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Practical writing on AI agents, industrial-scale SEO, and the new shape of marketing for businesses growing past their first ceiling. Published weekly. Built on the same content engine we run for clients — proof, not promise.

520 articles a year. · Three authors. · Three categories. · Read in 4–8 minutes.
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SEO + GEO · 7 min read

GEO vs. SEO: Why the Rules of Search Just Changed

GEO vs SEO: The Search Contract Has Been Rewritten GEO vs SEO is not a theoretical debate — it is the most consequential shift in how companies earn organic visibility since Google replaced directories in the early 2000s. If your…

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AI Agents · 8 min read

How AI Agents Replace Your First 10 Marketing Hires

AI Marketing Agents Are Replacing the Entry-Level Marketing Stack Most founders building their first marketing team make the same expensive mistake: they hire generalists before they have a repeatable system, then wonder why their burn rate accelerates faster than their…

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Industry Thesis · 7 min read

Competing above your weight class with AI

AI Business Leverage Is Dissolving the Advantage of Scale For the last fifty years, the companies that won were the ones that could afford more headcount, more tooling, and more distribution than their competitors. That structural advantage is eroding fast.…

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Websites · 8 min read

The real cost of a slow, generic website

A high-performance website is not a luxury — it is the difference between a pipeline and a leaky bucket Most founders treat a slow, generic website as a cosmetic problem. They are wrong. Speed and specificity are conversion infrastructure, and…

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SEO + GEO · 7 min read

Building content that AI search engines quote

AI Search Optimization Is Not a Content Strategy — It Is a Citation Strategy Every founder running a content program right now is optimizing for the wrong audience. They are writing for Google’s ten blue links while a different, faster-growing…

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AI Agents · 8 min read

Designing an AI agent your customers actually trust

Why Most AI Customer Agent Deployments Break Trust Before They Build It An AI customer agent either earns trust in the first thirty seconds of an interaction or spends the rest of that conversation losing it. Most deployments fail not…

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Industry Thesis · 7 min read

Why marketing stopped being a hiring problem

AI Marketing Operations Has Made Headcount the Wrong Unit of Analysis For the last decade, every CMO conversation eventually arrived at the same destination: we need more people. More content writers, more paid specialists, more analysts, more ops coordinators. The…

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Websites · 7 min read

Your website is infrastructure now, not a brochure

Website as Infrastructure: The Shift Founders Keep Missing Most founders still treat their website as a brochure — a static artifact you update when the brand refresh happens or the product changes. That mental model is costing them real money.…

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SEO + GEO · 7 min read

GEO is the new SEO: how to get cited by AI answers

Generative engine optimization is not SEO with a new coat of paint Generative engine optimization is a fundamentally different discipline from search engine optimization, and conflating the two is costing marketing leads real pipeline. When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or…

The voices behind the engine

Three authors. Three lenses. One thesis.

Every article is written by our content team and reviewed by the Studio Máté team. Each voice owns a category and writes about what they actually build for clients every week.

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Sofia Reyes
AI Strategy Lead

Sofia is part of the Studio Máté content team, writing about AI agents, automation, and how modern businesses put them to work.

Category: AI Agents
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James Okafor
Head of SEO + GEO

James is part of the Studio Máté content team, covering SEO, GEO, and the shift to generative-engine optimization.

Category: SEO + GEO
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Mira Ashford
Creative Director

Mira is part of the Studio Máté content team, writing about high-performance websites, conversion, and digital growth.

Category: Thesis & Websites
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