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Colby

Writing for Decision Loop on agentic GTM, decision intelligence, and the systems behind better marketing.

Articles by Colby

AI-Native Marketing

The Future CMO Is a Growth Architect - Not an Approver

AI isn't eliminating the CMO. It's driving the most powerful shift in the role's history if CMOs are willing to stop approving and start architecting.

Colby 9 min read
Retail Analytics

Your AI Decisioning System Is Answering the Wrong Question

Causal not correlation will work for decisioning. predictive patterns dressed up as action levers, and acting on them as if they were causal is how marketing budgets get wasted at scale.

Colby 5 min read
Ad Optimization

Martech Ate Marketing. Adtech Ate Advertising. AI Is Eating Both. What's Left Is the Decision Layer.

There's a pattern that repeats itself every decade in this industry. A new category of software or technology arrives promising to make marketers more powerful. Instead, it makes them more dependent. The tool becomes the job. The stack becomes the strategy. And somewhere along the way, the original

Colby 14 min read

You Did the Data Work. Now Make It Work for You.

The CDP era unified customer data. The Decision OS era activates it. After years of migrations, integrations, and budget battles, you deserve a system that works for you—not the other way around. Decision OS pairs your team with iWorkers (AI agents) to turn data into ranked priorities, Next Best Act

Colby 5 min read
Composable CDP

Composable Audience Graphs 101

How to build identity + enrichment + signals + activation + measurement without getting trapped in data vendor models Your media team just spent $50K scaling "AI" audiences… and a chunk of that spend chased people who had already bought. Your suppression lists are stale. Meta is crushing it, Google

Colby 6 min read
GTM Decision Intelligence

From Agent Chaos to AI Coworkers: Introducing iWorkers for Marketing Ops, ABM & Performance Marketing

iWorkers: AI Coworkers for Marketing Ops, ABM Performance Marketing

Colby 4 min read
Composable CDP

How to Fix Failing GTM in 2026: Switch from Channel-First to Decision-First Marketing

Introducing Decision Intelligence beyond AI in Marketing over-simplification or thinking beyond content The blunt truth Most GTM misses...

Colby 5 min read

Rethinking ICP in 2025: The iCustomer Methodology for Effective ABM and Compounding Growth

The Death of Traditional B2B Playbooks It's a new world out there, and the traditional B2B playbook is officially dead. The buyer journey has fundamentally transformed, creating a landscape where yesterday's strategies not only fail to deliver they actively work against you. Today's B2B environment

Colby 6 min read

Your Decisioning Engine: The Navigator Your MarTech Stack Is Missing

Broken Navigator in Marketing Operations Because your customer journey shouldn't start with "which channel should we blast?" Picture this: You're running a boutique hotel chain across Europe, think chic properties in Amsterdam's canal district, a converted palazzo in Florence, and a minimalist gem n

Colby 5 min read