What is an AI harness
The dogs provide the power. The musher provides the direction. The harness is the structured system that makes them work together. Most marketing teams have the first two. Almost none have built the third.
May 19, 2026 · 4 min readAI is your accelerant, not your driver
Most "AI marketing" failures are not AI failures. They are operating-discipline failures that an LLM amplified at scale, and the cleanup costs more than the work it replaced.
April 22, 2026 · 4 min readThe cost of a vibe‑coded automation
A workflow generated in twenty minutes by a confident LLM and a marketer in a hurry will eventually meet a quarterly review. The cleanup is almost always more expensive than the original build would have been.
April 15, 2026 · 4 min readReal‑time marketing in an AI‑saturated market
When everyone can generate a campaign in twenty minutes, the differentiator is no longer the campaign. It is the response time on the things the campaign produces.
April 8, 2026 · 5 min readWhy your AI workflow needs an editor
The cheapest, highest-leverage role you can add to an AI-heavy marketing team is not another generator. It is a senior editor with the authority to delete.
April 1, 2026 · 4 min readWhen to trust AI in your marketing ops, and when not to
There is no single right answer for whether to put AI inside a marketing operation. The right answer depends on whether the work is reversible, observable, and bounded.
March 25, 2026 · 5 min readWhat “AI‑native” actually means in a marketing ops stack
Most stacks calling themselves “AI‑native” are the same stacks they were eighteen months ago with a chat box bolted on. The label is doing more work than the architecture is.
March 11, 2026 · 4 min read
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