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Tom Pinder

Founder of IdeaLift. Writing about why product decisions fall apart and what to do about it.

methodology

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New PRAPI research: how founders actually run their companies on AI

Jun 30, 2026

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1 min read

New PRAPI research: how founders actually run their companies on AI

What they keep, what they dropped, and the one filter that tells them apart

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

methodology

+3

New PRAPI research: what AI engines actually cite for marketing and PR

Jun 17, 2026

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1 min read

New PRAPI research: what AI engines actually cite for marketing and PR

Why extractability and proof beat authority, and where earned coverage still wins.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

methodology

+3

New PRAPI research: AI can draft your pitch, but it can't send it

Jun 16, 2026

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1 min read

New PRAPI research: AI can draft your pitch, but it can't send it

What gets a pitch through, what gets it deleted in three seconds, and why the polish is now the tell.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

multi-brand

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New research: what multi-brand operators build once, and the one thing they never share

Jun 15, 2026

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1 min read

New research: what multi-brand operators build once, and the one thing they never share

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

research

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New PRAPI research — the channels operators built to $1M ARR, and the ones they killed

Jun 11, 2026

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1 min read

New PRAPI research — the channels operators built to $1M ARR, and the ones they killed

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

multi-brand

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How operators run marketing across many brands at once

Jun 4, 2026

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2 min read

How operators run marketing across many brands at once

The deeper cut: nine operators on the architecture that holds at scale.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

b2b

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The five patterns that landed B2B coverage in Q1 2026

Jun 3, 2026

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1 min read

The five patterns that landed B2B coverage in Q1 2026

What 31 B2B operators said actually landed press coverage

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

research

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Cited, reintroduced

May 27, 2026

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1 min read

Cited, reintroduced

Same newsletter, new job — PRAPI's research voice.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

prioritization

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Stop treating your backlog like a promise

May 19, 2026

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2 min read

Stop treating your backlog like a promise

A backlog item is a hypothesis, not a commitment. Treat it like one and you'll stop building things nobody needs.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

metrics

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You're making decisions with dead data

May 12, 2026

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2 min read

You're making decisions with dead data

The dashboard says retention is 85%. That number is from a cohort that no longer resembles your current users.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

prioritization

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The stakeholder request that aged like milk

May 5, 2026

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2 min read

The stakeholder request that aged like milk

The VP who demanded that integration left two months ago. The ticket is still marked urgent.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

decisions

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Your competitor research is already outdated

Apr 28, 2026

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2 min read

Your competitor research is already outdated

That competitive analysis from Q1? Three of those features have shipped. Two pivoted. One company got acquired.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

workflow

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The handoff is where ideas go to die

Apr 21, 2026

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2 min read

The handoff is where ideas go to die

Product writes a spec. Engineering reads a different spec. Nobody notices until the PR is open.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

decisions

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What a decision audit looks like

Apr 14, 2026

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2 min read

What a decision audit looks like

You track bugs and velocity. You don't track how fast your team makes decisions. That's the metric that matters.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

decisions

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The 90-day rule

Apr 7, 2026

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2 min read

The 90-day rule

If nobody touched it in 90 days, it's dead. You're just too polite to say so.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

decisions

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Why your roadmap is a fiction

Mar 24, 2026

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2 min read

Why your roadmap is a fiction

Roadmaps are snapshots pretending to be plans. By the time you present one, half of it is already wrong.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

feedback

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Feedback is rotting in your inbox

Mar 23, 2026

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3 min read

Feedback is rotting in your inbox

Your customers are telling you what they need. You're just not listening fast enough.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

prioritization

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The feature nobody asked for (anymore)

Mar 23, 2026

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3 min read

The feature nobody asked for (anymore)

You shipped it. Nobody noticed.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

workflow

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The meeting that satisfies nobody

Mar 23, 2026

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2 min read

The meeting that satisfies nobody

Your calendar is full. Your decisions aren't.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

prioritization

+2

Your backlog is a graveyard

Mar 23, 2026

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2 min read

Your backlog is a graveyard

Decision decay is costing your team more than you think

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

Cited

AEO research and operator playbooks. From Prapi.

© 2026 Cited.
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