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October 29, 2026 Marketing Ops

AI Workflows for Lean Marketing Operations: Where to Start

A practical look at eight AI workflow opportunities, how to choose a first use case, and where human review belongs in lean marketing operations.

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October 29, 2026 Marketing Ops

The Future of Marketo Measure in an AI-Driven World

AI can make marketing measurement more actionable, but trustworthy data, transparent methods, and human validation still determine whether its recommendations deserve to guide revenue decisions.

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October 19, 2026 Marketing Ops

AI Agents Have Entered Marketing Operations. Is Your Stack Ready?

AI agents are moving from recommendations to execution. Learn how to prepare your marketing stack with scoped permissions, clean data, human review, audit logs, and measurable outcomes.

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October 12, 2026 Technology

Google Workspace MCP Adds an Agentic OAuth Requirement

Google says AI-agent OAuth clients must be marked agentic to call Workspace MCP servers by November 11, 2026. Here’s who needs to review the change.

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October 5, 2026 Marketing Ops

Have You Heard the One About the MCP...

Model Context Protocol gives AI a standardized way to connect with the systems, tools, and data it needs. For Marketing Ops, that could move AI from “tell me how” toward “help me do it.”

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September 30, 2026 Technology

The Trouble With SOAP in the Age of Clean Data

APIs change. Integrations break. Documentation helps, but it does not always tell you what will happen inside your environment.

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September 21, 2026 Tips & Tricks

As an Active SAM.gov Registered Entity, Leadous Expands Public-Sector Support

As an active SAM.gov registered entity, Leadous supports public-sector organizations and prime contractors through direct contracting, subcontracting, and specialized teaming relationships.

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July 25, 2026 Tips & Tricks

AI Credits Are the New Budget Blind Spot

AI credit and token models are changing marketing operations. Learn how teams can manage usage, budget visibility, governance, and workflow readiness.

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June 9, 2026 Tips & Tricks

How AI Is Reshaping the Role of the Digital Marketing Team

AI has moved from a side experiment to a working layer inside modern marketing. It is helping teams draft content, assemble audiences, surface insights, test variations, automate decisions, and personalize customer engagement at speeds manual workflows cannot match. That does not make the digital marketing team less important. It makes the team’s role more strategic, […]

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May 27, 2026 Marketing Ops

Introducing Leadous Orbit™ The AI Operational Intelligence Framework for Connected Marketing Execution

Introducing Leadous Orbit™, an AI Operational Intelligence Framework for Connected Marketing Execution Leadous Orbit™ connects marketing operations, platform workflows, governance, campaign execution, and AI-assisted decision support into one operating framework for faster, cleaner, and more accountable execution Minneapolis, MN — Wednesday, May 27th, 2026 — Leadous today announced Leadous Orbit™, an emerging AI operational intelligence […]

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May 20, 2026 Tips & Tricks

AEM as More Than a CMS: Unlocking Hidden Potential

Discover how to unlock AEM’s hidden potential beyond CMS. Learn why enterprises underuse key features and how Leadous activates personalization, workflows, A/B testing, and more for measurable business impact.

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May 20, 2026 Tips & Tricks

Why Enterprises Are Rebuilding Marketing Automation Around the Data Warehouse

Enterprises are moving identity, consent, segmentation, and measurement out of suite-centric marketing platforms and into a governed data warehouse. Explore the four-layer architecture, deliverability requirements, and practical tests for treating tools like Marketo, SFMC, Eloqua, and Braze as execution layers rather than systems of record.

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March 24, 2026 Tips & Tricks

Leadous Announces Strategic Partnership with Optimizely to Accelerate Experimentation and Digital Experience Optimization

Leadous announced its official partnership with Braze, a leading customer engagement platform known for enabling real-time, cross-channel communication at scale.

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