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From Customer Zero to Co-founder
Dan, our Founder & CEO, asked for thirty minutes of marketer feedback for his stealth products. Three hours later, I was surprised, alarmed, and convinced, in that order. This is how I went from Customer Zero to Co-founder at Jinn, leading Marketing and Growth.
Sarah Aylward • Co-founder. Marketing. Growth. · Sep 22, 2026Read the piece
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'This Didn't Sound Like Me' Is Our Most Valuable Button
Approval teaches a writer almost nothing. The wince — the exact sentence you'd never say — is the signal, and it's the one we built a button for.
Dan Willoughby • Founder. CEO. Developer. · Sep 1, 2026Read the piece
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Chat That Knows You're the Author, Not the Audience
A generic AI assistant writes to the average asker. The fix isn't a smarter model. It's a tool that reads a briefing about you before it writes a word.
Dan Willoughby • Founder. CEO. Developer. · Aug 18, 2026Read the piece
ArticleGhostCustomer Education
We Split WHAT You Say From HOW You Say It
The number one failure of AI voice cloning isn't that the machine can't learn your voice. It's that it learns your content instead, and nobody separates the two.
Dan Willoughby • Founder. CEO. Developer. · Aug 5, 2026Read the piece
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A Voice You Can Check Against
No single person wrote the copy at any brand I ran, so the voice lived in my taste. What it takes to move a voice out of one head and into something a draft can be checked against.
Dan Willoughby • Founder. CEO. Developer. · Jul 22, 2026Read the pieceLore · Communications
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