If you’re looking for a revolution, look elsewhere. At Australia Post and creative production agency BRX, AI isn’t rewriting the rules of marketing; it’s finally enforcing them. The two organisations have embedded generative tools not to invent campaigns, but to systematise them. That means codifying brand guidelines, automating asset production, and auditing every prompt. At Aus Post, that’s led to bottom-of-funnel automation at scale and a 30 per cent efficiency dividend – and the firm, rather than cutting fees, is using those gains to do more.
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