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Field notes from the studio.

Short, opinionated essays on paid acquisition, pipeline, and how to operate inside a marketing budget. Written by the practitioners doing the work — not by the marketing team.

March 2026

Paid acquisition

Performance Max is not a strategy.

How to use Google's black-box campaign type without giving up your unit economics.

7 min read

February 2026

Pipeline

The ten-call week.

Why pipeline quality, not quantity, should be the only metric that matters in your weekly review.

5 min read

January 2026

Operations

What an agency owes you.

A short, opinionated list of things you should expect from anyone managing your acquisition spend.

4 min read

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