Jeff Reine Jeff Reine

Marketing in the world of AI discovery & mediation

With the Internet splitting in two: one for people and the other for AI, marketers need to consider a new way of communicating for a new set of stakeholders. LLMs are now effectively mega influencers and have different content needs.

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Jeff Reine Jeff Reine

At the threshold of 1:1 marketing

Marketers have been chasing true 1:1 personalization for over two decades. Like the offense of an NFL team we have been steadily moving the ball down the field of personalization but cannot seem to reach the end zone. Marketers have built sophisticated tech stacks, deployed cross-site cookies, constructed rich user profiles, and mastered psychographic segmentation. Yet the goal has remained frustratingly out of reach, constantly halving the distance to the goal line without ever crossing it.

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Prashant Agarwal Prashant Agarwal

The internet is splitting in two

We're living through a quiet partition. The Human Internet—built on browsers, blue links, and SEO—still exists. Billions of queries still flow through Google. But alongside it, a parallel infrastructure is growing faster than any platform shift in history. The AI Internet doesn't work like the old one.

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Prashant Agarwal Prashant Agarwal

The future of buying

AI tools like Perplexity are revolutionizing buying decisions by acting as personal product specialists. Instead of sifting through specs and marketing, users get tailored analysis and recommendations. This shift promises smarter, more efficient purchases—especially for complex, high-ticket items—and signals a future where AI guides every major buying decision.

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Neil Rafer Neil Rafer

Google’s semi-secret agent advantage

Google’s edge in the AI agent race comes from its vast clickstream data—collected via Chrome and Analytics—which trains its agents to predict not just answers, but actions. To avoid another Google monopoly, businesses must feed their own click data to rival AIs like OpenAI and Apple. Train all the agents, or be left fighting for scraps.

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Neil Rafer Neil Rafer

Provide offerings to the Everything Machines, and you will prosper

To thrive in the AI era, businesses must feed “Everything Machines” like OpenAI, Google, and Apple with valuable data. The winners will be those who adapt quickly—auditing their data, engaging with AI crawlers, optimizing APIs, and partnering early. Inaction means irrelevance; strategic collaboration means growth and market share in a landscape where AI eats everything.

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Prashant Agarwal Prashant Agarwal

The next internet evolution

AI is transforming the Internet from human-driven browsing and search to agent-based automation. As Google shifts to Generative Search and AI Overviews, traditional SEO and media business models face disruption. The future: intelligent agents mediating our online experiences and reshaping how we discover, buy, and interact online.

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Neil Rafer Neil Rafer

AI killed your SEO. That's just the start.

AI giants like OpenAI, Google, and Apple are waging a battle to build “Everything Machines,” killing traditional SEO in the process. Apple’s edge: on-device AI and tight app integration. The future? Agents that don’t just deliver data, but act for you—leaving businesses scrambling to adapt or risk extinction.

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