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October 1, 2026AI Discovery

When should a startup start caring about AI search? Before the website

A new company starts with zero online presence. Here's why publishing a Day-One Library: tools, partners, and honest comparisons; beats building a website first.

September 29, 2026AI Discovery

Is AI-search optimization just new SEO? What carries over, what breaks

AI search didn't replace SEO, it changed the scoring unit. Here's exactly which SEO practices still matter, which break, and which just change shape.

September 24, 2026AI Discovery

Find the questions AI can't answer yet (and own them first)

Every obvious topic in your niche is already covered. Here's how to find the specific questions AI still answers badly in your market and own them first.

September 22, 2026AI Discovery

The relevancy window: why your best clients forget you

Past clients loved working with you, then went quiet. The relevancy window explains why, and how publishing local knowledge keeps you visible in between.

September 17, 2026AI Discovery

Content that compounds vs content that decays

Social posts decay in days; resources compound for years. Here's how to tell which of your content is disposable and which builds lasting AI visibility.

September 16, 2026AI Discovery

Why a human-picked list beats another AI listicle

Generic AI listicles are everywhere and say nothing. Learn the Detail Test that makes a human-curated recommendation list trustworthy and citable.

September 13, 2026AI Discovery

MCP tools for content creators: what's actually worth it

A working taxonomy of MCP-integrated tools for content creators, how to evaluate one before connecting it, and what the protocol won't fix for you.

July 13, 2026AI Discovery

Measuring AI visibility: crawls, serves, and citations

You can't see who AI recommends instead of you, until you read your own server logs. Here's the crawl-serve-cite framework for measuring AI visibility.

July 13, 2026AI Discovery

Atomic content: why AI cites collections, not pages

AI engines don't cite whole pages, they cite passages. Here's how to restructure your best content into self-contained atomic units that get quoted.

July 13, 2026AI Discovery

Run your own AI visibility audit in an afternoon

There's no Search Console for ChatGPT. Here's how to run your own AI visibility audit in an afternoon, using nothing but a spreadsheet and a browser.

July 13, 2026AI Discovery

Who owns your AI visibility? The rented-space question, answered honestly

Building your expertise on someone else's platform feels risky. Here's an honest Portability Checklist for evaluating any platform before you build there.

July 13, 2026AI Discovery

How AI actually answers "best X in [town]": fan-out queries, explained

One question to an AI assistant becomes dozens of hidden searches. Here's how query fan-out works, and how hyper-specific content wins those queries.

July 13, 2026AI Discovery

llms.txt: what the logs actually show

Everyone's adding an llms.txt file to their site. Ahrefs checked the server logs: 97% get zero requests. Here's who actually reads it, and what to do instead.

July 13, 2026AI Discovery

Does schema markup help you get cited by AI? What the tests show

Does JSON-LD schema help you get cited by AI? A controlled Ahrefs study and a five-system read test say no. Here's what actually earns citations.

May 20, 2026Real Estate

What's in a Real Estate Marketing Package?

What agents get for the money: listing materials, social and website packages, how commercial differs, and how to spot a padded package.

May 18, 2026Real Estate

The Real Estate Marketing Checklist

A working checklist for listings, advertising, open houses and compliance, including the seven-day version for the week a property goes live.

May 17, 2026Real Estate

What Is a Real Estate Marketing Calendar?

A marketing calendar turns scattered posting into a plan you can run: annual themes, seasonal hooks, channels that line up, and a way to tell if it worked.

Stacklist now available for iOS and Android

May 13, 2026Product Updates

Meet the new Stacklist app

Save anything from your phone in one tap. All your links, places, and more. Already organized. Easy to come back to. For iOS & Android.

A Stacklist card visualized as an AI agent reads it, with metadata fields including id, type, created date, parent-of relationship, source type, agent-readability flag, token count of 1.2k, AI trust level of high, language, public flag, and confidence score of 0.85.

May 11, 2026Company Updates

We benchmarked an 84% token reduction. Then we open sourced the protocol.

Meet ACP (Atomic Content Protocol). The open standard designed to help AI agents read content with far fewer tokens.

Diagram of how the operating system is wired

April 24, 2026The Startup Journey

How I run my life on Markdown and the Stacklist MCP

Slack threads. Gmail. Calendar invites. Granola meeting notes. Linear issues. Lightfield CRM follow-ups. Text messages. WhatsApp. Each of them authoritative about a slice of your life. None of them talking to each other. All of them expecting you to be the integration layer.

September 26, 2025Company Updates

From Tsunami Warnings to Demo Days: Our 7-Week Startup Adventure in Hawaii 🌺🌊

Hey Stacklist Members! We’re back with a splash after an unforgettable two months, and this is the inside scoop you’ve been waiting for.

Stacklist Fast Company Design by Innovation Finalist

September 20, 2025The Startup Journey

Stacklist Finalist in Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards

We’re excited (and honestly, still a little in shock) to share that Stacklist has been named a finalist in the 2025 Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards, in the category Small but Mighty: Companies Under 100 Employees.

July 18, 2025Company Updates

Introducing Stack Embeds: Bring Your Stacks Anywhere

Stacklist just got even more powerful. We’re thrilled to announce a brand new feature:  Stack Embeds . You can now embed your Stacks anywhere you publish on the web — whether it's a personal blog, a Notion site, your business landing page, or even within an article just like this one.

July 16, 2025Company Updates

Stacklist Joins Blue Startups Accelerator in Hawaii! 🌺 🏝️

The Big Announcement! We're ecstatic to announce that Stacklist, along with Martina and I, have been invited to join the Blue Startups Accelerator as a portfolio company.

May 29, 2025Company Updates

How Stacklist Is Helping Creators Cut Through the Noise

We recently sat down with the team at NetInfluencer to talk about the vision behind Stacklist and how we’re tackling the mess that is digital curation in 2025.

May 16, 2025Company Updates

Stacklist 2.0: A Fresh New Look and Feel

Today I want to share what's probably the biggest update we've made to Stacklist since we launched. When we first rolled out to friends and family in August 2024, and then publicly in September, we got really positive feedback about the interface and experience.

May 15, 2025Company Updates

Sell Your Shopify Products Directly From Your Stacklist Profile

I just got my Stacklist shirt and hat in the mail. Fun stuff. 🎉 I immediately wanted to make a quick design tweak, so I updated it in Printful (which syncs with my Shopify store), and then realized: "I should put this updated merch on my Stacklist profile.

April 30, 2025Company Updates

April 2025 Stacklist Updates

Hi Stacklisters! Happy Wednesday! We have a few exciting Stacklist updates to share with you! Geniuslink Integration Mobile Updates Galore! A Whole New Look Coming Soon Let's dive in! -- Kyle and Martina Your Stacklist Cards are now..

November 26, 2024Company Updates

🚀 Too much goodness for a headline.

There's so much goodness packed into this post that I had an an impossible time trying to think up a title. How about we just dive in and you can see what I mean.

November 15, 2024Company Updates

🤯 Big Stacklist Updates

So much goodness for a Friday. Let’s go. 🏃‍♂️ TL;DR New Pricing Plans. More value. Simpler plans. All new Card layout, Card Detail Views, Profile Layout, Shared Stack layout Mobile App updates (iOS / Android) — the best got even better New Newsletter (The List) that serves up the best of Stacklist.

November 11, 2024Company Updates

Martina & Denzil - Building an Inclusive Company Culture in Tech

Summary In this conversation, Denzil shares her journey into tech, touching on her early passion for coding, experiences with imposter syndrome, and the challenges of leadership as a woman in the industry.

Kyle Hudson and Dani Grant on the Podcast Zero to Umm

October 31, 2024Company Updates

Building with Joy: How Jam's CEO Dani Grant Turned Failed Iterations into a Developer-Loved Product

In a candid and insightful conversation, Jam's co-founder and CEO Dani Grant shared the remarkable journey of building a developer-focused product that's now used by over 150,000 users.

October 25, 2024Company Updates

Building Stacklist

We're so excited, we just can't hide it. TLDR; 1️⃣ Where to begin? 📱 New Mobile App 🖥️ Safari Extension Update 🎙️ Podcasts! Podcasts! Podcasts! ❤️ Stacklist Love 1️⃣ Where to begin? Ok. I’ll admit it. 🤦‍♂️ This email has been a long time coming.

September 2, 2024Company Updates

I Built an App Because I Couldn't Remember a Fancy Italian Opera

by Stacklist Founder - Kyle Hudson If you know me, you know what happens when I get an idea in my head. You’re going to hear about it. A LOT... I love diving deep on a topic, product, or service - learning everything I can about it, and exploring all the ways it can be better.

August 17, 2024Company Updates

Life has a curated shortlist. It’s called Stacklist.

The best things in life can't be Googled. They just can’t. And that was just one of many revelations we had when we first decided to build Stacklist.