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Live unboxing of Expertise.ai, an AI sales agent platform that trained on 480+ website pages in under 60 seconds, with seamless HubSpot integration for contact sync, meeting…

Value-First Data — The Story So Far: Eight Months Building the Unified View, Live
A retrospective episode of Value-First Data: Chris Carolan, Klemen Hrovat (Sellestial), and Casey Hawkins look back across eight months of the series — from the Value-First Data…

Value-First Data - Jan 27, 2026
Chris Carolan, Casey Hawkins, and Klemen Hrovat keep building the Unified Customer View, returning to a refrain from the series: don't skip the basics. Before rushing into…


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Let's Unbox•March 16, 2026
Let's Unbox Expertise.ai
Live unboxing of Expertise.ai, an AI sales agent platform that trained on 480+ website pages in under 60…
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Value-First AI Daily•January 29, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Jan 29, 2026
Recording from live stream on 1/29/2026
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Value-First AI Daily•January 30, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Jan 30, 2026
Recording from live stream on 1/30/2026
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Value-First Commerce•January 28, 2026
Value-First Commerce - Jan 28, 2026
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Value-First Measurement•January 26, 2026
Value-First Measurement - Jan 26, 2026
Recording from live stream on 1/26/2026
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Value-First Revenue Architecture•January 29, 2026
Value-First Revenue Architecture - Jan 29, 2026
Recording from live stream on 1/29/2026
OpenWake Up Customer Platform•January 29, 2026
Wake Up Customer Platform - Jan 29, 2026
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Value-First Data•June 23, 2026
Value-First Data — The Story So Far: Eight Months Building the Unified View, Live
A retrospective episode of Value-First Data: Chris Carolan, Klemen Hrovat (Sellestial), and Casey Hawkins…
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Value-First Delivery•January 28, 2026
Value-First Delivery - Jan 28, 2026
Recording from live stream on 1/28/2026
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Value-First AI Daily•January 26, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Jan 26, 2026
Recording from live stream on 1/26/2026
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Value-First AI Daily•January 28, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Jan 28, 2026
Recording from live stream on 1/28/2026
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Value-First Data•January 27, 2026
Value-First Data - Jan 27, 2026
Chris Carolan, Casey Hawkins, and Klemen Hrovat keep building the Unified Customer View, returning to a…
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Wake Up Customer Platform - Jan 30, 2026
WatchValue-First Partner•January 16, 2026
Value-First Partner: Mutual Growth Over Extraction
Episode 1 of the Value-First Partner series with Chris Carolan and Crispy Barnett. This seven-episode…
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Let's Build Daily•September 21, 2025
HubSpot Breeze Assistants: First Setup
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What are HubSpot Breeze Assistants?
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Let's Build Integrations: HubSpot ↔ Shopify - Part 3: Native vs. Custom
Let's Build Integrations: HubSpot ↔ Shopify - Part 3: Native vs. Custom
WatchLet's Build Daily•May 17, 2025
Let's Build GTM with Rob Jones
Good morning, LinkedIn! I'm excited to have Rob Jones back with me today to dive into something that many…
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Welcome to Let's Build Your Dumpster Fire
Join us this morning as we talk about all kinds of nonsensical stuff related to your business (or not). It…
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Let's Build Integrations: HubSpot ↔ Shopify - Part 2: Orders vs. Deals
Let's Build Integrations: HubSpot ↔ Shopify - Part 2: Orders vs. Deals
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Let's Build A Buyer-Aligned Sales Framework with John and Mike
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Let's Build Daily•April 25, 2025
Let's Build Profoundly with George B. Thomas
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Let's Build GTM with Rob Jones
Let's Build GTM with Rob Jones
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Let's Build Integrations: HubSpot to Shopify with Stefan Loncar
Let's Build Integrations: HubSpot to Shopify with Stefan Loncar
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Let's Build GTM with Rob Jones
Join Chris Carolan and Rob Jones every Friday as they break down go-to-market strategies that actually work…
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Let's Build GTM with Rob Jones
Let's Build GTM with Rob Jones
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Let's Build GTM with Rob Jones
Let's Build GTM with Rob Jones
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Join us this morning as we talk about all kinds of nonsensical stuff related to your business (or not). It…
WatchValue-First AI Daily
Running nowThe team's working notebook, live — weekdays at 4:15 Central. AI news, one live wheel-spin, one build in progress.
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Value-First AI Daily - Aug 6, 2026
Nico Lafakis drove the Boston level of his block-destruction game live — a one-shot build he has not touched…
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Value-First AI Daily - Aug 5, 2026
Nico brings a clip Anthropic posted a few hours before air — an explainer on what the model is actually doing…
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Value-First AI Daily - Aug 4, 2026
Episode 9 opens on how to be present at a conference while still capturing content, then reads a Top 3 board…
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Value-First AI Daily•July 31, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Jul 31, 2026
Ep. 8 opened on the problem Chris has not solved: agents that understand time too well. He had started the…
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Value-First AI Daily•July 30, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Jul 30, 2026
Ep. 7 opened on a command that had run itself: Chris Carolan's morning schedule pass had set up his whole…
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Value-First AI Daily•July 28, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Jul 28, 2026
Chris Carolan opened Ep. 6 with a line-by-line walk of the operating-rules file every agent on the team…
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Value-First AI Daily•July 27, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Jul 27, 2026
Chris moved his operating org to Opus 5 over the weekend and found an instruction he never wrote sitting…
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Value-First AI Daily•July 24, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Jul 24, 2026
The show's first Friday at its new 1:00 PM Central time opened with a live Top 3 - Google ATLAS, FLUX 3, and…
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Value-First AI Daily•July 22, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Jul 22, 2026
A show-and-tell episode recorded through real compute strain. Chris teased AIROI, the week's AI…
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Value-First AI Daily•July 21, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Jul 21, 2026
Chris Carolan and Nico Lafakis spend the episode on HubSpot Breeze's new private-beta vibe-coding capability…
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Value-First AI Daily•July 20, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Jul 20, 2026
Value-First AI Daily is back — relaunched as a daily working-notebook show with Chris Carolan and Nico…
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Value-First AI Daily•March 27, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Mar 27, 2026
Recording from live stream on 3/27/2026
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Value-First AI Daily•March 26, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Mar 26, 2026
Recording from live stream on 3/26/2026
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Value-First AI Daily•March 25, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Mar 25, 2026
Recording from live stream on 3/25/2026
OpenWake Up Customer Platform
Complete runYour unofficial HubSpot morning show
Wake Up Customer Platform•March 24, 2026
Wake Up Customer Platform - Mar 24, 2026
Chris Carolan opens the morning with a fresh look at the customer platform landscape. Wake Up Customer…
OpenWake Up Customer Platform•February 19, 2026
Wake Up Customer Platform - Feb 19, 2026
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Wake Up Customer Platform - Feb 10, 2026
Recording from live stream on 2/10/2026
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Wake Up Customer Platform - Jan 29, 2026
WatchLet's Build AI Skills Daily
On a breakDaily AI skills with George B. Thomas and Nico Lafakis
Let's Build AI Skills Daily•March 19, 2026
Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report
Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report
WatchLet's Build AI Skills Daily•March 12, 2026
Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report
Since we missed Monday, join us to hear AND see what we have built since last week. Build, show, and tell is…
WatchLet's Build AI Skills Daily•March 4, 2026
Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report
You ever seen a leadership team that does not have any marketers or marketing experience be tasked with…
WatchLet's Build AI Skills Daily•February 23, 2026
Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report
Mary Ellen Cavanagh joins the show today to share her journey with AI. We'll be discussing the immeasurable…
WatchLet's Build AI Skills Daily•February 3, 2026
Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report
Value-First AI Commitment Number 6: We will use AI to remove friction, not add complexity. We believe AI…
WatchLet's Build AI Skills Daily•February 2, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - January 12, 2026
Value-First AI Daily is your essential source for understanding how artificial intelligence enhances rather…
WatchLet's Build AI Skills Daily•October 21, 2025
Let's Build AI Skills - Unboxing HubSpot MCP with Sejal Parikh
Join me, Nick Lafakis, George B. Thomas, and special guest Sejal Parikh (HubSpot Staff Product Manager) this…
WatchLet's Build AI Skills Daily•June 28, 2025
Let's Build AI Skills with Nico, George, and Chris
Let's Build AI Skills with Nico, George, and Chris
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Let's Build AI Skills with Nico, George, and Chris
Your Essential AI Briefing for Business Impact
WatchLet's Build AI Skills Daily•June 14, 2025
Let's Build AI Skills with Nico, George, and Chris
Your Essential AI Briefing for Business Impact
WatchLet's Build AI Skills Daily•June 7, 2025
Let's Build AI Skills with Nico, George, and Chris
Your Essential AI Briefing for Business Impact
WatchLet's Build AI Skills Daily•May 31, 2025
Let's Build AI Skills with Nico, George, and Chris
Let's Build AI Skills with Nico, George, and Chris
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Let's Build AI Skills with Nico, George, and Chris
Let's Build AI Skills with Nico, George, and Chris
WatchLet's Build AI Skills Daily•May 17, 2025
Let's Build AI Skills with Nico, George, and Chris
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WatchValue-First Scoring
Running nowValue-First Scoring explores intelligence systems and pattern recognition—moving beyond traditional lead scoring to intent-based readiness assessment that honors human agency.
Value-First Scoring•March 3, 2026
Confidence Scoring - How to Know When Your Score Can't Be Trusted
Sarah Lane-Hawn and I explore something she built for a client: a confidence score that sits alongside a…
WatchValue-First Scoring•March 3, 2026
Lead Score Monday: What Should Your Lead Score Actually Do?
In this session, Chris Carolan, Rylee Powell, and I kick off a series where we build our own lead score.…
WatchValue-First Scoring•March 3, 2026
Lead Scoring as a Gateway to More Human Sales Conversations
Most lead scores tell your sales team one thing: someone did stuff. Opened emails. Downloaded a PDF. Visited…
WatchValue-First Scoring•March 3, 2026
Value-First Scoring Build: Building the Company Fit Score
In our previous session, while attempting to build a fit score, Rylee Powell wanted to understand the…
WatchValue-First Scoring•February 12, 2026
Lead Score Monday: Collecting and Actually Using Feedback on Your Scores
In this session: collecting and actually using feedback on your lead scoring.
WatchValue-First Scoring•February 12, 2026
Lead Score Monday: HOW to Build Value-First Scoring (Season Finale)
For six sessions, Chris Carolan, Rylee Powell, and I have been deconstructing and rebuilding:
WatchValue-First Scoring•February 12, 2026
Lead Score Monday: Making Complex Lead Scoring Models Actually Scalable
This session's focus: making complex org scoring actually scalable when you have multiple industries, buyer…
WatchValue-First Scoring•February 12, 2026
Lead Score Monday: The "AND" Logic Release Party 🎉
We threw a party this session. Why? Because HubSpot just shipped the feature I've been asking for since the…
WatchValue-First Scoring•February 12, 2026
Lead Score Monday: WHERE Do Scores Become Useful?
When your scoring system can't tell sales what to actually say, everyone defaults to generic spray-and-pray.…
WatchValue-First Scoring•February 12, 2026
Lead Score Monday: Your High-Scoring Lead Went Cold 3 Weeks Ago
In this session, we're tackling WHEN:
WatchValue-First Scoring•February 12, 2026
So WHAT Lead Signals Are We Scoring? (Spoiler: Not Your 2022 Downloads)
Because I'm tired of seeing:
WatchValue-First Scoring•February 12, 2026
Who Are We Lead Scoring Anyway?
Before we build another scoring model, we need to answer a question most teams skip: Who are we scoring?
WatchValue-First Scoring•February 12, 2026
Why The Hell Are We Lead Scoring Anyway? | Lead Score Monday
Your lead score hits 100. Now what? If your only answer is "notify sales to call them," you're using scoring…
WatchValue-First Scoring•February 12, 2026
Why Your First Lead Score Will Be Wrong (And That's the Point)
Hot take: your lead score doesn't need to be perfect. It needs to be good enough to learn from.
WatchValue-First Data
Complete runValue-First Data explores technical orchestration and AI-human collaborative intelligence—how organizations build systems that multiply human capability rather than replace it.

Value-First Data•June 23, 2026
Value-First Data — The Story So Far: Eight Months Building the Unified View, Live
A retrospective episode of Value-First Data: Chris Carolan, Klemen Hrovat (Sellestial), and Casey Hawkins…
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Value-First Data•June 16, 2026
Observability vs. Visibility: Building AI for Trust, Not the Sign-Off
Chris Carolan and Klemen Hrovat pull apart two words everyone uses interchangeably — observability and…
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Value-First Data•June 9, 2026
Value-First Data — The Curation Engine: Why the Surface Isn't the Value
In this episode of Value-First Data, Chris Carolan, Klemen Hrovat of Sellestial, and Casey Hawkins wrestle…
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Value-First Data•March 31, 2026
Unified Revenue View Part 4: Scope Decision
Most organizations approach revenue system configuration backwards. They start with the tool and work through…
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Value-First Data•March 24, 2026
Value-First Data — Unified Revenue View Part 3
You can't build a Unified Revenue View on top of assumptions. Before configuring a single pipeline stage,…
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Value-First Data•March 17, 2026
Value-First Data - Mar 17, 2026
Chris Carolan and Klemen Hrovat are joined by guest Tricia Miriam to talk AI data readiness through the lens…
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Value-First Data•March 10, 2026
Value-First Data — Unified Revenue View Part 1
Chris Carolan, Casey Hawkins, and Klemen Hrovat turn from the Unified Customer View to the Unified Revenue…
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Value-First Data•March 3, 2026
Value-First Data — Unified Customer View Part 6
In the sixth and final part of the Unified Customer View arc, Chris Carolan, Casey Hawkins, and Klemen Hrovat…
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Value-First Data•February 17, 2026
Value-First Data - Feb 17, 2026
Chris Carolan, Casey Hawkins, and Klemen Hrovat continue the Unified Customer View series with a focus on…
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Value-First Data•February 10, 2026
Value-First Data — Unified Customer View Part 4
Chris Carolan and Klemen Hrovat (Casey out this week) take the Unified Customer View deeper, framing it as…
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Value-First Data•February 3, 2026
Value-First Data - Feb 3, 2026
Chris Carolan, Casey Hawkins, and Klemen Hrovat extend the Unified Customer View series into automation —…
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Value-First Data•January 27, 2026
Value-First Data - Jan 27, 2026
Chris Carolan, Casey Hawkins, and Klemen Hrovat keep building the Unified Customer View, returning to a…
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Value-First Data•January 13, 2026
Value-First Data — Episode 10: The Unified Customer View Playbook
The first episode of 2026 and the tenth in the series, Chris Carolan, Casey Hawkins, and Klemen Hrovat pivot…
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Value-First Data•January 2, 2026
Value-First in 2026: Five Revelations with Casey Hawkins
To open 2026, Chris Carolan and Casey Hawkins step back from the Value Path stage-by-stage walk to talk…
OpenTech Stack Reimagined
Running nowEach episode, we challenge conventional business technology thinking by building powerful, streamlined systems using minimal tools connected through AI.

Tech Stack Reimagined•March 29, 2026
Tech Stack Reimagined: The Reality of Building an AI-Native CRM
Moving past the "vibe coding" hype to see what actually works. Chris Carolan and Nico Lafakis tackle the…
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Tech Stack Reimagined•March 2, 2026
Tech Stack Reimagined: Building the Ultimate AI-Native Workspace
Tech Stack Reimagined: Building the Ultimate AI-Native Workspace
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Tech Stack Reimagined•February 1, 2026
Tech Stack Reimagined: Building the Ultimate AI-Native Workspace
Tech Stack Reimagined: Building the Ultimate AI-Native Workspace
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Tech Stack Reimagined•January 11, 2026
Tech Stack Reimagined: Building the Ultimate AI-Powered Workspace
Tech Stack Reimagined: Building the Ultimate AI-Powered Workspace
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Tech Stack Reimagined•November 22, 2025
Tech Stack Reimagined with Nico, Chris, and George: Unboxing Google AI
Tech Stack Reimagined with Nico, Chris, and George: Unboxing Google AI
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Tech Stack Reimagined•November 2, 2025
Tech Stack Reimagined: Building the Ultimate AI-Powered Workspace
It's feeling like one of those agentic, creative flow kind of days. Don't mind us...come hangout if you want…
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Tech Stack Reimagined•October 20, 2025
Tech Stack Reimagined: Building the Ultimate AI-Powered Workspace with Chris and Nico
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Tech Stack Reimagined•October 6, 2025
Tech Stack Reimagined with Nico & Chris: Are you ready to Imagine w/ Claude
Imagine with Claude say whaaaaaaaatttttt?!?!?! 🤯 🫠 🤯 🫠 🤯 🫠
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Tech Stack Reimagined•September 14, 2025
Tech Stack Reimagined: Post-INBOUND 2025 HubSpot Breeze Agent Deep Dive - Hour 2
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Tech Stack Reimagined•September 14, 2025
Tech Stack Reimagined: Post-INBOUND 2025 HubSpot Breeze Agent Deep Dive - Hour 1
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Tech Stack Reimagined•August 25, 2025
Tech Stack Reimagined with Chris and Nico - The MIT Study Proves Our Point
🔥 The MIT study everyone's freaking out about just proved our point
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Tech Stack Reimagined•August 17, 2025
Tech Stack Reimagined: Building the Ultimate AI-Powered Workspace
🚀 Going LIVE today: The moment when everything clicks about AI and business systems
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Tech Stack Reimagined•August 11, 2025
Tech Stack Reimagined: Building the Ultimate AI-Powered Workspace - GPT-5 Impact and Commentary
Tech Stack Reimagined: Building the Ultimate AI-Powered Workspace
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Tech Stack Reimagined•August 3, 2025
Tech Stack Reimagined with Nico Lafakis and Chris Carolan
Tech Stack Reimagined: An Exploration of AI-Powered Business Technology
WatchValue-First Measurement
Running nowIntelligence systems, analytics, and performance insights for value-driven organizations. Danielle Urban shares expert guidance on measuring what matt

Value-First Measurement•March 23, 2026
Value-First Measurement - Mar 23, 2026
Recording from live stream on 3/23/2026
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Value-First Measurement•March 2, 2026
Value-First Measurement - Mar 2, 2026
Recording from live stream on 3/2/2026
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Value-First Measurement•February 2, 2026
Unified Views Wizard Walkthrough with Danielle Urban
Chris unveils a new tool—the Unified View Prototype Wizard—designed to help organizations identify…
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Value-First Measurement•January 26, 2026
Value-First Measurement - Jan 26, 2026
Recording from live stream on 1/26/2026
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Value-First Measurement•December 9, 2025
Value-First Measurement with Danielle Urban
Value-First Measurement with Danielle Urban
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Value-First Measurement•November 18, 2025
Value-First Measurement w/ Danielle Urban - Every Human has a Value Path
Your prospects don't care that you call them MQLs.
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Value-First Measurement•November 11, 2025
Value-First Measurement w/ Danielle Urban: Getting to Unified Customer View
Value-First Measurement w/ Danielle Urban: Getting to Unified Customer View
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Value-First Measurement•November 10, 2025
Value-First Measurement with Danielle Urban
Value-First Measurement with Danielle Urban
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Value-First Measurement•November 4, 2025
Value-First Measurement with Danielle Urban - MOps-Apalooza Recap
Live Today: Marketing Ops at a Crossroads
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Value-First Measurement•October 14, 2025
Value-First Measurement with Danielle Urban - Dynamic vs Static Targets
🔄 Loop Marketing's "EVOLVE" stage has the right instinct but the wrong target.
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Value-First Measurement•September 30, 2025
Value-First Measurement w/ Danielle Urban: Remove Barriers, Don't Add Pressure
✨ Excited to join Danielle Urban LIVE today as we dig into one of the most important principles from the…
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Value-First Measurement•September 23, 2025
Value-First Measurement with Danielle Urban - Loop Marketing Measurement
🔄 HubSpot's new Loop Marketing playbook has a measurement problem. And it's the same problem everyone else…
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Value-First Measurement•August 26, 2025
Value-First Measurement with Danielle Urban: Ep. 6 - Value Pace over Speed
🕰️ Your quarterly deadlines are killing your competitive advantage.
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Value-First Measurement•August 12, 2025
Value-First Measurement with Danielle Urban - From Gaming to Learning
Value-First Measurement with Danielle Urban - From Gaming to Learning
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Fix CRM Adoption: A Blueprint for Complex Sales Teams
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George on Bringing Grant Lee Onstage
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HubSpot Hacks: Audit for High-Impact Wins
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HubSpot Workflow Upgrades and a Movie Tribute
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The Power of One Thing: A Session Strategy
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A Place to Put the App You Vibe Coded
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An Agent Wrote a Script Around Its Own Guardrail
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Go Create Your Own Benchmark
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Writing
Long-form thinking — the ideas behind the builds.
Article•Chris Carolan
Nineteen Unsanctioned Actions, One Federal Approval, and the Switches Behind Both
The interesting part of this week's agent news is not what the agents did. It is what somebody had switched off before…
August 6, 2026
Article•Chris Carolan
The Quote That Knows the Buyer
A HubSpot quote is, by default, a PDF about a transaction. It states a price, asks for a signature, and knows nothing…
August 6, 2026
Article•V
Twenty-Six Words for What's Actually in the Way
A HubSpot portal holds 6,559 property definitions across 35 readable CRM object types (27 standard, 8 custom). A sweep…
August 6, 2026
Article•Chris Carolan
The Ninth Circuit Read Your Agent as a Tool. Tools Have Operators.
The agent is a tool. The person operating it is the one accessing the site.
August 6, 2026
Article•Chris Carolan
Nobody has been fined yet
The EU’s AI Act became enforceable on August 2. A chatbot has to say it is a chatbot. Synthetic media has to be…
August 4, 2026
Article•Chris Carolan
Who sets the pace
Three AI stories landed on July 31, and they looked unrelated. A model release, a copyright ruling, and an open letter.…
July 31, 2026
Article•Chris Carolan
Your Model Knowledge Expires on Day One
Claude Opus 5 shipped this morning, priced the same as the one I trusted, and marketed as a clear upgrade. Here's the…
July 24, 2026
Article•Chris Carolan
The Language of Value — Issue No. 1: Your Agent Is Trained Against Value
Your agent didn't choose to speak funnel — it learned it from training data you can't argue with. First in a series on…
July 17, 2026
Article•Chris Carolan
The System Improves Itself
Part 2 of two in “The AI-Native Walk.”
June 7, 2026
Article•Chris Carolan
The Decision Layer
Part 1 of two in “The AI-Native Walk.”
June 6, 2026
Article•Chris Carolan
Defining Value in the AI-Native Era: The Value Creation Protocol
Third in the AI-Native Shift series. Defining what value means in an AI-native business operating model.
May 17, 2026
Article•Baldwin
Scope, Access, Context: What We Found When We Audited Ourselves
Frameworks usually come from a whiteboard. The good ones come from a conversation.
May 14, 2026
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5 Things We've Learned About AI Data Readiness
Opening — The Million People
May 7, 2026
Article•Chris Carolan
Five hosts. One bus. Twenty-one Wednesdays to Boston.
May 6, 2026
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The frameworks, as decks. Opens on the consultancy site.
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Pick a path and do the work live, with people on the same road. That is the academy.