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OPERATOR. MARKETER. BUILDER.

I spent a decade on both sides of B2B marketing — agency and in-house, brand and demand, strategy and execution. Somewhere along the way I noticed the same pattern: companies with strong products kept losing deals to competitors who simply showed up more credibly in the places buyers actually look.

That observation became a framework. I called it Trust Debt — the measurable gap between what your brand claims and what AI engines, analysts, and buyers can verify. It explains why pipeline disappears even when the product is good, and it gives teams a concrete way to fix it.

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YEARS IN TECH MARKETING

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REVENUE INFLUENCED

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B2B SAAS BRANDS AUDITED

FROM THE BEGINNING
2014
THE BEGINNING

First Marketing Role in B2B SaaS

Joined an early-stage startup as a growth marketer. Learned that most marketing playbooks are written by people who’ve never been accountable for a number.

2016
SCALE

Growth Lead at Series B Startup

Ran demand generation from $2M to $15M ARR. Built the measurement infrastructure that proved which channels actually drove pipeline — not just clicks.

2018
THE PIVOT

From Execution to Strategy

Moved into consulting. Discovered the biggest gap in B2B marketing wasn’t tactics — it was measurement. Nobody knew what was actually working.

2021
DEPTH

Causal Inference & Incrementality

Got obsessed with the question: ‘Would this revenue have happened anyway?’ Built geo-lift testing and incrementality frameworks for mid-market SaaS.

2024
THE SHIFT

AI Changes Everything

ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews rewrote the rules of search. Built the first systematic approach to auditing and optimizing AI visibility.

2026
NOW

DrewTracy.com

Helping B2B SaaS companies become the default recommendation in AI-powered search. Auditing, optimizing, and monitoring across every major AI platform.

SPEAKING

Topics I Speak About

AI Visibility & the Death of Ten Blue Links

How AI-powered search is reshaping B2B buying behavior, and what marketers need to do about it before their competitors figure it out.

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Measurement That Matters

Why most B2B marketing measurement is theater, and how to build a system that actually tells you what’s working.

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The Operator Mindset

What changes when you stop thinking like a marketer and start thinking like a business operator. Frameworks for decisions under uncertainty.

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Building in Public

Lessons from building a consultancy from scratch — the real numbers, the real mistakes, and what I’d do differently.

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LET’S TALK

Whether you're carrying more trust debt than you realize, or you just want to compare notes — I'm easy to reach.

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