01 Field notes

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.

Topic 01 AI Automation

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.

Topic 02 AI Tools & Cloud

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.

AI Tools 12 min read

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.

May 02, 2026Anya Nakamura
AI Tools 12 min read

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.

May 02, 2026Anya Nakamura
Cloud & Data 14 min read

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.

May 02, 2026Anya Nakamura
AI Tools 11 min read

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.

May 02, 2026Anya Nakamura
AI Tools 13 min read

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.

May 02, 2026Daniel Reinholt
AI Tools 13 min read

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.

May 02, 2026Anya Nakamura
Topic 03 SEO & AEO

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.

Strategy 14 min read

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.

Mar 28, 2026Priya Kulkarni
Technical 13 min read

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.

Mar 21, 2026Priya Kulkarni
Playbook 11 min read

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.

Mar 14, 2026Maya Bello
SEO & AEO 12 min read

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.

May 02, 2026Priya Kulkarni
SEO & AEO 13 min read

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.

May 02, 2026Priya Kulkarni
SEO & AEO 12 min read

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.

May 02, 2026Priya Kulkarni
Topic 04 Digital Marketing

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.