The approach

How a Grenney.AI engagement unfolds.

A fast 2-week diagnostic to align the executive team on objectives, surface where AI is already showing up, and map the highest-leverage use cases. Then a series of workstreams that compound — with partnership the constant throughout. Your CMO and CRO at the table, not bypassed.

What the work compresses toward

The marketing operating model — today, and after AI.

One concrete view of what AI compression looks like inside a single function. The same pattern repeats across sales, support, ops, and beyond.

Example: marketing operating model
The same compression pattern repeats across sales, support, ops, and beyond.
Today · 12 pillars · 36 sub-functions
Ops & Analytics
Content
Customers
Product Marketing
Lifecycle Marketing
Website
Tech Stack
Vendors
Process
Design
Editorial
Production
Stories
Evangelism
Community
Positioning
Decks
Demos
Funnels
PLG
Nurture
SEO / AIO
Personalization
Conversion
Digital Campaigns
Events
Network
Partnerships
Comms & PR
International
Performance
Paid Media
SEM
Conferences
Exec Dinners
Launches
Insights
Relationships
Warm Intros
Co-Sell
Services
Ecosystems
Internal
PR
Social
Localization
PR
Social
AI-driven compression
AI-driven · 4 pillars · 8 sub-functions
Brand & Creative Direction
Audience & Intelligence
AI-Augmented Execution
Performance & Measurement
Brand strategy
Creative direction
Audience research
Insights synthesis
Campaign execution
Content production
Attribution
Optimization
AI infrastructure layer
The methodology

A fast diagnostic, then a series of high-impact workstreams.

Most engagements begin with a 2-week diagnostic — objective setting with the executive team, fast learning, use-case mapping, and a clear read on the existing org chart, tech stack, and budget. After that, the work moves into a sequence of workstreams. Some run in parallel, some in series, and the highest-priority foundations (like the GTM Brain) get the most early investment.

STEP 01Diagnostics · week 1

Objective setting.

Executive conversation to deeply understand the corporate strategy, the business problems on the table, the goals, and the KPIs the work needs to move.

STEP 02Diagnostics · week 1

Assess where your business is.

Benchmark AI maturity against companies further along the curve. Interview leaders function by function to surface where AI is already showing up and where the unmet opportunities live. Most companies underestimate what their own teams already see.

STEP 03Diagnostics · week 1–2

Map the highest-ROI use cases across functions.

Identify specific transformation use cases across marketing, sales, support, product, talent, and operations. Cost, timeline, technology, ROI. The cross-functional use cases — unified voice across touchpoints, agents that span the journey, account plans that pull from every system — are the ones with the biggest payoff and the hardest internal owner.

STEP 04Diagnostics · week 2

Review the org chart, tech, and budget.

Map and understand the current resources. Who has the skillset, who needs coaching, where you genuinely need outside contractors. Understand where you've made technology investments and where the gaps are — which ones you can close, and which you can live with.

After the diagnostic
Three example workstreams the work moves into.
Engagement model

What this is — and what it isn't.

Each engagement starts the same way: a fast diagnostic and a clear set of named workstreams. From there, the shape evolves with the work. Some wrap when the foundation is in place; many become multi-quarter partnerships as the institutional knowledge compounds. The constant is partnership — I work alongside your CMO, CRO, and other leaders, not above them or around them.

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