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Playbooks, postmortems and working numbers from ten years of B2B growth. No fluff, sources included.

AI & Automation

How I built an AI lead scoring assistant that actually works in B2B fintech

An interpretive lead qualification system with no engineers and no black box, wired through the stack sales already lived in. It scores one question at a time, shows the reason beside every score, and leaves the call with a person.

Sep 19, 2023 · 7 min read
Growth

Auditing 3,156 competitor paid keywords, down to zero remainder

Every keyword in one bucket, totals reconciled, 47 went live.

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Growth

Building an ABM list from technology signals

Six filter rounds moved net-new precision from 2% to 31%

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AI & Automation

The trade-show follow-up system: badges to CRM

Four capture paths, photographed badges, AI reads them, HubSpot reconciles

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SEO & Content

Slicing a 14-chapter whitepaper into a lead engine

One chapter becomes four assets; the gated playbook turns readers into leads.

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AI & Automation

How I built an AI lead scoring assistant that actually works in B2B fintech

No engineers, no black box

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SEO & Content

How I use ChatGPT to optimize content for real SEO gains

ChatGPT as a research and editorial systems assistant.

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SEO & Content

AI search optimization (GEO): what actually matters now

Working notes on how AI answer engines actually pick their sources: unl

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SEO & Content

AI search optimization, more thought

What months of watching the GEO log changed about where the effort goes.

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AI & Automation

How I used simple automation + AI to help our support team

One support rep, three review platforms, and an inbox full of

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SEO & Content

Use data + AI to help my content team write articles that rank

English isn't my first language and long-form writing is

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AI & Automation

How I automated a messy monthly report using an LLM

A raw Excel export from HQ, a Zapier cleaning flow, and a custom GPT, how a

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Growth

From B2C affiliate experience to launching a B2B fintech affiliate program

Years of buying traffic for home impr

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Marketing Ops

Scaling a new product launch with marketing ops infrastructure

The biggest risk in our referral-driven launch wasn't

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Lifecycle

Designing a referral-driven lifecycle without breaking trust

Suppliers met our product through a payment.

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Growth

Building a referral-led growth system for a new B2B payment feature

FUSION grew through the customers we already had.

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Marketing Ops

How I turned email chaos into a calm, scalable marketing operation

The process around email was the broken part.

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Lifecycle

Rebuilding our onboarding email system

One shared MailChimp account, three regions, no owner. Rebuilding the system around real-time account stat

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Lifecycle

Email Marketing, Notes From the Field

What actually moves lifecycle numbers in B2B and fintech: timing, triggers, and clean user state.

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Marketing Ops

Fixing a cross-domain tracking problem that shouldn't have taken two months

A tracking bug that looked li

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Marketing Ops

How I approach landing page testing (without overthinking it)

Where landing pages actually fail, and how I test for it.

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SEO & Content

Keyword research for a fintech company: intent, trust, and risk

In fintech, keyword research is about intent, trust, and risk.

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SEO & Content

Running notes on GEO, AI search, and what seems to actually matter

Field notes on how AI search decides what to cit

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Marketing Ops

Running social campaigns with limited resources

A small team can't outspend anyone, so the campaign has to run as a system: one messa

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Marketing Ops

Marketing ops that reduced chaos, protected focus, and made scaling possible

The process layer that made everything else work.

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The engine room, monthly

One email a month. The playbooks and numbers that survived contact with reality.