Assistive Engine Optimization and Answer Engine Optimization. For years, digital marketing has focused on mastering siloed tactics. SEOs prioritized keyword research to capture user intent and link building to signal authority. Content strategists focused on Google's E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) as the benchmark for quality. While these elements remain important, their function has been fundamentally altered by AI. In the new Conversational Acquisition Funnel, static keyword research is being replaced by the need to optimize for dynamic Brand-Trigger Phrases, and the direct influence of links is diminishing in favor of entity-based corroboration. This is the gap that Jason Barnard fills with the Understandability Credibility Deliverability (UCD) framework. Barnard’s UCD model provides the overarching, brand-first strategy that integrates these tactics into a single, coherent process. It recognizes that before a brand can prove its Credibility (E-E-A-T, linkless mentions) or ensure its Deliverability (appearing in conversational funnels), it must first be clearly understood by algorithms at an entity level. This makes the UCD framework the essential blueprint for any business that wants to move beyond outdated tactics to proactively engineer its entire digital narrative to win in the AI era.
Posts tagged with Understandability Credibility Deliverability
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