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Is Your Email Design Ghosting Your Customers?

While obsessing over metrics, brands often alienate loyal fans with inaccessible emails. Failing to support screen readers or contrast modes says clearly: this wasn’t built for you.

Strategy
Social

Agent in the Loop

We’ve spent the last year experimenting and building agentic workflows with our strategy department — not to replace the thinking, but to give our team more flexibility in how we spend our time. The distinction matters.

Strategy
CRM

Use AI, but don’t hide your humans

There’s a tension brewing between a desire to be at the forefront of Generative AI (and its promised efficiency gains) and a growing discomfort with filling social feeds with an uncanny, synthetic output.

Strategy
Creative
Studio

One tool to rule them all? Your AI video workflow needs a fellowship.

Stop searching for the “one tool to rule them all.” Learn why high-end AI video production requires a strategic fellowship of specialized tools and human creative synthesis.

Strategy
CRM

Stop reacting, start engineering: Why your CRM strategy needs to move up the funnel

Automated flows might convert 30x better than standard blasts, but doubling down on triggers alone is a trap that ignores how those customers are acquired in the first place. Over-indexing on high-ROI “low-hanging fruit” creates a polished bottom funnel while silently starving long-term growth.

Strategy

The “Add to Cart” era: What the Hertz-Amazon deal means for the future of dealerships

For decades, the auto industry believed that purchasing a vehicle was too complex, too expensive, and too emotional to be reduced to a simple online transaction. Customers needed the handshake, the test drive, and, inevitably, the friction of the negotiation table.