How to fail your audience research in 3 easy steps
8 years in the game and I’m still seeing founders make the same mistakes. If you want to build a strategy that fails, do this: Trust a 1-sentence AI summary of 500 reviews. Ignore the 'angry' comments because they ruin the average. Build a persona based on 'vibes' rather than segmented data. We’re launching LexiCore today to fight this. But I want to know: what’s the worst piece of marketing...


Why metrics show you the "What" but never the "Why"
Today, every second marketer is “analyzing” their audience with AI. Sounds like progress. In reality, we’ve created an epidemic of sameness. The “Average Intelligence” Trap After 8 years of deep audience research, I’m sick of the “average temperature in the hospital.” When you ask generic AI to analyze comments, you get the absolute middle. Identical posts across different brands. Overused...
