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Sophie Oxley

@sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk
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Hi 👋 I’m Sophie, Co-founder of Chief Studio. We give software a soul and help founders find their feet with marketing 💪

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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 22/05/2025
Actual footage of Matt and I working youtube.com/shorts/ngsYQ...
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THIS IS A DREAM #theoffice #comedy #funny #laugh #stevecarell #dream #lunch
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 17/05/2025
Such fun!!! Thanks for having me MicroConf. Such an awesome group to talk to ❤️ Next stop: Türkiye 🇹🇷 see you there @tracyosborn.com
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 24/04/2025
It's not a secret that I have a love-hate relationship with LinkedIn. I love what it could be. I hate what it is a lot of the time — a half-hearted cheer squad. So, how do you make it work, without selling your soul? @matthewoxley.bsky.social shares his ideas: chiefstudio.co.uk/blog/the-lon...
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The Long Game of LinkedIn: how to reach out without selling your soul — CHIEF STUDIO
A practical guide to LinkedIn outreach. Learn how to make your profile work for you, send better connection requests, and build real relationships through consistent, human engagement — without soundi...
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emily freeman @emilyfreeman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I know this runs counter to a lot of advice but… Do not try to improve on the things you’re awful at. You’re probably always going to be bad at them. Instead focus on the things you’re good at. Rise to the absolute top at those things. The rest either doesn’t matter or can be outsourced.
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 22/04/2025
#Copywriters. You are still needed, my god, you are still needed. But the market that 'gets' the value you bring is completely different from the pre-AI era. It's also a lot more fun to work with. Keen to find out more? Join Writers Against the Algorithm! I'm speaking tomorrow on this subject 💪
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 12/04/2025
So I’ve been running some tests, getting the bot to write content about soap and it’s pretty good. I actually nearly changed my opinion of its talents. But then it completely malfunctioned into a brobot spouting garbage the second it had to write about tech again so….. yeah sorry I’m still here 😘
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 10/04/2025
🕺🕺 I’m back, baby. Can’t wait to hang out with the Misfits in London next month at @microconf.com ‘s Growth Retreat! Discount code below if you’re after a ticket to the magic ❤️
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Matthew Oxley @matthewoxley.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Each month, I'll be doing a "deep dive" (🤮) into a word or phrase that's overused and meaningless in B2B. First up… 🥁 good old "actionable". If you like, plz repost — it's the only way posts get seen on here. www.theick.app/blog/ick-wor...
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ick word of the month: actionable — ick
B2B marketing is getting more engaging, but in return, we’re drowning in buzzwords—'actionable' being one of the worst. In this word-of-the-month article, see how it jumped from a legal term to a grou...
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 04/02/2025
Honestly where has @amandanat.bsky.social been all my marketing life. What. A. Sage.
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 04/02/2025
If you are using those auto reply things on LinkedIn. Can you just not? #teamhuman
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 03/02/2025
It’s alive! Today @matthewoxley.bsky.social and I had our first app baby. Check out ick for free at use.theick.app 🎉🎊🎈 #buildinpublic #gettheick youtu.be/HqVQSUAkzro?...
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Happy Launch Day! A demo of ick
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 02/02/2025
Talking a stream of consciousness into a Loom like a 10 year old version of myself singing Genie in a Bottle into a hairbrush and exporting the transcript is my new blank page weapon. Whats yours? #teamhuman #gettheick
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Jay Acunzo @jayacunzo.com · 01/02/2025
Adding mistakes doesn’t make your writing “not AI.” Adding your perspective, personal stories, and quirks do. We humans also run on LLMs. Little life moments. We’ve just been trained to write like bots. No more. Your unfair advantage is who you are. Use it.
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theick.app @theick.app · 30/01/2025
Which industry buzzwords would you like to banish? Thanks so much to @creativeboom.bsky.social for featuring our humble little writing app ❤️ www.creativeboom.com/features/buz...
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The buzzwords creatives are ditching in 2025 (and what to say instead)
We explore which buzzwords creatives want to banish and look into a useful new app that might just be the answer to our prayers. Ah, the creative industries—where everyone is an innovator, a disru...
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Michele Hansen @mjwhansen.com · 30/01/2025
if my calendar were an honest representation of my day
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Amanda Natividad @amandanat.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Nobody wants your one-pager. The prospect might *say* they want a one-pager. But what they actually want is all the information to make a buying decision in the least amount of time & effort as possible. Act accordingly.
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Mik Cowans @mikcowans.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Bluesky week 1 impressions: - cats - constellations - cross stitch
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 30/01/2025
Today I watched someone else use ick with no context. They did well. It works 👏 But it was still the most terrifying thing I've done so far. I need to go lay down in a cold dark room for a day 🫠
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 26/01/2025
Absolutely 👇
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 26/01/2025
I can't explain why but this has really rattled me 😳
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 24/01/2025
I'll just be here. Testing @theick.app. Copying and pasting websites into it like an evil genius and watching them all light up like Christmas trees
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a close up of a woman wearing a necklace and a floral shirt smiling .
ALT: a close up of a woman wearing a necklace and a floral shirt smiling .
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theick.app @theick.app · 22/01/2025
Seriously, who'd have thought that NOT having AI would be a value proposition in 2025? For all the wonderful things that AI does today, with copywriting, it has a long road ahead. Read about why we went AI-free...
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No AI To See Here — ick app
AI can help, but it doesn’t know your audience like you do. ick is the writing app made for B2B content, with clear feedback and a simple editor that lets you stop and think.
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 21/01/2025
Wheeey shoutout to @benaldred.bsky.social - of all the modes, this one has deffo had the most pre-launch excitement 🤩
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theick.app @theick.app · 20/01/2025
👀 theick.app
Graphic announcing the launch of ick, the AI-free writing app for B2B content, on February 3, 2025. The text highlights 'ick Launching Feb 3 2025' with a call-to-action button reading 'Sign up to the launch list for early access,' accompanied by a cursor icon. The background features a subtle repeated pattern of launch-related phrases.
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 20/01/2025
It’s happening @matthewoxley.bsky.social
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 20/01/2025
I’m gonna make a buzzword bingo card to streamline the way I empower decision making and harness the future of actionable insights. Who wants to play?
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 20/01/2025
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nope, its a tech bro revolutionizing the landscape of sh*t H1 copy again and streamlining it by unlocking the power of AI.
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a yellow excavator with cat written on the side of it
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers
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Robbie Schneider @robbieschneider.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
There are so many strong #socialmedia candidates right now! Love how this industry is evolving; hate having to make hard choices.
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 17/01/2025
So, true story. We were testing @theick.app and Matt told me that what I believed was purple and blue, were the same colour to him. Lo and behold the app we built was not colour-blind friendly at all. So here’s what we did. We chose better colours and fixed it. Inclusion isn’t always hard folks!
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Matthew Oxley @matthewoxley.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
“Deploy swarms of cloud marketing agents that automate…” fml
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 17/01/2025
I mean I know what I like better but let’s be honest, I’m kind of biased.
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 13/01/2025
I love that the UK gov used AI to write the headline for the planned use of AI. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Artificial Intelligence: Plan to 'unleash AI' across UK revealed
Leading tech firms are said to have committed £14bn towards the project, which could create more than 13,000 jobs.
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 13/01/2025
Why is joy the most neglected value in B2B SaaS? Are we really that scared of whether our products make people happy when they're at work? Let's talk about it:
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Why don’t B2B marketers talk about joy? — maassive
I’ve been in this B2B SaaS world for a while. And I’ve noted that by and large, there are three ways of creating value in B2B SaaS. But some are more often used than others. Most SaaS vendors will talk about how they save you time. Many will talk about how they save you money. But there’s one that i
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 12/01/2025
If you’re gonna put AI in your H1, here’s how to make it stand out. Step 1, write AI at the start of your headline. Step 2, bold it so it really catches the eye. Step 3, and this is really important, hit backspace twice. Step 4, just say what your product does and why I should give a sh*t.
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Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
My draft of a syllabus statement on a.i. for my writing class, for what it is worth:
A NOTE ON GENERATIVE AI

This class helps you to be a better writer and thinker. Generative AI (ChatGPT and other platforms) is neither writing nor thinking. Any use of AI in this class (whether to write, brainstorm, outline, or summarize) will be considered a violation of academic integrity. It undermines your intellectual development, for one: AI content is often inaccurate or hallucinatory and is always boring, banal, and average. This is by design, as generative AI works by predicting the most obvious or basic sequencing of words. Good writing—writing that is persuasive, powerful, lively, funny, surprising, rousing, insightful, transformative, provocative—requires human work. Human creativity is weird and variable and uneven, but it holds the capacity for growth, revelation, empathy, and brilliance. I urge you not to abandon the glorious experiential potential of human messiness and transformation for the tedium of robot sentences.

One further reason to abjure generative AI, especially in a class on environmental literature: in addition to its counterproductivity to your work as a writer and thinker, AI is enormously environmentally destructive.
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Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · 11/01/2025
The people here seem nice. It’s almost unnerving. #bluesky
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