The Playbook

Thinking, frameworks,
and strategy.

How we think about marketing for Shopify brands. The methods, the reasoning, and the systems behind it all.

Free Tool

Discount Impact Calculator

See how discounting on your D2C store impacts profitability.

Framework

Practical AI Adoption

Every brand adopted AI. Almost nobody built the infrastructure to make it work. A three-layer framework for getting real output from AI.

Framework

The 1st Party Marketing Method

A framework for prioritising owned channels, direct customer relationships, and proprietary data — so your marketing compounds instead of expiring.

AI & Automation

What We Mean by AI Workflows

Every brand "uses AI" now. But most of that usage is just shortcuts. The distinction matters because one compounds and the other doesn't.

Insight

What's the Point in Humans?

AI writes the copy, builds the pages, and optimises the bids. So what exactly is your marketing team for? The answer is more important than you think.