Learn how GTM teams can use AI right now in their workflows to drive more efficient outcomes.
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Welcome to Future of AI.
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We're going to talk about Operation Lacking AI.
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And you know, if you're in this room and AI trust,
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there's some of us that probably are AI skeptics,
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some that are AI survivors.
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What we typically hear is that most people are waiting for a day in the future
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where AI can actually do things for that.
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And the reality is that most people don't actually realize
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what AI is capable of.
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And you know, unfortunately, there's a big aspect of related education
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in the lead curve that's been eroded, I think,
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by people's first experience in the AI.
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Your sales reps went to chat to be taken and said,
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"Right, me, I see, I'll be now."
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They probably didn't get a great result, right?
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And that puts us in a place, right,
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where it's really difficult to be able to win what that journey should look
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like.
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And so, you know, ultimately, the purpose of today's presentation
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is not a sales page.
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It's to help you think of how go-to-market teams can actually leverage AI
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to drive all of the outcomes that they want,
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and how this is really possible today.
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So, before I jump too far ahead of it,
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probably should introduce myself and my co-presenter, Nathan, over here.
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Shakar saying I lead solutions at Copy AI.
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Now, I know that you might think we have a lot in common
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in that we support the sales team,
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but solutions is actually a really unique role at Copy AI.
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It actually encompasses customer success, too.
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We think about org design very differently due to the investments that we're
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making,
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but, you know, in a sense, half my team is responsible for making empty
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promises
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to customers, and the other half of my team has to cash the check.
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So, it's really important for us to stay in lockstep,
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and, of course, I spend a good day of my, you know, my time
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thinking about how we can leverage it, how our customers can leverage it,
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how to make their dreams come true.
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Hi, I am head of content strategy here at Copy AI.
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I'll tell a little bit more about my background with AI in a minute.
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The biggest thing, though, is I've walked around telling people I work in AI,
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and I feel like public enemy number one at this conference.
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So, just bear with me.
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I'm happy to talk about any objections afterwards,
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but we do have some really cool stuff that will walk you through
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that can make marketing, I believe, cheaper, faster,
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but also higher quality, and that last part is the most important, so.
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Love it.
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Uphill battles is what I fight best.
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So, let's talk about Copy AI for a second.
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Again, promise is not a sales pitch.
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There's three numbers that I want to use to tell the story.
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15 million, 37 and 40.
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Now, the best part about the story is I actually don't even want to complete it
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right now.
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Just keep these numbers in the back of your head.
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We'll talk about what they actually mean and represent later.
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What's more relevant to this audience is the problem that we solve at Copy AI,
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which is really all around what I think, you know, the mandate is in 2024.
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Time and time again, we talk to dozens of go-to-market leaders,
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and this comes up almost every single time.
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The go-to-market team is simultaneously the most expensive
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and the least efficient part of every single organization.
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I see a lot of people nodding their heads because you've probably experienced
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this
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in your own day-to-day.
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And, you know, whereas it's easy to point fingers at someone that, you know,
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maybe isn't working as hard as they could, the reality is that's not really
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what the problem is.
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When you zoom out, there's hundreds and thousands of to-dos in typical
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organizations,
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and the team needs to get these things done every single day.
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As things continue to evolve, we continue to layer on new pieces of the tech
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stack.
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They continue to add up and tasks begin to, you know, constantly pile up.
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And the unfortunate reality for marketing teams is that
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whereas sales is a little bit more discreet, and it's easy to say,
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"Look at how many accounts I'm working."
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It's really hard to say, "Hey, remember these initiatives that I've been
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working on for three years that have been continuing on an ongoing basis?"
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Yeah, I'm still responsible for doing all of that,
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and now we're adding more layers to it.
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And so, you know, at the end of the day, what we've really done is invest in a
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lot of tools, amass these tools and say they're solving a problem for us.
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When really we're creating more button-clicking work, more pain for the people
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that have to use it day in and day out,
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and we've built huge tech stacks and, you know, ultimately not really seeing
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the results that would allow us to invest more.
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This is the problem that the industry is calling Go to Market Bloat,
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and it is the sum total of all of the investments that you've made in the Go to
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Market engine.
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And as I said, the big problem, right, is that they're not driving the results
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that we had all hoped.
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And, of course, you know, to add insult to injury, we're in a very different
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place than we were a few years ago.
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I thought Anthony actually put it best at Screen Capt. his post from a week ago
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, right?
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Ultimately, we're exhausted.
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There's a lot that -- there's a lot of pain that's happened over the last few
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years,
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and a lot of change of the whiplash of the market correction that has really
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pushed us to think differently about how we can actually drive the impact that we need.
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And, again, this is to say that, you know, it's okay to be exhausted.
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It's okay to feel like there has to be another way, because as we all discussed
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this morning,
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that is really what innovation is founded on.
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And in hindsight, the zero interest rate phenomena is actually something that
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shouldn't have ever been
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a reality in the first place.
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And I'll give you a simple example, right?
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Who thinks that their head of engineering or engineering department would have
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signed up for continuous
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deployment six times a day in a world where they didn't have the ability to do
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automated testing?
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No, right?
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Like, who would sign up for opening -- deploying the app and then having to pay
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someone to go click on every
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text box, every button, every dialogue modal, and determine that your latest
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release didn't break it.
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And so, in that world, technology kind of led us to decide to adopt a new way
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of working.
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The zero interest rate phenomena that we've all experienced has really just
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said,
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hey, data is important, it's an asset, you're a person, you can analyze it,
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why don't you take on this task as well?
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And so, what's really happened over the last several years is we're tired
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because we've become the tools of our tools.
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We are effectively data rich but very information poor.
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And in a lot of instances, this actually drives us to not really be able to act
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And when we do act, as we shared in the last session, right, it's really hard
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to attribute your actions to
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actually driving the impact that we wish is in the world.
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And that is a glim-grim reality.
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And, you know, I hope that I'm not belaboring the pain too much.
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I think I took Anthony's message to heart this morning that it's important to
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dwell on it so that we can actually
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think about, you know, what good really looks like.
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And then enter 2024, you know, again, not a surprise, do more with less is
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literally the mandate.
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And that line should actually be even more crooked, that's not a UI error, we
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're getting less resources
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and we need to actually drive more results.
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But if we're spending all of our time keeping the lights on, how can we
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possibly innovate in the long run?
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How do we change the way that we go to market and how do we actually work
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better together as a team?
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So here's a hot take for you, right?
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AI is supposed to solve this problem. I think we've all heard that before.
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We've also probably heard this one.
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AI is a calculator for words.
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Anyone here this, believe it, maybe, like I'm hoping, you know, I'm not the
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only person that's so deep in AI news that
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this is, you know, an analogy that only makes sense to me.
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But, you know, I hate to say this is actually one of my least favorite analog
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ies for AI
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because a hot take on is actually chat GPT is a calculator for words.
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And that, don't get me wrong, right? There's a ton of value in having a
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calculator.
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If I didn't have a TA89, I probably couldn't graph anything other than basic
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trig functions.
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However, calculators are a tool designed to do a specific job, which, you know,
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in this case is helping me solve
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an ad hoc math problem. In the case of chat GPT is helping you to solve an ad
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hoc work problem.
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Calculators are great, they just don't run businesses.
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And so when you hear AI is a solution in all of your problems and then contrast
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that to a world in which you have to
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talk to a chat bot for, you know, a couple hours in order to get something
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basic done,
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it's pretty challenging to be like, yes, it's going to drastically transform
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the way that we go to work.
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It'll make you 10, 20, 50% more efficient, but that's not really the outcome
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that is going to help you do more with less.
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And so, you know, a better take on this, we think, is that AI is much more than
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a calculator.
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It's actually a second, third, fourth brain that you can actually use in order
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to be able to scale your own impact
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across the organization. And ultimately, we have to get over this idea that the
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only way to use AI is by
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interacting with a chat bot back and forth. And, you know, unfortunately, this
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is pretty common, right?
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We just heard three, you know, amazing marketing leaders all say that chat GPT
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is like the end-all-be-all of leveraging
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AI. I'm sure we've all also used other AI tools out there. But the reality is
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AI tools also don't really hit the
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mark, right? In many ways, they have a, you know, buried logic. There's no way
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to actually change the way
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that you're using it. I'm sure a lot of the folks in here probably use GONG and
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review GONG transcripts all the time.
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GONG meeting summaries convince me that meeting summaries are valuable. That's
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not actually what I'm looking for out of
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a meeting. And so, there's this nexus of recognizing that AI is a second, third
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, and fourth brain, but really it's
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driven by your brain. And that is the foundation of actually how you can get AI
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to work for you. And, you know,
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hopefully that should be something that's exciting to everyone in the room. And
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so the question, right, how can we use
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AI systematically to actually scale our own impact? You know, what does it mean
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to actually even do that?
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How can we actually do that in a way that drives impact and results in
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production and not just, you know,
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do things a little bit faster? And so, I want to come back to the three numbers
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I told you, told the copy AI story.
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15 million customers in 37 months powered by 40 employees. Our marketing team
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is four people. Four people, total.
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The entire company is, you know, 40 employees. We're proud to call customers
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like Siemens, Lenovo, Thermo Fisher,
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Crow, Rubric, Urban, our largest enterprise customers. Obviously, we're a
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premium platform, so this is counting
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literally all of our customer base. What's interesting to know is that we don't
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compete with Jasper on content.
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We compete with HubSpot on content. And Jasper is a company that's, you know, I
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would argue they're not our competitor,
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and hopefully agree after we show you what our product can do. But, you know,
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ultimately, that's very different
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because we think differently in scarcity at Copy AI is really what drives
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innovation. When I joined Copy AI a year and a half ago,
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it was me and one other person that was responsible for every single customer
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interaction from every part of the sales cycle
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to actually deploying the customer, getting them live, training them, teaching
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them how to use the platform.
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And in that year, we closed 37 logos, which I'm pretty proud of. It was a lot
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of work, but what we realized was all of the things
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that we didn't have time for were an invitation to actually think differently
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about how we could use our own platform.
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And in many ways, that's really driven the entire story of Copy AI. If we can
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unlock what it takes to get 100 times the value
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out of each person and allow those people to continue being happy and thinking
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about their next problem,
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and ultimately leaving some of the load behind, we can really drive some really
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incredible outcomes.
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But what it takes to achieve this is shedding a lie that we've all been told.
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There's one thing that you take from today's session. It's that you've all been
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likely sold to lie if you believe that chat
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GPT or chat modalities are the only way of thinking about using AI. And this is
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controversial. I know a lot of people are afraid of, you know,
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automation. But the reality is autopilots are greater than copilots. Autopilots
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actually allow us to completely shed a
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responsibility and leverage our own brain to come up with an idea that we can
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encode into AI to follow our best practices
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in order to be able to drive the outcomes that we want, repeatably, reliably at
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scale.
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And if you think about most marketing tasks, right, it's not like you need to
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just write one blog post. It's not like you just
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need to write one nurture email. It's not like you need to just write one sale
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as the email that's personalized.
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Practically, everything needs to happen at scale. But the critical part of this
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is actually thinking about your role in it
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and thinking about your ability to actually instruct AI to drive the outcomes
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that you want and scale your own impact in an
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organization. So I know that's a lot of waxing, right, we haven't even told you
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how to pragmatically use AI.
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I wanted to set this up so you have a good understanding of really where we're
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coming from here. But really, what we'll
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jump to is actually a live discussion and demo of exactly what this means and
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how we at Copy AI are leveraging our own platform.
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And so Nathan, I'd love to, you know, just have you answer a few questions for
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the audience. Can you just tell us a bit about your
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AI journey, so far? >> Yeah. And can you guys hear me without the microphone?
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Is that okay? >> Can't record without.
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Then I'll use the microphone. That's just fine. That's good. My AI journey has
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not been a super technical one. I talked to some
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of the engineers and the founders. They tell me about how they started coding
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at eight years old after school for 12 hours
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a day in the library. I was watching The Simpsons, if I'm being totally honest.
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I was watching The Simpsons. I was eating junk
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food. And that was kind of my childhood. That was my background. When I got
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into marketing as an adult, all of that pop culture
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really played off. It was great. But I don't have the technical stuff. I don't
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code. That's just not who I am. So I've always been
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kind of confined to buy how well I can use the tools, how technical those tools
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are. When I came, I was at an agency
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when I first started writing for Copy AI. I was writing the landing pages. And
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at that point, it was really just the chat feature.
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And the chat feature is very cool. We'll talk about that and how we use it. But
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I was using it differently back then. How many people
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are familiar with Copy AI? How many people have tried it? Okay. How many people
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have tried chat GPT? Yeah.
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You'd use chat about the same way. Our chat function. It uses the same language
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model. So you'll get about the same quality results
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out of that. Soon you'll be able to use different language models, which is
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neat. But I was using it about the same way
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you're probably using chat GPT now. You'd want to write a LinkedIn post. You'd
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write a LinkedIn post. You'd want to write a blog post.
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You'd want to write a blog post. I don't use chat so much for that anymore
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since we got workflows. So at first, as I was coming into
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AI, it was very technical. Chat, Copy AI broke that down. Made it accessible to
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me. As Shakar said, Nathan, you are the perfect
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simpleton to be presenting on why this is so easy to use. And it's true. Not a
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big technical background. What I loved
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the big shift in the company was once we took chat and transitioned into work
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flows. When we went to B2B
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and we became a GTMAI platform, not just a chat tool, but a GTMAI platform,
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that was when the big shift was for me. Because what we did was have
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workflows, which was different than anything I'd used before. And as a content
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marketer, it really helped me out, scale, and keep quality
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very high. That was important for me. So I'll tell you quickly about how I use
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chat, and then I'll tell you about workflows and how those are
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different. Now I use chat as like a little brainstorm buddy. It's really good
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at bouncing ideas back. I don't expect them all to be
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great ideas. But me as the human can go through with my creativity, look at the
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ideas it's giving me as a launch pad and start
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coming up with something better. So we got a CMO last November. His name's Kyle
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Coleman. You might know him on LinkedIn. And we sat down, I went
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in person to Denver. And he said, Nathan, I want to see how you make a content
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calendar. I want to see what you do. So no pressure, new CMO, I'm
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sitting down. And I told him, we'll do this together in real time. We'll make
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six weeks worth of planned out content. We won't make the
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content, but we'll make the plan. And we did it in about an hour. And the
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process was simple with chat. I knew we wanted 20 SEO plays. I knew we
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wanted 10 thought leadership pieces. So I asked for 70 ideas. I asked for way
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more than I needed so that we could go through with our human insight
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and pick out the ones that were most interesting. That probably took 20, 30, 40
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minutes. Then I took what we agreed on. All the titles, the
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topics, just general ideas that excited us. I'm not looking at keywords yet.
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Looking at ideas that excite us. Then I could go through
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and ask it for, hey, what are some likely keywords that would be good for this?
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And I would get, I'd say, give me five or ten per topic. Then I could take
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that, head over to AHRF's, check for any volume opportunities, and do all of
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that grunt work, but really efficiently and really
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quickly. This is very important because I'm going to share about what I do with
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the time savings later. That part's really important. Sure,
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you're saving time. But what are you doing with it when you get it back? It's
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really important. So that's how I started using chat. At the
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end of it, like I said, in about an hour, hour and a half, we had six weeks'
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worth of content planned out, mapped out. He was excited
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about that. All we had to do now was find the thought leaders for our thought
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leadership articles and get these drafts over to the
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content writers. So that's how we use chat. It was great for one-off tasks, ad-
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hask tasks. It can give you some insight
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via brainstorming, but awesome. Then we have workflows. And that's when we
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became a platform. So workflows are different
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than chat. The best way I can think to describe it is workflows create an end-
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to-end process, and it completes the little
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tasks along the way. So I'll give you an example. I promised myself I wouldn't
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teach you how to use AI to write a blog post. I'm not
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going to. You will have access to a workflow that's pretty cool that we built.
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So we'll talk in a simple way in a second. But the
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workflow breaks things down into separate actions is what they're called. And
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like I said, it builds a process, a
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process that you can run at scale. So for example, we're going to start with
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the most simple form of workflow. It's not on the
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screen just yet. This is about as simple as it gets. There we go. All right. So
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we're going to start with something very simple. One of the things
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that we were doing is coordinate LinkedIn posts across our leadership team. And
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one thing that I was doing as I was
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looking at these LinkedIn posts was we would try to draw attention back to an
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article that that thought leader had written or as you'll see
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collaborated on together. What I wanted to do was make those better because a
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lot of the stuff -- a lot of the LinkedIn posts
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that I said, hey, go check out this blog post. It was trying to put in way too
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much information. Because one blog post might
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have 10, 12 points in it. Each one a little nugget, at least they should. And I
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And I think it's a little bit more important. And I
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think it's a little bit more important. And I think it's a little bit more
19:51
important. And I think it's a little bit more important. And I
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think it's a little bit more important. And I think it's a little bit more
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important. And I think it's a little bit more important. And
20:00
if we refine this and we get to the point where that's the best possible social
20:04
media content, I would imagine you go
20:06
from 10% edits to 5% edits to 3% edits to maybe 1% or QA review. And so if we
20:13
think about how we can make that even smarter, we
20:15
can actually connect it to another process that does this for us. It's going to
20:20
take the blog post, identify interesting
20:21
interactions, and then pipe it through the exact same workflow that we already
20:24
know delivers good final product. And this
20:27
ultimately allows us to get a whole lot more posts at once. And you can simply
20:31
QA and go through and post the ones
20:33
that are most interesting or potentially have the ones that are really going to
20:36
drive your audience at the right time. And
20:39
so what I'm trying to communicate here is that this is a very different way
20:42
about thinking, about utilizing AI. You
20:45
are the process architect. Your process is actually what has been driven
20:49
results. And as we all agreed today, that is
20:52
literally what we need to do best in the next, I don't know, call it five years
20:55
, to change the things that aren't working and
20:59
figure out the things that are working. And if you go back to the marketing
21:02
problem, right, unfortunately content has
21:04
always been the bottleneck or the production of that content has always been
21:07
the bottleneck. So what happens in a world where
21:10
you can actually scale that content production and actually think about it more
21:14
from a hypothesis testing paradigm, as opposed to
21:16
say, okay, well, I've got $3,000, I can get 10 LinkedIn posts written for that.
21:20
I'll post one of them. That's not
21:23
efficient. It takes God way too long. And it's never going to drive the
21:25
outcomes that you actually want.
21:29
All right. Well, we're going to take it now a little more complex. You've seen
21:32
this is really another task. We can't
21:35
expand it. That's awesome. But where to come up with the original posts? Now, I
21:39
view the kind of posts that we're creating
21:41
intentionally right now as we switch from B to C to a more B to B platform in
21:45
two ways. We have to have the standard
21:48
SEO plays. We got a lot of ground to cover. I know SEO is dying. It's going to
21:51
be dead, whatever you want to say. But it's
21:54
still important. And it is one of those keep the lights on. However, it is one
21:57
of the most expensive and time consuming
22:00
effects in content marketing, if you want to do it well. Takes a lot to hire
22:03
writers and editors and then to get
22:06
everything in the right places. So we did something a little bit different. I
22:10
built a workflow that started with
22:12
just -- actually, yeah, it's not this. Don't worry about that. We'll show the
22:15
output of that. Basically, it starts
22:17
with the keyword. And this is another workflow that I built. So it starts with
22:19
the keyword. And that's the only
22:21
thing that we enter at first. From that keyword, what it does -- and this is
22:25
when I said that workflows create a
22:27
process, but accomplish the tasks along the way, an end-to-end process. The
22:31
workflow will take a keyword and it
22:33
will actually run that keyword through Google. And it will take the top five
22:36
results. Then it will scan those
22:39
results and look at all the H2 and H3 headings. Trying to figure out what's
22:43
important information relative to
22:45
that keyword and what does the reader want to get back. Then it will come up
22:48
with some ideas, well, how can we make
22:50
that better? Then it will come up with some related keywords. It will
22:53
ultimately create a content outline, a
22:56
content brief, because we do work with human writers and we want to send them
22:59
that context as well. Once that's done
23:01
generating, what you get is the result, it automatically kicks off this
23:05
workflow to create a long-form blog post. And
23:09
the tools that we use -- we use Surfer SEO. It's not a magic bullet solution,
23:13
but we use it as kind of a
23:14
gauge. Out of the box, these were scoring 60 to 70 on a -- most scales were
23:18
between 75 and 85 at the top scores. So we
23:22
can hand these off to our human writers and say, hey, make sure this is not
23:25
garbage. Make sure there are no
23:27
hallucinations. Go in, add some insights. But they have a draft that they can
23:31
work through way more quickly. And my
23:34
goal was with our writers with the boring SEO stuff. It's my least favorite
23:37
part of content marketing, our blog. It's
23:40
my least favorite part, but it's very important. And I wanted to find a way,
23:42
how can we get more content back without
23:45
increasing the budget and get our writers earning more per hour based on the
23:49
campaigns that they're working? I
23:50
didn't want to rip them off either. And I'm happy to say with this -- with that
23:54
version, what we did is we give our
23:56
writers something like this, and they're able to do it in maybe 25% of the time
24:00
, so they're earning the same. But we
24:03
get two or three articles back in the time it used to take them to make one, if
24:06
that makes sense. So in that
24:08
way, I do believe we're scaling very responsibly. >> So I'm going to, you know,
24:13
keep with the same punch line. What does
24:14
this actually look like at scale? And one of the things -- for those of you
24:18
that were in the last session, you
24:20
probably heard me ask about transcript data. That's because that has been a
24:23
goldmine and a very fascinating topic
24:26
for me. We use it a lot of different ways. But imagine a slightly more complex
24:29
workflow. What if we could take a
24:31
meeting transcript, automatically identify all of the -- and extract all the
24:34
topics that are discussed, look at
24:37
all the topics and identify is it a how-to article, is it a best practices
24:40
article, is it a thought leadership
24:41
article, like what could we write with this, go back and scan to extract all
24:44
the supporting details from the
24:46
original article, then generate an outline, then use that outline to actually
24:51
write a full form article, then
24:52
identify of all the people that work at your company, who is the most prolific
24:56
person and knowledgeable person
24:58
about this, adapt it to their own brand voice using writing samples that they
25:03
've provided us, generate social
25:05
promo content, and then ultimately publish the blog article directly to Notion
25:08
and ultimately to Webflow, and
25:10
then just send the person a slack saying, you know, you wrote something, right?
25:16
That's actually what they say. And here's some social media posts, LinkedIn posts to promote it, written in your
25:19
voice. That sounds like a pipe
25:22
dream. I'm sure I lost a lot of people that are like, no way, AI can do that.
25:24
>> Are you just telling us a dream? >> No.
25:27
I'm about to show you that this is reality. Thank you. That was a great tea out
25:32
. >> I did say it sounds like a
25:34
flower. >> Your work look credits will be in your account. Don't worry. What
25:40
you're looking at here is an
25:42
experiment we ran for six months. >> Right. The stupid. >> Here. >> Don't curse
25:49
the computer. >> Yeah, they're
25:54
listening. So what you're looking at here is a Notion database that contains
25:58
content that has been published for
26:01
six months. The reason we're having all this content is because what my team
26:06
does on a day-to-day basis, it
26:07
talks to customers about their most prolific problems in the market space.
26:10
Every customer is different. Some of
26:11
these articles are super long tail. We had a customer that is using AI to try
26:14
to write radio ad copy. And
26:16
that's the most long tail thing in the world. They only have one customer that
26:19
has ever asked me about that. We
26:21
teased that out as a topic. It extracted all of the things we discussed on the
26:24
call, the considerations that we
26:25
mentioned as to what model they use, why it would be hard, what kinds of
26:28
challenges you might need to overcome, and
26:30
ultimately wrote some really high quality content from it. I don't want to look
26:34
for a specific article here, but let
26:35
me just open this guy up. You can get a sense of the quality of content. It's
26:40
well formatted. It actually
26:42
follows the overall logical order of how we're thinking about things. And of
26:46
course has a general outline in
26:47
mind. We want to talk about impact. We want to talk about a new way for AI-
26:52
powered content repurposing. I
26:53
didn't even look at the title of the article. The content repurposing super
26:56
power, creating tailor variations for every persona. That might as well be something
26:59
that is based on the conversation we're
27:01
having right now. And so here's the thing, right? The old process is something
27:04
that was broken in the first
27:06
place. You would have an interview with someone in the field or a founder or a
27:11
CEO. You would ultimately use
27:13
that interview to translate that with your own brain into your understanding of
27:16
the topic. You would then
27:18
have them probably QA the topic. Maybe then it would go to a writing agency and
27:21
you'd pay them, you know, countless
27:23
amount of dollars to give you back a piece of content from someone that is
27:26
further removed from their writing
27:28
style than you are. Ultimately, great content in many cases, right? People are
27:31
really good at what they do. But
27:33
it's a really inefficient process. Whereas when we're actually using the
27:35
details of what happened on the call,
27:37
letting AI process that and then telling it to go right just like you do, we
27:41
can actually drive some
27:43
incredible outcomes. And you know, the impact of this is actually we don't
27:48
publish all of it. We've actually come up
27:50
with a couple of things. The author has been predicted. Nathan, you're prolific
27:53
and clearly an expert in a lot of
27:55
different topics. It's tagged it. The only thing we haven't automated is this
28:00
publish flag. And that is because
28:03
Google guidelines and not wanting to get dinged. But what this means is that
28:07
Nathan gets to sit on a treasure
28:09
trope of more content that you could publish in two, three years. >> I'm
28:12
exhausted thinking about it. I'm going to be
28:16
talking about it a little bit. When we were given this, I was told Nathan, go.
28:20
Publish. It's absolutely not. I don't know if you can see this number.
28:24
How long has this been up? >> We started this in October of last year. >> 6,000
28:29
full-length articles written
28:31
from customer calls with real pain points. Can I see this for a second? >> The
28:34
reason that this is really important to me is as I'm
28:37
writing a blog post or an article or anything, if I find a use case that I want
28:42
to explain, I can pop in here and I can
28:45
search it. It's already written step by step. I have to verify. I don't have to
28:51
go through it. Again, the emphasis on verify. Stay the human in the loop. Make sure it's accurate. Make sure it's working.
28:55
But there's a second benefit that I have found
28:58
with this. Sales bugs me a lot less throughout the week for things that they
29:03
need to send customers. They can take this. They
29:05
have access. They pop in. And if a customer has a similar question to a call
29:10
they had last week, they can say, hey, let me
29:12
send you a quick one pager for that. They have it ready. They have 6,000
29:16
options if they want. Which is incredible.