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Teach the Machine: The CMO’s AI Challenge

If you feel like your brand is in an AI adoption doom-loop where nothing is meaningfully taking hold, reframe the challenge.  You do not have a technology problem, you just lack brand knowledge architecture.

Teach the Machine: The CMO’s AI Challenge

If you’ve been reading the trades, you have seen that the AI honeymoon is over for most marketers.  The numbers recently reported by McKinsey showed that while 88% of companies have integrated AI into at least one business function, only 6% are seeing meaningful financial impact.

Read that again. Six percent.

Everyone bought the tools, and almost no one got results.

Why?

The average culprit

For marketers, where is the disconnect?  The outputs feel…average. 

Most LLM system output the "average of what the model has slurped up from content in the open internet. The bias towards “generic” leaves a brand with a complete lack of disctintiveness.

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