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AI for Comms

Mean more by learning faster.

Create smarter, learn faster and perform better.

AI is changing how communications are planned, created, activated and optimised.

We combine human creativity and strategic judgement with AI-powered intelligence to understand audiences faster, accelerate creative development, improve media buying and turn live campaign data into better decisions.

From planning the campaign to optimising it in market, AI helps us close the gap between what we think will work and what the evidence shows works.

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How can AI make your marketing more effective?

Every campaign produces more data than a team can analyse by hand, across audiences, creative, channels and results.

When that analysis takes weeks, the lessons arrive too late to change anything, and the next campaign repeats mistakes the last one could have prevented.

AI shortens the time between activity and insight, so your budget moves towards what’s working sooner and every campaign gets more from the same investment.

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More signals for sharper decisions.

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AI for Planning

Better communications start with better intelligence.

We use AI to interrogate audience, market, competitor, search, social and campaign data at greater scale, identifying patterns, behaviours and opportunities that can be difficult to see in isolation.

Our AI agents accelerate analysis and help planners turn complex datasets into actionable intelligence about who to reach, what matters to them, where to reach them and what is most likely to influence them.

Know more about who matters.

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Audience Intelligence

Audiences keep changing. We use AI alongside traditional research and data sources to develop and continually enrich audience understanding, analysing behaviours, interests, search patterns, social signals and campaign response.

That intelligence sharpens personas, segmentation, targeting and customer journeys, giving Planning and Creative a stronger evidence base to work from.

Accelerate the process, leave the thinking to people.

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AI for Creative

AI gives creative teams new ways to research, explore, prototype, produce and adapt ideas at speed.

We use generative AI to accelerate exploration and production, create variants for different audiences and channels and help take strong creative platforms further.

Generating more is never the objective. Human creativity still creates the idea, makes the judgement and decides what is distinctive enough to get noticed and meaningful enough to matter.

Test, learn and create better work.

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Creative Testing

We use communications to create evidence, as well as impressions.

Messages, propositions, creative treatments, formats and calls to action can be tested head-to-head before significant investment or while campaigns are live.

AI helps us analyse those results faster, identifying the creative variables driving response and feeding those learnings back into creative development.

The strongest work earns more investment, weaker work gets challenged and new variants keep the testing going.

Optimise while it matters.

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AI for Activation

Once a campaign goes live, the learning accelerates.

We combine platform intelligence, campaign data and our own AI agents to monitor audiences, creative, channels and investment, identifying where performance is changing and where opportunities exist to improve it.

AI-driven advertising platforms make real-time decisions around audiences, bidding, placement and delivery. We combine that machine intelligence with human oversight and commercial data to optimise paid search, social, programmatic and digital media around the outcomes that matter, including CPA, ROAS, leads, revenue and customer value.

Instead of waiting for the post-campaign report, intelligence feeds back into media, creative and targeting while there’s still time to make a difference.

Every campaign makes us smarter.

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Performance Intelligence

Our reporting dashboards bring media and commercial performance together, while AI agents help us interrogate results across campaigns and our wider client portfolio.

By analysing media buying, audiences, creative, messaging and channel performance head-to-head, we’re developing best-practice benchmarks around what drives response and return.

Those learnings feed back into future planning, creative and media investment, so the next campaign starts from what the last one proved.

Dashboards that lead to decisions.

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Reporting & Insights

More data doesn’t automatically mean more insight.

We connect media, website, campaign and commercial data within reporting dashboards designed around the outcomes that matter.

AI helps us interrogate that information, identify anomalies and surface opportunities faster, reducing the time spent compiling reports and increasing the time available to understand what happened, why it happened and what to do next.

Specialist agents for everyday analysis.

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AI Agents for Comms

We develop specialist AI agents around defined communications tasks, such as audience and competitor analysis, campaign reporting, creative performance analysis and optimisation.

Agents connect approved data, instructions and workflows to automate repeatable analysis and give teams faster access to the intelligence they need.

Human expertise remains responsible for the objective, interpretation and decision, while agents handle the repeatable work.

Faster intelligence for smarter decisions.

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Human + Machine

AI can analyse more information, generate more variations and identify patterns faster than people alone.

Effectiveness still depends on our people defining the right objective, asking the right questions, recognising a powerful idea and knowing when the data is telling them something that matters.

Frequently asked questions

How do you use AI in marketing campaigns?

We use AI in marketing where it can help us understand audiences, develop campaigns, activate media and learn from performance faster.

That can include analysing audience and market data, exploring creative opportunities, supporting content production, identifying media opportunities and using campaign data to improve activity while it’s live. Our communications specialists remain responsible for the strategy, creative judgement and commercial decisions.

As an AI marketing agency, we focus on applying AI where it can improve the work and make marketing more effective, rather than using it everywhere.

Can AI replace audience research?

No. AI market research can accelerate analysis and help us explore audiences, behaviours and potential responses, but it doesn’t remove the need for reliable evidence or human judgement.

Tools such as synthetic personas can help explore hypotheses, test thinking and identify questions worth investigating. They shouldn’t be treated as a substitute for real customers or presented as evidence of what an audience actually thinks.

We combine AI with available audience, market and behavioural data, using our strategists to interpret what it means. AI can help us investigate faster. It doesn’t turn assumptions into facts.

How much of our media buying is run by AI?

AI media buying already plays a significant role across many advertising platforms, particularly in areas such as automated bidding, audience optimisation, placement and budget allocation.

How much automation we use depends on the campaign, platform, available data and what we’re trying to achieve. We don’t hand the entire media plan to an algorithm and assume it knows best.

Our specialists set the objectives, strategy, budgets and controls, then use AI and platform automation where they can improve activation and performance, so we can respond to the evidence faster.

Do you use learnings from other campaigns to improve ours?

Yes, where those learnings are relevant and can be used appropriately. Our Performance Intelligence approach helps us build on what we learn about audiences, channels, creative and campaign performance rather than treating every campaign as a blank sheet of paper.

We combine applicable experience with the evidence generated by your own activity. That helps us form better hypotheses, identify opportunities and improve decisions as campaigns develop.

We don’t assume that something which worked elsewhere will automatically work for you. Previous learning gives us a stronger place to start. Your own performance tells us where to go next.

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