Marketleaf Practical AI marketing intelligence for in-house teams and small agencies.
Issue 1 · Vol. 1 · Est. 2026 The AI marketing trade, weekly.
Audience: Small and mid-sized AI marketing agencies; in-house teams pitching internal stakeholders for budget. Cadence: Triggered on pitch invitation; runs in days rather than the legacy multi-week pitch sprint.

Purpose

Replace the all-hands-on-deck pitch sprint with an agentic routine that produces the bulk of the pitch material in days, leaving the agency's senior practitioners to do the work that matters most — the strategic positioning, the client-specific judgment, the relationship.

Outcomes

Tools and agents

Research agent Positioning agent Creative agent Routine-mock-up agent Pitch-deck assembly agent

Steps

  1. Research the prospect and the category

    The research agent pulls publicly available context on the prospect — recent moves, current positioning, competitive set — and produces a structured brief the rest of the routine consumes.

  2. Generate positioning options

    The positioning agent produces three to five options for how the agency could position itself to the prospect. Senior practitioners review and select one or two to develop further.

  3. Produce working creative samples

    The creative agent produces sample work in the selected positioning — not finished campaigns, but enough to make the positioning concrete. Brand-voice memory is essential here.

  4. Mock up illustrative routines

    The routine-mock-up agent produces one or two illustrative agentic routines the agency would run for the prospect, with the workflow steps, the agents involved, and the expected outcomes. This is what differentiates an AI marketing agency's pitch from a traditional one.

  5. Assemble the deck

    The pitch-deck assembly agent stitches the components together. A senior practitioner reviews, edits, and adds the relationship-specific framing the agents cannot produce.

  6. Human-led final pass

    The agency's senior team does the final pass — the strategic counsel, the client-specific judgment, the relationship work that the agents do not do.

Antipatterns to avoid

Glossary terms used in this workflow

  • Routine — A named, repeatable agentic workflow that a team can invoke on demand.

Other workflows in the library

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