The desk · marketing index

What we have published under our own name.

Most of the best work leaves here under someone else's byline. This is the rest: the positions we hold about the category, the evidence we cite, and the case library.

Editorial · 15 July 2026
The end of the content calendar

A calendar tied to publishing slots produces volume. A calendar tied to authority gaps produces pipeline. The four questions, the data from forty editorial programs, and the counterargument from the people who run volume operations.

5,400 words · refreshed quarterly
Inbound · 22 July 2026
Why answer engines reward original research

Retrieval favours the source, not the summary. What that means for the four pieces a quarter you should actually write, with a sixty-query panel across four engines.

3,100 words · panel data
Voice · 12 August 2026
The founder profile as due-diligence surface

Buyers and investors read the person before the company. The profile is evidence. Treat it like a filing. What twelve founder programs taught us about the first ninety days.

2,600 words
Method · 26 August 2026
AI made production abundant. It made judgment expensive.

The scarce thing is no longer a publishable sentence. It is a position worth remembering, evidence worth citing, and a voice the buyer recognises without seeing the logo.

1,900 words
Pricing · 2 September 2026
Why we publish prices at all

Published pricing is not a discount signal. It is a filter. It means the first call is about your argument rather than about our rate card, which is the only version of that call worth having.

1,400 words
Comms · September 2026
Facts first, position second, response third

The order for every hard moment, and why reversing the first two is the most common mistake in corporate communication.

In progress
Third-party research · full citations

The evidence we cite

FindingSourceWhere we use it
71% of decision-makers say most thought leadership lacks value; 91% say the best of it reveals needs they had not recognisedEdelman and LinkedIn, B2B Thought Leadership Impact Report, 2025 editionHome, thought leadership
73% trust an organisation's thought leadership over its marketing materialsEdelman and LinkedIn, B2B Thought Leadership Impact Report, 2024 editionHome
40% of B2B buyers begin vendor research inside AI tools6sense, B2B Buyer Experience Report, 2025Home, inbound
Roughly two-thirds of executives research the person before a first meetingEdelman and LinkedIn, 2024 edition, executive sub-sampleThought leadership, founders

Every case-library figure is client-reported and traces to a named source system. Curves on the charts are illustrative between reported endpoints. We will walk you through the systems live before you sign.