Editorial
The Gist
- Agentic AI bridges the CX execution gap. By adding memory, learning and orchestration capabilities, agentic AI helps marketers overcome stalled pilots and finally deliver measurable ROI from generative AI initiatives.
- Customer journey orchestration gets smarter. Agentic AI enables persistent, data-driven learning that enhances personalization, speeds content cycles and optimizes cross-channel journeys in real time.
- Strategic roadmaps turn pilots into performance. High-performing marketing organizations align agentic AI implementation with CX goals—starting small, learning fast and scaling workflows for lasting impact.
Forward-thinking marketing organizations are already realizing ROI with high-value, outcome-focused AI use cases for content and customer experience. What sets their approach apart from the many organizations whose AI projects are stuck in consideration or pilot mode, such as the 95% of organizations whose generative AI pilots have delivered no value?
The key success factor is the strategic use of agentic AI.
Agentic AI’s persistent memory capability closes the “learning gap” that dooms many AI initiatives. As a result, they can act as orchestrators that unlock generative AI capabilities for faster, more effective content personalization processes. Strategic implementation plans can help marketing organizations realize the most value from a growing array of AI agents offered by vendors of customer data, customer journey and content management platforms.
Table of Contents
- Why Agentic AI for Content and CX Operations?
- Strategic Steps to Agentic AI Implementation
- Vision and Strategy
- Pilot Activation and Evaluation
- Scaling to More Workflows
- Governance and Continuous Optimization
- New CX and Value Possibilities With Agentic AI
Why Agentic AI for Content and CX Operations?
AI agents have a key attribute that simple AI assistants and even powerful models lack: the ability to remember things in context. The authors of the MIT/NANDA report on the widespread failures of generative AI pilots noted that agents can play a pivotal role in AI pilot success because “unlike current systems that require full context each time, agentic systems maintain persistent memory, learn from interactions and can autonomously orchestrate complex workflows.”
Combining AI agents with AI assistants and generative AI, as some vendors are doing across content supply chain and customer journey solutions, is already helping organizations to shorten campaign launch timelines, improve personalization and realize conversion lift from AI-enabled optimization.
For example, digital networking company Lumen Technologies leveraged the generative AI content personalization features in one of their marketing apps to optimize their content production by quickly generating image versions for different customer segments. Now, Lumen can launch better-personalized B2B marketing campaigns in just nine days instead of 25.
In another example, Danish mobile voice and mobile broadband provider Telmore used a vendor’s ecosystem-wide AI capabilities to optimize customer journeys and identify the most relevant offers for specific customers for unified, highly personalized experiences across channels. As a result, Telmore has seen cross-sales to current customers increase by 25%, with conversion lift from AI-powered personalization as high as 11%.
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Strategic Steps to Agentic AI Implementation
Successful Agentic AI projects need more than standalone tools and limited use cases. Although it’s best to start with a small initial use case, that use case should fit into a larger strategic plan that considers your intended business outcomes, your team and your existing platforms.
This approach allows you to learn, iterate and scale for maximum ROI on your agentic AI content and CX investment over time. It also positions your organization to make the most of agentic AI in other areas of your business.
A typical agentic AI roadmap follows these steps, which can be customized for specific organizations and outcomes:
Vision and Strategy
At this earliest stage, the goal is to set the stage for relevant AI projects with quantifiable impacts. The focus should be on:
- Aligning stakeholders on content supply chain, CX goals and business outcomes.
- Assessing the readiness of your content and experience platforms for agentic AI.
- Identifying your highest-priority use cases.
Pilot Activation and Evaluation
The next stage is to launch a focused initial program that’s feasible and offers the potential for immediate ROI. For example, a content supply chain pilot may involve deploying AI agents to create campaign briefs, tag assets and manage content QA processes. It could also involve adding new applications to extend the ways you can realize value from AI — for example, by using a content personalization app to enable fast, brand-compliant variation of assets for better personalization. Over the course of the pilot project, it’s critical to track metrics such as employee time saved, content velocity acceleration and related KPIs.
Related Article: The One-Dial Illusion: Why CX Leaders Keep Crashing on ROI
Scaling to More Workflows
With findings from the pilot, the next step is to extend AI agent adoption across other processes, platforms or even teams. For example, a frequent next step is enabling AI agents to automate and optimize content flows and campaign logic. Tracking metrics for each new implementation can streamline the scaling process over time.
Governance and Continuous Optimization
Alongside scaling agentic AI, it’s important to track outcomes and feedback from users to continually refine existing processes and identify potential new use cases — especially as content supply chain and customer journey platforms evolve their AI offerings.
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Agentic AI Roadmap for Customer Journey Success
A practical framework to guide marketing and CX leaders in aligning agentic AI with customer journey and content operations.
| Stage | Focus | Example KPIs |
|---|---|---|
| Vision and strategy | Define your AI vision, align CX stakeholders and identify customer journey use cases where memory and orchestration add value. | Defined ROI model, readiness assessment, prioritized use-case roadmap |
| Pilot activation and evaluation | Deploy agentic AI in a focused workflow — such as campaign briefing, content tagging or customer offer selection — and track early impact. | Content velocity, time saved, engagement rate, conversion lift |
| Scaling to more workflows | Expand agent adoption across marketing and CX operations — automating campaign logic, content QA and customer journey orchestration. | Cycle-time reduction, percentage of automated tasks, lift per channel |
| Governance and optimization | Establish oversight, feedback loops and metrics to continuously refine AI agent behavior and identify new opportunities for improvement. | Compliance pass rate, CX performance index, new use cases added |
New CX and Value Possibilities With Agentic AI
Agentic AI is the key to unlocking the power of generative AI and other AI tools, with memory and orchestration capabilities that are extremely well-suited for CX improvements. By studying existing success stories and building strategic initial use cases and Agentic AI roadmaps, marketing teams can enable faster and more accurate personalization for better customer journeys with tangible ROI.
The key is to start small, use your findings to expand agentic capabilities to more workflows and treat your AI agents as a powerful ally in continuous optimization of your customer journey.
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