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Build Your AI Marketing Team for Growth

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A marketing team grew from 20 to 63 AI teammates in just 90 days. They’re instantly available, endlessly patient, and help leaders perform better especially on days when they can’t bring their A-game.

This isn’t science fiction. It’s happening right now at companies like Moderna, Dice, Folloze, Alida, HackerOne, and more. Remember when Moderna made headlines last year with 750+ customized AI tools designed for specific tasks across their business?

While some might think of this as “doing more with less” in an era of constrained resources, it’s far more than that.

It’s about transforming how marketing operates becoming a true growth engine by scaling your strategic thinking across the org.

Your digital twin was just the beginning. Now it’s time to build a full AI team around you, specialized collaborators that enhance your strategy, reinforce your best work, and help others engage with your expertise even when you’re not in the room.

In this newsletter, you’ll discover:

  • ► How one GTM team plans to surpass 100 AI teammates this summer

  • ► Megan Ratcliff’s practical playbook for using AI teammates to lead faster and better

  • ► 11 ready-to-use Starter Kits for every marketing function from product to digital to customer marketing

  • ► A step-by-step demo for building these teammates using tools you already have access to

Special thanks to Mary Kay Evans (Alida), ⭐️ Melinda Monaco ⭐️ (Folloze), and Gina Hortatsos (HackerOne) for sharing their insights that elevate marketing from tactical execution to strategic leadership.

Prefer audio? There’s also a 10-minute podcast version (see link in comments) featuring a natural conversation between two AI hosts. Perfect for your commute or while multitasking.

Don’t wait for the future to arrive. Build it, one teammate at a time.

Here’s the 10-min AI podcast version of this newsletter. Listen to it during lunch, while driving, or when walking the dog 😉 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cIAP72Q8UPOKCUVjLOTL6bk3Gngzd6ic/view?usp=sharing

Once you hit play, give it just a few seconds then it will start.

Disclaimer: This podcast was generated by AI based on this written newsletter and reviewed by me to ensure ethical and responsible AI use. It’s designed to provide an efficient, more inclusive way to consume information.

Build Your AI Marketing Team: Leadership Starter Kit

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Published on 2025-04-30 12:57

AI isn’t a tool problem. It’s a team design problem. Most teams stall out because they’ve added tools, not teammates.

Below is a sample of four AI teammates that you as a marketing leader might build:

  • ► Document Review Advisor – Your assistant who identifies gaps and suggests edits to marketing materials.

  • ► Strategic Decision Architect – Your guide who helps you make tough choices by sorting options and showing trade-offs.

  • ► Team Communication Advisor – Your collaborator who helps your team present ideas in ways you prefer to receive them.

  • ► Thought Leadership Studio – Your content partner who turns your unique knowledge into articles that build your reputation.

Each one has a clear role, training input, and output style. And they’re built to extend what your human team can do, not just automate what’s already been done.

This is the Marketing Leadership Starter Kit, one of 11 interactive kits I’ll share in the newsletter dropping tomorrow (Thursday, May 1), with teammate ideas for every major marketing function.

Subscribe here to get it: https://lnkd.in/eg48-RXp

Explore the interactive version here, link’s in the first comment.

UPDATE: Here’s the newsletter with the starter kits, https://lnkd.in/gtDddU3W

AI Teammates

Interactive version of the Marketing Leadership Starter Kit with 4 sample AI teammates: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/8d370249-44ee-4b45-890e-f1ca925c9222

First, You Built a Twin. Now, Build a Team

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Published on 2025-04-29 13:00

You trained your digital twin. Now it’s time to build the bench.

A digital twin gets you started. An AI inner circle changes how your team operates.

Marketing leaders building AI teammates don’t just work faster. They deliver more consistent quality, faster decisions, and create space for their human teams to focus on higher-value work.

Each AI teammate is trained for a specific role and works alongside your human team to accelerate execution, ensure consistent quality, and help you reimagine what’s possible.

These AI teammates are built to support and collaborate with your human team.

Abstract representation of digital twins and AI teamwork.

In my next newsletter edition (going live on Thu, May 1), “First, You Built a Twin. Now, Build a Team,” I’ll share:

  • Interactive Starter Kits for 11 marketing functions
  • A demo of how I built a specialized AI teammate
  • A real-world model showing how human and AI teammates collaborate

Subscribe here to get the newsletter straight into your inbox every other Thursday: https://lnkd.in/eg48-RXp

UPDATE: Here’s the newsletter with the starter kits, https://lnkd.in/gtDddU3W

Acquia Engage: Marketing Leaders Lunch Tomorrow!

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Now in the train from NY to Boston for Acquia’s Engage event. Hope to see many of you at the marketing leaders lunch tomorrow, Tues, April 29!

See link in the comments for more event info.

Acquia Engage Boston 2025 – https://lnkd.in/gEJ8zuCZ

Your Choice: How Deep Will Your AI Relationship Be?

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Published on 2025-04-27 13:19

I’m in New York this weekend for a mom-daughter trip with my daughter. This morning, I walked through Times Square on my way to St. Patrick’s Cathedral for Sunday mass.

It struck me how much of it was designed to grab attention with lots of flashing ads, street performers, giant billboards.

It made me think. What if a place like Times Square could adjust to each person passing through like shifting ads, food stands, and experiences based on what you value, enjoy, or need?

It sounds appealing. But I wonder if something would be lost too. Part of the beauty of places like this is the unexpected, seeing things we would never think to seek out on our own.

Maybe the future needs a balance. A world that knows us well enough to be helpful, but still leaves room for surprise and inspiration.

It would feel more relevant. More connected to who we are. But it would come with a tradeoff. It would only work if we are willing to share more of ourselves.

The value we get from AI depends on what we are willing to give it.

Trust, like any relationship, builds through familiarity. The more context and access we offer, our emails, documents, preferences, and behaviors, the more AI can help.

We could even train it to create a digital twin that understands how we think, act, and decide. (More on that topic here: https://lnkd.in/gyTAMmQE)

But how deep do we want that relationship to go?

Some believe AI will become like electricity. Always there. Invisible in the background. Others believe we will choose different AI partners depending on the part of life they support like Amazon for shopping, Google for communication, Microsoft for business.

Maybe both futures will exist.

Maybe we will rely on invisible AI utilities for simple tasks. And maybe we will build deeper relationships with AI partners for decisions that matter more.

The choice will be ours. How much of ourselves are we willing to share? And where will we draw the line?

Off to see Wicked on Broadway this afternoon with my daughter. Wishing you a wonderful Sunday and a great week ahead.

Times Square Reflection