Use AI to Find Your Fastest Route to Cultural Traction

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Thu, Jul 23, 2026

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AI Marketing Sense: How to Execute On-Brand at AI-Scale
Vanina Schick
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What you'll learn

Connect your brand into POVs with strong cultural energy

Turn your vanilla brand positioning into a spicy point of view that is shared & engaged with online

Use AI to search online and find where your POV lives

Run live web research to locate the conversations & moments where your point of view gets organic attention

Hw to enter cultural conversations & gain free attention

Use your research to identify triggers, news & topics to peg your marketing to & drive cultural traction

Why this topic matters

Attention today is earned, not bought, and it goes to the brands that are part of the conversation, not the ones interrupting them. The best (most expensive) marketers carry a map of those conversations in their head. They "get" how to earn attention in the relevant spaces. In this lesson we'll do that same job, in minutes not months. For free, using a slice of my "AI Marketing Sense" Method.

You'll learn from

Vanina Schick

Former VP at Maven I Building AI Marketing Strategy & Governance

When AI-powered marketing emerged, I recognized a problem I had seen before as a Marketing Leader: an execution owner that does not have full context on the business, product or customer.

Output quality is ALWAYS constrained by input, whether the team is human or AI.

AI is capable of limitless execution work but cannot feel what your customer does. It cannot infer the experience of a busy day in a tired body, with the radio on and a kid in the back seat. It does not intuitively understand the motivations and hesitations that come from an inner world of hopes and fears.

So, it's now a leaders job to close that gap and give AI the marketing sense it needs to execute well.

-> Technically it's called Context Engineering.

-> Operationally, it's called Governance.

-> Practically, it's what gets you past generic output or "slop".

-> Under-the-hood, it's a proprietary method I've developed, drawing on the most powerful frameworks in our space, from UX and strategy to behavioral psychology. Frameworks that exist to make sense of and synthesize human complexity. Repurposed and rigorously refined for a new application.

If you want real marketing leverage from AI, "AI Marketing Sense" is the critical missing layer. When fully implemented, it gives any AI tool what it needs to “understand” the real-world and psychological experience of your customer. Or said differently, it gives AI what a talented marketer with strong taste, cultural fluency and commercial judgement carries in their head.

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