The Book — In Progress

Pre-purposed

Pipeline-centric, strategic content creation for the AI era.

A new playbook for B2B leaders, founders, and CMOs who are tired of watching their content strategy decay while AI rewrites the rules of attention.

Drafted chapter by chapter through interviews with the operators doing the work. Each chapter ships first as an article, then earns its way into the book.

4 of 15 chapters published

A Heads Up Before You Open It

Six things to know about this book.

Most books are finished before you find them. This one isn't. Here's what you're actually looking at.

01

This is a test.

Can a book be written the same way a great YouTube channel is built — one episode at a time, in public, with real people? We're finding out, live.

02

This is a book.

A real one. Chapters, spine, thesis. About B2B video, AI search, and how the rules just flipped under everyone's feet.

03

This is a machine.

Every interview becomes a video, a blog post, a contributor page, AND material for the right chapter — automatically. Pre-purposed: every output decided before the camera rolls. Video-first: words come from camera, not the other way around.

04

It uses AI. A lot of it.

AI extracts quotes. AI tags topics. AI files material to the right chapter. AI even helped draft this page. We're not pretending it's not here.

05

But every voice is human.

No AI talking heads. No synthetic experts. Every quote in this book came out of a real mouth, on a real recording, with a real timestamp you can click and verify.

06

Three-way win.

Guests get distribution + attribution + AI-search visibility. Readers get the freshest, most-verifiable B2B video reference in market. We get living thought leadership instead of a frozen artifact. Nobody loses.

And honestly? It's kind of fun watching it build itself in front of you. The table of contents below is live. The progress bars are real. Chapter 14 doesn't exist yet — but it will, after the next interview. See the machine →

The Flywheel

Each interview makes the next one easier to land.

1

Record one interview

An operator gives one hour. Camera rolls. Conversation, not script.

2

Pipeline extracts everything

Quotes, frameworks, claims — auto-filed into the right chapter. Video published. Article written.

3

Book gets sharper

New material lands. Chapters tighten. The methodology updates with the latest field experience.

4

Better guests say yes

Each new chapter is proof the system works — which makes the next guest easier to land.

Compounding, not extractive. The book gets sharper while everyone wins.

Part 1

Why the Old Playbook Is Dead

Where we are now, and how we got here.

  • 01
    The Attention Economy Ended When ChatGPT Started Quoting Us
    I think it is really important to understand how video is going to be leveraged by AI answers.
    Jess Hennessey, GEO/AEO Expert
    43 / 14 quotesFull
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  • 02
    Why Your $100K Whitepaper Got 47 Downloads
    Coming
  • 03
    The B2B Buyer Watches Before They Read
    Get people comfortable with using video because it's one of, if not the best way to really make a direct connection with your audience.
    Margie Agin, Go-to-Market Strategist
    16 / 8 quotesFull
    Coming

Part 2

The Video-First Shift

The new model, in plain English.

  • 04
    What Video-First Actually Means (And What It Doesn't)
    Coming
  • 05
    Pre-Purposing vs. Repurposing: Why the Order Matters
    Let it be your primary output and put that in and it's like riding a bike. It becomes very natural.
    Sherri Schwartz, Head of Marketing
    11 / 11 quotesFull
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  • 06
    One Interview, 40+ Assets: The Economics
    As a podcast host myself, I can fuel a 12-month content calendar from a single 60-minute podcast episode. You just gotta use it everywhere.
    Morgan Short, Content Strategist
    9 / 6 quotesFull
    Coming

Part 3

What Done Right Looks Like

Proof, not opinion.

  • 07
    Three Case Studies: Twitch, TubeMogul, IBM
    Marketers using video marketing made revenue 49% faster than organizations not using video marketing.
    Dane Frederiksen, Founder
    10 / 6 quotesFull
    Coming
  • 08
    The Three Patterns Every Winning B2B Video Strategy Shares
    Take a beat. Don't believe the hype. There's a lot of churn happening right now.
    Stacy Thal, Brand and Creative Strategist
    31 / 8 quotesFull
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  • 09
    Your AI Visibility Snapshot: See Where You Stand Today
    Think about your reputation as the accumulation of all those breadcrumbs that go up to make the loaf of bread. That is your personal brand.
    Jason Barnard, Founder
    13 / 12 quotesFull
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Part 4

AI Without Harming Trust

Where AI helps. Where it hurts. How to tell.

  • 10
    Where AI Belongs in Your Content Stack — and Where It Doesn't
    A lot of folks, from my opinion, trying to use AI to overcomplicate stuff rather than simplify stuff.
    Sam Dunning, Founder
    29 / 6 quotesFull
    Coming
  • 11
    The Trust Test: AI-Amplified vs. AI-Slop
    It's the people, it's the humanity. I think that makes a huge impact as a brand differentiator.
    Todd Fairbairn, Head of Marketing and Brand
    16 / 4 quotesFull
    Coming

Part 5

From Content to Pipeline

Where attention becomes revenue.

  • 12
    Engagement as ICP Signal
    Coming
  • 13
    The Outreach That Doesn't Feel Like Outreach
    Coming
  • 14
    What to Look For When Hiring a Video Partner
    Coming
  • 15
    Production Without Agency Budgets
    In comparison to the $5 million initial grant, the $50,000 or so to make a video — that's coffee money.
    Rob Kohler, IBM Cybersecurity Education Program Director
    10 / 3 quotesFull
    Coming

Contributors

The people in the book.

Operators who've actually shipped video-first B2B content. Every quote here was pulled from a long-form interview, tagged to a topic, and filed for a chapter. Follow any name to their interview on the blog.

21 contributors · 205 quotes · 27 interviews

Sam Dunning

Founder · Breaking B2B

We only took YouTube seriously a year or so ago and we've slowly reaped the rewards.

YouTube long-term payoff

Margie Agin

Go-to-Market Strategist

Video is valued very highly by the systems that decide what to serve up at the top of the list.

video in AI/search ranking

Brenton Thomas

Marketing, SEO & Paid Ads Expert

You still want to do Google Ads, you still want to do SEO, and you just have to add one more thing onto your marketing mix. Nothing's going to die.

adding GEO to marketing mix

Stacy Thal

Brand and Creative Strategist

Take a beat. Don't believe the hype. There's a lot of churn happening right now.

AI hype caution

Wil Reynolds

Once things are served up to them on a platter from stage three or four, they then start seeking other places they can scale this. So for me, as a stage five, I'm now orchestrating several separate tools that I've built to go out and do research for me.

1 quote · 0 interviews

Claire Vo

it really feels like I'm much more in manager mode than builder mode.

1 quote · 0 interviews

Jess Hennessey

GEO/AEO Expert

I think it is really important to understand how video is going to be leveraged by AI answers.

Why video belongs in an AI search strategy

Todd Fairbairn

Head of Marketing and Brand · Emotive Mobility

It's the people, it's the humanity. I think that makes a huge impact as a brand differentiator.

humanity as brand differentiator

Andy Crestodina

Co-Founder · Orbit Media Studios

Video is a more intimate format. You get tone of voice and body language. It builds trust faster than others.

video builds trust faster

Sherri Schwartz

Head of Marketing · Ovation CXM

Let it be your primary output and put that in and it's like riding a bike. It becomes very natural.

video as primary output

Jason Barnard

Founder · Kalicube

Think about your reputation as the accumulation of all those breadcrumbs that go up to make the loaf of bread. That is your personal brand.

reputation as personal brand

Kaleigh Moore

B2B SaaS Writer & Journalist / Harvard Graduate Student · Kaleigh Moore (Independent)

The B2B content model of the past decade does not copy-paste over to optimizing for LLM citations

Adrian Dahlin

Founder · searchtosale.io

I was learning about machine learning a decade ago and that's come full circle to now be super relevant to the marketing work that I'm doing.

data science meets marketing

Cassie Clark

Fractional Content Strategist & AI Search Optimization Expert

I was really mad about it because it was a day I had a bad hair day and here it is in the AI overview and it stayed there for months.

unexpected AI overview inclusion

Christopher S. Penn

Co-founder & Chief Data Scientist · Trust Insights

A lot of us have been in this space for quite some time. Ever since November 2022 when ChatGPT came out, suddenly everyone's an AI expert.

AI expertise credibility

Jessica Hennessey

Founder · Resonate Online & BetterSites

LLMs are lazy. So the more clear, pointed, nicely tied in a box kind of content that you give them, the more likely they will be to repeat that fact.

LLM content clarity

Morgan Short

Content Strategist · Morgan Short (Independent)

The problem was never, how do we make content faster? The problem was always, how do we actually say something worth listening to?

content quality over content speed
6 quotes · 1 interview

Rob Kohler

IBM Cybersecurity Education Program Director · IBM

In comparison to the $5 million initial grant, the $50,000 or so to make a video — that's coffee money.

video ROI relative to program investment
4 quotes · 1 interview

Dane Frederiksen

Founder · Digital Accomplice

Marketers using video marketing made revenue 49% faster than organizations not using video marketing.

revenue impact of video
36 quotes · 6 interviews

James Wedmore

Business Coach and Host · Mind Your Business Podcast

Stop thinking of 'video marketing' as this separate entity that is optional for your business. Video is an effective form of communication that needs to be integrated into each and every aspect of your existing marketing efforts.

video as integrated communication channel
1 quote · 1 interview

Mark Robertson

Head of Marketing · vidIQ

Online video is the Swiss army knife of internet marketing. It really can be used all over the customer lifecycle, whether it's customer service, marketing, or even recruitment.

video as multi-purpose customer lifecycle tool
1 quote · 1 interview

Early-access list coming soon. For now, follow chapters as they ship on the blog.