How to Scale B2B Creative Without Losing Your Soul

B2B marketing doesn't have to mean mediocre design, generic messaging, and content no one reads. In this episode of Pipe Dream, host Jason Bradwell sits down with Dmitry Shamis - former HubSpot creative leader and founder of OhSnap!, a brand systems agency helping marketers build creative that’s both scalable and standout.

Dmitry gets brutally honest about channels - 95% of his business comes from LinkedIn. Not just frameworks and case studies, but gardening updates and dumb kid stories. Because you want to work with people you actually like. This sparks a great discussion about the line between being human and being cringey (looking at you, banana peel LinkedIn posts).

Jason throws him a hypothetical: $50K to build an audience, what do you do? Dmitry's answer: invest in brand systems. When you have templates ready, you focus on what you say, not how it looks. That's the foundation for everything else.

They circle back to AI. What are we catastrophizing? The "you wrote this with AI" police. If the work is good, it's good. The real danger? People getting lazy and outsourcing their thinking. Dmitry's mantra: never outsource your thinking. His desk is covered with notebooks because side thoughts never make it into transcripts. He comes to AI with a fully baked idea - he doesn't ask it what the story is.

They close with Dmitry shouting out Jess Cook at Vector for building a personality-led brand without a massive budget - a perfect blueprint for scrappy B2B teams.

If you're feeling pressure to create more, post more, be everywhere, this is your reality check. The future isn't volume - it's consistent quality that resonates. Whether startup or enterprise, Dmitry's principles on brand systems and intentional content will help you build smarter operations.
Expect practical advice, real talk, and a little fun along the way.

Whether you’re scaling a startup or running creative at an enterprise brand, this episode will help you build smarter, more sustainable content operations - and create marketing that actually moves people.

Chapter Markers

00:00 – Intro: Scaling creative without burnout
01:30 – What Dmitry learned running creative at HubSpot
03:00 – The rise of brand systems in B2B marketing
06:00 – Using AI to remove the busywork (not the thinking)
08:00 – Why most content fails (and what to do instead)
10:00 – How to make LinkedIn actually work for your brand
13:30 – Authenticity vs cringe: Finding your tone online
17:00 – Stop chasing impressions. Start tracking DMs.
21:00 – The forgotten power of adding a CTA to content
24:00 – How to stay creative with systems and structure
27:00 – AI fear factor: What should marketers really worry about?
30:00 – The antidote to lazy content in the AI age
33:00 – B2B brands and creators Dmitry admires
36:00 – Where to find Dmitry and more resources

Useful Links

Connect with Jason Bradwell on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonbradwell/

Connect with Dmitry Shamis on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitryshamis/

Visit OhSnap! agency
https://ohsnap.agency

Visit The Brief Creative newsletter
http://thebriefcreative.io

What's Your Process? podcast on Spotify and Apple.
https://open.spotify.com/show/6XqhRqbtMSAv...
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what...

More at B2B Better website and the Pipe Dream podcast
https://www.b2b-better.com
https://pod.co/b2b-better-1