Email Isn't Dead. It's Being Rebuilt From the Inbox Up.

Email Isn't Dead. It's Being Rebuilt From the Inbox Up.

After 25 years, email is still the highest-ROI channel in the stack. But the platforms delivering it in 2026 are fundamentally different and the practitioners who treat email as a legacy channel are falling behind.
Weekly MarTech Signals That Matter to Me: Part 3, Week 20

Weekly MarTech Signals That Matter to Me: Part 3, Week 20

The Insider One/Bluecore acquisition reframes the CEP M&A logic, Klaviyo reveals the full scope of its B2C CRM ambition, HubSpot builds AI inbox simulation into pre-send review, and Salesforce MCN's consent gap finally closes.
Weekly MarTech Signals That Matter to Me: Part 1, Week 18

Weekly MarTech Signals That Matter to Me: Part 1, Week 18

Agentic Marketing Is No Longer a Roadmap Item. A week of MarTech releases that belong together: AJO's orchestration intelligence layer, MCP going platform-wide, Klaviyo changing the e-commerce equation, Segment's warehouse-native pivot and the governance question nobody has answered yet.
Weekly MarTech Signals That Matter to Me — Part 0

Weekly MarTech Signals That Matter to Me — Part 0

For 25+ years I tried to stay current in this industry through newsletters, bookmarks, RSS feeds and conference roadmaps. None of it worked as a system. What I needed wasn't more sources, it was a process. So I built a reading agent that scans official release notes every week and gives me a structured picture of what actually changed.
2026 Field Notes on Customer Engagement Platforms — Part 3: Insider One

2026 Field Notes on Customer Engagement Platforms — Part 3: Insider One

Why Insider One is Part 3 (and why it sits at the crossroads of CEP and “Experience Optimization”)
2026 Field Notes on Customer Engagement Platforms — Part 0

2026 Field Notes on Customer Engagement Platforms — Part 0

Why this series exists
When CDP Meets CEP: The Convergence of Data and Activation in the Age of Algorithmic Empathy

When CDP Meets CEP: The Convergence of Data and Activation in the Age of Algorithmic Empathy

The MarTech landscape is collapsing the distance between customer data and customer action.