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On this page you'll find articles and videos that share the behind-the-scenes of the systems we're building for clients and internally, to help you understand what it takes to grow in an AI-first world. We've been here since the beginning, building in the terminal since the early days. The one thing that is constant is change, and in this blog, you'll find all the resources you need to keep riding the waves.

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The Diagnostic

Before You Spend Another Dollar, You Need to Know What's Actually Broken

Why every Agency 6B engagement starts with The Diagnostic — and why Vix Reitano stopped taking work that doesn't. A structured audit across six areas that finds exactly where revenue is leaking before a single dollar of build scope is written.

May 20268 min read

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Demand Generation

Why AI Advertising Still Needs a Human in the Room

AI hallucinates, overcomplicates, and occasionally nails a strategy nobody asked for. Vix Reitano on 20 years of pattern recognition, a $50K email, and what happens when AI advertising meets a business whose systems weren't built for it.

July 2026 · 6 min read

Presence and Visibility

Your Buyers Are Already Asking AI About You. Here's What They're Hearing.

51% of B2B buyers now start research in an AI chatbot. The models answer with whoever published enough, in a voice worth learning. Here's the state of AI search for founders, and why voice comes before volume.

July 2026 · 6 min read

Presence and Visibility

Your Clients Are Asking Which Publications Rank in AI. Here's the Question That Pays.

AI citation sources change 40 to 60% every month, so there's no stable list to rank on. Earned media still drives 82 to 90% of AI citations. For PR firms, the craft is right and the scoreboard is wrong.

July 2026 · 6 min read

Presence and Visibility

AI Visibility Tracking: Run the Free Check Before You Buy the Dashboard

AI referrals are about 1% of traffic but convert 42% better than everything else. Before you pay $337 a month for a dashboard, run the free afternoon audit that tells you whether you even have a problem.

July 2026 · 6 min read

Growth Systems

The Stripe Key, the Dashboard, and the Ads I Bought Before Anyone Else Did

205 commits across 6 repos: an ad pilot on ChatGPT, a 78-commit funnel rebuild, a client dashboard that writes its own contracts, and the bots that ran while Vix Reitano slept. What building in the terminal actually looked like in June.

June 2026 · 6 min read

Conversion Infrastructure

Your Website Is a Revenue Mechanism. Build It That Way.

A brochure site describes your company and waits. A revenue mechanism identifies who is visiting, captures their intent, and routes them into the pipeline. Here's what the structural difference actually looks like.

June 2026 · 7 min read

Growth Systems

I Learned Systems from My Grandmother

What is a growth partner? It starts with a book of envelopes and a woman who understood systems before anyone gave it a name.

June 2026 · 7 min read

Revenue Intelligence

First-Click Data Is the Most Honest Signal in Marketing

Last-click attribution tells you where someone ended up. First-click tells you what convinced them. If your Revenue Intelligence is built on the wrong signal, your budget allocation is fiction.

May 2026 · 7 min read

Presence and Visibility

GEO vs. SEO: What's the Difference, and Why Both Matter in 2026

GEO is Generative Engine Optimization: visibility in AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. SEO is the ranked list of blue links. In 2026, a business with only one of these is invisible where more buying decisions start.

May 2026 · 8 min read

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