Tim Metz

Tim Metz

Director of Marketing & Innovation
Animalz

Recent articles

ChatGPT in May 2026: Five Tiers, Three Model Families, One Decision
the-blog

ChatGPT in May 2026: Five Tiers, Three Model Families, One...

OpenAI's ChatGPT pricing page now lists five tiers and three model families. A year ago, it listed three tiers and two families. For content marketers and knowledge workers evaluating their AI...
Tim Metz 16 min read
01/16/25
AI Content Strategy: A Guide to the New Era of Content Marketing
Strategy

AI Content Strategy: A Guide to the New Era of Content...

Three years ago, we wrote that AI marked "the dawn of a new era in content marketing." That dawn is over. Everyone knows AI is here; the question is what to do with it. Or, as our...
Nathan Wahl , Tim Metz 18 min read
05/15/23
Don't Stop at Workflows: Build a Compounding Content System
Strategy

Don't Stop at Workflows: Build a Compounding Content System

When we started work on our AI-powered LinkedIn service, we thought two workflows in AirOps would do: one to turn raw materials into briefs, another to turn briefs into posts. Our editors would...
Tim Metz 12 min read
03/19/26
Claude Code for Content Marketers
AI

Claude Code for Content Marketers

Despite its name, you can use Claude Code for more than just coding. And Claude Code (CC) works in plain English so you don't even have to be an engineer to use it (though you might become...
Tim Metz 22 min read
10/02/25
Glossary of AEO and AI Search Terms
AI

Glossary of AEO and AI Search Terms

AI-powered search has created a new vocabulary, and with it, a new challenge for content marketers.You're figuring out how to optimize for ChatGPT citations and Google's AI Overviews,...
Tim Metz 17 min read
03/24/26
Your Prompts Are Fine: Context Engineering Is Your Next AI Problem
AI

Your Prompts Are Fine: Context Engineering Is Your Next AI...

If you've built an AI content workflow that technically works but produces copy you'd never actually publish, you've probably been troubleshooting your prompts. Makes sense. It...
Tim Metz 9 min read
03/05/26

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