Most AI marketing tools don't earn their subscription. These do.
April 27, 2026
We get pitched a new AI marketing tool roughly every week. Most of them solve a problem nobody on the team actually has.
Our filter is simple: a tool earns a place in the stack only if it removes a step someone currently does by hand, produces output a human still reviews before it ships, and can be measured against the process it replaced.
Under that filter, most of the value we've found isn't in flashy generative tools — it's in quieter automations: research summarization before a creative brief, first-pass reporting pulled from ad platforms, transcript-to-brief conversion from client calls.
None of that is exciting to demo. All of it saves real hours. That's the trade we optimize for with every client, every time.