I go deep before I write anything
Time on the floor, time with the engineers. If I cannot explain how it works, I am not ready to market it.
I trained as an engineer and ended up in marketing. I can sit in a room with your product team, follow the conversation, then explain it to the people who need to buy it. No translation layer, no dumbing it down.

Most marketers hit a wall the moment a conversation gets technical, so the work comes back accurate but dull, or exciting but wrong. I start on your side of that wall.
Time on the floor, time with the engineers. If I cannot explain how it works, I am not ready to market it.
Your buyers are engineers too. They can tell when a claim has nothing behind it, and they stop listening.
The point is not to be permanently necessary. Your people learn the habit and the engine keeps running.
I built that audience the same way I build one for a client — showing up consistently, explaining real things, and not being boring about it. It is also the reason a post about your product reaches people your sales team has never met.