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Designing Your Website for the Age of AI Agents
Your website used to be a persuasion surface for humans. Now, it's a reasoning surface for machines.
Jun 27 • Matt Trifiro
The End of Fortress Marketing
Switching costs, proprietary tech, and data advantages are fading. What remains is taste, speed, and point of view.
Jun 25 • Matt Trifiro
Stay in the Account
Why the leaders who keep their hands on the work are the ones who keep their jobs.
Jun 24 • Matt Trifiro
The Long Game in Content
Why asking for nothing drives more revenue than the hard sell.
Jun 23 • Matt Trifiro
Sell Like a Doctor, Not a Salesman
Why the icky feeling disappears the moment you stop trying to close
Jun 22 • Matt Trifiro
One Team, One Scoreboard, No Priesthood
What changes when engineers and salespeople stop ranking each other.
Jun 22 • Matt Trifiro
How to Name a Wilderness Into Existence
What a conservation nonprofit understood about category creation that most software companies still miss.
Jun 19 • Matt Trifiro
Watermarking Your Ideas
How to bake your brand into a concept so deeply the AI can't ignore it.
Jun 17 • Matt Trifiro
Your Vocabulary is Your Mote
The future belongs to those who create proprietary handles for their ideas.
Jun 16 • Matt Trifiro
The Search You Didn't Know You Signed Up For
Most founders think launch day is the beginning of growth—it's actually the beginning of a much stranger, slower process.
Jun 10 • Matt Trifiro
Naming the Category
How a small startup used language to fight Google and Docker for the future of the cloud.
Jun 10 • Matt Trifiro
The SEO Fallacy
To survive, you must abandon the crowded center of consensus and instead focus on unique ideas and questions no one else is asking.
Jun 6 • Matt Trifiro
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