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We recently started working with a software company whose tagline stopped our team mid-scroll: “The AI time tracker to end time tracking.”<\/p>\n

In one line, they named the thing everyone in their category hates about their category and positioned their product as the solution to the problem. It\u2019s a bold B2B brand strategy, and it stood out to us after years of frustrating attempts to track time using different tools.<\/p>\n

Strong, definitive messages like this are also becoming increasingly rare in a sea of AI-generated sameness.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not because companies don\u2019t care, but because they\u2019re under greater pressure to grow faster, rank at the top of AI overviews and be the answer to an infinite number of questions people can ask the large language model of their choice.<\/p>\n

That means figuring out how to create content faster and follow SEO and AEO best practices that are still largely based on what\u2019s already working well.<\/p>\n

In other words, you can\u2019t get away from using the phrase \u201ctime-tracking software,\u201d all over your website, but you can say what sets you apart from all the others.<\/p>\n

It’s the kind of brand clarity that won\u2019t come from a prompt. It comes from honest conversations with customers who have suffered through overly complicated solutions and with leaders who dare to share uncomfortable truths.<\/p>\n

AI can produce content at scale, but it can’t decide what a brand should mean to people.<\/p>\n

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We still need human judgment about values, culture and the messy emotional truths that create genuine connection. That’s the raw material of a B2B brand strategy worth building on.<\/p>\n

The B2B Institute’s “2030 B2B Trends: Contrarian Ideas for the Next Decade” predicted three major developments in B2B brand strategy that have only grown more relevant since the report was published in 2020. The pandemic, widespread AI adoption, and the deprecation of third-party cookies each accelerated the shift the authors anticipated: brand building is pulling further ahead of sales activation as the long-term demand driver.<\/p>\n

Since so much has changed in just six years, we revisited a few of the themes the report discussed and looked at them from a new lens.<\/p>\n

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