AI Perspectives

10 AI Workflows Every Marketing Team Should Use

August 23, 2025

A practical playbook for modern marketing teams

AI isn’t about replacing marketers — it’s about removing friction, accelerating execution, and giving teams more time to think strategically. These 10 workflows are the ones I recommend most often to growth‑stage companies and enterprise teams who want to modernize their marketing without overwhelm.

Each workflow includes:

  • What it does
  • Why it matters
  • How to use it
  • Example prompts

1. AI‑Powered Content Brief Generator

What it does

Turns a topic or idea into a complete content brief with structure, keywords, angles, and audience insights.

Why it matters

Writers waste hours researching and outlining. This gives them a head start.

How to use it

Feed AI your topic, ICP, and goal to get a structured brief.

Prompt

“Create a content brief for a blog post targeting [ICP] about [topic]. Include audience insights, key messages, SEO keywords, outline, and recommended calls-toaction.”

2. Campaign Concept Generator

What it does

Produces multiple creative campaign angles, themes, and hooks.

Why it matters

Brainstorming is slow. AI gives you 20 ideas in 20 seconds.

How to use it

Give AI your product, audience, and goal to get campaign concepts.

Prompt

“Generate 10 campaign concepts for a product that helps [ICP] achieve [outcome]. Include themes, taglines, and example assets.”

3. Persona Builder

What it does

Creates detailed personas based on your ICP, industry, and customer data.

Why it matters

Most personas are outdated or too generic. AI makes them dynamic and specific.

How to use it

Provide your ICP + product to get a persona with motivations, objections, and buying triggers.

Prompt

“Build a persona for a [role] at a [company type] who struggles with [problem]. Include goals, objections, buying triggers, and preferred content formats.”

4. SEO Topic Cluster Builder

What it does

Generates a full SEO content cluster with pillar pages and supporting articles.

Why it matters

SEO strategy is time‑consuming. AI accelerates planning.

How to use it

Give AI your core keyword to get a cluster.

Prompt

“Create an SEO topic cluster around the keyword [keyword]. Include pillar topics, supporting articles, and search intent.”

5. Email Sequence Generator

What it does

Drafts multi‑email sequences for nurture, onboarding, or product launches.

Why it matters

Email is high‑ROI but slow to write. AI speeds up the first draft.

How to use it

Provide your audience + goal to get a sequence.

Prompt

“Write a 5‑email nurture sequence for [ICP] who downloaded [lead magnet]. Include subject lines and CTAs.”

6. Ad Copy Variations Engine

What it does

Creates dozens of ad variations for testing across channels.

Why it matters

Testing equals performance. AI gives you volume and variety instantly.

How to use it

Feed AI your offer and audience to get variations.

Prompt

“Generate 15 ad copy variations for a product that helps [ICP] achieve [outcome]. Include short, medium, and long versions.”

7. Customer Research Summarizer

What it does

Summarizes customer interviews, reviews, surveys, and transcripts.

Why it matters

Teams sit on mountains of qualitative data they never use.

How to use it

Paste raw text to get themes, quotes, objections, and insights.

Prompt

“Summarize this customer feedback into key themes, objections, motivations, and direct quotes. Recommend messaging angles.”

8. Competitive Messaging Analyzer

What it does

Analyzes competitor websites and messaging to identify gaps and opportunities.

Why it matters

Positioning requires context. AI helps you see the landscape clearly.

How to use it

Paste competitor copy to get a breakdown.

Prompt

“Analyze the following competitor messaging. Identify strengths, weaknesses, differentiation opportunities, and recommended positioning angles.”

9. Analytics Insights Summarizer

What it does

Turns analytics dashboards into actionable insights.

Why it matters

Most teams drown in data but starve for insight.

How to use it

Paste metrics to get insights and recommendations.

Prompt

“Summarize these marketing metrics into insights and recommended actions. Highlight what’s working, what’s not, and where to focus next.”

10. Weekly Marketing Ops Automation

What it does

Automates repetitive tasks like reporting, tagging, formatting, and QA.

Why it matters

Ops is where teams lose hours every week.

How to use it

Create recurring workflows for reporting, content formatting, and QA.

Prompt

“Create a weekly marketing ops checklist and automate as many steps as possible using AI. Include reporting, content QA, and campaign setup.”

How to Implement These Workflows

To get the most out of these workflows:

  • Start with 2–3
  • Document them
  • Train the team
  • Measure time saved
  • Expand from there

AI is a capability and teams that adopt it early will outperform those that don’t.