Operations

cover: image: /images/ai-board-of-advisors.webp alt: “AI board of advisors in a modern digital boardroom” Good strategy advice is expensive. A fractional CMO runs $3,000–$8,000 a month. A one-hour session with a legitimate growth consultant is $300–$500. Most small agencies can’t afford either consistently — so they skip the strategy layer entirely and just execute. We took a different approach. What We Built A 9-seat AI advisory board. Each seat is a specialized advisor with a defined mandate, focus area, and constraints — built on Claude and callable from the command line. ...

cover: image: /images/51-percent-bounce-rate-fix.webp alt: “Email bounce rate analytics dashboard on laptop” Half our outreach emails were bouncing. Not going to spam. Not sitting unread. Bouncing — hard fails, permanent rejects, addresses that never received anything. 51% of a batch gone before anyone ever saw the subject line. Why It Was Happening We were sending through a shared SMTP setup that didn’t have proper SPF, DKIM, or DMARC records configured on our sending domain. ...