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Case studies and operator notes.

From building ventures across industries. Receipts, not rhetoric.

  1. B2B · Growth Strategy

    The Director Illusion: why B2B deals are won with users, not titles

    A practical buyer map for B2B teams: identify the end user, champion, influencer, decision maker, and gatekeeper before the first sales meeting.

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  2. Growth Strategy · AI Telemetry

    Why the Funnel is More Linear Than Ever in the Era of the Messy Middle

    Many marketers misunderstand Google’s Messy Middle as permission to abandon funnels and rely only on high-hook content. Here is why funnels are deterministic business checkpoints, why AIDA is only a message framework, and why clean telemetry matters more in the AI era.

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  3. Growth · Venture Building

    The Funnel Is Not Dead — It Just Evolved

    A contrarian take on the 'funnel is dead' claim — from 10 ventures, IDR 4B+ in ad budget, and 300K+ qualified leads. What actually died, and what replaced it.

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  4. Meta Ads · AI Systems

    What really matters in the era of the Andromeda Ads Engine

    A practical guide to Meta Andromeda: what changed in ad delivery, what did not, and how operators should rebuild creative, data, campaign structure, and measurement.

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  5. Research · Southeast Asia

    How Southeast Asia actually buys in 2026

    Aditya's 2026 mapping of Southeast Asian social behaviour: trust hierarchy, the content formats that convert, which storytelling wins, and how buying decisions shifted to closed-loop social commerce.

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  6. Growth · Content Marketing

    Growth Curve Method: content routes for 360 marketing in 2026

    A 2026 adaptation of Aditya's original framework: content pillars, supporting content, route systems, cadence, analytics, and AI-assisted optimization.

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  7. Xniper · Audience Simulation

    Xniper HBSM: audience simulation before campaign spend

    A public paper-style adaptation of Xniper's 2026 whitepaper: HBSM, XRE, 100 digital humans, 20,000 Monte Carlo data points, and audience simulation before media spend.

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  8. Healthcare · Growth System

    Scaling a Jakarta dental clinic from 6 to 10 branches with a full-funnel growth system

    120 to 421 leads/month, Rp300M/month digital-influenced revenue, 6 to 7x ROAS. Performance ads, a website funnel, AI-assisted WhatsApp CS, and a custom CRM, run as one system.

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  9. Consumer · Community

    KicauFest: building a community brand for Gold Coin

    Gold Coin sells a commodity. The work was making it a brand people gather around: a viral hero video, a flagship event, and an engaged songbird community across Indonesia.

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  10. Education

    Rebuilding the strategy framework at Wall Street English Indonesia

    How a metrics rebuild and a sharper strategy framework helped the business return to profit and reach an all-time-high revenue mark within 1.5 years.

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  11. Finance · Rebrand

    #BeraniBerubah: rebranding a rural bank for digital growth

    BPR Hisobhan reborn as BPR Triastra: a full rebrand, a launch campaign, a lead-gen funnel for younger business owners, and the team enablement to run it.

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  12. Media · Social
    Case study

    HypeBuzz: building a trend-media brand from zero

    From nothing to millions of views: a repeatable trend-content engine across Instagram and TikTok, then an activation that turned reach into participation.

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  13. Education · PR
    Case study

    Hacktiv8: an 8X ROAS push for a data-science scholarship

    PR plus performance marketing for Hacktiv8's data-science scholarship: a webinar funnel, paid ads, and national media coverage, returning 8X on ad spend.

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