Tim Ikels
Tim Ikels
High-Trust B2B Authority Infrastructure
Briefing • February 2026

The Digital Attention Collapse

Why demand generation is becoming structurally weaker - and why authority infrastructure now determines executive access.

01

Digital Hyperinflation

We have entered digital hyperinflation.

AI produces text, collateral, and video at near-zero marginal cost. The result is not leverage. It is an infinite increase in supply.

When supply becomes effectively infinite, signal value deteriorates. What appears as “more content” is often just more noise.

If your growth depends on increasing digital output,
you are holding a collapsing currency.

02

The Leverage Illusion

Many organizations mistake amplification for leverage.

Automation, personalization, and AI increase output. They do not necessarily change outcomes.

Real leverage alters starting conditions. If growth requires escalating effort, the system is not leveraged - it is effort-dependent.

03

Interpretation Before Interaction

In high-trust B2B environments, revenue is constrained less by awareness than by interpretation.

Vendor or authority. Commodity or category leader. Risk or inevitability. These frames form before your first conversation.

04

Authority Infrastructure

Between visibility and revenue sits a neglected layer: Authority Infrastructure.

Authority Infrastructure determines how an organization is interpreted before engagement begins - across outbound, inbound, partnerships, and customer-facing interactions.

05

The Attention Asset

The Attention Asset is a physical anchor for your authority - engineered to bypass digital filters and claim permanent desk-level placement.


It does not replace GTM. It changes the conditions under which GTM operates.

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