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Stop renting growth. Start owning it.

Learn how to turn raw consumer data into a proprietary growth engine — so you own your audience, your insights, and your go-to-market strategy. Built for business owners who are done renting attention and ready to build lasting competitive advantage.

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Consumer Intelligence Academy

"The businesses that own their consumer intelligence will out-position, out-retain, and out-grow everyone still renting their audience — and I built this curriculum to put that advantage in your hands."HN Publishing

What you'll learn

What you'll be able to do

  • Build and own a first-party consumer data asset that reduces dependence on paid advertising and third-party platforms.
  • Design a Consumer Intelligence Stack — the tools, data flows, and dashboards that surface actionable buyer insights on demand.
  • Identify high-value customer segments using behavioral, transactional, and psychographic signals to prioritize GTM effort.
  • Craft a data-driven Go-To-Market strategy anchored in real consumer intelligence rather than assumptions or industry guesswork.
  • Deploy owned growth loops (email, community, loyalty, referral) that compound over time and lower customer acquisition costs.
  • Measure the ROI of your data and GTM investments with a clear set of leading and lagging KPIs tied directly to revenue growth.

How it works

A school that adapts to you

This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.

We learn your level

A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.

Lessons adapt as you go

Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.

Your AI coach keeps you moving

Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.

The curriculum

What's inside your school

6 modules · 20 lessons

1

The First-Party Data Foundation

Before any intelligence stack or GTM strategy can be built, business owners must understand why first-party data is their most defensible asset — and establish the foundational infrastructure to collect, own, and govern it. This module closes a critical prerequisite gap by adding data ethics and consent as non-negotiable groundwork before collection architecture is designed.

  • 1.1Why First-Party Data Is Your Most Valuable Business AssetIncluded
  • 1.2Auditing and Cataloguing Your Existing Consumer DataIncluded
  • 1.3Data Privacy, Consent, and Ethical Collection PracticesIncluded
  • 1.4Designing Your First-Party Data Collection ArchitectureIncluded
2

Building Your Consumer Intelligence Stack

With data being collected and owned, business owners now design the technology layer that transforms raw data into actionable intelligence. This module covers tool selection, integration, and dashboard design — ensuring data flows freely across the stack and surfaces insights on demand rather than by accident.

  • 2.1Mapping Your Intelligence Stack Requirements Before Choosing ToolsIncluded
  • 2.2Choosing the Right Tools for Your Intelligence StackIncluded
  • 2.3Connecting Your Data Flows and Eliminating SilosIncluded
  • 2.4Building Dashboards That Drive DecisionsIncluded
3

Customer Segmentation and Buyer Intelligence

Raw data becomes strategic leverage only when it reveals who your best customers are, why they buy, and what makes them different from everyone else. This module builds the segmentation and ICP intelligence that will anchor every downstream GTM and growth decision.

  • 3.1Segmenting by Behavior and Transaction SignalsIncluded
  • 3.2Uncovering Psychographic and Intent SignalsIncluded
  • 3.3Building Your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) from Real DataIncluded
4

Crafting a Data-Driven Go-To-Market Strategy

With a validated ICP and deep buyer intelligence in hand, business owners now translate that intelligence into a full GTM strategy — positioning, channel selection, messaging, and an executable playbook — all anchored in real consumer data rather than assumption or imitation.

  • 4.1Translating Consumer Intelligence into GTM PositioningIncluded
  • 4.2Designing Channel Strategy from Buyer IntelligenceIncluded
  • 4.3Writing Your GTM PlaybookIncluded
5

Deploying Owned Growth Loops

GTM strategy drives the first acquisition; owned growth loops drive compounding returns. This module teaches business owners to build self-reinforcing growth mechanisms — email, loyalty, referral, community, and content — that lower CAC over time and reduce dependence on paid channels.

  • 5.1Building a High-Performance Owned Email EngineIncluded
  • 5.2Loyalty, Referral, and Community Loops That CompoundIncluded
  • 5.3Content and SEO as Owned Acquisition InfrastructureIncluded
6

Measuring ROI and Scaling Your Growth Engine

What gets measured gets managed — and what gets measured correctly gets scaled. This final module equips business owners with the KPI frameworks, attribution models, and review cadences needed to prove the ROI of their data and GTM investments, make confident scaling decisions, and continuously improve the entire system built across the course.

  • 6.1Defining Your Leading and Lagging KPI FrameworkIncluded
  • 6.2Attribution: Knowing What Is Actually Driving GrowthIncluded
  • 6.3Building a Growth Review Cadence and Scaling PlaybookIncluded

Who it's for

Is this you?

E-commerce founders

You're scaling on paid social but margins are tightening — this gives you the first-party data infrastructure and owned loops to break the ad dependency cycle.

Agency-reliant operators

You've outsourced growth but want to reclaim strategic control, audit performance with confidence, and stop being a passenger in your own GTM.

Multi-location service businesses

You have years of customer transaction data sitting idle — this curriculum shows you how to turn it into segmentation, retention loops, and a real ICP.

B2B SaaS founders

Your GTM is built on assumptions and personas, not real behavioral and intent signals — this fixes that with a data-driven segmentation and positioning process.

Growth-stage brand builders

You're preparing for a funding round or acquisition and need a defensible, proprietary data asset — not just revenue, but proven intelligence infrastructure.

In-house marketing leads

You're tasked with owning the GTM strategy but lack the data architecture underneath it — this gives you the stack design, dashboards, and playbook to do it right.

Questions

Frequently asked

Your teacher

A note from your teacher

HN Publishing

HN Publishing

If you've been in business for a few years and you're still depending on paid channels to keep the top of your funnel alive — I want to be honest with you about what that actually costs. Not just in ad spend. In leverage. Every time a platform changes its algorithm, raises its CPMs, or restricts your targeting options, you feel it. And the uncomfortable truth is that most of the growth infrastructure you've built so far sits on land you don't own.

I built this curriculum because I kept seeing the same pattern: smart, capable business owners generating real revenue, with real customers — but flying blind on who those customers actually are, what makes them buy, and how to reach more of them without paying a platform toll every single time. The data to answer those questions was right there in their systems. Nobody had shown them how to connect it, read it, and turn it into strategy.

That's the gap this school closes. We start at the foundation — auditing what you already have, designing how to collect what you're missing, and doing it in a way that's ethical and privacy-compliant. Then we build upward: the intelligence stack that makes your data usable, the segmentation work that shows you who your highest-value buyers really are, and the GTM playbook that translates all of that into channel decisions and messaging. By the time we get to owned growth loops and the KPI framework, you're not learning concepts in isolation — you're wiring together a system.

The goal isn't to make you a data analyst. It's to make you a sharper operator — one who makes GTM decisions based on real consumer intelligence instead of agency assumptions or industry guesswork. The businesses that will win the next decade of competition are the ones that own their audience intelligence. This is how you become one of them. I'd be glad to show you the way in.

HN Publishing

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