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Govern your AI Marketing Engine

Marketing is where AI agents are moving fastest, and where one bad action reaches customers first. RealMandates lets you scale agents without handing over your brand.

Agents are already running parts of your engine

In the AI Marketing Engine described in Marketing Rebuilt, agents support 10 capabilities: the scoreboard, positioning, brand, pipeline generation, customer marketing, revenue acceleration, content marketing, product marketing, AI agents, and engine operations. That is 100 use cases where an agent could act on your behalf.

What needs a human mandate

Every customer touch.

Outbound messages, offers, and replies speak for your company.

Every dollar.

Budget shifts, bids, and spend changes need an owner.

Every claim.

Content, pricing, and positioning carry your brand's credibility.

How should people and marketing agents share the work?

A starting point many teams use. Your mandates set the final levels.

Marketing workSuggested starting levelWhy
Monitoring campaign and pipeline signalsActLow risk, no customer contact
Summarizing research and win-loss notesActInternal only
Drafting content and emailsDraftA person approves before publishing
Adjusting bids within a set rangeActBounded spend inside a mandate
Moving budget between channelsRecommendSpend decisions need an owner
Sending offers or messages to customersDraftCustomer-facing and brand-sensitive
Changing pricing or positioning claimsRecommendHigh stakes for brand and revenue

Learn how to set levels in the autonomy threshold.

Illustrative example

A product launch email that kept its owner

A content agent drafts a launch announcement for 40,000 customers using notes from the product team. The mandate allows drafting only for anything sent to customers. The Director of Product Marketing reviews it, corrects one claim about a feature not yet available, and approves the send.

Signal
Launch date confirmed by the product team
Mandate
Draft only for customer communications
Decision
Approved with one correction
Owner
Director of Product Marketing

Run more agents with less risk

  • Set how people and agents share each kind of marketing work.
  • Route customer-facing and budget actions to the accountable leader before they go out.
  • Report the Governed Action Rate to your CEO and board.

See more use cases, explore The Mandate Engine, or become a design partner.

Questions CMOs ask us

No. It governs the AI agents that work across your existing tools.

It helps, but design partners also include teams planning their first agents who want accountability from the start.

The goal is the opposite. Routine work keeps moving. Only consequential actions wait for a person, and they reach the right person directly.

The leader accountable for the outcome: usually the head of the program, channel, or team the agent works for. The mandate names that person.

The book describes the operating model. RealMandates is the software that makes its governance enforceable.

Scale your AI marketing engine. Keep your name on it.