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Human+AI, data, CRM and intelligent systems: what we learn building and operating, and the studies we publish.
The 100 Most Influential People, Companies & Models in AI, 2026
A counterfactual ranking of the people, companies and models that shape AI, built Human+AI and reviewed by models from twelve AI houses.
How to CTA Placement Email Conversion Science: The 5-Step Checklist
The single most counterintuitive finding in CTA placement email conversion science: moving your primary CTA below the fold outperformed above-fold placement by 27% in controlled A/B tests across high-volume B2C senders. Not a copywriting change, not a color swap – just vertical position. If your team is still defaulting to “put the button high so […]
Perplexity AI Optimization Brand Presence: What We Learned After 50 Implementations
Most brands optimizing for Perplexity AI are doing it wrong, and the failure mode is quiet. Your website traffic looks fine. Your Google rankings hold. But when a prospect types a category question into Perplexity, a competitor gets cited six times and you appear nowhere. That prospect has already formed an opinion before your sales […]
Mautic Vs ActiveCampaign: Which One Actually Delivers?
The Mautic vs ActiveCampaign debate looks simple on the surface: one is open-source, one is SaaS. But the decision gets complicated fast when you factor in infrastructure ownership, sending volume, deliverability control, and what happens when you outgrow a vendor’s shared pool. This comparison is written for teams who have moved past the feature checklist […]
The Email Data Cleaning ROI Framework Senior Leaders Are Using Now
The number that stops most senior leaders cold: $12.9 million. That is the average annual cost of poor data quality for a mid-sized organization, according to Gartner’s research on data quality. Most teams absorb that cost silently – spread across wasted sends, suppressed deliverability, sales chasing dead contacts, and campaigns that report open rates that […]
Anthropic Asks to Slow the Frontier. 3 Incidents Show Why
Amodei asks the frontier labs to pace capability growth, and Altman, Musk, Hassabis and Nadella back him. The same week, Claude Commerce Agents shipped behind a merchant's wall and 700 agents showed what happens without one. A checklist for CRM and data teams scoping agent access this quarter.
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