Newsletter

Stories from our work.Written the week it happened.

Every essay comes out of a live engagement. What we tried, what moved answer share, what failed, and what we would run again. 23,000+ subscribers read it.

Oct 1, 2026

StackedGTM Operator Series: A conversation with Ravish Agrawal

Head of Growth Marketing at Gamma. Ten questions on AEO: where citations come from, what the attribution can and can't prove, and what changes when agents start doing the buying.

Sep 24, 2026

Demo engagement data is the most valuable buyer data an enterprise org can get right now

Self-guided demos let buyers in. The data they leave behind runs the deal.

Sep 22, 2026

Muse and Instinct are raising the stakes for AEO. Can your brand survive the follow-up?

Getting cited gets you on the shortlist. What happens when Muse asks the follow-up question your documentation can't answer?

Sep 14, 2026

Your AI visibility went up. Your best customer still didn't see you. That's a product marketing problem.

New research from Profound shows how much AI recommendations change depending on who's asking. AEO teams need product marketing at the table.

Sep 10, 2026

MUBI's dashboard was undercounting Meta by 13x

How a weekly marketing mix model built on their own data found paid driving half their growth, and what it cost them to be wrong for so long

Sep 8, 2026

The 5 AEO agents we run for our top clients

I'm at war with AEO automations that stop at production.

Sep 3, 2026

AI is wrong about your brand 20% of the time. Almost nobody is measuring it.

Where the errors come from, who owns the fix, and the first system that puts a number on it.

Sep 1, 2026

I built an AEO question mining engine in a day with Lovable. Here are the four prompts.

One button. Ninety seconds. Every buying theme in the CMS category, scored and clustered, with the verbatim buyer receipts underneath.

Aug 25, 2026

Today, we're launching Forward Deployed Marketing

Embedded in your company to build AEO, marketing agents, messaging and positioning, growth channels, and marketing engineering

Aug 24, 2026

ChatGPT Changed How It Searches. Six Days Later, Reddit Lost Its Citations.

The August 8 retrieval change repriced two years of AEO strategy in a week. Here's the mechanism, and what to do about it.

Aug 17, 2026

Invest in (Quality) Creators

AirOps just dropped data confirming what I've been watching in real time: my own posts and my clients' creators keep gaining ground in AI answers, while brand pages quietly lose it.

Aug 11, 2026

ChatGPT Ads Just Went Full Google Shopping. Here's the 2012 Playbook OpenAI Is Rerunning at 10x Speed

Product carousels landed in ChatGPT this week. The feed you uploaded for organic visibility is now their ad inventory, and B2B is next. The free ride was the onboarding.

Jul 31, 2026

Should You Fire Your AEO Agency?

The dark side of AEO right now...

Jul 30, 2026

The 30-Day AI Search Pipeline Recovery Sprint

How I make progress on AI search fast when the quarter is closing. The fastest plays to turn citations into pipeline, in the order I run them.

Jul 28, 2026

My Research Engine Is Now an MCP Server, Thanks to Lovable Agent Integrations. Here Is the Jasper Run.

One line in Claude. Forty-six seconds. A scored teardown against eight competitors, with the buyer quotes underneath.

Jul 23, 2026

How to Vet Your First Marketing Engineer Hire

The interview loop, the work sample, the questions that reveal who can do the work, and the signals you can read in the first call.

Jul 21, 2026

Your AI Visibility Score Is Only as Honest as Your Prompt Index

Why the most important input in AEO is sitting in a settings panel you opened once.

Jul 20, 2026

30-Day AI Search Pipeline Recovery Sprint

How I make progress on AI search fast when the quarter is closing. The fastest plays to turn citations into pipeline, in the order I run them.

Jul 16, 2026

Today, I'm launching Provv.ai

Three parts. What it is, why it exists, and what it actually looks like. Part two is an argument you can use even if you never touch the product. Part three includes the screenshots where it fails.

Jul 13, 2026

Operator Series: Nick Lafferty

I sit down operator to operator with Nick Lafferty, one of the first people to hold the Marketing Engineer title, to pressure-test what marketing engineering actually is.

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