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Aampe and DOJO AI show why AI-native marketing starts with people, not tools

AI-native marketing won’t fix marketing’s problems, but it might fix how teams work. From Aampe’s change management approach to DOJO AI’s human-in-the-loop philosophy, the real transformation starts inside the organization, not the model.

As I stated on LinkedIn last week, it was a wild week of news. Lee Hammond mapped the chaos in a post on LinkedIn after his visit to CDP World, while David Raab imagined the redesign after challenging ChatGPT. And somewhere between the two, I found myself in a demo with Aampe, realizing just how hard it is to think differently.

Towards the end, I stopped Aampe’s Amaan Kulatunga and admitted, almost out loud:

I’m still trying to fit this into campaign logic.

I was still thinking like a marketer from 2015. And that, I suspect, is what

Shopping like a human & the quiet rise of Conversational Commerce

Conversational commerce is reshaping how people discover and buy online. From Bloomreach’s Clarity module to OpenAI’s new ChatGPT apps, a more human form of shopping is quietly emerging, one built on dialogue, not dashboards.

I spent yesterday morning at the Bloomreach Partner Enablement Day event in Amsterdam, where Adam Hackett spoke about conversational commerce and the company’s new Clarity module. It wasn’t a pitch, more a quiet look at how online shopping is beginning to resemble an actual exchange, less filtering, more asking. The kind of conversation that once happened with a store assistant, now expressed through an interface.

Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer sharing Clarity at the Bloomreach Partner Enablement Day.

Bloomreach’s framing felt grounded, it really did. They’re not trying to turn shopping into a chatbot novelty, we are no longer

From psychology to Spryker: Guido Jansen on community, automation, and AI in B2B

Spryker’s Global Business & Technology Evangelist, Guido Jansen, discusses community, vibe coding, and the reality of AI in the enterprise.

In this episode of Couch Confidentials, I sit down with Guido Jansen, Spryker’s Global Business & Technology Evangelist, and someone with one of the longest job titles I’ve ever introduced on the podcast. Guido’s path is unusual: a background in applied cognitive psychology, years building the Magento community, and now leading community and customer success efforts at Spryker.

We discuss what it means to build ecosystems that last and how feedback loops from hackathons and developer meetups inform Spryker’s product direction. Guido also shares his experiments with n8n, vibe coding, and MCP integrations, as well as

Agentic AI in Martech: The Handoff

Part 6: Practical experiments for teams ready to delegate

After five posts exploring the theoretical challenges of agentic AI, scale, complexity, conflicts, roles, and trust, I want to end this series with something more practical. If you're convinced that agentic systems represent the future of Martech but aren't sure where to start experimenting, what's the actual first step?

Based on the patterns I've observed and my own experiments, I think the answer lies in designing deliberate handoff protocols. Not grand AI strategies or comprehensive automation plans, but careful experiments in delegation that help you learn how to work with autonomous systems.

Starting with low-stakes decisions

The teams that seem

Agentic AI in Martech: Trust without understanding

Part 5: How to govern systems you can’t fully comprehend.

My Tesla occasionally does something that makes me question everything I think I know about driving. Since I have owned it, there have been numerous times when it suddenly slammed on the brakes while on autopilot, no visible obstacles, no construction signs, perfect weather. Just phantom braking, the phenomenon that’s been getting Tesla scrutinized by government agencies.

My wife hates when this happens. She’s made it very clear that I shouldn’t rely on autopilot when the family is in the car, both for safety reasons and because she’d prefer I not sleep on the couch.

Agentic AI in Martech: The new org chart

Part 4: Roles that emerge when AI handles execution

A friend recently asked me what a marketing ops manager actually does when AI agents are handling campaign execution, optimization, and conflict resolution. It's a fair question. If systems are making billions of decisions autonomously, what's left for us mortal humans?

My first instinct was to give the standard consultant answer about "strategic oversight" and "creative direction." But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that's probably wrong. The interesting human roles in an agentic world are likely to be things we haven't fully invented, yet.

Beyond the "Human in the Loop" fiction

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Beyond the "Human in the Loop" fiction