The four words that untangled the launch of Apex AscendOS

Scene: Launching a complicated digital product

Leadership: Go launch, Ascend, the biggest product Apex has ever made.

Me: What is Ascend?

Product dev team: What isn’t Ascend? It’s a cloud platform… and a set of APIs… and… and… And actually go talk to sales.

Me: Ok but what’s in it for our audience?

Sales team: Ascend is whatever prospects want. It’s a limitless ability to build and also a product they don’t have to build. Actually, just go talk to product on this.

Solution:

  1. Condense to 4 simple words.

  2. Bring them to life so that it just feels obvious.

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