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Tobin Thomas
Tobin Thomas

Co-Founder & CEO, Lifesight. Fifteen years rebuilding marketing measurement around causal evidence.

The First Hundred Days of a Measurement Migration

Aug 20, 2026

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10 min read

The First Hundred Days of a Measurement Migration

Enough theory. If a company decides this quarter to move from attribution to calibrated measurement, here is what actually happens who does what, what breaks, what to tell the board at day thirty when the early numbers look worse than the ones they replaced, and the three mistakes that stall most migrations in month four.

Tobin Thomas
Tobin Thomas
The Measurement Vendor Landscape in 2027 — Who Consolidates, Who Disappears

Aug 4, 2026

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10 min read

The Measurement Vendor Landscape in 2027 — Who Consolidates, Who Disappears

The category is about to compress. Which kinds of vendors survive it, which get absorbed, why the best product does not automatically win and the five questions I would ask any measurement vendor if I were the one buying.Tobin Thomas Co-Founder & CEO, Lifesight

Tobin Thomas
Tobin Thomas
Who You Hire When the Function Is Built on Real Measurement

Jul 15, 2026

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6 min read

Who You Hire When the Function Is Built on Real Measurement

What happens to the marketing org chart when the measurement is calibrated and the agents are doing the reconciliation. Which jobs change, which ones quietly go away, and how to read a CMO posting for whether a company has actually made the shift.Tobin Thomas Co-Founder & CEO, Lifesight

Tobin Thomas
Tobin Thomas
The Marketing Function That's Going to Look Boring - and Win

Jul 2, 2026

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8 min read

The Marketing Function That's Going to Look Boring - and Win

What an AI-native marketing function actually looks like once it is built on a real causal substrate - and why the version that wins is the version that looks the least impressive on the surface.

Tobin Thomas
Tobin Thomas
The Measurement Migration Is a Board-Level Decision Now

Jun 18, 2026

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8 min read

The Measurement Migration Is a Board-Level Decision Now

Why the questions about marketing measurement methodology have just escalated from the CMO and CFO into the boardroom - and the three questions every director should now be putting on the quarterly agenda.

Tobin Thomas
Tobin Thomas
Incrementality Is the Only Honest Metric

Jun 8, 2026

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7 min read

Incrementality Is the Only Honest Metric

What "honest" means when the honest answer is that your most expensive channel is underperforming, and why the industry has quietly avoided saying so for fifteen years.

Tobin Thomas
Tobin Thomas
The CFO Is the New Buyer

May 18, 2026

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7 min read

The CFO Is the New Buyer

Why measurement-purchasing decisions are migrating from CMO to CFO, why that's actually good news for serious CMOs, and what it changes about every vendor in this space - including us.

Tobin Thomas
Tobin Thomas
Why I'm Writing This

May 11, 2026

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6 min read

Why I'm Writing This

A founder's letter on why Lifesight walked away from attribution, what Agentic Unified Marketing Measurement means, and why I'm publishing this in public.

Tobin Thomas
Tobin Thomas

The Decision Desk

The Decision Desk is Tobin's fortnightly memo on making growth decisions in the age of causal measurement and AI agents — written from the CEO seat, where questions about budget, allocation, and operating model are finally answerable causally, and agents are becoming first-class operators in the loop.

© 2026 The Decision Desk.
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