Substacks recommended by AI-Ready CMO

Recommended by AI-Ready CMO

The AI Readiness Stack - Literacy, Discoverability & Scaling

This publication explores how organizations build AI literacy, become discoverable to machines, and scale toward AI orchestration and agent-driven work, with a strong focus on change management and periodic real-world examples from hospitality

Level Up with AI

By Claudia Faith

I build AI systems for marketing, content, and business workflows. Every week I share what I set up for clients, what saved time, and what you can steal for your business. Subscribe & get my 5-day course for free: Run Your Substack Like a Business with AI

Brands Under Pressure

By Kara Redman

All things brand strategy, leadership, and the messy reality of what it takes to build a brand that performs.

Brand strategy and marketing psychology without gatekeeping. Kara breaks down mirror messaging, choice architecture, and how to sell your ideas to leadership. Tactical, people-first insights.

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The Menu

By Amanda Natividad

The Menu is a weekly serving of sharp, strategic marketing ideas—just enough to chew on without overwhelming your plate. Budgets are down. Expectations are up. Let’s win anyway.

All Things Marketing by Shrikala

A newsletter covering brands, products and the latest in marketing.

contentfolks

By fio @ contentfolks

Short lessons, practical examples, and colourful post-its about content marketing. Straight to your inbox, every month(ish).

Future Growth 🚀

By Alexandre Contador

All things about GTM, Growth Marketing, Startups, and my own Career Journal in a biweekly or weekly cadence (depending on my creative mood).

the saturday essay.

By Justin Welsh

A weekly essay for ambitious people living and working on their own terms.

The Link Tank™️

By Melanie Goodman

A warm welcome. The LinkedIn strategies I use to build authority, grow a newsletter & convert connections into paying clients. Every week, get practical, evidence-led LinkedIn tactics and know-how to credibly grow your LinkedIn presence.

MKT1 Newsletter with Emily Kramer

How to build AI-native B2B startup marketing functions. Deeply-researched long-form content, in-depth guides, actionable frameworks, and even an MCP Server. By Emily Kramer, an ex-marketing exec and current advisor.

Leadership in Change

By Joel

AI is everywhere. Judgment is scarce. The weekly newsletter for nonprofit and SMB leaders who are adopting AI without outsourcing their judgment to it. Tested prompts, real frameworks, and what to do Monday morning.

How do you lead when AI keeps rewriting the rules? Joel delivers practical frameworks for managing teams through transformation, with most importantly: ethics intact.

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Ben's Bites

By ben's bites

I write a newsletter about startups and investing—for ai builders of all levels. I record mini-tutorials, write about tools I’m testing, share my insights and give you a peek behind the digital curtain from an exited founder turned investor.

The Sociology of Business

By Ana Andjelic

A global weekly newsletter about how brands connect business with culture

The AI Practitioner

By Lina Faik

Real-world AI, explained simply — with code, use cases, and zero fluff.

The Marketing Operations Leader

By Darrell Alfonso

The Marketing Operations Leader helps marketers and operations professionals run their team like a business, reduce friction, drive operational excellence, and grow their careers

The AI Maker

By Wyndo

Making AI accessible for everyday life. Practical AI blueprints to turn complex AI tools into simple systems you can build.

CMO Confidential: Sales Over Night Brand Over Time

Everything you need to know, but no one teaches you about using marketing to be a great executive.

Business & Marketing with Nika

By Nika Kotláriková

The newsletter for those who love or are about to love marketing. ✨ I also share things related to the Building in public approach, Tech, Social media, Community building, Content creation, VC & Funding, SaaS and Marketing psychology.

Voices of Emergence

By Alex de Carvalho

Voices of Emergence - Conversations for a Thriving World, a podcast where inner transformation meets systemic change, exploring the unseen dimensions of leadership, culture, and regeneration through intimate conversations with visionary thinkers & doers.

AI Native

By Pepper

For marketers who want to dominate AI Search, supercharge their creativity, and win in the AI Age.

How To Influence A Generation

Cultural strategist. Son of refugees. Raised by pop culture. I've shaped youth media at MTV, Vice, LADbible and Boiler Room. Cannes Lions winner. I write about influence, culture and what the industry keeps getting wrong.

The 1% Brand Brilliance

By Bobby Umar

I’ve spent 20+ years helping experts turn invisible expertise into recognized authority. Here, I share real insights on storytelling, thought leadership, and digital visibility. So you’re not just seen, but respected, remembered, and sought after.

Inside Product-led Content

By Masooma

Weekly emails sharing how to build an LLM-optimized product-led content library ✨

Output Theory

By Tobias Winkler

Productivity that frees your time for the stuff that matters - 1 new idea, every week.

One Useful Thing

By Ethan Mollick

Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

Behind the Craft

By Peter Yang

Practical AI tutorials and interviews to help busy people become AI native fast.

The Workflow

By Sara Stella Lattanzio

AI workflows for B2B marketing and GTM from the best in class. Practical, tested, and hype-free.

The Future of SEO & AEO by Eli Schwartz

By The Future of SEO by Eli Schwartz

As the author of Product-Led SEO and a consultant to some of the internet's largest companies, this newsletter is for people who own the growth number and need to know what search actually looks like in an AI world.

The AI Strategist

By Sarah Cornett

An AI newsletter for business leaders by Global AI Advisors

Outbound Kitchen

By Elric 🍳 The Outbound Chef

The Outbound Kitchen is where B2B SaaS leaders learn the system that makes outbound predictable. Join 6,000+ founders, CROs, and GTM leaders getting weekly breakdowns of the Outbound Kitchen System, the methodology, the data, the frameworks.

Content Ideas

By Tabitha

One standout B2B content marketing example each edition – unique, smart, inspirational ideas for your content swipe file.

The CMO Office

By Nikki Taylor

Helping marketers claim their seat in the C-suite by turning data into expertise. A publication of Analytic Partners.

GTM Strategist

By Maja Voje

Weekly Go-to-Market examples, best practices, hot tips and tools. Free in your Inbox every Friday. Wanna dive in and build a winning GTM strategy?

Accelerate growth by putting customers at the center of your strategy. Maja delivers frameworks for understanding what actually drives buying decisions.

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The Intellectual Investor

By Vitaliy Katsenelson

Value Investing, Life/Philosophy and Classical Music Explained

Leah’s ProducTea

By ProducTea with Leah

Where growth strategy meets sense-making. I write about connecting product to revenue, navigating AI without the hype, and the hard questions nobody's answering yet. 25 years as an operator and exec.

Full-Funnel B2B Marketing

By Andrei Zinkevich

Every Friday we share practical insights about ABM, demand generation, full-funnel marketing and cover how to fix a broken B2B playbook to help you drive revenue and become a better B2B marketer.

Anywhere Italy

By Peter

The 1,000 Italian towns most travelers skip. Written from Pietrasanta, Tuscany.

Around the Bonfire — Brand, marketing, creativity

By Kevan + Shannon @ Bonfire 🔥

Insights on how to build your brand, how to run your marketing, and how to be more creative (at work and in life). Real-world lessons from in-house marketers turned business builders.

AI Supremacy

By Michael Spencer

News at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, technology and business including Op-Eds, research summaries, guest contributions and valuable info about A.I. startups.

The Art of Asking Questions

By Andrea Chiarelli

Behind every breakthrough lies a great question. I help curious-minded people ask questions that spark clarity, insight and action.

The AI Marketer

By Jonathan Martinez

I'm an Uber & Coinbase marketer turned founder. Join me as I share AI learnings while scaling my startup to $10M ARR.

how to boss ai

By Anna

the AI era isn't coming it's already here lead humans and machines without losing yourself

Prof G Media

By Scott Galloway

Uncompromising analysis of the forces transforming business, power, and society. All data, zero filter. Go paid for exclusive content from Scott Galloway and the Prof G crew — and skip the ads for good.

Marketing Works

By Priyanka Nath

A monthly attempt at demystifying the art and science of great marketing from a fractional CMO and full-time curious person. Includes quick takes on Asia, tech, startups, and innovation.

Ahead of AI

By Sebastian Raschka

Ahead of AI focuses on machine learning and AI research and is read by more than 190,000 researchers and practitioners who want to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving field.

Sam’s Social Media Club

By Sam's Social Media Club

A curated hub for social media & marketing professionals. Discover hand-picked job listings across all levels, actionable career tips, and the latest industry insights, delivered weekly.

AI CFO Office

By The CFO Office

AI strategies, playbooks and tools for CFOs and leaders who want to lead the future of finance and not sit on the sidelines. Insider lessons on FP&A and CFO growth.

Slow AI

By Dr Sam Illingworth

Knowing when to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone.

Corporate Jungle

By Victoria

Survival strategies for the modern workplace

The Generalist

By Mario Gabriele

The people, companies, and technologies shaping the future.