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Marketing Execution Platform vs. AI Assistants: What Enterprise Teams Need to Ship Work
AI assistants help individuals create. Marketing execution platforms coordinate governed work across systems, teams, and approvals. Here is how enterprise leaders should evaluate the difference.
The AI Paradox in Asset Management: Widespread Adoption, Elusive Returns
Fifty-five percent of asset managers use AI in at least one investment process, yet only 8% report measurable improvement in investment returns.
We Analyzed AI Visibility Across 55 Travel and Hospitality Brands. Here's What We Found.
Gradial analyzed AI visibility across 55 travel and hospitality brands and found a 27.5-point gap between brand mentions and owned-domain citations.
What We Heard (and Shared) at Salesforce Connections 2026
Gradial led two sessions at Salesforce Connections 2026. Here’s what resonated on stage, at the booth, and across the show floor: orchestration, AI search, and systems of work.
What Retail Leaders Are Actually Saying About AI, Trust, and the Digital Shelf at Shoptalk Europe 2026
We spent last week in Barcelona at Shoptalk Europe. Here's what we heard from Douglas, Mondelez, Boots, Arc'teryx, Vuori, and others about where retail is headed.
Agentic Content Infrastructure: The Agent-Native Stack for Enterprise Marketing
Marketing has never mattered more. At its core, marketing is the most human-centric work in the enterprise — the discipline that takes a company's beliefs, products, and promises and translates them into something a customer actually feels.
Bots Just Passed Humans Online. Your Content Operation Wasn't Built for That.
Bots have passed humans as the majority audience online. Here’s why the headless web demands agentic content infrastructure built for governance, velocity, and trust.
Zero clicks, new rules: the healthcare marketer's guide to AI search
A healthcare marketer's guide to AI search, zero-click journeys, GEO metrics, citations, mentions, and Gradial's execution loop.
We Analyzed AI Visibility for 20+ of the World's Largest Airlines. Here's What We Found.
Gradial analyzed AI visibility across 20+ of the world's largest airlines and found a major mention-to-citation gap: AI models name airline brands often, but rarely cite their owned websites.
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