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The 40-Hour Sprint in 30 Minutes: Why Strategy Firms Are Adopting Simulation

Strategy partners don't need cheaper research; they need faster, auditable research. How forensic simulation delivers Big 4 caliber insights at a fraction of the time.

James Whitaker
12 min read
Strategy
Featured

The Strategy Professional's Guide to Accelerated Discovery

After years of running strategy engagements, I've learned that the biggest challenge isn't methodology—it's velocity. Here's how forensic simulation changed my approach.

Elena Rodriguez
15 min read
B2B Marketing
Featured

The 95-5 Rule: Why Most of Your B2B Marketing Is Wasted (And What to Do About It)

After 20 years in B2B marketing, learning that 95% of my target audience wasn't ready to buy was humbling. Here's how that insight should change your strategy.

Marcus Thompson
14 min read

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Industry Analysis
December 15, 2025

The 40-Hour Sprint in 30 Minutes: Why Strategy Firms Are Adopting Simulation

Why the real question isn't replacement—it's velocity

Strategy partners don't need cheaper research; they need faster, auditable research. How forensic simulation delivers Big 4 caliber insights at a fraction of the time.

Strategic Intelligence
Competitive Audit
Forensic Simulation
Strategy
December 10, 2025

The Strategy Professional's Guide to Accelerated Discovery

How to compress 40 hours of desk research into 30 minutes

After years of running strategy engagements, I've learned that the biggest challenge isn't methodology—it's velocity. Here's how forensic simulation changed my approach.

Discovery Phase
Strategic Intelligence
Competitive Audit
Methodology
December 1, 2025

Forensic Simulation: The RAG Architecture Behind Auditable Insights

How vector embeddings and map-reduce create traceable, defensible research

We anchor simulations using RAG vector embeddings and map-reduce architecture. Here's how this grounds every insight in real-world data rather than creative probability.

RAG Architecture
Vector Embeddings
Map-Reduce
B2B Marketing
November 28, 2025

The 95-5 Rule: Why Most of Your B2B Marketing Is Wasted (And What to Do About It)

Understanding out-of-market buyers changed everything I thought I knew about B2B

After 20 years in B2B marketing, learning that 95% of my target audience wasn't ready to buy was humbling. Here's how that insight should change your strategy.

B2B Marketing
Brand Marketing
Demand Generation
Marketing Strategy
November 20, 2025

The Click-Through Conspiracy: Why Marketing Measurement Is a Beautiful Lie

We have more data than ever. We understand less than ever. Here's why.

Multi-touch attribution, eye-tracking studies, MRI brain scans—we're living through a supposed revolution in marketing measurement. Except we're not.

Marketing Measurement
Attribution
Marketing Effectiveness
Case Studies
November 15, 2025

Friction Mapping in Practice: A Strategy Engagement Case Study

How 50-cohort simulation identified $2.3M in revenue-at-risk

We mapped friction points across the customer journey using 50 distinct buyer cohorts, quantifying specific revenue-at-risk before the client spent a dollar on research.

Friction Mapping
Revenue-at-Risk
Competitive Audit
Creative Strategy
November 10, 2025

Why B2B Creative Needs a New Formula (And What Should Replace the Old One)

The gray suits, handshakes, and voiceover baritones need to go

B2B creative follows a depressing formula: product features + stock photos + generic voiceover. Here's why that formula fails—and what actually works.

B2B Creative
Advertising
Brand Marketing
Product Management
November 5, 2025

Ship What People Love: Using Simulated Buyers to Prioritize Your Roadmap

A practical framework for feature prioritization based on synthetic user research

Every PM knows the pain of prioritization. You can build anything—but you can't build everything. Here's how synthetic users changed my prioritization process.

Product Roadmap
Prioritization
Product Management
Technology
October 28, 2025

The Map-Reduce Architecture Behind Auditable Risk Models

How we engineered 100% token retention for forensic-grade simulation

Traditional RAG pipelines suffer from context loss. Here's how SocioLogic's map-reduce architecture ensures every finding is traceable and defensible across 50-cohort simulations.

Map-Reduce
RAG Architecture
Auditable Methodology
Brand Strategy
October 20, 2025

Brain Engine Optimization: Why the Most Important Search Engine Is in Your Customer's Head

Forget keywords. Focus on mental availability.

We've spent two decades optimizing for Google. Meanwhile, the search engine that actually matters—the one in our customers' brains—has been ignored.

Brand Marketing
Mental Availability
SEO
Growth
October 15, 2025

The Circles of Doom: Why Your Marketing and Sales Are Missing Each Other

New research shows only 16% of B2B buyers are reached by both marketing and sales. Here's how to fix that.

We assume marketing fills the top of funnel and sales closes the bottom. New data reveals the gap is much worse than we thought—and what to do about it.

Sales Alignment
Marketing Strategy
B2B Growth
Industry Analysis
October 10, 2025

The Strategy Velocity Revolution

Why the next decade belongs to firms that move faster

The strategy consulting industry is being transformed by velocity. Firms that compress discovery phases while maintaining rigor will dominate the next decade.

Strategy Consulting
Professional Velocity
Discovery Phase

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