Marketing Ops is broken. You broke it. But we can fix it. If we’re honest enough to start now.

All this AI in in Marketing Operations speak... but what if YOU were are an AI inMarketing Operations...

Marketing Operations isn’t being upgraded. It’s being rewritten. Teams that cling to comfort, dashboards, and incremental automation are setting themselves up for redundancy. Those who embrace strategy, oversight, and the human judgment AI cannot replicate... they will thrive.

Remember when we published our “Marketing Operations in 2025: Top Trends & Predictions” article back in January? We had big ideas, bold predictions, and a touch of wishful thinking. Fast forward to now: Mid-year. Time to see what actually stuck, what faceplanted, and what new forces are reshaping the game.

If you haven’t run a MarTech audit in over a year, you’re haemorrhaging money. You’re handing over 25% of your entire marketing budget to stuff that’s mostly idle.

AI is transforming Marketing Ops, but it is not a silver bullet. Humans remain the linchpin of effective operations, providing context, trust, problem-solving, and scalable process oversight.

AI is impressive. Until it isn’t. It can write a subject line in 0.2 seconds. Generate a campaign build. Auto-QA an entire email program....

If your MOps function is overloaded, constantly reactive, and struggling to scale - this is your signal. The answer isn’t more headcount. It’s more leverage. And leverage comes from systems that execute with intelligence and consistency, freeing your team to finally operate at their full potential.

If you want AI to work with your marketing systems, not around or against them, you need something most vendors won’t talk about: Guardrails.