Your AI Marketing Transformation Will Get Harder Before It Gets Easier

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Your AI Marketing Transformation Will Get Harder Before It Gets Easier

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AI can make marketing faster and more efficient, but organizations often see costs and complexity rise before they see those gains. As companies move toward agentic marketing—where people

Last spring, we published “Redesigning Your Marketing Organization for the Agentic Age,” which made the case for an “agentic marketing organization” where people and AI agents collaborate through three layers. The first, which we called the brand code, is a machine-readable knowledge base that captures brand, customer, product, and business rules. The second consists of execution agents that do the work. The third, an orchestration layer, coordinates tasks and escalates decisions requiring human judgment.