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Recommended by AI-Ready CMO

B2T caters to ambitious professionals and founders reinventing themselves in the AI economy. It explores how people can use their experience, tools, and ideas to create leverage, income, and opportunity in a business world being rewritten

Beyond the Hit

By Bal1nt

One song. What we remember. What happened after. Stories behind the songs you thought you already knew. Free to read – if you'd like to support the work, simply choose a paid plan.

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.

- AI-Ready CMO

After Babel

By Jon Haidt

A free weekly newsletter where Jon Haidt and his team make sense of how technology is reshaping society — and offer practical guidance on how we can respond.

Hypergrowth Leadership

By Carilu Dietrich

Insights for hypergrowth tech leaders

Unplugged by Yana G.Y.

[FREE Masterclass + FREE 10-Day Email Crash Course] The exact model I used to build a $5k-$10k/mo newsletter with AI & Automations working 2 hours/day: Courses, Strategies, Tactics, AI Tools, Challenges & 1:1 HELP to grow, convert & scale revenues.

Internet Is Dead

By Leon

Non-boring B2B marketing + storytelling + AI. Every Wednesday, <5 minutes reading time. For awesome founders, executives, industry leaders.

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

Future of Marketing

By Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs

Marketing is in flux. As professor, author & entrepreneur, I show how AI, tech & customers reshape the field. In my weekly newsletter I decode the Future of Marketing for businesses, entrepreneurs & academia.

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.

On Brand

By Kira Klaas

A newsletter on translating brand to business, brand-led growth, and building buy-in.

Anywhere Italy

By Peter

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

The Mind of a CEO

By Nik Hasyudeen

Nurturing the CEO mindset in governing, managing and leading business.

John @Furrier Newsletter

By JohnFurrier.substack.com

Enterprise Tech Analysis plus Silicon Valley Business and Technology Insights

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 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.

Citrini Research

Citrini Research provides insights on thematic equity investing and global macro trading—with cross-asset, lateral thinking. Our promise: you’ll never have to ask “what’s the trade?”

@andrewchen

By Andrew Chen

Venture capital in tech, entertainment, and AI

Category Pirates

The authority on category design & category creation. Sharing how legendary entrepreneurs, executives, marketers, and creators design business breakthroughs. By Christopher Lochhead and Eddie Yoon

Big Technology

By Alex Kantrowitz

A newsletter about big tech and society by independent journalist Alex Kantrowitz.

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.

Get Hooked! Marketing

By Fabian

Proven tactics from the trenches of B2B SaaS advertising. Built to make you a top 5% marketer.

The Product Marketing Drop

By Richard King

Insight you can steal before your next meeting. By Richard King.

AI by Hand ✍️

By Prof. Tom Yeh

Math, Algorithms, Architectures, by hand

AI Marketing

By Anand Karasi

The latest in the use of Artificial Intelligence to help improve digital marketing

Output Theory

By Tobias Winkler

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

The Revenue Architect

By Arnie Gullov-Singh

A newsletter about early-stage sales. I break down common startup sales problems and provide practical solutions that you can apply immediately.

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.

Elena's Growth Scoop

By Elena Verna

A must-have resource for anyone in the growth, marketing, or product space.

Predictable, sustainable growth systems for B2B. Elena down the mechanics of how companies actually scale from PLG to enterprise motion.

- AI-Ready CMO

The Intellectual Investor

By Vitaliy Katsenelson

Value Investing, Life/Philosophy and Classical Music Explained

Honest Office by Melissa Muth Martinez

Let’s make work better for people. Writings, rants, and resources on leadership, learning and development, and the employee experience.

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.

Illai’s Newsletter

By Illai Gescheit

I share my views and insights about startups, entrepreneurship, venture capital, AI and tech.

AI Marketing Strategy Lab

By Anh Le

Your lab for AI-powered marketing strategies and tests that drive explosive growth. Built for tech-forward marketers and business owners

I Drink, I Think

By Josh Walker

Exposing how the world actually works so we can fix it.

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.

Lenny's Newsletter

By Lenny Rachitsky

Deeply researched product, growth, and career advice for product leaders, founders, and ambitious builders.

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.

the saturday essay.

By Justin Welsh

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

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.

- AI-Ready CMO

Leadership in Change

By Joel

The weekly newsletter for executives and mission-driven leaders putting AI to work. Tested prompts, real frameworks, and what to do Monday morning... not just theory.

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

- AI-Ready CMO

The Ai Rabbit Hole

By The AI Rabbit Hole

The AI Rabbit Hole teaches non-technical professionals how to command AI with precision — not luck. Built on Linguistics Programming (LP) and Simplified Technical Programming (STP): the only plain-language methodology for structured human-AI communication

contentfolks

By fio @ contentfolks

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

Because of Marketing

Informing and inspiring brand leaders and marketers with the ideas, campaigns, and trends shaping the industry today.

BadRedhead Media, LLC’s All Things Book Marketing!

By BadRedhead Media (Rachel)

A newsletter about the business of being a writer, 3 books JUST for writers! Author platform tips, marketing, branding, how to Substack, and socials. Want personalized help? badredheadmedia@gmail.com

Co-Write with AI

By Nick "Co-Write with AI" Quick

Write so well your audience forgets AI exists. The slop factories win on volume. You win on voice. Learn to co-write with AI so your fingerprints stay on everything.

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.

Behind the Craft

By Peter Yang

Practical AI tutorials and interviews to help busy people become AI builders. Get my free AI learning path when you sign up.

AI blew my mind

By Daria

Turn your decades of experience into AI systems that work 24/7 so you don’t have to. Every week, I help you rethink how you operate and build workflows that run for you. (So good, readers say they cancel their day when a new issue drops.)

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.