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      <title>Ask it five times: dashboards, copilots, and autonomous agents on the consistency test.</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Benchmarks</category>
      <description>The three classes of machine merchants actually choose between, dashboards, chat copilots, and autonomous agents, put on one test: ask the same question of the same data five times and see what comes back.</description>
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      <title>The flat line: benchmarking a deterministic engine against frontier language models.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Ten merchant questions, identical store data, three systems. The engine scored 100% with byte-identical re-runs at US$0.0000003 per insight. The frontier model scored 13.89%. Full methodology and limits.</description>
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      <title>What oddly catches in its own ad spend: the recursive marketing test.</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Data</category>
      <description>Three concrete catches from 90 days of oddly's own paid spend: a conversion tracking gap on /pricing, a retargeting overlap on the Operator audience, and a content gap on myoddly.com.</description>
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      <title>Why oddly runs oddly: running our own brands as the only credible product marketing.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Founder story</category>
      <description>Three of the largest marketing analytics platforms have founders who do not visibly run brands. oddly runs three: Burrow and Be, MOE, and oddly itself. Why the order matters.</description>
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      <title>Cohort benchmarking without the privacy creep: how oddly compares your ROAS to your category.</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Privacy</category>
      <description>Most benchmark tools expose individual merchant data or hide aggregation in a black box. oddly hashes at insertion, salts weekly, and gates below a 5-merchant cohort floor.</description>
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      <title>The hidden cost of duplicate-purpose ads: how Meta and Google end up paying for the same customer twice.</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Strategy</category>
      <description>Meta retargeting and branded Google search overlap more than either platform tells you. The deduplication math, with real numbers, and how to fix it.</description>
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      <title>Content gaps your competitors are eating: a SG SMB diagnostic.</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>SEO</category>
      <description>A baby apparel brand ranks position 12 for organic baby clothes Singapore with 487 monthly impressions and 18 clicks. Moving to top 5 captures 5 to 8x the volume. The diagnostic.</description>
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      <title>Cross-channel reallocation: the move Triple Whale and Polar don't show you.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Strategy</category>
      <description>Within-channel tuning is table stakes. Moving spend from Meta to Google when the math says so is the unexplored lever. How the classification works.</description>
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      <title>The 14-day rule: when to kill an underperforming ad set.</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Playbook</category>
      <description>Killing ad sets at 3 days is too early. At 45 days it is too late. The 14-day rule is the operator's framework, with thresholds and an example.</description>
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      <title>Why your Meta ROAS is lying to you (and how to spot it in 5 minutes).</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Data</category>
      <description>Meta-reported ROAS is typically inflated 20 to 40 percent over verified revenue. Here is why the gap exists and a five-minute audit to find your real number.</description>
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      <title>What we learned managing 4 Shopify brands solo for 3 years.</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Founder story</category>
      <description>Running multiple Shopify brands as a solo operator surfaces problems that single-brand operators never see. Six lessons from three years of doing it badly.</description>
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      <title>Why Marketing Ops is the missing category in your Shopify stack.</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Positioning</category>
      <description>Marketing Ops sits between your ad platforms and your analytics tools. It is a real product category and your Shopify stack does not have one yet.</description>
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      <title>True ROAS vs reported ROAS: the conversion tracking pixel lie.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Opinion</category>
      <description>Reported ROAS in your ad platform is almost always wrong. Here is why, and how to calculate the version that actually matters for your business.</description>
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      <title>Shopify merchants waste 18% of their ad budget on out-of-stock products. Here's the data.</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Data</category>
      <description>Out-of-stock products still running ads is the single largest source of paid-spend leakage for Shopify merchants. We measured it across our portfolio.</description>
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      <title>The Hidden Cost of Not Monitoring Your Google Ads Search Terms</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Google Ads</category>
      <description>15 to 30% of your Google Ads search traffic comes from irrelevant queries. Here's how to find the waste and stop it before it compounds.</description>
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      <title>Best Marketing Intelligence Tools for Shopify Stores in 2026</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Guides</category>
      <description>Triple Whale, Northbeam, Lifesight, Kepla, oddly, and Peel compared. Which marketing intelligence tool fits your Shopify store in 2026.</description>
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      <title>Why Your Google Ads Conversion Tracking Is Probably Broken (And How to Check)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Google Ads</category>
      <description>Five common ways Google Ads conversion tracking breaks for Shopify stores, plus a 10-minute diagnostic you can run right now.</description>
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      <title>How to Stop Wasting Ad Spend on Out-of-Stock Products</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Google Ads</category>
      <description>Out-of-stock products quietly burn Google and Meta Ads budget on clicks that cannot convert. How much it costs and how to stop the bleed.</description>
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      <title>oddly vs Kepla: Which Marketing Intelligence Platform Is Right for Your Business?</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Comparisons</category>
      <description>oddly and Kepla solve different problems. Side-by-side comparison of features, pricing models, and where each platform fits.</description>
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