Cate Taylor

Founder, Bayes Global | Strategic Communications & Corporate Affairs | Where markets, tech & regulation converge | Ex White House, Wall St, Fortune 100

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

What's your line for when "no comment" stops being smart and starts being the problem?

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

I couldn't get over the produce section at my grocery store yesterday.

Crisp lettuce. Vibrant berries. All priced to move because nobody's buying.

That's what an information vacuum does. It doesn't stay contained.

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

Silence doesn't read as careful. It reads as absent.

Now brands with nothing to do with the recall, greenhouse growers like Gotham Greens, are absorbing the fallout too.

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

Companies have the same gap, and it can be a costly one.

A survey found businesses without a crisis plan take about 3 days to make their first public statement. Companies with a plan respond in under 5 hours.

Same crisis, wildly different clock. Worth checking which one you're running on.⏰

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

A few days into the job, Secretary of State Dean Rusk told a room of Foreign Service Officers he wished State had something like a pilot's pre-flight checklist to complete before taking off on a big decision.

Sixty-five years later, @Paulbstares and @CFR_org just published one of the most rigorous attempts yet. Worth a read if your world touches this one: https://t.co/yvXmjTVLd5

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

Two Americans murdered in Mexico City. Their family spoke publicly for the first time in @People. There are details about this case that have never been released. https://t.co/ybRkkHboMP
@AristeguiOnline — this story is exactly your beat. #Justice4ZG #ZafarGuillermo

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

Thank you @People and @SamiraSadeque for amplifying the story of Zafar Padamsee Mawani and his husband, Guillermo. Zafar's family spoke publicly for the first time today. There is so much more to come.

https://t.co/ybRkkHboMP

#Justice4ZG #ZafarGuillermo

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

The most consequential signals from this year's G7 weren't in the communiqué. They were in the architecture: access to AI, access to infrastructure, access to trusted networks.

Governments are now shaping markets through access and implementation decisions long before they appear in legislation.

That's what businesses leaders could underestimate:

https://t.co/TdaeOcp1QX via @LinkedIn

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

Comms done right advances a business, not just supports one.

Katie Deighton's recent piece in the WSJ nails it: the function has changed for good. Strategic intelligence, crisis fluency as constant vigilance, and the judgment to translate operating priorities into a story ... that's what moves a business forward.

High bar. Right bar.

https://t.co/1IxVFzHShg

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

The question isn't whether AI will be governed.

It's who governs it when Congress doesn't.

Interesting read by @m_ccuri
https://t.co/lcaC4ckT5y

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

The most sophisticated fund managers are rethinking comms as an operating strategy, not a support function.

Had a conversation last week with a private credit exec who put it plainly: waiting for the rating agency or investment bank to move doesn't work anymore.

Risk is systemic now. The signals are harder to read and the window to get ahead of them is shorter.

Is the "wait for the inflection point" model breaking down in your sector too?

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

Crisis comms conference season is in full swing this week. Lots of useful conversation about what went wrong in Q1.

But the thing I keep coming back to:

Crisis response gets all the attention. Crisis preparation is where the outcome is actually decided.

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

@RWhelanWSJ @AvitalBalwit Curious if you think the civility with which LLM's conduct interactions could positive impact a society in which civility seems to be eroding?

[Cat Zakrzewski @Cat_Zakrzewski]

NEW: How David Sacks, Elon Musk and tech industry leaders persuaded Trump not to sign a highly anticipated AI executive order, hours before the president was scheduled to sign it.

w/ @iduncan @nakashimae @iarnsdorf

https://t.co/TvUjcW7Gzt

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

More on how we think about this: https://t.co/u4I7pmUwJS

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

Launching Bayes Global today.

Strategic communications for companies where technology, markets, and policy collide.

For when everything is in play at once. Regulatory pressure, capital at risk, narrative moving out of sync with reality.

Complexity, Decoded.

[Cate Taylor @catetaylorcomms]

We are building twenty-year-plus infrastructure on decisions that can be reversed with a phone call.

New piece on why regulatory approval is no longer the finish line.

https://t.co/E6SroLnQgc