Undivided Attention

What winning GTM looks like in the age of AI.
Events and Rooms
A convention center whose facade is filing cabinet drawers, one hanging open and spilling contracts into the street

Moscone's operator runs 450 venues and 20,000 events a year. Your cancellation correspondence is sitting in somebody else's file server.

The claimed haul reads less like a venue's IT problem and more like a filing cabinet belonging to every company that booked the place.
October 1, 2026
RevOps and Data

Twice in a year, Salesforce could not stop its AI handing over customer records. Those records are people who filled in a form.

The people whose details came out of the CRM never chose Salesforce, never saw the patch notes, and will never be told.
September 28, 2026
RevOps and Data

Exhibitions are 40.8% of the average exhibitor's marketing budget. They are also the hardest line to defend.

A survey published on Wednesday found almost every UK marketer hitting their targets and almost none of them winning budget for it, and the split came down to which channels can count themselves.
September 25, 2026
RevOps and Data
Hand drawn illustration of a video call window peeled back at one corner, revealing a larger scribbled face underneath

41% of CISOs met a deepfake on an employee call in the past year. The official advice is to hang up and call them back.

Every remote channel now carries a verification step, and the delay lands on the people trying to close, not the people who wrote the policy.
September 23, 2026
Brand and Attention

Trustpilot removed 4.5 million fake reviews in 2024. It has never said how many were one star.

AI made the star rating a primary source at the exact moment it became the cheapest number in B2B to manufacture, in either direction.
September 21, 2026
AI and GTM
A hand drawn speech bubble stands free on one side of a wobbly fence while a smaller bubble with a price tag is pressed against the other side

OpenAI must label a sponsored agent as sponsored. The label protects the answer by making the ad weak.

Only 3.63% of ChatGPT advertisers are cited in the answer above their own ad, and 44% of buyers discount anything they know was paid for.
September 17, 2026
Events and Rooms
Hand drawn illustration of an enormous bound ledger, chained shut and padlocked, towering over a small exhibitor holding a single receipt sized calendar invite.

Private equity spent $5.1 billion on trade shows this year. Meetings booked is the KPI, and the organizer owns the count.

The deal announcements name curated meeting programmes as the engine, and Money20/20 will now sell a supplier fifteen minutes with a buyer by the unit.
September 16, 2026
RevOps and Data

The top 10% of sellers close 47.4% of revenue. Nobody can copy them because nobody wrote it down.

Salesloft asked 500 US revenue leaders what is holding their AI back, and the answer they gave without meaning to is that more than half the record it reads is one seller's memory.
September 9, 2026
Brand and Attention
A magician's rabbit rises out of a top hat with a paper tag tied to its ear, while a third of the audience seats in front of it sit empty.

48% of ad buyers think viewers reject AI creative. (Buzzer.) They reject the label.

Three studies asked whether people mind AI advertising and got three answers, because only one of them watched what anyone actually did.
September 7, 2026
Events and Rooms
A faint registration checklist of unsigned rows, with one row near the bottom signed hard in ink beside a hundred dollar bill

Basecamp charged $100 to attend a free breakfast. Registrations fell 35 percent and the room grew 32 percent.

The signups that disappear the moment a seat costs anything were never demand, they were the events version of a generated email.
September 3, 2026
AI and GTM
Hand drawn illustration: seven columns rise from a drawn baseline, the five tallest built from stacked human figures and the two shortest from ruled envelopes, the last a single envelope on the ground.

Sales leaders rank AI-written email at 8%. Cold calling scores 47%, one point off its 2018 number.

A survey of 153 sellers ranked seven channels, and the five that need a person to show up all finished above the two that run themselves.
September 2, 2026
Events and Rooms

Events directors are paid $52,000 more when the job is coded to marketing. That gap is a bounty on measurement, and most teams cannot collect it.

The events industry spent six years deciding which half of the job is an investment, and the answer is now worth $52,000 a year.
September 1, 2026
Brand and Attention

Messi has 516 million followers and White Claw's distributor. The drink lasted under two years.

Every B2B founder brand is running the same experiment at a smaller scale, and the celebrity version just came back with results.
August 31, 2026
AI and GTM
A hand drawn bar chart where the tallest bar has been erased to blank paper, while three surveyors sight the empty column from three different angles.

Marketers put 24% of search budget into AI visibility. Two vendors cannot agree what the number even is.

The measurement vendor labeled its finding provisional, OpenAI denied targeting anyone, Reddit said it does not matter, and the proposed cause arrived six days early.
August 20, 2026
Brand and Attention
A grid of identical ruled posts, one scribbled out in orange with a flag planted in it

LinkedIn sold the AI writing tools. Now everyone gets a slop-stop button.

The platform that put a Write with AI button in its composer is now deputizing a billion members to police the output, and the penalty is reach.
August 19, 2026