by Jeffrey Kranz | Jun 17, 2026 | Article, Teardown
Lots of the conversation around search and visibility stays at the general level—and it can get pessimistic. But what happens when you dig into the niches? Turns out with some of them, there’s a lot of opportunity just waiting to be grabbed. For example, Zoe and I...
by Jeffrey Kranz | Nov 24, 2025 | Article, Industry report, Teardown
“How are we showing up in AI?” If your business relies on content and SEO for marketing, you’ve probably been asking (or getting asked) this question a lot. And if you’re going to answer this question, you need an AI visibility tool. There are a lot of these tools out...
by Jeffrey Kranz | Mar 28, 2019 | Teardown
This article was originally published in 2017, and is periodically updated. If you’re reading up on Casper’s content marketing, you should also check out our 2019 teardown of Purple’s SEO strategy. Ten years ago, you bought mattresses at the mattress...
by Jeffrey Kranz | Sep 14, 2018 | Teardown
[This article was originally published in Q2 2018. Stats have been updated to reflect Q3 2018.] Gusto is a delightful brand in a traditionally boring space: HR SaaS. They’re a unicorn (a company valued above $1 billion) with more than 60,000 customers—and they’ve...
by Jeffrey Kranz | Feb 19, 2018 | Case study, Teardown
The fintech industry is growing fast. And Stash Invest is one of the fastest-growing players in this industry—reaching a million users, or “Stashers,” in their first three years. Like Wealthfront (which we tore down recently), Stash is a robo-advisor: an online...
