Contribute Your Expertise to the Forward Intelligence Library

Share your insights with the Analyst Relations community.

Forward AR Experts publishes senior‑level insights from practitioners, executives, and analysts across the AR ecosystem.

Use this form to submit your article for editorial review. All submissions are evaluated for clarity, accuracy, originality, and alignment with AR best practices.

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Your Expertise Deserves to Be Found

You invested years building your perspective. Your best ideas should not disappear after a few days in a social-media feed.

The Forward Intelligence Library gives your articles a lasting, searchable home where people across the Analyst Relations ecosystem can continue to discover, read, reference and share your work. Whether you work with Forward, independently, within a technology company, at an agency or for an analyst firm, the Library is designed to amplify your voice and connect your expertise with the people who need it.

Turn Scattered Articles Into a Searchable Professional Portfolio

Articles published on company blogs and social platforms can quickly become dated, buried or difficult to find. The Forward Intelligence Library brings your approved work together in a professional environment dedicated to Analyst Relations and the cross-functional teams it supports.

Every accepted article includes:

Full author credit
Your professional title and organizational affiliation
Your biography and headshot
A link to your LinkedIn profile
Connection to your other Library articles
Placement within relevant AR topics and categories
Preparation for traditional search and AI discovery
A permanent article link you can share and reference

Over time, your Library contributions can become a searchable portfolio that demonstrates what you know, how you think and the value of your experience.

Sample Article

An example of the Forward Intelligence Library Article

Extend the Life and Reach of Your Ideas

The Library is openly accessible rather than hidden behind a paid subscription. Its robust search experience helps readers find articles by subject, question and area of interest.

Forward also selects four articles each week for additional promotion across key AR topics. Featured articles are amplified through our LinkedIn presence and professional networks, giving strong ideas another opportunity to reach AR leaders, analysts, executives and cross-functional professionals. Topics include AR Leadership Influence, AR Strategy & Positioning, AR Mechanics, and Program Excellence.

As the Library grows, every new article, visitor, search, share and relevant third-party link can strengthen the visibility of the broader content ecosystem. That creates the opportunity for your work to keep gaining attention long after its original publication.

Your Work Remains Yours

The Forward Intelligence Library is free to read and free to contribute to. Forward does not charge authors or organizations for editorial placement, and article selection is never dependent on becoming a Forward client.

Contributors retain ownership of their original work while giving Forward permission to edit it for clarity and presentation, publish it in the Library, and promote it with full author attribution. Contributors may request that an article be updated or removed at any time.

The Library is designed to extend, not replace, an author’s existing professional platform. Every accepted article can connect readers to the contributor’s professional identity, organization and broader body of work. Forward will never republish proprietary, confidential or gated research without explicit permission.

The Library helps Forward build authority, strengthen search visibility and introduce organizations to our expertise. Forward generates revenue separately through paid assessments and senior Analyst Relations advisory services, not by selling contributor placement or access to submitted articles.

Built for Google, AI and Human Readers

People, search engines and AI platforms all benefit from content that is clear, well organized, credible and useful.

Google and AI discovery systems need to understand:

What question your article answers
Who wrote it and why their perspective is credible
How the article is organized
What evidence supports its claims
How it connects with related subjects and resources

You do not need to understand the technical side of SEO. Write from your expertise and focus on helping the reader. Forward will prepare each accepted article for discovery through appropriate titles, descriptions, page structure, author attribution, topic classification, internal links and technical publishing practices.

While no publisher can guarantee a particular search ranking or AI citation, Forward gives accepted articles a strong, responsible foundation for continued discovery.

What Makes an Article Stand Out?

We hand-select every article to protect the quality and credibility of the Library. The strongest submissions:

Answer a Specific Question

Choose one defined AR challenge, opportunity or point of view. Focused articles are easier for readers to understand, use and find.

Teach Rather Than Sell

Share practical insight, experience, lessons, examples or recommendations. You may identify your company and expertise, but the article should provide value rather than function as an advertisement.

Make the Value Clear Early

Use the opening paragraphs to explain what the article addresses, why it matters and what the reader will learn.

Make It Easy to Read

Use short paragraphs and descriptive section headings. Organize the article so a busy professional can quickly understand its major ideas.

Support Important Claims

Link to credible original sources when citing research, statistics, announcements or third-party findings. Clearly distinguish facts from personal observations and professional opinions.

Protect Confidentiality and Ownership

Submit only material you have the right to publish. Do not include confidential client, employer or analyst information without appropriate authorization.

Reflect Your Own Judgment

AI may assist with research, organization or editing, but you remain responsible for the accuracy, originality and integrity of everything published under your name.

You Provide the Expertise. Forward Handles the Publishing Foundation.

Guidelines

Forward Intelligence Library Submission Form

When submitting, please provide:

Your proposed title
Your complete article (800 - 1500 words)
Supporting source links
Your name, title and organizational affiliation
A short professional biography (50 - 100 words)
Your LinkedIn profile
A nice headshot (It does not need to be professional)
Confirmation that you have the right to publish the material

Give Your Best Thinking a Lasting Home

For every accepted article, Forward may provide:

Editorial and structural review
Search-focused title and description
A clean, shareable article URL
Topic and audience classification
Author attribution and portfolio connection
Relevant internal and related-article links
Image descriptions and publishing optimization
Structured information for search systems
Inclusion in the Library’s internal search and website sitemap
Mobile, quality and final publication review
Consideration for weekly LinkedIn amplification

Your experience can help someone prepare for an evaluation, strengthen an analyst relationship, improve a briefing, align a cross-functional team or see a familiar challenge differently.

Give that expertise a place where it can continue to be found.

Submission & Publication Rights Disclaimer

By submitting this article, you confirm that you wrote it or have permission from the appropriate copyright owner, employer, client or previous publisher to submit it for consideration. You also confirm that it does not knowingly contain confidential information or material you are not authorized to use.

If accepted, you authorize Forward AR Experts to edit the article for clarity, formatting and presentation; publish and maintain it in the Forward Intelligence Library; and promote it with full author attribution.