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.
2026 Field Notes on Customer Engagement Platforms — Part 1: Braze

2026 Field Notes on Customer Engagement Platforms — Part 1: Braze

Why this series exists (and why I’m starting with Braze)
The End of Batch-and-Blast: From Marketing Automation to Agentic Engagement — Part 2

The End of Batch-and-Blast: From Marketing Automation to Agentic Engagement — Part 2

The architectural revolution that eliminated Latency Debt: the mandatory leap from slow batch processing to Real-Time Intelligence.
The End of Batch-and-Blast: From Marketing Automation to Agentic Engagement — Part 1

The End of Batch-and-Blast: From Marketing Automation to Agentic Engagement — Part 1

After 25 years in MarTech, I’ve watched “Marketing Automation” die a slow death. The modern customer demands a Real-Time System of…
⚙️ PART 2 — The AI Imperative: How Intelligent Systems Are Transforming Customer Engagement

⚙️ PART 2 — The AI Imperative: How Intelligent Systems Are Transforming Customer Engagement

The Leap from Static Rules to Algorithmic Personalization
🪄 PART 1 — The Day We Traded Empathy for Efficiency: Why Marketing Automation is Broken

🪄 PART 1 — The Day We Traded Empathy for Efficiency: Why Marketing Automation is Broken

How the pursuit of scale led to the Algorithmic Apathy — and why the next years belong to real-time, event-driven Customer Engagement.