About this episode

Alex Halliday discusses the importance of content engineering systems for maintaining quality and brand accuracy in AI-generated content.

What's up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Alex Halliday, Founder and CEO at AirOps. (00:00) - Intro (01:19) - In This Episode (01:54) - Sponsor: Attribution App (02:57) - Sponsor: GrowthLoop (04:19) - How AirOps Pivoted to AI Content Engineering (08:23) - The Real Definition of Content Engineering and Why It's Not About Publishing More (13:14) - What a Content Engineer Does That a Senior Content Marketer Does Not (27:31) - What It Actually Takes to Get AI Content Past a Human Editor (30:52) - Sponsor: Knak (32:00) - Sponsor: MoEngage (43:21) - Why Review Becomes the Bottleneck After You Automate Content Production (47:13) - Why Enterprise CMS Integration Is Harder Than the Content Quality Problem (51:07) - Why the Agent Runtime Is the Next Competitive Battleground for Content Teams (55:02) - What the Case Against Content Engineering Gets Wrong About the Role (58:08) - What a Content Engineering Team Looks Like in 3 Years (01:03:45) - How Alex Decides What Deserves His Energy Summary: Alex built AirOps to help teams access company data, then a conversation with Sam Altman and a cramped middle seat on a flight to Atlanta changed everything. In this…

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Attribution App, GrowthLoop, Knak, MoEngage

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