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Scott Brinker’s team at chiefmartec counted every marketing software product on sale in 2026 and stopped at 15,505.
Here’s the thing nobody tells you when you start building with AI. The prompt you wrote on day
I remember sitting in my office late one night at Express Writers, surrounded by spreadsheets of contractor invoices.
Most articles about AI use cases read like somebody dumped a phone book on your desk. Forty examples,
Every week in 2026, another wave of agentic AI enterprise news hits your inbox — a new agent
Picture this. Your competitor just shipped three marketing campaigns this week. You shipped one this month. Both of
Picture this. Your bot just “deflected” 60 percent of incoming tickets last month. The dashboard looks beautiful. Your
You hire an AI consultancy. They show you their “AI labs” on a slide deck. Six months and
Here is the gap nobody talks about. The agentic AI category produced incredible demos in 2025, and now
Most people who ask me about AI consulting ROI can’t tell me how many hours a week their
Here’s the part nobody is saying out loud. Retail just had its biggest reorientation since mobile, and it
My AI marketing automation brought in $5,700 one day while I was sitting by the river with my
Here’s the uncomfortable truth about ai automation platforms for sales teams: most of them end up gathering dust
You’ve made the decision to automate. Good. That’s the hard part. Now you’re staring at three tools —
by the real Julia yes, handwritten. I’m sitting outside, in the sun. Inbetween journaling and reading and strategizing.
AI for sales teams is one of the most misunderstood investments in business today. And I say that
An AI sales automation platform is one of the most misunderstood investments in business today. Most founders I
AI email sequence automation is one of the highest-leverage things you can do for your business right now.
On the afternoon of November 4, 2026, OpenAI’s status page posted an incident about error rates climbing across
In mid-2025 a Big Four firm handed the Australian government a 237-page report, invoiced AU$440,000 for it, then
If you’ve been Googling done with you AI services, you’ve probably already run into two extremes. On one
Somewhere on YouTube right now, a version of me is on camera in a video I never filmed.
“What is OpenClaw?” Ok, ok. Let’s start here. You know how hiring a virtual assistant is the dream?
You asked an AI tool for a blog post and got 800 words that sound like every LinkedIn
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