Insights

Industry News & Field Notes

What we're seeing across software, marketing and AI. Written by the operators actually doing the work.

GROWTH
Jul 02, 2026

The end of last-click: what MMM actually tells you

Marketing mix modeling used to be for Fortune 500s. Here's how mid-market teams are running it in a weekend.

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AI
Jun 24, 2026

Shipping AI features without blowing your budget

A practical guide to model routing, caching and evals from three production launches this year.

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SEO
Jun 10, 2026

Programmatic SEO in 2026 — still working, still ignored

Real numbers from a marketplace we scaled to 180k pages and 62% of new signups.

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PRODUCT
May 28, 2026

TanStack Start is the new default for marketing sites

Why we moved every new marketing build to TanStack Start — and what we'd still use Next.js for.

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DESIGN
May 14, 2026

Design systems that survive their designers

The rules we now impose on every design system handoff. Learned the hard way.

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CULTURE
Apr 30, 2026

Why we stayed small (and probably always will)

Fourteen senior people beats forty juniors. A note on staying uncomfortable on purpose.

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