The market 01
The pressure 02
The scaling gap 03
The program 04
Who should join 05
The journey 06
Alumni initiatives 07
Experts 08
Testimonials 09
Investment 10
Case studies 11
FAQs 12
Domains · Marketing & CX

Building AI-Native Operations in Marketing & CX

Content engines, CX agents, and personalization are already running on AI inside the world's leading brands. Here's where the value is proven, where the lines are drawn, and where to start.

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July 2026 Cohort Live Now
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26 October 2026
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Success Stories
Klarna
The work of 700 agents
CarMax
11 years of writing, automated
Octopus Energy
Higher CSAT than human replies
All 4 case studies
The Market · Marketing & CX AI in Numbers

The numbers behind the shift to AI-native marketing & CX.

Growth, value, adoption and regulation — the signals every marketing leader should be able to quote.

Market Growth
$107B
projected AI-in-marketing market by 2028, up from roughly $47B in 2025 — the fastest-moving budget line in the function.
Statista, 2025
Adoption
88%
of marketers already use AI in their daily work — individual productivity is solved; the operating model isn’t.
Industry surveys, 2025
Proven Lift
35%
higher purchase frequency from AI-driven personalization — the most repeated result in consumer marketing.
Adobe, 2025
Regulation
Aug 2026
EU AI Act transparency obligations reach marketing — AI-generated content, profiling, and targeting face disclosure duties.
EU AI Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689
Market Pressure

Your customer's first click now goes to an AI

AI Overviews sit on nearly half of Google queries and 89% of B2B buyers research with generative AI — the funnel you spent a decade optimizing is being redrawn in front of you.

AI only widens the gap: bolted onto a siloed martech stack, it floods channels with generic content. Built on governed brand and customer data, it compounds instead.

Search Upheaval
48%
of Google queries now surface AI Overviews — the funnel you optimized for a decade is being redrawn.
Search analytics, 2026
Buyer Shift
89%
of B2B buyers already use generative AI during purchase research — your next customer asks an AI first.
Forrester / industry surveys, 2025
Content Flood
71%
of images shared on social media are now AI-generated or AI-edited — generic content is free, and worth exactly that.
Adobe, 2025
Scaling Gap

Most marketing teams are still stuck in pilot mode

Adoption is near-universal — 88% of marketers use AI daily — but 42% of companies abandoned generative-AI initiatives last year, and teams that measure properly see 2.4× the content ROI of those that don't. What separates the four brands above isn't model access; it's that they redesigned the underlying workflow instead of bolting AI onto the existing one.

Abandonment
42%
of companies abandoned generative-AI initiatives in the past year — pilots without an operating model die quietly.
S&P Global, 2025
Measurement Gap
2.4×
better content ROI for teams tracking AI-specific KPIs versus teams that don’t measure at all.
Content marketing benchmarks, 2025
Enterprise Scale
7%
of organizations across all industries call their AI deployment fully scaled — marketing is no exception.
McKinsey, The State of AI 2026
The Solution · Executive AI Program

The AI Executive in Marketing & CX Program

A live, six-week program for AI-native leaders in marketing and customer experience. You build one fundable, governed AI initiative from your own organization — content operations, CX automation, personalization, or answer-engine visibility — on the AI Transformation OS, validated by the World AI Council.

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Next cohort 26 October 2026
6
Weeks
One focused executive sprint — not a semester.
4h
Per week
Two live sessions, designed around your calendar.
Live
On Zoom
No travel. A global cohort in the room.
8–10
Per cohort
Deliberately small — every voice at the table.
100%
Expert-led
Operators who run AI transformation in the field.
1:1
Coaching
Private sessions on your initiative, throughout.
Live session schedule Live on Zoom
Every
Monday
Every
Thursday
Program time 6:00 – 8:00 PM Eastern Europe (EET)
Your time 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM GMT+3 · Nicosia

Between sessions: one-on-one coaching on your initiative, whenever you need it.

Who Should Join This Program?

Built for those ready to become AI-native leaders in marketing & CX.

Leaders join from across the function — brand, growth, content, customer experience, martech. Fully personalized: you build a real, executable initiative in your own organization.

01
CMOs & CX Executives

You answer for AI results across the funnel. Leave with a working method — not another vendor demo.

Lead the agenda
02
Growth, Content & Campaign Owners

You run brand, content, or campaigns — and want to be the one who makes AI real inside your funnel.

Own the initiative
03
Brand Safety, Legal & Privacy Leaders

You own brand risk, consumer privacy, and disclosure duties — govern marketing AI from real understanding, not briefings.

Govern with depth
04
Martech, Data & Analytics Executives

You carry the martech stack, the customer-data estate, and the measurement layer. Turn modernization into governed AI initiatives.

Build the foundation
Who takes the program
CMOs Chief Growth Officers Heads of CX Brand Directors Heads of Content Performance Marketing Leads Heads of Digital
The Program Journey

Every stage builds toward one capstone: your AI initiative.

Week by week you step into a more senior AI role, and each stage adds a deliverable to your capstone — the initiative you'll present to the World AI Council. Tap a stage to explore it.

WK 01
Foundations & Context
WK 02
Tools & Agents
WK 03
Opportunity Diagnosis & Business Modelling
WK 04
Solution, Readiness & Financial Case
WK 05
Governance & Risk Modelling
WK 06
Final Initiative Pitch & CAIO Certification
Week 01 · Stage 1 of 6
Foundations & Context
Build real AI fluency — the language, the foundations, the market signals — and find where the value hides in your own institution.
Terminologies Foundations Market Signals
Benefits
Understand AI foundations and core concepts, in the context of marketing and CX
Explore proven use cases and case studies from brand, growth, and customer experience
Read the market signals behind the urgency — and why the moment to move is now
Build the AI vocabulary to challenge any vendor, team, or headline
Featured Initiatives

Real initiatives, built by leaders in marketing.

95% of AI pilots never reach the P&L. These did — built in the Accelerator by leaders in brand content, growth, and strategic communications.

CIH CIH · Brand Content Sep 2025 Cohort
Creative Intelligence Hub (CIH)

AI-assisted marketing operations for fast, on-brand Arabic-English delivery — governed and auditable throughout.

LE
Built in the Accelerator
Lubna Elmasri
Marketing & Comm. Director · Riyadh Exhibitions Company
VEL VEL · Marketing Governance Jul 2025 Cohort
Governing Marketing Velocity with Intelligence

Campaigns keep their speed while every decision stays measured and accountable.

RC
Built in the Accelerator
Rogie Cruze
CEO · Post Shadow Media
AGT AGT · Agentic Campaigns Sep 2025 Cohort
MarketHack.ai — Agentic Campaign Management

Campaigns run end to end through agentic AI — people set the strategy and guardrails, the platform executes.

TG
Built in the Accelerator
Thomas C. Grow II
Co-founder & CEO · ThinkRack
SNT SNT · Strategic Comms Sep 2025 Cohort
Real-Time Sentiment & Narrative Intelligence

A situational-awareness system tracks public sentiment and narratives in real time — seeing the story as it develops.

NA
Built in the Accelerator
Nadin Allahham
Chief Specialist, Strategic Planning · Dubai Media Office
CNT CNT · Content Engines Open Initiative
Governed content and campaign engines

The CarMax pattern: catalog-scale copy and creative — years of production compressed to months — with brand voice and rights governed by design.

CXA CXA · CX Agents Open Initiative
AI customer service and CX agents

Klarna’s benchmark: the work of 700 agents, resolutions in minutes — and Octopus proves satisfaction can rise when the AI is properly supervised.

PRS PRS · Personalization Open Initiative
Personalization and lifecycle marketing

A 35% lift in purchase frequency is the repeated result — segments of one, finally real, across email, app, and site.

AEO AEO · Search Visibility Open Initiative
AI search and answer-engine visibility

Half of Google now answers before the click — the new discipline is being the source the AI cites when your buyer asks.

DAT DAT · Data Infrastructure Open Initiative
The brand and customer-data foundation underneath all of it

None of the above scales past one campaign without governed voice, rights-cleared assets, and unified customer data.

Experts Behind the Program

Run by experts who know marketing. Backed by a council.

Delivered by operators who run real AI transformation engagements with global brands, growth teams, and customer-experience organizations — using validated frameworks that turn adoption into results.

Sam Obeidat, MGM 🇨🇦
President & CAIO
World AI X Ventures
AI/Product · Defense · Fintech · Enterprise
LinkedIn
Dr. Mohd Jamal 🇦🇪
Head of Strategy
World AI X Ventures
AI · SpaceTech · Fintech
LinkedIn
Hussein Dajani 🇸🇦
Group CMO & CCO Officer
Petromin Corporation
Customer Experience · Marketing
LinkedIn
Thomas C. Grow II 🇺🇸
Co-founder & CEO
ThinkRack
Agentic Marketing · Product
LinkedIn
Kuntal Malia 🇮🇳
Chief Data & Insights Officer
Metro Brands Limited
Data · Retail
LinkedIn
Testimonials · Success Stories

Loved by AI-native leaders.

Executives, consultants, and founders from 12+ sectors — on what changed after six weeks.

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Praveen Sachdev 🇮🇳
Senior Advisor, Banking & Digital Transformation

I went from using AI for fun to leading serious, business-focused AI — building business models, governance frameworks, and transformation roadmaps. I now drive AI initiatives in banking with confidence.

EB
Eric Berdan 🇨🇦
Senior Director, Business Optimization · Nestlé

AI doesn’t fix problems — it amplifies them. I learned how to apply AI responsibly to improve decision-making and operations. It exceeded all my expectations.

NO
Nicole Oladuji 🇸🇪
Chief AI Officer · Praktikertjänst AB

Highly valuable and practical. I’ve already implemented the frameworks in my organization with real success — the governance work especially.

ES
Eric Salveggio 🇺🇸
Lead U.S. GRC, Privacy & Security · Kivu Consulting

Coming from a security background, it gave me the structure and confidence to step into AI leadership — and it’s already opening high-level opportunities.

GK
Ghassan Kebbe 🇰🇼
Executive Director & Board Member

It structured my thinking end-to-end — from problem definition to governance and transformation. Strategic and operational at once. A real mindset shift.

MG
Madonna Ghanem 🇰🇼
Founder & Data Scientist · Biosphere SPA

It bridged AI and business for me. I built solutions before but couldn’t present them — now I can. The community feels like an incubator for ideas.

CK
Chandrashekhar Kachole 🇳🇱
CTO & Digital Transformation Consultant

AI transformation is not a technology challenge — it’s a business and stakeholder alignment challenge. The frameworks are practical and immediately applicable.

KM
Karine Megerdoomian 🇺🇸
Founder & AI Scientist · Zurna Technology

I joined for a systematic approach to AI strategy — and that’s exactly what I got. The governance models were extremely valuable for building real AI initiatives.

MC
Martin Cortes 🇧🇪
Head of Industrialization · Worldline

It exposed me to new areas like agentic AI frameworks — and helped me evolve my project using real tools and platforms.

NE
Nadin Allahham 🇦🇪
Chief Specialist, Strategic Planning · Dubai Media Office

It simplified AI and gave me a clear structure to apply it practically and responsibly — with realistic, implementable use cases for my organization.

The Investment · Kicks off 26 October 2026

Lead the transformation. Don't report to it.

Six weeks from now, you present a council-validated AI initiative — and carry the credential to lead what comes next.

Option 01 · Pay in full
8–10 seats / cohort
US$ 4,500 / seat

One payment. Everything included — the full six weeks, coaching, council review, and certification.

Option 02 · 3-month plan
$1,650 / month × 3

The same program and certification — spread over three monthly payments.

Every seat includes
6-week live executive program
Personal AI initiative built on the AI Transformation OS
CAIO credential — WAIC + PDI accredited
One-on-one coaching sessions
All frameworks and templates
Lifetime community access
Accredited by World AI Council
Professional Development Institute
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Case Studies

Brands are already running on AI

These aren't pilots — they're production systems with measured, reported results.

KLRN
KLRN · AI customer service
In Production
The work of 700 agents

Klarna’s AI assistant handled two-thirds of service chats in its first month — the workload of ~700 agents, resolution times down from 11 minutes to under 2, projected to add $40M to profit in year one.

KLRN
Verified Case Study
Klarna
Fintech · CX at Scale
CMAX
CMAX · Content at catalog scale
In Production
11 years of writing, automated

CarMax used generative AI to summarize customer reviews into research pages for every make and model — content its team estimated would have taken 11 years to write by hand, live in months.

CMAX
Verified Case Study
CarMax
Consumer Retail · United States
OCTO
OCTO · AI-written service email
In Production
Higher CSAT than human replies

Octopus Energy’s AI drafts nearly half of all customer email responses — and customers rate the AI-assisted replies higher than human-only ones, with agents supervising every send.

OCTO
Verified Case Study
Octopus Energy
Consumer Utility · UK
KO
KO · Generative brand content
In Production
Campaigns co-created with AI

From “Create Real Magic” to fully AI-generated holiday spots, Coca-Cola runs generative AI inside a governed brand system — testing the frontier of AI creative at global-brand scale.

KO
Verified Case Study
Coca-Cola
Global Consumer Brand
Frequently Asked Questions

Questions, answered.

01 Do I need a technical background?

No. The program is built for marketing and business leaders — strategy, governance, business modelling, and leadership, not code. No programming experience is required.

02 How much time does it take?

Four hours a week for six weeks: two live 2-hour sessions on Zoom (Mondays and Thursdays), plus optional one-on-one coaching scheduled around your calendar.

03 What do I actually build during the program?

One real initiative from your own organization — content operations, CX automation, personalization, or answer-engine visibility. Week by week you take it through use-case discovery, business modelling, readiness and governance on the AI Transformation OS — and finish with a complete AI strategy presented to the World AI Council.

04 Can my initiative touch customer data and brand-facing content?

Yes — that’s the point. The governance stage maps your initiative against GDPR, the EU AI Act’s transparency rules, and your brand and rights obligations, and shapes it as a governed, human-in-the-loop system your legal and brand teams can sign off on.

05 What if I miss a live session?

Every session is recorded, and your one-on-one coaching keeps your initiative on track. The program is designed for full executive calendars.

06 Who certifies the credential?

Your final initiative is reviewed by a World AI Council committee, and certification is awarded on approval. The CAIO credential is accredited by the World AI Council (WAIC) and the Professional Development Institute (PDI).

07 What is included in the US$ 4,500 fee?

Everything: the six-week live program, one-on-one coaching, all frameworks and templates, the council review of your initiative, the CAIO credential, and lifetime access to the community.

08 Can I enroll a team from my organization?

Yes. Private cohorts run at US$35,000 for up to 12 seats — one organization, shared initiatives — or as a custom enterprise engagement with multiple cohorts per year.

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Now enrolling · Kicks off 26 October 2026

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