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Practical guides for AI in marketing.

Most AI content is written for people who sell AI. These guides are written for the people who have to use it — marketing and business teams trying to figure out what actually works.

I've spent years at the intersection of AI, media, and marketing — at NP Digital with large clients, and building tools like MediaPlan.ca and the AI Enablement Toolkit for teams who need practical starting points.

These guides are the things I keep explaining in conversations — structured, updated regularly, and built to be actually useful rather than just found.

Tools14 min read
The AI Tools I Actually Use for Marketing

A curated shortlist of what's in my stack — organized by function, with honest takes on what each tool does well and who it's for. No sponsored picks.

AI assistantsPaid mediaSEO & LLM visibilityWorkflow
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Strategy12 min read
How to Audit Your Marketing Stack for AI Readiness

A five-area framework to assess your data, tools, workflows, team, and reporting — and figure out where AI can actually move the needle.

Data foundationTool stackWorkflowsTeam capability
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Workflow13 min read
How to Build an AI Workflow for Your Marketing Team

How to turn AI experiments into infrastructure that actually runs — with real workflows for content, paid media, reporting, and research.

Content productionPaid mediaReportingAutomation
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Funding15 min read
The Canadian AI Funding Guide

SR&ED, IRAP, ESSOR, Scale AI, Mitacs — everything Canadian businesses need to know about funding AI projects. Includes an interactive eligibility quiz.

Federal programsQuebec programsTax creditsGrants
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