Your website's next visitor may be ready to buy — but it may not be human.

AI agents are beginning to do more than find and summarize information. They're learning to navigate websites, book reservations, initiate purchases and complete tasks on behalf of users.

In this edition of Unprompted: The AI Marketing Brief, we explore why marketers may need to move beyond optimizing for AI visibility and start thinking about AI usability.

Can an agent understand your product information? Navigate your booking flow? Complete your forms? And what happens to attribution when AI handles more of the journey?

Plus, we look at evolving AI content labeling requirements and why accuracy and trust remain essential as AI becomes a bigger part of how customers discover and interact with brands.

Being findable got you this far. Being usable by AI may be the next test.

AI is getting better at creating, automating and acting on our behalf. But are the guardrails keeping up?

In this edition of Unprompted: The AI Marketing Brief, we examine a series of developments putting AI trust under the microscope.

Platforms are getting tougher on inauthentic and mass-produced content. AI companies are embedding new provenance and watermarking technology into creative tools. Social platforms are stepping up efforts to identify bots and manipulated engagement. And a rogue AI agent incident raises much bigger questions about what happens when increasingly autonomous systems escape their intended boundaries.

For marketers, these aren't just technology stories. They're signals that AI capability, authenticity, security and trust are becoming increasingly difficult to separate.

Listen for what these developments could mean for your content, your AI tools and the promises your brand makes about AI. Episode Resources What a Containment Failure Reveals About the State of AI Trust

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Marketing is entering its show-your-work era.

In this episode of MarketingEDGE, Abby White and Alexis Gajewski look at what happens when marketing investments face a tougher standard: Can you demonstrate what actually changed because you spent the money?

They explore why familiar marketing metrics can struggle to demonstrate business value, how to build a 2027 budget that leaves room for changing conditions and why AI's promise alone is no longer enough to justify continued investment.

Plus, they dig into emerging evidence around AI-driven customer discovery and why marketers may need to rethink how they measure AI's role in the buyer journey.

Listen for practical insights on ROI, budgeting, experimentation and making a stronger case for what deserves the next marketing dollar. Episode Resources

Financially Fluent Marketing: How Marketing Leaders are Demonstrating Value and Impact in Executive Conversations, Jess Mand

How to Build a 2027 Marketing Budget for AI, ROI and Flexibility, Bridget McCrea

The Proof Era: Why AI's 'Promise' Phase Is Over for B2B Marketers, Alexis Gajewski

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