The campaign for one: marketing personalisation stopped being a cost problem

marketing campaign personalisation

Personalisation is the promise marketing budgets have never let leaders keep. The reason is worth stating precisely, because it is not the reason most vendors sell against. Plenty of teams already run account-based marketing (ABM) and use personalisation tools for segmentation and targeted delivery. The gap has never been targeting. It has been content. Producing … Read more

The CMO’s consolidation question: how many of your AI tools are one assistant in disguise?

Audit the Martech stack

 Today’s marketing tech stack The modern marketing stack sprawls across dozens of overlapping AI subscriptions. Most of them are one assistant wearing different logos. Marketing technology budgets were built one subscription at a time, and until recently, each of those subscriptions bought something genuinely distinct. That is what changed. When most of the tools on … Read more

Where physical AI is heading and who can use it

A note before you start This post is more technical than the other pieces in our physical AI series. It is written for readers who want the details beneath our position. If you prefer the plain-language route, start with Two ways to predict the world and The real bottleneck in physical AI, then return here. … Read more

The real bottleneck in physical AI: the sim-to-real gap and the contact problem

The real bottleneck in physical AI A robot can succeed many times in simulation and still fail the first time it reaches into the real world. This gap between simulated competence and real-world performance is the defining obstacle in physical AI today. Aicadium, a Singapore-based industrial AI company, has tested these systems first-hand. The pattern is … Read more

Two ways to predict the world (or the batter and the physicist)

Two ways to predict the world A Major League Baseball batter faces a fastball travelling at over 150 kilometres an hour. There is no time to watch the ball arrive and then react. Instead, the batter predicts where the ball will cross the plate. Then they start the swing before the ball gets there. That single act of prediction sits … Read more