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The edge isn't
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Same GPT. Same Claude. Wildly different outcomes. The difference is who's driving — the systems they run, the prompts they reuse, the loops they tighten. That's what I build here.

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2012

Ran digital for Romney

Founder

Rational Ground

Writes

Hello, AI

Builds

Overnight, weekly

The Thesis

"The question isn't whether you'll use AI. It's whether you'll use it like an operator."

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Three principles from the campaign trail, applied to AI.

Published · 02.28.26

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What running digital for a presidential campaign taught me about AI.

Three operating principles from the 2012 trail — and why they're the exact framework every CMO needs right now. A reframe of how to run AI inside an organization that actually has to ship.

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01 of 03 principles

Ship > plan. Campaigns can't wait for Q3 roadmaps. Neither can your AI stack.

ii.

Tight loops. Daily builds. Daily kills. The org that iterates faster wins.

iii.

Operators, not spectators. The people running the tool beat the people watching it.

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I replaced a $75K analyst with a $20/month agent.

Not metaphorically. Exact workflow, real costs, and what happened when I stress-tested it on breaking news while I was asleep.

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The "90-minute CMO" is a lie.

The productivity story about AI is real. It's also the least interesting part. Here's the reframe that matters.

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The long tail is back.

Chris Anderson's 2004 thesis, applied to marketing tactics. AI agents just changed the math.

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Receipts — the artifacts, the costs, the screenshots. No theater.