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The Kellblog Companion

An unofficial, interactive companion to Dave Kellogg's writing on SaaS, marketing, and operating discipline. Built with explicit permission, it turns selected Kellblog posts into chapters you can poke at, drag, and recompute.

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Problem

A decade and a half of clear operating thinking sits as long-form posts. Operators rarely have time to read three thousand words to find the one decision lever they actually wanted.

What we built

A static microsite with two volumes and an appendix. Vol. 01 Marketing and Vol. 02 SaaS Metrics — Rule of 40, the Mendoza Line, the Magic Number, NRR, and the burn multiple, each as a calculator rather than a chart — plus a curated reading list. Every chapter cites the underlying post.

AI role

AI as research and authoring partner — reading and clustering posts, drafting chapter summaries, designing the interactive calculators, and writing micro-copy. The judgment about what to surface, how to frame it, and what to leave out was the human work — and the author's review.

Current status

Live and public. Built with explicit permission from the author, with every chapter citing the underlying Kellblog post.

Live Authored with permission Interactive microsite AI as authoring partner Static deploy
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The Kellblog Companion Unofficial · Interactive

A growing library of operating wisdom, made tinkerable.

A curated, interactive reading of Dave Kellogg's body of work — turned into chapters you can poke at, drag, and recompute. Every chapter cites the underlying post.

Library Vol. 01 · Marketing 04 Vol. 02 · SaaS Metrics 05 Appendix
Volumes
02
Both interactive
Chapters
09
Sliders · calculators
Reading list
16
Books · 4 posts
§ The Library · two volumes, both interactive
I · Vol. 01 · Marketing
Make sales easier.

What marketing is for, how to staff it across the four pillars, when to say no, and how to keep your job long enough to do the work well.

Enter Vol. 01 → 04 chapters
II · Vol. 02 · SaaS Metrics
The numbers tell the truth.

Five interactive readings — Rule of 40, Mendoza Line, Magic Number, NRR, and the burn multiple. Each one is a calculator, not a chart.

Enter Vol. 02 → 05 chapters
§ Appendix · a glimpse of the shelf Open the reading list →
01
Positioning
Al Ries & Jack Trout · 1981
02
Ogilvy on Advertising
David Ogilvy · 1983
03
Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey Moore · 1991
04
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt · 2011
The Kellblog Companion reorganizes decades of posts into a structured knowledge base that’s easier to browse by topic, easier to search, and easier to use when you’re trying to answer a particular question. I’d like to thank Saurav for building it.”
Dave Kellogg, Independent Consultant, EIR at Balderton Capital, and Startup Advisor

Shown with synthetic preview content. Built with explicit permission; every chapter cites the underlying Kellblog post.

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