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Friedrich Santana

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ICP Research with AI: How We Find the Ideal Customer and the MVP Test Market

ICP research with AI means using automated search tools to find out, with sources, who buys a product, why they buy it and where those buyers are. ICP stands for ideal customer profile. At Headcore, we run this research before every launch. It runs in Claude Code, uses two search tools, Tavily and Exa, and […]

How much ChatGPT Ads costs in Brazil

The minimum to advertise on ChatGPT Ads in Brazil is R$40 per day per campaign, roughly R$1,200 a month. OpenAI itself recommends starting with a bid between US$3 and US$5 per click. At the exchange rate of 17 September 2026, that means the minimum budget buys between 47 and 78 clicks in a whole month. […]

ChatGPT Ads: the complete manual

How ChatGPT Ads works, how to advertise and what decides delivery. The channel mechanics, the technical layer from the developer docs, a step by step and the mistakes that cost dearly.

Brand architecture: who inherits the family name and who goes by their own

Procter & Gamble sells Pampers, Gillette, Oral-B, Ariel and Vicks in about 180 countries and territories, under five business segments, and almost no consumer notices the P&G name on the package (Form 10-K, fiscal 2026). Apple went the opposite way: it put its own name on practically everything it builds and, on 3 January 2022, […]

The morning shift

The morning shift: how young Brazilians are rearranging their social life · Headcore Intelligence Unit Intelligence Unit · Growth Science™...

How to use AI in branding: the three phases of the new operator

There is a measurable difference between those who have learned to use AI in branding and those who still only have access to it. Four independent reports published between April and May of 2026 are beginning to draw that difference clearly. Read together, they point to a learning curve, not to a technology problem. Brand […]

AI eliminated execution. Now, taste is the only asset left.

There is a phrase that the CEO of a global holding company said to Forrester, without giving his name. The phrase is this: “By 2028, we will double profits and cut people in half.” He was not making a prediction. He was describing a plan. And the plan has already begun. Forrester had a 2022 […]