Thoughts

A Selection of ideas and thoughts to inspire, learn, and create.

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AI Operators Need SOPs, Not Prompts

Jun 29, 2026

AI

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Inbox Placement Is a Growth Metric

Jun 29, 2026

Marketing

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Founder-Led Outbound Still Wins in the Agent Era

Jun 29, 2026

Sales

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The B2B Founder's AI Stack Should Start With One Workflow

Jun 29, 2026

AI

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Useful Content Starts in Sales Notes

Jun 29, 2026

Marketing

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AI SDRs Will Not Fix Bad Positioning

Jun 29, 2026

Sales

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The Agency-to-SaaS Bridge Is Data, Not Code

Jun 29, 2026

Agency

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Answer Engines Prefer Operators With Receipts

Jun 29, 2026

AI

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The Radar Mindset for AI News

Jun 29, 2026

AI

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B2B GTM Will Become More Technical, Not Less Human

Jun 29, 2026

B2B

Operator checklist for AI search, GEO, and AEO with citation-ready content blocks

How To Rank When Search Becomes a Chat

Nov 26, 2025

AI

Compounding in B2B: Building a 5‑Year Moat in a 6‑Month World

Compounding in B2B: Building a 5‑Year Moat in a 6‑Month World

Nov 18, 2025

B2B

Running Multiple Companies Without Losing Your Edge

Running Multiple Companies Without Losing Your Edge

Nov 19, 2025

Thoughts

The First 10 Hires: Who I Actually Want in the Room

The First 10 Hires: Who I Actually Want in the Room

Nov 25, 2025

Founder

From Agency to Product: Turning Services into SaaS on Purpose

From Agency to Product: Turning Services into SaaS on Purpose

Nov 24, 2025

Agency

Default Alive for B2B Founders: How I Actually Think About Runway

Default Alive for B2B Founders: How I Actually Think About Runway

Nov 23, 2025

Founder

Checklist for founder-led outbound with AI-assisted research and reply targets

Founder‑Led Outbound in 2026: How I’d Start From Zero Again

Nov 22, 2025

Founder

Founder scoreboard for deliverability-first growth with bounce, complaint, and inbox placement metrics

Deliverability‑First Growth: More Landings Before More Leads

Nov 21, 2025

Marketing

Distribution‑First Products: How I Think About Building for Acquisition

Distribution‑First Products: How I Think About Building for Acquisition

Nov 27, 2025

Product

Agentic SDR Stack: What AI Will Really Eat in Outbound

Agentic SDR Stack: What AI Will Really Eat in Outbound

Nov 20, 2025

Sales

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AI Search Visibility Needs a Weekly Review Loop

Jul 6, 2026

AI

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Branded Traffic Can Fake Product-Market Fit

Jul 6, 2026

B2B

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Every AI Workflow Needs an Eval Before a Seat

Jul 6, 2026

AI

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AI Spend Should Be Reviewed Like Pipeline

Jul 6, 2026

Business

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Deliverability Is Becoming Cross-Channel Trust Infrastructure

Jul 6, 2026

Marketing

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Memory Systems Need Adversarial Tests, Not Demos

Jul 6, 2026

AI

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Agent Trust Starts With Sandboxes, Not Permissions

Jul 6, 2026

AI

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Outbound Agents Need Trigger Libraries, Not Longer Sequences

Jul 6, 2026

Sales

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The Best Agency-to-SaaS Clue Is the Exception Queue

Jul 6, 2026

Agency

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Product Pages Should Carry Original Data, Not Better Adjectives

Jul 6, 2026

Product

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LLMS.txt Is Not a Moat

Jul 13, 2026

AI

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Model Leaderboards Need a Cost Denominator

Jul 13, 2026

Business

Editorial line drawing of a laptop, content cards, and crossed generic copy marks on warm cream paper.

Taste Is Now a Production Constraint

Jul 13, 2026

Product

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Token Budgets Need an Owner

Jul 13, 2026

Founder

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MCP Adoption Needs a Trust Index

Jul 13, 2026

AI

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Lost-Deal Notes Should Drive Outbound

Jul 13, 2026

Sales

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Complaint Spikes Should Rewrite the Sequence

Jul 13, 2026

Marketing

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Service Reports Should Become Product Specs

Jul 13, 2026

Agency

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Topic Pages Should Carry the Cluster

Jul 13, 2026

Product

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Human Review Is Becoming the Premium SKU

Jul 13, 2026

B2B

AI Agent Evaluation Scorecard for Founders

Jul 20, 2026

AI

Cold Email Deliverability Benchmarks to Track Weekly

Jul 20, 2026

Marketing

Founder-Led Outbound Needs Trigger Libraries

Jul 20, 2026

Sales

Answer Engine Optimization for Operator Sites

Jul 20, 2026

Marketing

The Agency-to-SaaS Exception Queue

Jul 20, 2026

Agency

AI SDR Pilot Readiness Checklist

Jul 20, 2026

Sales

B2B Content Should Start With Sales Objections

Jul 20, 2026

Marketing

LLMs.txt Is Not a Moat, but It Is a Router

Jul 20, 2026

AI

CRM Notes Are a Growth Dataset

Jul 20, 2026

Sales

A Weekly AI Radar Loop for Operators

Jul 20, 2026

AI

Vlad Podoliako

Serial Entrepreneur

Vlad Podoliako

Serial Entrepreneur