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The AI Shortcut That Backfires Every Time with Jason Lankow from C5

Everyone’s pumping out content at scale—but it all sounds like it came from the same intern with a chatbot. So here’s the real question: if AI is doing the writing, who’s actually steering the story?

In this episode, Column Five co-founder Jason Lankow breaks down the uncomfortable truth most B2B teams are avoiding: AI isn’t a content problem—it’s a brand system problem. While everyone else obsesses over speed and scale, Jason makes the case for something far less sexy (but far more critical): governance at the moment of creation. We dig into what it really takes to build a “brand operating…

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