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2026-04-1813 min read

The Offline Access Memorandum: A Documentary Retrospective

Three practice leads at EnshitifAi sat for talking-head interviews about the Walmart, Chipotle, and Starbucks engagements. We turned the cameras off when we should have.

I was hired to produce a three-minute hype reel for our annual kickoff. I ended up with eleven hours of footage my editor is calling — off the record — 'the most on-voice piece of internal communications we have ever shot, and the single thing we can never ever publish.' I am publishing it anyway.

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Margaret Hennessy-Voss

Documentarian-in-Residence, EnshitifAi

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2024-12-0111 min read

Ticketmaster: A Masterclass in Monopolistic Extraction

How to charge $500 in fees for a $95 ticket and make fans blame Taylor Swift

When forty state attorneys general and the federal government bring a joint antitrust action against a single company, you have either done something very wrong or something very right. From an extraction perspective, Ticketmaster chose the latter. I want to tell you why I admire it.

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Chad Maximillian III

CEO & Chief Extraction Officer

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2024-07-0810 min read

The Subscription Economy Playbook: Converting Ownership Into Endless Revenue

Why sell something once when you can sell it infinitely?

The old economy was about selling products. The new economy is about selling access to products you used to sell. The next economy? Selling access to features of products you used to include for free.

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Bradley Venture

Head of Subscription Optimization

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