Strategic Software

A new category of enterprise solutions that combines frontier AI models with custom code and unique organizational expertise to address challenges traditionally handled by strategists and consultants. Strategic software differs from conventional marketing technology by addressing qualitative, strategic issues rather than merely automating deterministic tasks. For marketing organizations, this represents AI-powered systems that can analyze complex brand positioning, predict market trends, optimize customer journey orchestration, and generate strategic recommendations based on proprietary data. Unlike point solutions or generic SaaS platforms, strategic software creates continuous learning loops that compound organizational intelligence over time, enabling marketing teams to operate at strategic consultant-level insights while maintaining operational speed and scale.

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Strategic Software

While code has revolutionized business operations over the last few decades, strategy has remained stubbornly human—until now. Strategic software, powered by AI and enterprise-specific knowledge, is transforming how companies conceive and execute strategy at unprecedented speed and scale.

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Chain-of-Thought

Chain-of-thought prompting, introduced by Google Research in 2022, transforms AI from an answer machine into a reasoning partner by explicitly modeling the problem-solving process step by step. By decomposing complex queries into sequential reasoning steps and making implicit thinking explicit, it fundamentally improves AI performance.

Few-Shot Prompting

Few-shot prompting leverages AI’s pattern recognition by providing a handful of examples in the prompt, enabling the model to identify patterns and generate responses that match your intended style or format. This real-time approach achieves consistent, domain-specific outputs without needing massive datasets or model fine-tuning.

WWGPTD

WWGPTD began as internal Slack shorthand to remind teams that using AI isn’t cheating but the essential first step. The accompanying bracelets serve to normalize AI as a fundamental tool for creating better work.