<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Denis Zhurba — Writing</title><description>Articles and analysis by Denis Zhurba.</description><link>https://deniszhurba.com/</link><item><title>Hyper-personalising communications with AI/ML: how to choose the right setup for your platform</title><link>https://deniszhurba.com/writing/ai-ml-crm-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://deniszhurba.com/writing/ai-ml-crm-2026/</guid><description>The achievable band for AI/ML-driven CRM, the four platform shapes, the lifecycle of one message, and the order to build it in, anchored to the published results.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Writing comms with generative AI: a pipeline, not a prompt</title><link>https://deniszhurba.com/writing/generative-ai-comms/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://deniszhurba.com/writing/generative-ai-comms/</guid><description>Generating copy is easy; choosing the best variant quickly is the hard part. The five-stage pipeline, and the one loop you never close.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Future of Buyer Engagement Platforms: Hyper-Personalization with AI</title><link>https://hackernoon.com/the-future-of-buyer-engagement-platforms-hyper-personalization-with-ai</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hackernoon.com/the-future-of-buyer-engagement-platforms-hyper-personalization-with-ai</guid><description>How modern buyer-engagement platforms use AI to decide — in real time — who gets a message, what it says, and when and where it lands: the trigger → modeling → content → orchestration → placement → feedback loop, the four personalization layers, and the results benchmarks. Published on HackerNoon.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why 85% of Health &amp; Fitness Apps Never Reach $1k MTR — and How to Build One That Does</title><link>https://hackernoon.com/why-85percent-of-health-and-fitness-apps-never-reach-$1k-mtr-and-how-to-build-one-that-does</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hackernoon.com/why-85percent-of-health-and-fitness-apps-never-reach-$1k-mtr-and-how-to-build-one-that-does</guid><description>A tactical playbook for taking a consumer health &amp; fitness subscription app from 0 to $1k to $10k monthly tracked revenue — discovery, MVP definition, build stack, store launch, and exit benchmarks, with the unit-economics maths. Published on HackerNoon.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Inside the marketplace messenger: the AI/ML that helps strangers transact</title><link>https://deniszhurba.com/writing/messenger-ai-ml/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://deniszhurba.com/writing/messenger-ai-ml/</guid><description>The messenger is the conversion engine of a marketplace, not a chat feature. The AI/ML behind it: intent and inbox ranking, suggested replies, price and negotiation, the agreement signal, generative assistants, and the trust layer underneath.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Product insight from conversational data: what the messenger can tell you with AI/ML</title><link>https://deniszhurba.com/writing/messenger-target-contacts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://deniszhurba.com/writing/messenger-target-contacts/</guid><description>Turning conversational data into a north-star metric: classify contacts, score them cheaply, move them in the messenger.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Principal or Head: the valley between building and leading</title><link>https://deniszhurba.com/writing/principal-or-head/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://deniszhurba.com/writing/principal-or-head/</guid><description>Every career trades craft for leverage, but the curve has a valley in the middle where the first-line manager stands. A map of the two winning ends, the two currencies of leverage, and why AI is re-pricing the curve toward building.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Run the Comms Stack — an interactive game</title><link>https://deniszhurba.com/writing/run-the-comms-stack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://deniszhurba.com/writing/run-the-comms-stack/</guid><description>A five-minute companion to the AI/ML CRM article: write the push copy, tune the ranker, and balance a week of sends against a live reward model — every send banks uplift and spends unsubscribe budget.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What should a product manager be able to do?</title><link>https://www.sostav.ru/blogs/273298/45082</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.sostav.ru/blogs/273298/45082</guid><description>A practitioner&apos;s guide to the hard and soft skills a product manager needs — the three PM archetypes (technical, general, growth), product-building, monetisation, and the leadership skills that matter most at senior level. Published on Sostav.ru (in Russian).</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>