How much technical detail should our campaign include?

Lead with practical challenges your buyers recognise, then offer optional layers of technical detail to suit their expertise and available time. Give business readers a clear account of the value while allowing technical specialists to explore the software's capabilities in greater depth.

Give buyers a useful entry point and optional depth

Give buyers a practical reason to engage before asking them to absorb technical detail. The Frameworks argues for framing software capabilities around challenges the audience recognises, rather than making abstract features the starting point. A graphical experience can carry the core narrative, with optional layers of detail and complexity for readers with different expertise or time available.

For Siemens, The Frameworks reviewed more than 50 documents and interviewed key stakeholders to understand how to reach both technical audiences and business leaders. It turned dense white paper content into an interactive, self-guided web experience, using easily navigable layered copy so readers could access the level of explanation relevant to them.

Use the same principle when planning campaign content: establish the practical challenge and the software's value in the main narrative, then let readers choose how deeply to explore. Inform those choices through conversations with sellers and people who know the audience, rather than assuming every prospect wants the same technical explanation.

Sources: Humanising B2B and leading with empathy, The problem with playing it safe, The party’s over. It's time for marketers to embrace privacy