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Marketing’s New Middleman: AI Agents – Bain & Company

Title: Rethinking Martech with AI Agents: A New Era of Customer Experience

The recent Bain & Company article, Marketing’s New Middleman: AI Agents, highlights a seismic shift in how marketing teams engage with customers. Artificial Intelligence agents are emerging as the new intermediaries between brands and consumers—streamlining operations, personalizing outreach, and transforming the traditional role of marketers.

Key Insights from the Article:

  • AI agents are automating routine marketing tasks, enabling faster, more tailored customer interactions.
  • These virtual agents serve as both customer-facing assistants and internal operational tools, enhancing personalization and boosting performance across campaigns.
  • Companies leveraging AI agents effectively are creating seamless, real-time user experiences that drive higher customer satisfaction and engagement.
  • The integration of AI into go-to-market (GTM) strategies allows for dynamic testing, optimization, and rapid scale—transforming user behavior insights into actionable campaigns.

Turning Insights into Value: A Holistic CRM Use-Case

An AI consultancy or AI agency like HolistiCrm can extract significant business value by integrating custom AI models to act as personalized middlemen across the customer journey. For example, deploying AI agents within a CRM platform for lead qualification, customer support, and journey orchestration can:

  • Improve marketing ROI through real-time decision-making and adaptive messaging.
  • Enhance conversion rates by giving customers instant, context-relevant responses.
  • Increase retention and satisfaction by learning from behaviors across all touchpoints.

Such a holistic implementation of AI—not just as a plugin, but as part of the foundational martech strategy—can dramatically elevate the performance of customer engagement.

HolistiCrm’s specialization in building Machine Learning models for the martech space ensures AI agents are not only efficient but aligned with unique organizational goals.

As AI evolves from automation to orchestration in marketing, brands that act early with AI expert support will stay ahead in experience, satisfaction, and competitiveness.

Read the original article: Marketing’s New Middleman: AI Agents – Bain & Company.