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Podcast Episode 42

The 30-Day Partnership Sprint: An AI-Assisted Playbook for Low-Risk Co-Marketing Wins

January 3, 202625 min

Many small teams treat partnerships as swings—big time, uncertain payoff. This episode presents a repeatable, AI-assisted 30-day Partnership Sprint: a concise playbook, a 6-metric partner-fit scorecard, and one sample outreach email so listeners can run a measurable pilot without heavy integrations. We open with a short, anonymized case: a 10-person SaaS used public newsletter and social signals to surface three partners; a single joint webinar produced 94 leads at a $9 cost-per-lead in 30 days, and the team learned which signal predicted conversion. Hosts walk through the exact signals an AI should score, share a step-by-step prompt to surface partners from public data, and read a plug-and-play outreach template. Producers get minute-by-minute timing, measurement targets, and a downloadable one-page Partner Playbook plus a prompt-pack GitHub gist to copy. Listeners leave with one replicable pilot, a partner-qualification checklist, and a clear next action to run in 30 days.

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