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Notes from real demand hunts.

Real playbooks. Real workflows. Real results. Tactical reads from inside the trenches of demand generation.

AI agents

Build an AI agent that finds your first customers

Wire an agent to the Gorilla MCP server and let it find your audience and draft the replies.

May 29, 2026 5 min read
AI agents

Marketing tools for agents: a practical AI agent stack

Demand discovery, enrichment, orchestration, content, outreach, CRM, and measurement for agentic marketing stacks.

May 26, 2026 10 min read
User acquisition

Bluesky user acquisition: find your first customers on Meta's quietest platform

The demand signal X dropped, with a fraction of the noise. The 3-phrase search rule and the new Gorilla Bluesky search.

May 22, 2026 9 min read
Keyword research

Reddit keyword research, the free way

The workflow founders use to turn one idea into the audience phrases that surface real Reddit posts.

May 10, 2026 7 min read
Content strategy

Your Leads Are a Content Repurposing Strategy, and You Are Ignoring the Best Part

Turn audience language from live threads into platform-native content.

May 02, 2026 8 min read
Lead generation

LinkedIn lead generation: how to find high-intent posts (not recruiter spam)

A 3-phrase rule for surfacing real questions from your audience on LinkedIn.

May 02, 2026 8 min read
Customer research

How to do customer research as a solo founder

Skip survey theater. Read public pain, code patterns, ship.

April 30, 2026 6 min read
Comparisons

The 7 best GummySearch alternatives in 2026

Seven honest alternatives, with pros, cons, and when to pick each.

April 29, 2026 8 min read
Comparisons

Best Reddit research tools in 2026 (honest founder review)

Nine Reddit research tools reviewed side by side for founders.

April 29, 2026 9 min read
Lead generation

YouTube comments are a goldmine for SaaS leads. Here's the playbook.

Competitor reviews hide people explaining what is missing.

April 28, 2026 5 min read
Growth playbook

Where your first 100 SaaS users actually hide (it's not where you think)

A tour of Reddit, X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and YouTube signals.

April 28, 2026 5 min read
Lead generation

TikTok lead generation for SaaS: the channel founders ignore

Captions are indexed. Comments are your audience asking out loud.

April 28, 2026 5 min read
Founders

ICP research is broken - here's what actually works

Better customer research starts with live pain signals.

April 28, 2026 4 min read
Early stage

How to find your first 10 customers without a following

Find traction before you have an audience.

April 28, 2026 5 min read