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Weekly MarTech Signals That Matter to Me: Part 16, Week 33

Weekly MarTech Signals That Matter to Me: Part 16, Week 33

Klaviyo published 260 MCP tools with write access in a single sentence, and published nothing about session lifetime or permissions. In the same four days, a regulator, a messaging provider and a standards body all turned the opt-out path into something with an API and an audit trail.
AI Email Deliverability Starts Before the Send

AI Email Deliverability Starts Before the Send

AI is moving email deliverability upstream into the decision of whether a message should exist, while AI inboxes make a second decision about whether it deserves attention.
Weekly MarTech Signals That Matter to Me: Part 12, Week 29

Weekly MarTech Signals That Matter to Me: Part 12, Week 29

A quiet product week still moved a boundary: paid-media execution is being pulled closer to engagement and automation platforms, while more of the campaign chain is being operated through agentic interfaces. Why that is an architecture question, not a feature one.
Weekly MarTech Signals That Matter to Me: Part 11, Week 28

Weekly MarTech Signals That Matter to Me: Part 11, Week 28

A quiet holiday week with no agent launches, yet one of the quarter's most architecturally interesting: catalogs, channels and two intent-layer buys.
2026 Field Notes on Customer Engagement Platforms — Part 8: Klaviyo

2026 Field Notes on Customer Engagement Platforms — Part 8: Klaviyo

Klaviyo as commerce-data proximity: field notes on the storefront as system of record, K:AI agents, and when it strains beyond DTC.
Weekly MarTech Signals That Matter to Me: Part 4, Week 21

Weekly MarTech Signals That Matter to Me: Part 4, Week 21

AJO's May release, Bloomreach's governance update, and Klaviyo's AWS Marketplace listing all point in the same direction
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.
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
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
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.