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What the CAC?
Operator notes on GTM, RevOps, positioning, and turning customers into raving fans.
New customers are expensive. Raving fans are the compounding asset. What the CAC? is a running set of operator notes on the tech landscape, product positioning, RevOps/Marketing Ops, and the GTM moves that make expansion inevitable.
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The Costly Mistake of Measuring AI Before You Define It
Only 1 in 5 revenue teams can prove AI ROI. The cause is a definitions problem: no baseline, no shared taxonomy, no audit trail, and no boundary set before the agent shipped.
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The Costly Mistake of Trusting an AI Agent Too Soon
Capability is not trust: what governance, SLAs, and the reliability gap cost when an AI agent acts with no record, no rollback, and no named owner.
Read issue →Nobody Notices Missing Context Until It's Expensive
Where institutional context disappears: flattened orgs, skipped pre, pre-sales work, build-vs-buy decisions with no maintenance plan, and a website AI agents cannot act on.
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Your AI Rollout Starts With One Person. It Shouldn't Stay There.
Why AI initiatives stall when one person carries them alone, where to look for revenue leaks first, the six GTM gaps behind revenue you can't explain, and why NRR is the other half of CAC.
Read issue →You're Not Paying for AI, You're Paying for What It's Sitting On
Learn why token budgets, GTM Engineer hires, CRM migrations, and CAC targets all break the same way—and what an AI readiness diagnostic actually fixes before you spend another dollar.
Read issue →What Most Teams Miss: Fixing the Data Foundation Before You Buy the Agent
Learn why AI readiness, enablement ownership, governance pauses, and Salesforce's stalled Agentforce rollout are all the same story—and what each one costs you in CAC.
Read issue →Why I Named This “What the CAC?”
Learn why customer acquisition cost (CAC) is the number that exposes real product-market fit + five ways teams quietly inflate it: bad GTM data, split PLG/SLG motions, undefined agent authority, no audit trail, and automating what shouldn't be.
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