If you prefer work in progress to polished stories.

Signals, detours, and reflections from the algorithmic edge of marketing.
This newsletter is part working notes, part open notebook — where I share what usually stays behind the walls of a marketing team at a SaaS.

An unpolished look at the trenches of marketing, the kind of stuff that doesn’t make it into glossy case studies.

Expect ideas, thoughts, reflections and occasional rumblings — plus lessons from the technical edge of AI search, SEO, SaaS marketing and the way work itself is shifting.

And a reminder along the way: the edges blur, reality is just an encoded game — and you're a token on the marketing board. Knowing how to move makes you win or lose; knowing it’s a game means you’ve already won.

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Who is this for?

  • Marketers who want an insider view beyond the playbook

  • CEOs and business owners who wear the marketing hat -occasionally

  • SaaS teams marketing their products

  • Anyone curious about how search, AI, and marketing itself are changing

Who?
My full avatar’s name is María Elena Benito Ruiz, CMO and Head of SEO/AEO at Beebole. With 15+ years in full stack marketing, SEO and team management, I bridge the technical with the strategic. This is where I explore less about what’s “real” (what’s that, really) and more about what emerges when we play with the code of the marketing game.


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I’m a full-stack marketer — currently CMO & Head of SEO/AEO at Beebole. I like being late to parties. Sort of joined Substack actively in September 2025. Where do I order drinks?