The Book

Conversational Customer Acquisition 2.0

How to Build AI-Native Trust Engines That Humans Use, Software Call, and AI Agents Recommend.

By Curtiss Witt

Cover of Conversational Customer Acquisition 2.0 by Curtiss Witt

The Moment of Decision Has Moved

People are no longer simply typing keywords into a search engine, opening ten links, and comparing businesses on their own. Increasingly, they describe their situations to AI, answer follow-up questions, weigh their options, and ask whom they should trust.

Conversational Customer Acquisition 2.0 introduces a new discipline for this conversational era. It shows business owners how to build companies that artificial intelligence can understand, verify, recommend, and ultimately use while helping a customer make a decision.

This is not a book about manipulating algorithms or tricking AI into recommending a business. It is a practical guide to becoming the clearer, safer, more trustworthy, and more useful choice. The businesses that succeed in the conversational era will not merely be found — they will be understood, recommended, and used.

Who This Book Is For

Business owners preparing for AI-mediated customer acquisition
Solopreneurs and DIY marketers who want a practical system
Consultants and agencies modernizing how they serve clients
Authors, experts, and educators turning knowledge into tools
Anyone whose customers increasingly ask AI what to do and whom to trust

What You'll Learn

The book walks through a practical progression — from understanding the customer to building tools that serve humans, software, and AI agents.

Find the Money Dialogs

Identify the high-intent conversations closest to revenue — the situations customers describe to AI when a real decision, risk, or purchase is near.

Eliminate the Trust Tax

Remove the penalty AI applies to businesses whose public information is vague, inconsistent, or hard to verify. Clarity beats persuasion.

Build a Hub of Truth

Create a reliable, structured, consistent source of business facts that humans and intelligent systems can understand and trust.

Earn Outside Corroboration

Align third-party sources so multiple places communicate the same accurate understanding of who you are and what you do.

Turn Expertise Into Decision Support Assets

Transform your judgment into calculators, assessments, checklists, and guided tools that help customers move from uncertainty to clarity.

Serve Three Audiences

Make those tools available to humans through a website, to software through an API, and to AI agents through MCP.

The Six-Step Process

At the core of the book is a practical, repeatable process for building an AI-Native Trust Engine.

1
Deep Research — listen before building
2
Identify the Money Dialogs closest to revenue
3
Eliminate the Trust Tax created by ambiguity
4
Build a reliable Hub of Truth
5
Earn external corroboration
6
Transform expertise into Decision Support Assets

The book then takes the strategy one step further — showing how those tools can serve three audiences: humans through a website, software through an API, and AI agents through MCP. Explore the full CCA 2.0 System →

About the Author

Curtiss Witt is the founder of The Black Friday Agency and the creator of Conversational Customer Acquisition 2.0. Before entering entrepreneurship, he spent approximately thirty years at Boeing in senior leadership roles, managing the Boeing Executive Program and leading complex business-improvement initiatives using Lean, the Theory of Constraints, Agile methods, and systems thinking.

He is also the author of Gaming to Innovate, InEvitable: The Rise of Digital Intelligence, and UnCited...UnSeen. His work brings together three decades of operational leadership with a practical vision for helping real businesses remain visible, trusted, and economically relevant as AI increasingly influences what people buy, whom they hire, and what they do next.

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