Insights

Essays, tested against the news.

Independent analysis of enterprise MarTech, read through the Value Gravity lens.

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July 2026
2026 · 07 · 02
HubSpot · analysis

HubSpot is about to pool your data

From 4 August, enrichment data may flow into HubSpot's commercial dataset. Strategically logical, operationally significant. Companion to the pixel consent how-to.

Platform strategy · ~9 min
2026 · 07 · 02
CNIL & Garante · how-to

Open tracking now needs consent

France and Italy moved email pixels into consent territory. What to change in HubSpot, Marketo and the rest before 14 July.

Governance · ~8 min
June 2026
2026 · 06 · 13
When a model goes dark

Your AI can go offline overnight. Now what?

A government switched off a frontier model on a Friday. The fix is structural: keep value in the layers you own and treat the model as a swappable part.

Governance · ~6 min
2026 · 06 · 02
The AI distraction

Don't get distracted by AI

The Ferrari Modulo never carried a sales number. Treat AI like a concept car: measure it on learning, and protect the KPIs that carry your value.

AI ROI · ~6 min
2026 · 06 · 02
The CMO seat

Marketing is not sales

Marketing keeps being handed a sales number it cannot control past the handover. Measure it on the climate it creates, not the weather.

Leadership · ~6 min
May 2026
2026 · 05 · 28
Adobe Summit 2026

What CMOs took home from Summit

The on-stage story was loud. The decisions that mattered were about gravity, trust and operating models.

Adobe ecosystem · ~6 min
2026 · 05 · 26
Migration risk

The Marketo migration checklist

Most migration risk is not in the data move. It is in the integrations, identity and consent lineage nobody mapped.

Migration · ~7 min
2026 · 05 · 25
The AI ROI debate

AI's ROI problem is a gravity problem

It is not an AI problem. Spend lands at the top of the stack; value settles at the bottom.

AI ROI · ~6 min
2026 · 05 · 08
State of Martech · Brinker & Riemersma

Somebody has to do the work

Brinker and Riemersma named the value engineer. Here is what the job actually involves, in five moves.

Method · ~7 min
April 2026
2026 · 04 · 14
Dutch regulator sanctions

The grace period is ending

Regulators sanctioned three lawyers for AI-fabricated case law. Marketing runs the same risk every day.

Governance · ~7 min
2026 · 04 · 07
HubSpot renames INBOUND

One letter, a whole strategy

INBOUND became UNBOUND. What a one-letter change signals about where HubSpot is taking B2B.

Platform strategy · ~5 min
2026 · 04 · 06
The enterprise AI mandate

The AI mandate is a foundation problem

Everyone has an AI mandate. Almost no one checked whether the foundation beneath it was ever built.

Foundation · ~5 min
2026 · 04 · 05
Adobe breach 2026

What the Adobe breach actually exposed

It hit the support tickets where your platform's technical blueprint lives. What to review now.

Governance · ~9 min
2026 · 04 · 02
Agentforce World Tour, Utrecht

AI value starts below the AI layer

A field report from the show floor: the real readiness gap is a layer beneath the agents.

Foundation · ~5 min
March 2026
2026 · 03 · 20
McKinsey Rewired 2026

Rewired, read for what it leaves out

The playbook shows how to transform with AI. It is quieter on where the durable value actually settles.

AI ROI · ~5 min
2026 · 03 · 12
Narayen steps down

Adobe's CEO is leaving. Then what?

Eighteen years and out. The succession question is really a question about where enterprise software value now accrues.

Platform strategy · ~5 min
2026 · 03 · 10
Odido · Salesforce breach

CRM governance is a boardroom issue

A CRM breach is not an IT incident. It is a question about commercial value and M&A readiness.

Governance · ~5 min
Guides · reference, not news
GUIDE

Marketo MCP server: enterprise setup

Vendor-neutral setup for Adobe's hosted MCP server: endpoint, headers, the API user, client compatibility.

Practitioner guide · ~10 min
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