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AI Startup Positioning (coming Q3 2026)

The antidote to AI marketing sameness. Positioning frameworks that make your AI product impossible to ignore and easy to buy.

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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    #9 - The 5-year work of making positioning stick (opens the original)

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    Listen to this interview:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="608" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LSs-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2

  2. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    #8 - Positioning → qualified pipeline (opens the original)

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    We’re getting into the archive for a sec…5 years ago, I helped Yesware rewrite its homepage.At the time, I called what I did “copy strategy.”Looking back, that wasn’t quite right…I was doing positioning work.I did not start with the headline. I did not build a messaging hierarchy. And I sure as hell did not ask my client which adjectives they wanted on the page.I started with the customer research.I read G2 reviews + went through customer interviews + studied conversion data + analyzed the inter

  3. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    Positioning problems explained with broccoli, burgers & knives (opens the original)

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    I’ve been making a lot of positioning images lately.People seem to like them.My LinkedIn DMs have been filling up with marketers telling me some version of:“Yep this is exactly what we’re dealing with”The problem is that plenty of people who follow me on LinkedIn never see these images.So I’m bringing 8 of my favorites here.Don’t skip ahead to dessert (I know you want to…)<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kWlO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_

  4. Issue · Aug 19, 2026

    #6 - How Uplevel chose a hybrid software + consulting model as their positioning (opens the original)

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    From 2025 to 2026, Uplevel went through a positioning and offer-design process that set the company on a new trajectory. As AI changed the way engineering teams worked, the company kept running into the limits of the engineering-intelligence promise: data could show customers where a problem existed, but not necessarily explain why it was happening or help them fix it.Uplevel had several viable paths forward. I interviewed Lauren L

  5. Issue · Aug 13, 2026

    #5 - Want a free 1-hr positioning audit call with me? (opens the original)

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    I’m testing out a new offer…a free 60-minute B2B positioning audit call with yours truly.Here are the details:Here is 17-minute recorded example of me doing the diagnostic audit process on myself so you can see what it looks like.You must be 1) a founder or 2) a marketing leader at a growing B2B company or startup (no consultants, freelancers or prototype-stage found

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