
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…



The Value Path - Jul 2, 2026
Champion, Part 1 opens the Value Path's eighth stage — "I am a raving fan." Joshua Oakes (Who-First) and Chris Carolan introduce the red/green-flag board and walk the RED column:…
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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 - Jan 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
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Value-First Revenue Architecture•January 29, 2026
Value-First Revenue Architecture - 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
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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 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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Let's Build Integrations: HubSpot ↔ Shopify - Part 3: Native vs. Custom
Let's Build Integrations: HubSpot ↔ Shopify - Part 3: Native vs. Custom
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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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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 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
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Let's Build GTM with Rob Jones
Let's Build GTM with Rob Jones
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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 - Jul 22, 2026
A show-and-tell episode recorded through real compute strain. Chris teased AIROI, the week's AI…
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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 - Jul 20, 2026
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Value-First AI Daily•March 27, 2026
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Value-First AI Daily•March 24, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Mar 24, 2026
Nico LaFakis, Chris Carolan, and George B. Thomas break down the AI developments that matter for business…
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Value-First AI Daily•March 20, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Mar 20, 2026
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Value-First AI Daily•March 18, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Mar 18, 2026
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Value-First AI Daily•March 17, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Mar 17, 2026
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Value-First AI Daily•March 16, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Mar 16, 2026
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Value-First AI Daily•March 12, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Mar 12, 2026
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Value-First AI Daily•March 11, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Mar 11, 2026
AI moves fast. On today's Value-First AI Daily, Nico Lafakis, George B. Thomas, and Chris Carolan cut through…
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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…
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Wake Up Customer Platform - Feb 19, 2026
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Wake Up Customer Platform - Feb 10, 2026
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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 15, 2026
Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report
Have you seen Anthropic's Labor market impacts of AI report yet?
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 7, 2026
Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report
Value-First AI Daily is your essential source for understanding how artificial intelligence enhances rather…
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 28, 2026
Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report
The weekend is a creator's playground. What did you create, build, or transform these past few days? Let's…
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 8, 2026
Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report - SaaSpocalypse
Value-First AI Daily is your essential source for understanding how artificial intelligence enhances rather…
WatchLet's Build AI Skills Daily•February 7, 2026
Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report
Want to know why we are not using Clawdbot - Moltbot - OpenClaw? Join us this morning to find out. The…
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…
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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•June 28, 2025
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•June 22, 2025
250622 Singularity Soothsayers with Chris Carolan, Nico Lafakis, and the Oracle
Singularity Soothsayers invites you into the living intersection of human and artificial intelligence as we…
WatchLet's Build AI Skills Daily•June 21, 2025
Let's Build AI Skills with Nico, George, and Chris
Your Essential AI Briefing for Business Impact
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
Running nowValue-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…
OpenLet's Unbox
Running nowUnboxing new HubSpot features
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…
WatchLet's Unbox•February 26, 2026
Let's Unbox: HubSpot Lead & Customer Health Scoring
Let's Unbox: HubSpot Lead & Customer Health Scoring
WatchLet's Unbox•November 8, 2025
Let's Unbox HubSpot: Calling & Power Dialer with Sarah Hall
Let's Unbox HubSpot: Calling & Power Dialer with Sarah Hall
WatchLet's Unbox•October 21, 2025
Let's Unbox HubSpot: AI-Powered CPQ w/ Ethan Kopit and Bill Barlas
What if 86% of B2B deals didn't have to stall anymore?
WatchLet's Unbox•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 Unbox•October 21, 2025
Let's Unbox HubSpot: Context & Behavior Event Tracking w/ Maggie Philbin
What if HubSpot's Fall 2025 Spotlight just changed everything we know about customer behavior tracking?
WatchLet's Unbox•October 21, 2025
Unboxing Sales Workspace
Join us to see how sales teams can be more efficient in their updated workspace in HubSpot
WatchLet's Unbox•October 21, 2025
Unboxing the HubSpot Remix Tool
Let's look at all of the amazing things that HubSpot is doing with content remix!
WatchLet's Unbox•August 17, 2025
Unboxing Seth Godin's Mentor Deck with Joshua Oakes
Seth's latest creation bridges the gap between reading insights and taking action. 52 cards, each one a…
WatchLet's Unbox•June 27, 2025
Let's Unbox A HubSpot Customer Data Model with Jeff Vincent
Let's Unbox A HubSpot Customer Data Model with Jeff Vincent
WatchLet's Unbox•June 27, 2025
Let's Unbox quote hapily with Dax Miller and Max Cohen
Let's Unbox quote hapily with Dax Miller and Max Cohen
WatchLet's Unbox•June 26, 2025
Let's Unbox Content Remix with Blake Reichenbach & George B. Thomas
Let's Unbox Content Remix with Blake Reichenbach & George B. Thomas
WatchLet's Unbox•June 18, 2025
Let's Unbox OW Sync - Orderwise Connector with Daryl Michel
The HubSpot Orders object is criminally underutilized.
WatchLet's Unbox•April 24, 2025
Let's Unbox: HubSpot Data Model Builder with Maggie Mirskey
Join me for a first look at HubSpot's game-changing new Data Model Builder! I'll be joined by Maggie Mirskey…
WatchTech 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
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AI Collaborates on Most Work — It Doesn't Take It Over
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It's Only a Black Box If You Let It Be
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Can You Vibe-Code a CRM? You Definitely Can
From Value-First AI Daily - Jul 22, 2026
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Kimi Two-Shots a Game, Claude Needs Massaging
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Measure AI by Value, Not Activity
From Value-First AI Daily - Jul 22, 2026
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The Org That Names Its Own Agent's Gap
From Value-First AI Daily - Jul 22, 2026
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By December You'll Just Say: I Want a CRM Application
From Value-First AI Daily - Jul 20, 2026
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Never Been Easier to Provide Value at the Exact Moment
From Value-First AI Daily - Jul 21, 2026
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Customer Agent vs Smart Properties: Where AI ROI Is Real
From The Road to UNBOUND - The ROI Question: Boston Tickets, Breeze Credits, and the Dashboard That Can't Exist
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Feeling About the Work Can Out-Return the Tool
From The Road to UNBOUND - The ROI Question: Boston Tickets, Breeze Credits, and the Dashboard That Can't Exist
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Fifty Credits, Nine Case Studies in Fourteen Days
From The Road to UNBOUND - The ROI Question: Boston Tickets, Breeze Credits, and the Dashboard That Can't Exist
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I Never Asked What's the ROI of My Wife
From The Road to UNBOUND - The ROI Question: Boston Tickets, Breeze Credits, and the Dashboard That Can't Exist
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Invest in the Business, or Invest in the Humans
From The Road to UNBOUND - The ROI Question: Boston Tickets, Breeze Credits, and the Dashboard That Can't Exist
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Let Serendipity Win the Day
From The Road to UNBOUND - The ROI Question: Boston Tickets, Breeze Credits, and the Dashboard That Can't Exist
Writing
Long-form thinking — the ideas behind the builds.
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
Article•V
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
Article•V
The Unified Contact View, Built Live
Becca clicked save on her first custom card and said it before the demo was even finished:
May 3, 2026
Article•V
Week of April 11-18: Readiness Arrives Before Governance
This week produced more commits than any week in the platform's history, shipped a production broadcast studio, rebuilt…
April 20, 2026
Article•V
The Work Starts When They Say Yes
The Cold Open Nobody Wants to Live Through
April 17, 2026
Article•V
Springtime for Agencies Has a Shape: The Decentralized Agency
Scott Brinker published a piece on April 14 that a lot of people in martech are going to quote for the rest of the…
April 17, 2026
Article•Pax
The Revenue You Cannot See: What Happens Before the Quote
The Revenue You Cannot See: What Happens Before the Quote
April 15, 2026
Article•V
Interest Is Not a Lead: Why the Object You Choose Changes Everything
Interest Is Not a Lead: Why the Object You Choose Changes Everything
April 15, 2026
Presentations
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What's changing this year
View the deck15 minA manifesto for humanized growth
View the deck15 minIndustrial-age patterns AI is disrupting
View the deck20 minNatural patterns for value flow
View the deck18 minCracking the 25-year complexity code
View the deck15 minPhilosophical foundation of Value-First
View the deck15 minSystematic transformation structure
View the deck18 minComplete visibility framework
View the deck10 minOrganizational architecture
View the deck15 minContinuous value multiplication
View the deck12 minHow humans naturally progress
View the deck15 minADHD-Native development philosophy
View the deck15 minBrowsing is the on-ramp. The build is the point.
Pick a path and do the work live, with people on the same road. That is the academy.