Writing
for B2B operators.
Strategic essays, playbooks, and teardowns for founders and CMOs building modern B2B companies. No listicles. No AI slop. Just the thinking we'd want to read if we were on the other side of the table.
AI Automation
How B2B teams are actually shipping AI systems in production — what works, what fails, and where the ROI compounds. Written for owners who've been burned by a demo that didn't survive Monday morning.
The AI Automation Roadmap: What B2B Owners Should Build First (and Last) in 2026
An honest sequencing guide. Which automations pay back in 90 days, which are worth the capital, and which you should stop considering entirely.
Why Most B2B AI Agents Fail in Production — And How to Build One That Doesn't
The demo looked great. Six weeks later, accuracy is at 40% and your team trusts nothing it outputs. Here's what you missed — and the eval pattern that fixes it.
From Busywork to Pipeline: A B2B Owner's Guide to Workflow Automation ROI
A simple framework for deciding what to automate, what to leave alone, and how to calculate payback before you spend a dollar on orchestration tooling.
AI Tools & Cloud
Honest reads on the tools and platforms B2B operators are picking between in 2026 — what each one actually does, where it fits, and where it doesn't. Written for teams making real bets, not collecting demos.
OpenClaw for B2B: How Operators Use the Open-Source Personal AI Assistant
The open-source personal AI by Peter Steinberger that runs on your laptop and actually does the work. 9 use cases, what it doesn't replace, and how it pairs with team-AI tools.
Claude Cowork for B2B: Practical Use Cases for the Task-Delegation Feature
Cowork is Anthropic's task-delegation feature: scheduled tasks, file ops, data extraction, report generation. 8 B2B use cases that pay back, what it doesn't replace, and how it compares to Zapier.
Google Cloud (GCP) for B2B: 10 Use Cases That Actually Compound
The four GCP products that move the needle, 10 ROI-ranked use cases, GCP vs AWS vs Azure, and the five scenarios when GCP is the wrong answer.
Grok Imagine for B2B: Practical Use Cases for Marketing, Sales & Product Teams
What xAI's image generation actually delivers for B2B teams. 8 use cases that pay back, 6 places it doesn't belong, and how to roll it in without breaking compliance.
n8n vs Zapier vs Make: The Honest Workflow-Automation Comparison for B2B
Pricing, integrations, AI agents, self-hosting, and the use cases where each one wins. Plus the four scenarios where none of them is the right answer.
Claude Code for B2B Engineering Teams: A Field Guide
10 real use cases, the rollout pattern that survives month two, security and compliance considerations, and how it differs from Cursor, Copilot, and Cody.
SEO & AEO
Search changed. Your buyers ask Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity before they ever open Google. We dig into what that means for B2B demand — and the technical, content, and citation work that wins in both surfaces.
AEO vs SEO: How B2B Buyers Actually Search in the Age of ChatGPT
The SEO playbook that worked in 2020 will not survive the next two years. Here's what changed, what's still true, and how to build for both surfaces without doubling your budget.
The Technical SEO Foundations Every B2B Website Gets Wrong
Crawl budget, rendering, schema, Core Web Vitals. The five technical failures we see on nine out of ten B2B sites — and a prioritized fix list.
Programmatic SEO for B2B: Scaling Content Without the Quality Tax
Most programmatic SEO is content spam with a fresh coat of paint. Here's how to scale the long-tail properly — with editorial QA gates and an actual defensible moat.
AI Overviews Killed Your Top-of-Funnel Traffic. Here's What to Do.
The 5 traffic patterns hit hardest, the new TOFU strategy that works, and what to measure now that clicks are no longer the metric.
How to Get Cited by ChatGPT and Claude in 2026
The 8 things that increase citation odds, the 5 that hurt, the new B2B content brief, and how to track LLM citations directly so you stop guessing.
Schema Markup for AEO: The 8 Schema Types That Actually Matter for B2B
The 8 schema types that move AI Overview citation rates, implementation examples, the 5 mistakes that nuke the value, and the rollout that ships in 6–10 weeks.
Digital Marketing
Brand, demand, content — the disciplines that compound when B2B markets get harder. Field notes from the work we ship every week for companies trying to stand out in categories that sound the same.
Why B2B Demand Gen Is Broken (And What's Replacing It)
The 2018 playbook — gated ebooks, retarget to demo — stopped working two years ago and nobody's told your board. Here's what the next decade looks like.
B2B Brand Positioning: The 90-Day Reset That Compounds for Years
If your sales reps can't repeat your positioning, your marketing is decorative. A 90-day method to find your category's sharp idea — and make it stick.
The B2B Content Engine: Building Thought Leadership That Drives Pipeline
Most B2B content is shaped by SEO first and ideas second. Invert it. A repeatable system for publishing opinions your market can't ignore — and tying it to revenue.