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Agentic AI in Martech: The new org chart

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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Letting go of control

Letting go of control

What agentic AI can teach Martech about trust, autonomy, and actual intelligence

I used to think I understood AI agents. In Martech, we talk about them all the time. Tools that take action based on data, automate tasks, score leads, and optimize send times. That’s what we call an agent, right? A helpful script or model that executes a narrow task faster or more accurately than humans can.

Then I had a conversation with Aampe’s CEO Paul Meinshausen on my podcast Couch Confidentials, and something clicked. Paul introduced a distinction I hadn’t fully grasped. An AI agent follows instructions. Agentic AI operates with goals, persistence, and the ability to

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