About · Tom Mason
About

Working between Leeds and Lancaster on AI visibility, content software, websites and community.

  1. Aug 2025Founded AwarenessAI
  2. Jan 2026Joined DarkInvader
  3. Mar 2026Founded Connect Lancaster
  4. Jul 2026Co-founded Awareness Marketing

I’m in my final year of Business Management and Entrepreneurship at Lancaster University. I founded AwarenessAI while studying.

AwarenessAI is where my reputation started: research into how AI systems describe and recommend organisations, a platform to measure it, and services to improve it. More than 150 brands have now been analysed.

The work has widened from there. I co-founded Awareness Marketing with Andrew Mason, a content marketing platform with digital marketing and website development alongside it. Since January 2026 I’ve led search and AI visibility for DarkInvader on a fractional basis, and took its new website to launch. And I started Connect Lancaster so that students, founders and businesses in the city find each other more easily.

I write The Sunday Signal every week, publish research, and speak when there is something useful to show.

Current Roles

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Writing, research and speaking Author · Researcher

Trajectory

From one company to several kinds of work.

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Working Inside Organisations

Not only start-ups. I’ve worked with small businesses and with larger, more complex institutions.

  • Working across stakeholder groups
  • Understanding organisational requirements
  • Commercial discussions
  • Marketing and digital strategy
  • Managing relationships
  • Delivering practical work
Yorkshire Tech Awards 2026 · Rising Star finalist

The evidence for all of this is in the work and the archive.

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