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Marketing

How to Reduce Your Cost Per Conversion

Your cost per conversion determines whether your marketing is profitable. Learn the levers that actually move this metric - from CRO to landing page improvements and smarter traffic allocation.

September 14, 2026

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General
Marketing

Surface drives significant uplift for CCN Health's marketing funnel

CCN Health, a rapidly growing patient monitoring software platform, wanted to improve the performance of its digital marketing funnel, from ad engagement to on-page conversion. After partnering with Surface AI, CCN Health saw a 136% uplift in their landing page conversion rate and a 55% reduction in their overall marketing cost-per-conversion.

October 20, 2025

General
Marketing

How to Reduce Your Cost Per Conversion

Your cost per conversion determines whether your marketing is profitable. Learn the levers that actually move this metric - from CRO to landing page improvements and smarter traffic allocation.

September 9, 2026

General
Marketing
Product

How to Choose the Right CRO Tool for Your Business

A practical framework for evaluating and selecting the right conversion rate optimization tool - based on team size, technical resources, and testing goals.

September 2, 2026

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Product

Surface vs. Unbounce: The Better Experimentation Tool If You Build Your Own Landing Pages

Short answer: Unbounce is a landing-page builder with optimization added on top and gated behind its higher-priced tiers. Surface is a pure optimization layer that runs on the pages you already build and host yourself — in Webflow, a custom stack, or any CMS.

August 27, 2026

Marketing
General

What is Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)?

Conversion rate optimization (CRO) is the practice of increasing the percentage of website visitors who take a desired action. Learn what it is, why it matters, and how to get started.

August 18, 2026

Events

Storytelling Is Your Moat, featuring Julia Dixon of ESAI

"As the cost of code goes to zero, distribution is your only moat." While marketing, distribution, and go-to-market are established fields with many tried and true methods, each startup's playbook will be as unique as its company. Distribution is Your Moat: A series on Distribution and Marketing for Startups.

August 14, 2026

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Product

Surface AI vs Optimizely

Compare Surface AI and Optimizely across experimentation capabilities, ease of setup, pricing, and who each tool is best suited for.

August 11, 2026

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Events

A Market Is A Group of People Who Talk to Each Other

Tony Haile argues the internet is splitting three ways—tasks to AI agents, social to entertainment, real talk to private rooms—and Filament is betting on personal agents that connect people there.

July 17, 2026

Events

Your Invention Is Your Moat, featuring Katheryn Thayer-Rubery of Radical AI

Katheryn Thayer-Rubery of Radical AI joins Betaworks’ “Distribution Is Your Moat” series to explore how breakthrough inventions become businesses. From AI-driven material discovery for hypersonic aircraft to storytelling around entirely new concepts, this conversation dives into building demand, trust, and visibility for technology the world has never seen before.

May 12, 2026

General

Websites still matter! So don't make these mistakes...

Framer shows the real issue: teams track metrics but don’t experiment. Without constant testing, your website can’t improve—no matter how polished it looks.

April 24, 2026

Events

Announcing Our Speaker Series “Distribution Is Your Moat”

Join Surface AI’s Distribution Is Your Moat speaker series on startup marketing, featuring Grace Ouma-Cabezas sharing how mission-driven brands build growth, retention, and distribution.

March 13, 2026

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CRO for SaaS: Where to Focus for Maximum Impact

SaaS conversion optimization has unique dynamics — free trials, long sales cycles, and multiple conversion points. Learn where to focus your CRO efforts for the biggest impact on revenue.

March 4, 2026

General

The Best Conversion Rate Optimization Tools in 2026

If you're running a growth or marketing team trying to move the needle on conversion, you've probably noticed that the market for CRO tools is... a lot.

February 25, 2026

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Why Your A/B Tests Take Too Long

While you wait for statistical significance, your competitors shipped three new features.

February 6, 2026

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Product

What Enterprise Product Teams Actually Pay for Testing Infrastructure

Enterprise teams spend $50K–$500K+ yearly on testing tools, but hidden fees and staffing often inflate costs, hurting ROI without right-sized tooling.

January 14, 2026

General
Marketing

Why Web Optimization Is the Secret to Faster Lead Generation

Discover how modern web optimization helps companies convert traffic into leads faster — with data-backed benchmarks and a real-world case study.

October 30, 2025

General
UX

How UX Designers Validate Layouts and Flows with Live User Data

Discover how modern UX teams validate design decisions with real traffic using lightweight experimentation and continuous optimization methods.

October 28, 2025

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Marketing

How Growth Teams Accelerate Results Through Continuous Experimentation

Learn how modern growth teams use continuous experimentation and multivariate testing to speed up learning cycles and drive measurable conversion uplift.

October 28, 2025

General

What is Multivariate Bandit Testing

Surface AI uses multivariate bandit testing instead of traditional A/B testing to optimize web experiences. This method involves testing multiple variations of a landing page simultaneously.

October 28, 2025

General

How real companies are using Surface AI

Since launch, Surface AI has helped real companies boost performance across their digital experiences—from increasing lead generation and optimizing product pages to improving homepage navigation and merchandising.

October 7, 2025

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Ecommerce

How Surface AI Helps Ecommerce Brands Maximize Conversions

Surface AI helps ecommerce brands boost conversions by continuously optimizing product pages, checkout flows, and creative elements using real shopper data.

September 9, 2025

General
Product

How Surface AI Can Help Product Managers Optimize Their Products

Surface AI makes it easy to get quick feedback on your product releases from real users, without sacrificing your engineering resources.

September 9, 2025

General
Development

How Surface AI Helps Developers Simplify Product Optimization

Surface AI frees developers from the burden of constant experiment setup by enabling product and marketing teams to self-serve optimization.

September 9, 2025

General
Marketing

How Surface AI Can Help Marketers Optimize Their Landing Pages

Surface AI empowers marketers to optimize landing pages effortlessly through real-time user feedback, AI-driven variant generation, and multivariate bandit testing.

September 9, 2025

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Events

Your Invention Is Your Moat, featuring Katheryn Thayer-Rubery of Radical AI

Katheryn Thayer-Rubery of Radical AI joins Betaworks’ “Distribution Is Your Moat” series to explore how breakthrough inventions become businesses. From AI-driven material discovery for hypersonic aircraft to storytelling around entirely new concepts, this conversation dives into building demand, trust, and visibility for technology the world has never seen before.

September 9, 2025

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