AI Is Shopping. Is It Buying From You?

2011 Macrotrends as influenced by AI 2026 showing an acceleration at the intersections and uncertainty still behind everything

AI Is Shopping. Is it Buying from You? TLDR: These seven macrotrends I taught fifteen years ago are still valid. What’s changed is the speed. The timelines under them have compressed so violently this year that owners who  DO NOT  reposition by Q4 will lose the categories they think they own. AI is the engine […]

ChatGPT Ads: The Opportunities Hidden Behind the Hype Wars

chatgpt ads hype vs opportunity

ChatGPT Ads: The Opportunities Hidden Behind the Hype Wars Written by AI Profit Engineer Camp One screams “The Death of Funnels!” They believe conversational AI will collapse the entire customer journey into a single chat thread. No more landing pages. No more email sequences. Just one perfect conversation that ends in a purchase. Camp Two […]

Why AI Agents Are Overhyped Tacticians – And Failing at True Market Domination

AI Agents Overhyped Tacticians

Why AI Agents Are Overhyped Tacticians – And Failing at True Market Domination Written by AI Profit Engineer The AI agent revolution everyone’s talking about? It’s producing the most expensive middle managers in business history. While companies rush to deploy AI agents for customer service, lead qualification, and content creation, they’re missing the fundamental flaw […]

AI Isn’t A Faster Horse

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AI Isn’t A Faster Horse In 1908, if you asked someone what they wanted, they’d say “a faster horse.” Henry Ford didn’t give them a faster horse. He gave them something that made horses obsolete. Most people using AI right now are trying to make faster horses. They’re measuring output: “I wrote 10 blog posts […]

AI Doesn’t Want Your Traffic—It Wants Your Brain

AI doesn't want your brain

AI Doesn’t Want Your Traffic—It Wants Your Brain There’s an elephant in the corner… Everybody knows that every piece of content you publish is training AI. But that’s where most people stop with their thought process … Because the next step is really scary. Either it’s training AI to cite you as the authority. Or […]