In this issue, I break down the three constraints that made linear funnels inevitable for 126 years, and why AI eliminates all of them. The computational constraint. The architectural constraint. The cognitive constraint. Gone, gone, gone.

This is the third installment of "The Cage Door Is Open," a five-part series on escaping the linear funnel and building AI-native GTM. In Part 1, I explained how SaaS-era technology tricked us into linear system design thinking. In Part 2, I introduced a chaos theory foundation for B2B marketing. Now I'm going to give you the framework itself.

This issue introduces a different lens: individual buyer journeys are unpredictable, but aggregate patterns are not. The mistake we’ve been making is trying to control sequence instead of designing for reality.

This isn’t a rant about bad marketers or lazy thinking. It’s an explanation of how modern GTM got boxed in by software architecture, management ideology, and the need for clean reporting — until a 100-year-old mental model became mandatory instead of optional.