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Today's post is 318 words, a 2-minute read. Sources: Every.to — "Our Agents, Ourselves" 1 big thing: How forward-thinking teams are turning institutional knowledge into reusable AI skills The best thinking in your marketing organization lives in someone's head. Every.to is running an experiment to change that. Why it matters: In B2B marketing, your most valuable asset is not your tech stack. It is the judgment of the people who know your brand, your buyers, and what actually works. That knowledge walks out the door every time someone leaves. Driving the news: Every.to is capturing the decision-making patterns of their best employees and encoding them as reusable AI skills. → Their best editor's headline instincts, their top strategist's brief methodology — documented and accessible via AI → One Walleye Capital CEO now requires AI use for all 400 employees — not as a suggestion, but as a baseline operational standard Zoom in: Companies spent months answering the same 33 questions from executives on how to roll out AI — covering strategy, tool selection, governance, and winning over skeptics. → Every.to published those answers publicly for the first time this week Yes, but: Encoding institutional knowledge takes deliberate documentation most teams defer indefinitely because it does not show up in this quarter's deliverables. Be smart: Start with your highest-leverage knowledge holder. Document how they think about one recurring decision — a content brief, a headline, a channel call — and build from there. One reusable skill that reflects real expertise beats a hundred generic prompts. The bottom line: Your best marketer's instincts should not be a single point of failure. https://every.to/context-window/the-case-for-cloning-your-coworkers #AIMarketing #B2BMarketing …more

It’s time for my daily dose of marketing caffeine. Today I’m talking about the customer journey and the theory of constraints. First, what is the theory of constraints? To keep it really simple, it’s a bottleneck that’s preventing you from achieving your goal. For example, if you want to pour soda from a bottle into your glass it has to pass through the bottleneck. You can’t pour it any faster because the bottleneck is small. But the interesting thing is actually how most people try to solve this problem. They get a bigger mug, they shake the bottle, they ask someone else to do it!! It doesn’t matter what you change, if you don’t deal with the bottleneck you can’t speed up the process. Now what does that have to do with marketing and the customer journey? Your customer is on a journey right now. First they need to become aware of your product or service. Then they can consider and compare you to arrive at a buying decision. If you’re a good fit you acquire them and take their money. Then they move to the adoption phase, they start using your product or service. If they’re happy they end up at the end of their journey in the advocate stage where they tell others. This journey has a bottleneck. It’s different for each business, and only you know where it is. The key is for you to put all your energy into fixing the bottleneck, nothing else. If you’re successful the bottleneck will change and you can repeat the process. Where people go wrong is they put energy into marketing that has zero impact on the bottleneck. If nobody knows about you, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. …more

Most founders I work with are genuinely compelling in conversation. They can hold a room, tell a story, make you lean in. Then they sit down to write a post and it becomes a press release. Here's the framework I keep coming back to — I use it in my peer groups, in my advisory work, and in my own content. Three parts: 1. The moment you identified the problem. Not "I noticed a gap in the market." The actual moment — specific, concrete, a little uncomfortable. That's where people trust you. 2. What you tried that didn't work. This is the part most founders skip. It's also where the trust gets built. Showing your failed attempts tells people you arrived at your answer honestly, not theoretically. 3. What you discovered that did work. Not "here's the solution." Here's what I found, tested, and now actually use. The reason this works: it's the structure of every good story ever told. Problem, struggle, resolution. Your audience has heard a thousand "here's a tip" posts. They haven't heard your specific version of steps 1 and 2. Try it on your next post. Start with the moment, not the lesson. Comment "voice" and I'll send you the full one-page framework I share with founders. …more

Busy founders and stalled founders often look identical from the outside. Both are working constantly. The difference is what happens to all that effort. Here's the pattern I've watched for 25 years: activity that isn't built on a system doesn't compound. You do the outreach, the post, the follow-up, the demo — and then next week you start from zero and do them all again. It feels like progress because it's exhausting. But nothing accumulates. You're not building an engine; you're pushing the car. A system is just the opposite. It's a motion you run once, learn from, and improve — so the next turn is a little sharper than the last. That's what compounding actually is: the same effort producing more each time because the thing underneath it is getting better. The trap for a stalled founder isn't laziness. It's the opposite. There's so much motion that you can't tell which of it is worth turning into a system and which is just noise burning the hours. Here's the filter I use. One question separates the signal from the noise: Which single motion, if it got 20% better every time we ran it, would change the trajectory of the business? That's the one to systematize. Not the ten things that feel urgent — the one whose improvement curve actually bends the outcome. Usually it's unglamorous: how you talk to customers, how a lead becomes a conversation, how you decide what to build next. Almost never the thing that's loudest on your calendar. Then be honest about the rest. Most of what fills a stalled founder's week is motion that will never compound no matter how well you execute it. That's not a productivity problem you fix with a better tool or another hire. It's a focus problem. Cutting it isn't losing ground — it's freeing the attention the one motion needs to become a real system. The uncomfortable part: you can't systematize everything, and trying to is its own form of noise. Compounding demands you pick. So the question worth sitting with this week: Of everything you're doing right now, which one motion is actually worth turning into a system — and what would you have to stop doing to give it the attention it needs? #Founders #Startups #Entrepreneurship #FounderLessons #GrowthStrategy …more

Your credentials aren't what win the client. They help. They're just not the thing that tips the decision. I learned this slowly, against my own instincts. My brain always wants to go to the facts and the data... and I miss the story completely. Every single time. Nobody buys an outcome in the abstract. People buy themselves into a story they can see themselves in. A prospect doesn't need your framework first... they need to meet someone who started right where they're standing now. The method is simpler than it sounds: ask a real client, with their permission, where they were when you started, what changed in the middle, and where they landed. Capture it in their own words. That's the most useful marketing you'll ever do. Your data earns the trust. Their story is what gets someone to reach out. If you want help finding and shaping that story, grab 30 minutes with me... link in the first comment. #IndependentConsultant #Coaching #Solopreneur #Messaging #PersonalBrand …more

Most people going independent think visibility is a numbers game. It isn't. It's a memory game. Your brand is a promise, and a promise only means something once someone has watched you keep it. That's the part the follower count misses. Likes and impressions tell you a post traveled. They say nothing about whether anyone now trusts how you think. Those are two different accomplishments, and only one of them wins clients. Here's what I've seen over 25 years of building companies and advising people who are great at the work: reach is a symptom, judgment is the asset. When you left the org, you didn't just lose the title. You lost the thing that used to vouch for your judgment — the brand behind you, the internal reputation that meant the work found you. Now you're building that proof from scratch, in public, one decision at a time. So the goal isn't to be seen more. It's to be seen thinking. When you share how you'd approach a messy client situation, the question you'd ask before a big call, what a project taught you the hard way — you're not chasing attention. You're compounding evidence. A prospect who has watched you reason through six real problems doesn't need a sales pitch. They already know how you'd handle theirs. That's why the vanity metrics are a poor scoreboard. A post that reaches 10,000 strangers and changes no one's mind is worth less than one that reaches 200 of the right people and makes three of them think, "I want this person in the room when I decide." Demonstrated judgment, consistently, over time — that's a reputation the market can actually see, and it's the one that outlasts any single post. So a question worth sitting with: when you look back at what you've shared this year, does it show people how you think — or just prove that you posted? #IndependentConsultant #Coaching #PersonalBrand #ThoughtLeadership #GoingIndependent …more

Jensen Huang gave the AI buildout its cleanest definition yet: "We now need a new type of infrastructure — an AI factory. Energy comes in; intelligence comes out." His math is the part worth sitting with. Out of a $100 trillion economy, roughly $15 trillion is work that would benefit from more intelligence. Every company will tap into it. That's the real reason data centers are going up everywhere — not hype, but demand for a raw material almost every business now wants. Here's the shift for those of us marketing complex technical products. For years we sold intelligence as a scarce, premium thing. Something you bought carefully, deployed slowly, and defended in the budget. Huang is describing a world where intelligence behaves more like electricity — a utility you plug into, metered and abundant. When the input gets commoditized, the story can't be "we have the smart thing." Everyone will have the smart thing. The differentiation moves to judgment: what problem you point that intelligence at, how well you understand the human on the other end of it, and whether you can explain — in plain language — why it matters to their work this quarter. The factory produces intelligence. It doesn't decide what's worth building. That part is still ours. Want a fresh take on your B2B content strategy? DM me and let's schedule a 30-minute consultation — I'll show you 3 things you can improve this week. #B2BMarketing #AIStrategy …more

If you're solving the same problem every week, you don't have a task problem. You have a structure problem. It's one of the clearest patterns I've learned across four startups and a lot of advising rooms: recurring firefighting is almost never about the fire in front of you. The same issue keeps coming back because something in the system — how work flows, who owns what, how decisions get made — keeps producing it. You can put the fire out beautifully every single time, and it will still be there next Tuesday. W. Edwards Deming made this point decades ago, and it still holds. In Out of the Crisis, he estimated that about 94% of the problems in any operation belong to the system, not the people — only around 6% trace to a true one-off. Read that again: the overwhelming majority of what looks like individual failure is actually structural. So when the same thing breaks over and over, blaming the person doing the task is the most expensive mistake you can make. The fix is slower up front and far cheaper over time. Instead of solving the instance, you step back and ask what keeps generating it — then you change that. Redesign the handoff. Clarify the ownership. Remove the step that keeps failing. Do it once, at the structural level, and the symptom stops recurring instead of demanding your attention forever. Firefighting feels productive because it's visible and urgent. But a leader's real job isn't to be the best firefighter in the building. It's to build something that stops catching fire. What's the problem that keeps coming back no matter how many times you solve it — and what structure might be quietly producing it? …more

The most interesting opportunities almost never look exciting at first. They look stuck. Someone's been circling the same idea for years. Everyone agrees it should exist. There have been meetings, decks, maybe a failed attempt or two. And yet — nothing has moved. That's the moment I want to walk in. Not because I'm smarter than the people who were there before me. Usually I'm not. It's because stalled initiatives are rarely blocked by effort or talent. They're blocked by something structural: an unclear problem, too many priorities, no real owner, a foundational decision nobody's been willing to make. Find that one thing, move it, and the whole thing starts to breathe. After 25 years, I've stopped chasing the ideas that already have momentum. Plenty of capable people can push those forward. I'm drawn to the stuck ones — the initiatives everyone believes in but no one has been able to move. Making those move is the most satisfying work I know. What's the thing in your world that everyone agrees should exist — but nobody has been able to make happen yet? …more

In every founder peer group I run, someone says some version of this: "I know I need to be posting more, but I don't want to sound like I'm just selling all the time." I hear this constantly. And I understand it. Nobody wants to be that person. Here's what I tell them. Salesy content isn't caused by selling. It's caused by skipping the value step. Look at your last 10 posts. How many of them taught something, shared a hard-won lesson, or gave your audience something they could use today? How many were asking for something — a click, a follow, a demo? The ratio matters more than the message. When your feed is mostly valuable, your promotional posts don't feel like interruptions. They feel like a natural next step from someone your audience already trusts. The rule I follow: for every post that promotes something, publish two that teach or share something genuinely useful. Not rephrased common knowledge. Something specific to your experience. It's not about being less promotional. It's about earning the right to promote. What's your biggest challenge when it comes to showing up consistently? Comment or DM me — I'm genuinely curious. …more