Growth Playbooks
Simple, copyable growth plays for solo founders, solo marketers, and vibe coders. Each playbook pairs one free tool with one AI prompt — so you can run real lead-gen and distribution moves without a team, a budget, or a 40-tab browser.
- Track Brand Citations in AI: A Four-Step Spreadsheet Playbook — A free four-step method for tracking whether assistants name and cite your brand, with the run count set by two 2026 studies rather than by convention. Copy-paste field layouts for every step.
- Growth Plays: A Plain Definition and Five a Small Content Team Can Run — A growth play is one signal, one rule, one action and one number. Here is the definition, the four parts, and five plays a team of three can start this quarter.
- Find Decaying Content With Free Search Console Data in One Hour — A four-step playbook: line up the same quarter a year apart, flag the real losers, diagnose each with impressions and click-through rate, then repair by section.
- Competitor Landscaping: Build a Content Gap Map in One Afternoon — A four-step playbook that splits the firms you lose deals to from the sites you lose clicks to, inventories what they publish, and ranks the gaps worth your quarter.
- Automated SEO Optimization: Automate the Export, Not the Edit — A four-step playbook that turns the Search Console API into a weekly review queue, with a person still approving every change that reaches the live site.
- How a 3-Person Company Could Reach 10M Users Through One Great Connector —
- How Lean Teams Can Compete in the Agent Economy Without a 10-Person Content Team — Lean marketing teams can compete in the agent economy without a big content team by shifting from full manual production to human-edited, agent-assisted workflows that return hours every week.
- How to reverse-engineer a competitor's content strategy in 90 minutes — Your competitor's best page is a brief they already wrote and published. Here is the 90-minute loop that turns one URL into a ranked list of the pieces only you can write.
- How One Newsletter Grew 40% Using Three Simple Growth Plays —
- Most Popular Growth Plays Are a Waste of Time - Here's Why —
- Which Growth Plays Are Actually Moving the Needle in 2026 —
- 5 Growth Plays That Actually Work for Content Teams —
- B2B Content Marketing Is Broken - Here Is What to Do Instead — Content marketing for B2B fails at the strategy and coordination layer, not the writing layer - here is how to fix the system that sits upstream of production.
- How to turn one product sentence into a 30-title content backlog — One clear product sentence contains everything you need to build a 30-title content backlog - here's a two-hour loop that takes you from claim to ranked writing queue.