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Welcome to Intelligent Artifice. Intelligent Artifice is where growth meets generative AI. Each episode covers how to use mobile user acquisition strategy and AI-driven creative to grow your app quickly and capital-efficiently, with strategies, tips and pointers from the leading edge of paid growth. Some weeks we sit down with top operators redefining how advertising gets done in a Gen AI world. Other weeks we deconstruct the ad systems behind high-performing advertisers using our in-house semantic analysis system, BruteForce AI. Intelligent Artifice is hosted by Shamanth Rao, founder and CEO of RocketShip HQ. With 8 figure UA spends managed and over 50,000 ads produced, the team delivers profitable growth for breakthrough B2C apps and helps them navigate privacy-first, post-identifier marketing and AI-built creative. Work with us: rocketshiphq.com (ideal for advertisers spending $50k+/month on paid social) Newsletter: https://intelligentartifice.kit.com/ Past episodes and archive: https://mobileuseracquisitionshow.com/ See also: our live workshop series on marketing in a post-identifier world: https://mobilegrowthlab.com/
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to Intelligent Artifice. Intelligent Artifice is where growth meets generative AI. Each episode covers how to use mobile user acquisition strategy and AI-driven creative to grow your app quickly and capital-efficiently, with strategies, tips and pointers from the leading edge of paid growth.
Recent episodes include "How to build product taste and become a top 1% builder, with Ravi Mehta" (26 October 2026, 45 minutes), "How a two-person app studio launched 16 apps with AI, with Gabe Kwakyi" (19 October 2026, 41 minutes), and "How to personalize paywalls for subscription app price testing, with Jacob Rushfinn" (12 October 2026, 43 minutes).
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 31 minutes.
Booking probability for Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show's contact route on record: public web form.
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Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
Ravi Mehta built a working product in about four or five hours. Then he spent six weeks making it good enough to ship. That gap between a one-shot build and something with craft is the whole conversation. When AI can...
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
Gabe Kwakyi has 16 apps live, all built with AI. The gap between building an app and getting results is the whole conversation. When anyone can ship an app in a day, what is actually hard? Gabe co-founded and ran the...
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
Should a high-value user see a high price? When I asked Jacob Rushfinn, he answered, "Sometimes, but I wouldn't get caught up in the price. Price is just one variable." For some of the highest-intent segments his team...
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
Most creative strategists treat audience research as a box to check before the real work starts. Karina Tukanova, freelance creative strategy consultant, treats it as the actual work. Karina is a freelance creative...
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
Most telehealth founders think AI's job is to write the ad copy faster. Vivek Girotra doesn't. He used it to figure out what his company actually stands for before he wrote a single line. Vivek is the co-founder of...
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Noom's onboarding funnel runs 120 to 140 screens. Some 3-screen funnels convert above 10%. "The length does not matter. Bigger is not always better," as Jacob Rushfinn put it. Part 2 of the FunnelFox panel gets tactical...
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82% of top-grossing apps now take payment outside the app store. Patrick Stuart-Constant's team at Sociaaal ships 4,000 video ads a month, scaling to 10,000. The shift to web-to-app monetization isn't coming. It already...
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
Most mobile UA teams think the algorithm is something you set and surrender to. Itai Kafri doesn't. He engineers the signal. Itai leads product growth at Voyantis, a predictive LTV and signal engineering platform for...
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
82% of top-grossing apps now take payment outside the app store. Patrick Stuart-Constant's team at Sociaaal ships 4,000 video ads a month, scaling to 10,000. The shift to web-to-app monetization isn't coming. It already...
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
How Ankit Nayal scaled organic TikTok to 50 million views with an AI content factory, and why half of them were wasted until conversion came first. Most founders who burn through their paid ad budget pivot to organic...
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
<p>How does an ASO specialist with 10+ years of experience think about AI visibility in 2026?</p><p>In this episode of Intelligent Artifice, Simon Thillay from AppTweak shares what the data actually shows about how AI...
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
<p>How does a growth operator who built and managed large teams at Twitch and Discord work today as a solo fractional CMO?</p><p>In this episode of Intelligent Artifice, Shamanth Rao sits down with Justin Gerrard...
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<p>Web funnels are like teenage hex.</p><p>Everyone claims they are crushing it. Almost nobody really has a clue.</p><p>Elise Zareie spent last year actually building them.</p><p>She has been in UA since 2019. Last year...
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<p>In this episode, I'm joined by David Barnard — indie app developer, RevenueCat Developer Advocate, and host of the Sub Club podcast — to talk about what happens when someone with 18 years of App Store experience...
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
<p>🚀 In this episode, I’m joined by Patrick Stuart-Constant, who has been building AI-driven creative systems long before it became mainstream.</p><p>Patrick breaks down how his team scaled from producing hundreds to...
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
<p>Our guest today is Bastian Bergmann, Co-founder and COO of Solsten. In this episode, he shares how psychology can revolutionize game marketing and creative advertising. Bastian discusses the power of understanding...
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
<p>In this episode, John Gargiulo, founder of Airpost.ai, explores how AI is revolutionizing creative advertising. From transforming raw footage into high-quality, scalable ads to balancing human oversight with...
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
<p>In this episode, we dive into the elusive goal of achieving a 10% Day 365 retention rate in mobile apps. With so few apps reaching this milestone, I’ll outline the three proven paths to boost long-term retention...
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
<p>In this episode, we explore the limitations of contextual targeting in mobile advertising. While matching ads with relevant content sounds promising, only past purchase behavior truly predicts conversions. I’ll break...
Intelligent Artifice, formerly the Mobile User Acquisition Show
<p>In this episode, we explore why early-stage founders should resist the temptation to diversify their ad spend across too many channels. While it may seem like a good strategy, spreading your budget thin can hinder...
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