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Chief AI Officer | Agentic AI Architect | AI Automation & MCP Builder | Emmy Award–Winning Creative and Personal Branding Strategist

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Email: nicole@theingenuityengine.com 
Phone: (714) 710.8137

Nicole Noonan is the Chief AI Officer at The Ingenuity Engine, where she acts as a strategist helping brands, founders, and teams integrate AI into the heartbeat of their business content, operations, audience growth, and revenue. Blending creativity with technical precision, she builds AI systems that are as human-centered as they are high-performing.

Before stepping into the world of advanced automation and agentic AI, Nicole spent more than a decade in advertising and experiential marketing, shaping campaigns for some of the most iconic global brands: the NBA, Nike, Google/Amazon Prime, AEG, AXS, HBO, DirecTV, Diageo, Complex, Sports Illustrated, and ESPN. Her storytelling and brand-building expertise even earned her an Emmy Award, along with a Gold ADDY, Clio Award, Webby Award, and Event Marketer’s Ex Award.

Today, Nicole’s work sits at the intersection of psychology, marketing, and intelligent automation. She helps businesses adopt Agentic AI, build AI employees, streamline workflows through AI automation, and developing custom MCP (Multi-Component Program) systems that allows AI agents to connect to real-time data sources and tools. By giving AI a “phone number” to the outside world, MCP lets her clients deploy assistants that can retrieve current information, execute tasks, integrate with business systems, and function like true real-world operators.

Her core philosophy: AI should reduce the workload, sharpen the message, and amplify the human not replace it. AI should never replace the human voice but it should remove the noise around it. Nicole designs AI-powered ecosystems that help leaders scale their message, simplify their workload, and become impossible to ignore at every touchpoint.

Whether she’s architecting an AI automation stack, training a team to work alongside AI employees, or transforming a founder’s personal brand into a content engine that runs 24/7, Nicole brings clarity, creativity, and a strategic edge that’s difficult to replicate.

Her mission is simple:
empower businesses to work smarter, create faster, and communicate more meaningfully without burning out the humans behind the brand.

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Will Leatherman

Marketing Director

Build a Self Generating Content Funnel That Drives Revenue | Web3 & AI Growth & GTM Marketer | Fractional CMO

Most B2B companies have expert-driven insights trapped in their team's heads.

They try to scale content by hiring writers who don't understand the domain.
This results in generic content that gets engagement but doesn't drive pipeline.

I've built 50+ content engines that solve this differently:
We extract your team's expertise through structured interviews, then multiply it across channels using AI-assisted production—without losing the strategic depth buyers need.

Clients see3-5x content output with higher conversion because it's rooted in real expertise, not researched talking points.

BEFORE CATALYST:
→ CMO at Parcl (blockchain real estate): 300% increase in user acquisition
→ Creative strategist for Primark, Campari, Kate Spade, WeWork, PepsiCo, BMW
→ Built content systems across DTC, Web3, and B2B SaaS

MY BELIEF: Content without expertise is noise. Expertise without content is wasted. The companies that win have systems to connect both.

I help B2B marketing teams turn their best experts into their best demand gen channel.

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Content writers aren't getting replaced by AI.

They're getting replaced by content engineers.

We've built content engines for 150+ B2B SaaS companies.

I'm calling it now.

2026 is the year of the content engineer.

Old reality: hire a writer. Brief them. Wait. Edit. Publish. Repeat.

New reality: build workflows that turn existing assets into content at scale. Writers who can't build systems become bottlenecks.

Five workflows we've built that have crushed this year:

1// Webinar repurposer. One 45-minute session becomes 12 pieces of content

2//  Case study writer. Customer calls become publishable proof in 48 hours

3// Sales calls to LinkedIn posts. Reps surface objections & insights. Posts write themselves

4// Voice of customer extractor. G2 reviews, support tickets, & NPS responses become messaging gold

5// Sales & Marketing connector. Shared content pipeline that kills the "we need better collateral" loop

A founder I work with ran the sales call workflow for 30 days. Posted twice a week from real prospect conversations. Pipeline from inbound 2x. Not because the writing was brilliant. Because we hit "speed and volume"

The content engineer doesn't just write. They architect systems that extract, transform, & distribute what already exists inside a company.

One workflow. 30 days. Doubled inbound pipeline.

The #1 mistake I see founders make with content:

→ Founder hires writer
→ Writer asks "what should I write about?"
→ Founder sends a few voice memos and some old decks
→ Content comes back generic
→ Founder says "this doesn't sound like me"
→ Writer rewrites it 3 times
→ Founder approves something they're lukewarm about
→ Post flops
→ Founder concludes: "content doesn't work"

The writer wasn't the problem.

The missing extraction process was.

Before you hire anyone, you need two things:

1. A repeatable way to pull your actual expertise out of your head (not just a monthly call where someone asks "so what's been on your mind?")

2. A review process that protects your voice without creating a bottleneck

Once those exist, a great writer can do their best work.

Without them, even the best writer will produce content that sounds like everyone else in your space.

Build the system first. Then hire into it.

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Most founders quit content after 6 weeks.

Not because it doesn't work — because they expected results in 6 weeks.

After working with 100+ B2B founders, I've found 4 traits that separate the ones who build real pipeline channels from the ones who quietly stop posting.

It's not the formula. It's how you show up.

Happy Tuesday! If you're reading this, I hope you've already crossed a couple things off your list today and you're ready to get into something that'l

Open article: 4 traits that predict founder-led content success by Will Leatherman • 7 min read

4 traits that predict founder-led content success

I have good news and bad news...

Bad news -> we're growing faster than we can keep up

Good news ->  we hiring a 1% GTM engineer to join our team

if this sounds like you, apply below.

> 1–4 yrs in gtm roles (ae/bdr, revops/sales ops, bizops)
> high velocity saas or agency background
> strong in Clay (lists + enrichment + workflows)
> curious about ai + testing new tools
> “figure shit out” mindset 

https://dub.sh/NHliGDc

"Our buyers aren't on LinkedIn."

A founder told me this on a call yesterday. He almost sounded like he was apologizing.

Turns out, 85% of his market hangs out in niche Facebook groups.

Most B2B advice would tell him to force LinkedIn anyway. You know the drill. Build a personal brand. Post every day.

But that's a massive trap. 

If your buyers live on Facebook, or read physical direct mail, or hang out in obscure forums, go there. Don't fight channel reality just to fit a generic B2B playbook.

Your content engine isn't tied to one specific platform. The platform is just distribution. The real asset is your perspective.

If you already know exactly where your customers spend their time, you don't need a three-month strategic planning phase to figure out your next move.

You just need to show up in those spaces and start talking to them.

What's one channel you know your buyers use, but you've ignored because it doesn't feel "B2B enough"?

I used to waste hours convincing reluctant founders to take LinkedIn seriously.

The ones who needed the most convincing got the worst results.

So I stopped fighting that battle.

The founders crushing it on LinkedIn aren't smarter. They don't have better writers or secret algorithm hacks.

They just don't think the platform is beneath them.

The winners enjoy sharing ideas. They experiment. They trust compounding over obsessing about likes.

The losers call LinkedIn cringe. Ignore what works. Then complain when posts flop.

Here's the truth: If you resent LinkedIn, you'll lose to the founder who doesn't.
But you don't need to become an influencer. You just need to accept there's a proven way to make this work.

I wrote the full breakdown.

Happy Tuesday! Hope you're having a solid week so far. Before I get into today's piece, I need to say something that might sound harsh. I used to spen

Open article: Why some founders win on LinkedIn and others flop by Will Leatherman • 4 min read

Why some founders win on LinkedIn and others flop

feeling like your LinkedIn reach is down? It might be

Every founder I’ve talked to the last few months is feeling this frustration - here’s my advice to you after doing this for a while 

> if they zig, zag. Literally all content on LinkedIn is starting to look the same. Experiment and try something new

> don’t shoot for the outlier, stay consistent 

> graphics (unfortunately) work pretty well

> when it doubt, talk about hiring. The algorithm loves it and shows good signal to the community

> stop posting for everyone, go back to the pain points of your customer (ICP)

Like anything it just takes reps. So put in the mf*ing reps



Thanks for more insightful data andreas jonsson

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194 people have already registered for my FREE workshop this week on replacing marketing tasks with AI agents.

I run Catalyst Content and have built 50+ content engines for B2B teams. My playbook helps founders go from 1-2 pieces per month to 200+ while keeping their voice intact. The output converts because it's rooted in real expertise, not generic AI slop.

My goal is to give you the agent workflow, starter stack, and 90-day plan you can deploy immediately. We'll cover the 5 roles to automate, how to QA for brand safety and hallucinations, and how to tie content touches back to pipeline.

Big thanks to Maven for hosting.

RSVP for Wednesday @ 12pm ET (it's free): https://lnkd.in/gta6Vd7s

Comment below if I'll see you there!

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last week i decided to close my laptop and go to Switzerland

it taught me nothing about sales

but it did remind me that the whole point of this "grind" is to go have fun and to live life. Also i did it with my best friends which was pretty rad. 

sometimes you just need to go touch some grass (or snow)

I lost a $78K client because I stopped posting for 3 weeks

not because our work was bad. not because results dropped. because I went dark on LinkedIn and the client assumed something was wrong.

here's what happened....

Last fall I was heads-down building Catalyst Content. Sixty-hour weeks. New hires. New systems.

Every morning I'd think "I'll post tomorrow." Tomorrow turned into three weeks.

The client saw my feed go quiet. No posts. No engagement. No presence.

He called me on a Tuesday and said "I need to be honest. When you stopped showing up online, my co-founder asked if you guys were struggling. We decided to move in a different direction."

that was $78K in annual revenue gone. not because of performance. because of perception.

here's what I relearned the hard way

Your content IS your credibility signal. The moment you stop publishing, people start filling in the blank. And they never fill it in favorably.

doesn't matter if you're busy building. the market doesn't see your Slack threads and late nights. they see your LinkedIn.

I post every single day now. Not because I love it. Because I f*cked up once & it cost me a lot.

build the system so you never have to think about it.

p.s. if you're a founder who's "too busy" to post, that's exactly when you need a content engine most. 

DM me & I'll show you how we do it in 2 hours per month of your time.

LinkedIn impressions are up 30% across the board 

Feburary numbers have just been published. 

Tbh they feel a bit low but provide a nice benchmark for what to expect. 

If you’ve lost some motivstion, remember it’s a marathon not a sprint

Post more = more shots on goal = more opportunities to get a client 


as always, thanks andreas jonsson for the unique insights.

After helping 50+ founders automate their content workflows, I finally cracked a repeatable system that cuts newsletter production from 5 hours to 30 minutes.

I'm sharing the full playbook from Victoria Mariscal (Founder at Front Desk) on how she ships weekly newsletters without sounding like a robot. Steal this ↓

Comment "NEWSLETTER" and it will arrive in your inbox.

Here's what you get:

✅ The 3 core documents that teach AI your actual voice (with real examples of what to ban)
✅ Step-by-step Relay.app automation setup using ChatGPT for scraping, Perplexity for research, Claude for writing
✅ Content category framework with filter rules so you stop getting irrelevant trending news
✅ The 30 minute human polish checklist (subject line, intro rewrite, fact checking)
✅ Monthly feedback loop to improve accuracy by comparing AI drafts vs your edits

Best for founders and fractional execs who need to ship weekly newsletters but can't spend half a day writing them.

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Cold outbound is dying.

Not because the channel is broken. Because buyers changed how they evaluate you before you ever get on a call.

The founders winning outbound in 2026 aren't writing better cold emails. They're warming buyers with content weeks before the first touch.

Old reality: blast 500 cold emails. Hope for 5 replies.

New reality: publish consistently as a founder. Then reach out to people who already know your name.

Here's what that looks like in practice:

1. You publish a sharp POV on a problem your buyer lives with every day
2. Your prospect sees it in their feed. Maybe likes it. Maybe screenshots it
3. Your SDR sends a message two weeks later
4. The reply rate is completely different. The conversation starts warm

I've seen this play out repeatedly. A founder I work with started posting twice a week. Specific takes on problems in his buyer's world. Real opinions, not recycled thought leadership.

Six weeks later, his outbound reply rates jumped. Prospects were referencing his posts on calls. One told him directly: "I felt like I already knew you."

That's the difference between cold & warm. One is an interruption. The other is recognition.

Most founders treat content & outbound as separate motions. They're the same motion. Content is the pre-sell. Outbound is the close.

What's the one take you could publish this week that would make your next prospect say "I already know you" before the first call?

Most LinkedIn posts feel robotic for one reason — and it's not AI.

Every paragraph is the same length. Either a staircase of one-liners that never stops, or giant blocks of text that make your eyes glaze over.

Your ideas aren't the problem. The layout is.

Fix the rhythm and your content instantly feels more human. This week's newsletter shows you exactly how — including a five-step pre-publish checklist that takes two minutes.

Happy Tuesday! If you're reading this, I hope you've had a solid start to your week and you're ready to fix something that's been bugging me for month

Open article: How to fix robotic LinkedIn posts by Will Leatherman • 4 min read

I built a complete webinar repurposing system live in 45 minutes. Here's the full playbook — steal this ↓

Comment 'REPURPOSE' and it will arrive in your inbox.

Here's what's inside:

> The 7-step workflow to turn one webinar into an article and LinkedIn post (including the exact transcript extraction step most people forget)
> The filter setup to stop your automation from writing 500-word articles about 15-second Shorts
> One-shot prompting technique with real examples to make AI copy your exact writing structure
> Slack approval step so you can catch AI hallucinations before they go live
> How to auto-attach your YouTube thumbnail to every LinkedIn post (saves 3 minutes per post)

Best for B2B marketers and founders who record webinars but never actually publish the recap.

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One of the best content systems I've ever seen started as a Notion doc called "shit I keep repeating on calls."

That was literally the whole thing.

A CEO I work with had been keeping a running list of stuff he found himself saying over and over on sales calls. Things like "everyone asks about SOC 2 and we still don't have a good answer" and "we keep losing to [competitor] even though our product is objectively better."

I told him to post them. Don't edit, don't add a framework, don't think about hooks, just paste the observation and hit publish.

6 weeks later a VP at a fintech company DMs him saying "saw your post about the SOC 2 problem, we literally brought this to our board last quarter, can we talk?"

That became a deal. From a Notion doc.

new report says 96% of B2B marketers are using AI and in the same report most of them say they don't trust the output.

so we're basically in this phase where everyone adopted the tool and nobody solved the quality problem and I don't see enough people talking about that part.

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