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By Jayne Schultheis — If you're someone who relies on long-form content, you've probably been toying with the idea of using AI technology in blogging. Perhaps you're already using it, and would like to make sure you're doing it right.  

As you explore the integration of AI in your blogging strategy, this article will guide you through the benefits, from enhancing creativity to optimizing SEO. There are many ways that AI can help you save time, reduce costs, and provide a competitive edge in an ever-evolving market.

Understanding AI technology in blogging

AI is so much more than just a tool for quickly churning out drafts. It’s becoming an end-to-end creative partner that can support every stage of blogging, from brainstorming to hitting publish. Bloggers everywhere are integrating it in their processes. In fact, according to Orbit Media, around 80% of bloggers were using AI in their work in 2024 — up from around 65% in 2023. Ready to join in on the fun? Here’s how AI can work with you throughout the process:

• Topic generation and research. AI can help you identify trending topics, find content gaps in your niche, and even reveal the questions your audience is already asking online. We'll break this down a little later.
• Outlining and structuring. Based on your topic, AI can suggest outlines that follow proven formats, helping you organize your ideas into a logical, reader-friendly flow.
• Drafting. Need help getting started? AI can generate a first draft or suggest strong openings, transitions, and conclusions.
• SEO optimization. AI tools can recommend keywords, meta descriptions, internal links, and headings that align with current search trends. This is especially important now with Google's AI Mode diving deeper into the web for authoritative content.
• Voice and tone adjustments. Whether you want to sound more professional, conversational, or playful, AI can adapt your content to match your brand voice.
• Editing and proofreading. AI excels at catching grammar errors, awkward phrasing, or inconsistencies.  It can even suggest sharper word choices to improve clarity and engagement.
• Image generation and visual support. With the rise of multimodal content in search, AI can generate custom images or suggest visuals that enhance understanding and keep readers engaged.
• Content repurposing. Turn one blog post into multiple formats. You can slice and dice them into social captions, newsletters, or outlines for videos, all with a little AI help.

The best ways to use AI technology in blogging

We're going to focus on a few of the uses we mentioned above. AI technology in blogging, at its best, is not a full-scale, entirely AI-generated pursuit. Think of it more as a time-saving tool used at strategic points in your processes. It's not your do-it-all genie, but a way to boost your efficiency and give you a competitive advantage on search engines.

Topic generation and research

We’re going to brag for a second — this is where Rellify really shines. At the heart of the platform is the Relliverse™, a custom-trained AI subject-matter expert built specifically for your industry and audience. It doesn’t just skim the surface. It analyzes your website, your competitors’ content, and relevant industry sources to identify topic gaps, cluster keywords, and build a clear content roadmap. The result? A strategic foundation that takes the guesswork out of what to write and helps you focus on what your audience actually cares about.

Unlike generic AI tools that throw out vague suggestions, the Relliverse™ delivers data-backed insights rooted in deep machine learning and topic modeling. It’s a smarter, more targeted way to develop content that ranks and resonates.

SEO optimization

We touched on this earlier, but it’s worth digging deeper. AI is changing the game for SEO, and Rellify is built to take full advantage of that. Using natural language processing and deep learning, it uncovers how people are actually searching — not just what keywords they’re using, but what they mean. That means your content can be structured around intent-driven topic clusters instead of just stuffing in keywords and hoping for the best.

Even better, Rellify generates SEO-focused content briefs, suggests internal links, and benchmarks your content against your competitors in real time. It’s like having an in-house SEO strategist and analyst rolled into one. With Google’s AI Mode rewarding relevance, authority, and depth more than ever, these optimizations are more than just "nice to have," they’re essential.

Image generation and visual support

Stock photos and graphic designers can be a difficult price point for small businesses, especially when you're trying to scale quickly. AI is transforming how bloggers create visual content with high-quality image generators that are faster, more accessible, and more tailored to individual needs. Using tools powered by generative AI, bloggers can create custom graphics, illustrations, and even infographics that align with their brand or support specific points in a post. This is especially valuable considering how visual content plays a critical role in engagement and SEO.

AI can also suggest the most relevant types of visuals based on the blog’s topic or structure, helping readers better understand complex information and keeping them on the page longer. As search engines increasingly factor in user experience and multimodal content, integrating AI-generated visuals can give blogs a meaningful edge.

Let's talk about Google's new AI mode

A lot of marketers wonder how to adapt to something as disruptive as Google's new AI search that provides a snippet-like answer at the top of the SERPs. The good news is: Google's new AI mode can better understand exactly what users are asking, and the intent behind queries. You need to show that you're an expert on topics in your field. Let's take a closer look at the new AI Mode and what it means for the future of blogging.

Google search is shifting toward complex, conversational queries

• Users are asking longer, more complex, multimodal questions (e.g. combining text, voice, image).
• Bloggers should write content that answers nuanced questions, not just short-tail keywords.
• Content should be conversational, natural, and deeply informative.

AI mode uses “query fan-out” to go deeper

• Google breaks down complex questions into sub-questions and searches multiple threads simultaneously.
• Bloggers must make sure their content addresses specific subtopics in depth.
• Even niche insights may now surface if they answer part of a multi-layered query.

Takeaway: Write posts that cover a topic thoroughly — anticipate related questions and subtopics within one article.

Authority and expertise will be critical

AI Overviews and AI Mode synthesize information into intelligent summaries but still link back to the web. Google favors credible, well-cited, expert-level content for these summaries. The new Deep Search technology builds expert-style reports based on your content.

Takeaway: Establish topical authority by creating high-quality, well-researched, cited, and original content.

AI mode prioritizes rich media and multimodality

With features like Search Live and Google Lens integration, search can interpret and respond to visual and voice input. Posts with visuals, infographics, and embedded videos may perform better.

Takeaway: Add diverse content formats to make your posts more engaging and AI-ready.

Personalization and context will influence results

AI Mode can incorporate a user’s location, past searches, and Gmail data to tailor results. These tools for audience targeting increase the importance of semantic SEO and local context in your content.

Takeaway: Include location-specific insights, and write with personalization in mind (“for families,” “for foodies,” etc.).

AI search highlights actionable, helpful content

With agentic capabilities, AI Mode will help users get things done (like buying tickets or making reservations). Content that includes clear CTAs, structured data, and actionable advice may be surfaced more prominently.

Takeaway: Format content with scannable sections, practical steps, and structured data.

Data-driven visualizations are a bonus

AI Mode can create custom graphs and data visualizations from reliable content. If your content includes structured data or comparisons, it may be used in these visualizations.

Takeaway: Use charts, tables, or comparisons in your content, especially in finance, sports, or product reviews.

Get a competitive AI Advantage with rellify

As blogging adapts to meet the demands of AI-powered search, the pressure to create authoritative, deeply relevant, and well-structured content has never been higher. Your content must prove your expertise, answer nuanced questions, and be optimized for how users (and search engines) now discover information. This is where AI tools really have their moment to prove their innovation and worth. Automation isn't meant to replace human creativity, but to enhance it and help bloggers with scalability.

Rellify stands out in this space by offering a deeply integrated, AI-driven approach to content strategy. From intelligent topic discovery using the Relliverse™ to advanced SEO recommendations and real-time content scoring, Rellify gives bloggers and marketers the insights they need to create meaningful, high-performing content. As search evolves, aligning your strategy with tools designed for this new landscape is what's going to set you apart from your competitors, and ultimately get you better traffic, leads, and happy customers.

To learn more, download our free eBook: Visibility & Relevance in Times of AI.

By Dan Duke — To get top results from content creation and content marketing, it pays to direct your content toward the specific people who will be the most interested in it. The best way to do that as you plan, create, and publish content is to consider the customer journey map that your target audience follows.

‍Creating your own customer journey map can pay big dividends. It helps you figure out how a shopper becomes a customer and then, ideally, an advocate who creates more customers. Once you understand that path, or paths, you can figure out how to make it as easy as possible for more customers to follow.

Here’s a look at how to use the customer journey concept to make smart decisions about your content marketing efforts — decisions that will affect not only your brand, but also your bottom line.

What is the customer journey?

The customer journey is every step a customer takes to achieve a goal with a company. A typical journey would begin with the customer gaining awareness of the business and end with post-purchase messages from the company, like a thank you note. But the journey also could involve joining a loyalty program or signing up for a newsletter.

Have you ever dealt with a company that seemed to make it hard for you to buy something, or at least didn’t much care if you did or not? Did that make you want to skip that brand and check out its competitors? Or perhaps after you made a purchase, the company did things to sour the customer experience and make it unlikely that you would recommend it to your friends, such as hounding you with texts, emails, and social media posts?

Those examples of negative customer journeys show why mapping can be a valuable exercise.

What is customer journey mapping?

Customer journey mapping creates a visual aid to help the members of a business understand their customers’ experiences. It’s a way to determine customer motivation, the key interactions that can result in a sale, and the points of friction that might drive away business.

‍Creating such a map is a complex undertaking that requires goal-setting, research, open internal communication, and follow-through. You might find it necessary to chart maps for different parts of your operation because the interactions with your customers are so varied and complicated, and your goals are multi-faceted.

Start by having a clear business goal in mind. Examples of goals are:

• Encourage consumers to refer my business to others.
• Assign the right personnel to key touchpoints.
• Keep people from bouncing out of my website before I make a sale.

Many samples of customer journey mapping are available on the internet. Keep your goals in mind to help you decide which is right for you.

The important thing is that the people in the business think hard about its customers. Who are they? What drives them? What do they see when they look at your business? Methodically consider every step they take, everyone they interact with, every marketing message they see and hear.

The phases of the customer journey

Before working on a journey map, we need to consider the phases of the customer journey. Different experts define them differently. Many marketers identify four stages:

• Awareness stage. A customer begins searching for the answer to a problem and encounters your brand for the first time.
• Consideration stage. The consumer researches your brand and your competitors. He or she is visiting your website, review sites, and other informational sites, examining ads and marketing material, and perhaps visiting stores.
• Decision stage. The consumer is done researching and is ready to commit.
• Retention. Your customer is evaluating his or her experience with you and evaluating what you do to create brand loyalty through customer service.

Some sources identify five stages: Awareness, acquisition, adoption, assimilation, and advocacy. A similar way of looking at it is: Awareness, education, sample, purchase, and refer.

The important thing is to use the stages as a frame for looking at each step of your customer journey. If your goal, for example, is getting the right personnel assigned at key touchpoints, you should look at how each stage of the consumer journey can contribute to that goal.

The role of content in creating customers

The customer journey map can be a big help when you are developing a content distribution plan. It will help you create content that speaks to your customers’ specific needs as they make decisions about a purchase.

You can also use the sales funnel model, which can be summarized in a simple format as: Awareness, Consideration, Intention, Conversion. It is not a coincidence that it closely resembles the basic model of the customer journey. At each stage, the funnel narrows, representing the smaller number of consumers making it from one stage to the next. Content marketing can drive sales by increasing the number of people who travel all the way through the sales funnel for a complete the customer journey. This leads to a key question about the customer journey: How does your content creation strategy address each customer journey stage?

Awareness

For this stage, create content that describes your business or product and its value and benefits. Distribute it as widely as you can across as many channels as you can to build brand awareness. You’re trying to offer solutions to customers’ needs or problems. The content format used most often here is the blog post. This is the stage most often targeted by businesses using content marketing. You can best market your business by blogging about your product or service and being sure to use SEO best practices to put your content at the top of search engine results. Develop social media posts, checklists, how-to videos, tip sheets, ultimate guides, and other tools to tell potential consumers exactly what your business offers.

Consideration

To drive people from awareness to this next phase, use your knowledge of your customers’ problems, concerns and desires to develop intriguing, knowledgeable, welcoming content that directly addresses those issues. This is the stage to showcase your brand and build a relationship — one of trust and caring — with the customer. The tools that best fit this stage are marketing via email; remarketing (reminding them of their prior interest in your business); offering a product comparison guide, a free trial, a consultation, or a coupon; and using social media. Use a call to action in the content to promote lead generation. For example, ask people to download a guide or sign up for a weekly newsletter.

Decision

At this next stage, the customer decides to buy a product or service. By understanding the pain points and problems that customers are trying to solve, content can show them that you have the best solutions. This is where sales outreach comes in. End your blog post with a powerful call to action to encourage them to "call today for an appointment" or "book a meeting with your sales department." Use the expertise and authority of your content to lock in reader engagement. At this stage, it's good to use email, remarketing, and social media.

Retention

The quality of your product will be paramount here, but remembering the customer journey in your outreach can make a major difference. You want the purchasing and delivery experiences to be quick and easy. Make sure the UX design (or user experience) on your site is optimized. Once someone becomes a customer, he or she can become an advocate for your business, as well. When you strengthen your customer relationship after the sale, you can engender a lifetime customer and advocate. Make it easy for new customers to review your product online. At this stage, content like guides, FAQs, and listicles can help people get off to a great start with their new purchase. Set up a landing page that invites people to sign up for a loyalty program. ‍Email, remarketing, and live chat/chatbots are useful here, too.

The path to successful customer journey mapping

There are many ways to develop a customer journey map and many formats for them. Hubspot, a leading developer, and marketer of software for marketing, sales, and customer service, lists an eight-point process for journey mapping. Many other sources list six crucial steps:

Research

Without data, journey mapping will do little more than confirm the mindset inside your company. Now is the time to get customer feedback. Learn about the decision-making process of your customers and the ones who go to your competitors.

‍Interview customers directly and in-depth, if possible. If you can’t, talk to the workers who deal directly with consumers. If you use affiliate marketing partners, get them on board as well. Conduct surveys and questionnaires. Send them to customers by email. (A small reward will boost participation.) Brick-and-mortar businesses can survey visitors onsite.

Look at your social media analytics and your website’s usage metrics. Perform a Google Analytics goal flow report and behavior flow report, and run user testing with your product. You need the answers to questions like this:‍

• What problems are potential customers trying to solve?
• How did they find your website or company?
• How long do they typically spend on your website?
• Was the site or app easy to navigate? Did they ever need customer support? How helpful was it?
• What competitors did they look at?
• What sets your brand apart from others? Why did they choose (or reject) your product?
• Have they ever gone to your website to buy something, then decided not to? Why? What is your conversion rate?
• What do they like about your company? Do they find things that frustrate them? Can they suggest improvements?‍

Identify personas

Use the research to identify your core customers. Go all-in to develop buyer personas. Give them names and attach a photo to these blends of demographics (like gender, income, age, occupation) and behavioral profiles (including shopping habits and motivations).

‍If you are a B2B company, compile similar profiles on the businesses that matter most to your sales. Each buyer persona will have a different type of customer journey. It’s recommended that you focus on the one or two personas that have the most impact on your business.

Find the touchpoints and pain points

A touchpoint occurs any time a consumer interacts with your brand. Some touchpoints, like referrals and online research, are not even under your control and occur before the consumer has any direct contact with you. They can happen online, in person, over the phone, or through your content marketing efforts.

First, identify the phases or stages that best describe the customer experience (CX) at your business. Consider each persona as they go through each phase of the journey. This mapping process is best served by involving as many people from your business as possible. No one person can think through all the variations that come into play here.‍

To help find touchpoints, imagine that you are a customer and must figure out what to do if you want to find a product or service that you need, or have decided to buy something from your company, or need help and have questions after the purchase.

Pain points, also called friction points, are just what they sound like. Expectations are not being met. The consumer journey is rocky here, and your customers are frustrated. Maybe shipping prices are too high. The wait times in your call center are too long. The login process is too demanding. Pain points push buyers toward your competition. Analyze how your customers are reacting to them and what you can do to smooth the path.

You might be surprised by how many pain points your research turns up throughout the phases of the journey. It might be best to focus on the most important one or two to attack.

Take the journey yourself

Researching, brainstorming, and mapping are valuable exercises. Now take what you have discovered and go on the customer journey yourself. Test the findings by pretending that you are a customer and go through every phase. For example, pretend to be a potential customer searching for a product or service you sell.

‍If your company doesn’t show up until the second or third page of Google results, you might need a content performance platform like Rellify, which helps companies produce relevant content that naturally ranks high in search engine results.

‍Have new employees do this exercise as well, because they are able to bring a fresh perspective. This exercise will give you greater insight into the level of pain and frustration your customers are experiencing. It also can help generate ideas about what departments are falling short and what resources you need to fix the problems. The insights gained here make it easier to prioritize, too.

Prioritize and fix

Some touchpoints have more impact than others. Are you seeing a big drop from one phase to another? Are customers finding a nuisance or a roadblock that stops a purchase?

‍The main goal is conversion, getting a response to your call to action that turns a looker into a buyer. Identify the biggest conversion problem and fix it. It can be better to address one touchpoint at a time because it allows you to measure the success of that one change.‍

A blog post at medium.com recommends setting these priorities: put retention first, followed by getting new customers into your funnel, turning customers into active users, getting them to buy more, and getting them to become advocates for your business.

Revisit and revamp

Customer journey mapping is not a one-and-done exercise. Write into your journey map your plan for regularly reviewing the work, perhaps on a quarterly basis. Identify personnel who are responsible for working through the prioritized list of fixes for the pain points and for measuring the success of the measures taken and the ROI (return on investment).

‍Keeping the map alive as a work in progress will not only help you find ways to improve results but also be good for morale. No one likes going through a painstaking process like customer journey mapping only to see it fall by the wayside. It also will help your organization nurture a "customer first" approach.

How do you develop content for every stage of the customer journey?

The key is to write to your target audience. ‍Mining your customer data and considering the phases of the customer journey help you determine what types of content can serve as stepping stones.

Think of your content as signposts on your customers’ journey. And put those signposts in the right places, which are the various channels available to you.

Shoppers in the Attention and Consideration stages are looking for answers, research, education, resources, and insights. People in the Intention and Conversion stages want to know exactly what it means to be one of your customer. Can you solve their problems? How easily?‍

A customer journey map can help you create high-quality content. It can be a difficult process, but it can bring you gains in key performance indicators (KPI) such as customer satisfaction, and retention rate.‍ Rellify can help you make data-driven strategic decisions based on a custom-AI subject-matter expert trained on your relevant focus topics — a Relliverse™.

Our tools will help you identify the right topics, use the right keywords, and answer the right questions. Book a meeting today with Rellify to learn how our content performance platform can help you create and execute a successful marketing strategy.

By Jayne Schultheis — Link-building is a crucial part of search engine optimization — building your website and its contents to draw your target audience to your site and get the most organic traffic possible. Link-building is also a process that takes plenty of time and planning. Let's look at some tips for link-building and examine why it's an important part of any robust content strategy.

What is link-building?

Link-building involves acquiring hyperlinks from other websites to your own site. These links, called backlinks or inbound links, indicate to search engines that your website is reputable, trustworthy, and authoritative. At least, they do if you get backlinks from well-respected sites. If Google sees that reputable sites link to your content, they consider that a vote of confidence. That's why backlinks are a ranking factor for Google SERPs.

Because link-building takes so much work, many website owners and marketers hire agencies or experienced individuals to do it for them. There are many ways to build links, including simply asking a site to link to your content. (They might do it because you’re already mentioned on one of their pages or you have written a testimonial on their website.) You also can add backlinks to your pages on other sites, such as review sites, business directories and forums.

Why is link-building important for SEO?

Link-building is important for SEO because it:

• Improves search engine rankings. Search engines like Google use links as one of the main factors to determine the authority and relevance of a website for specific search queries. Websites with a greater number of high-quality links tend to rank higher in SERPs.
• Boosts direct traffic. Quality links from relevant and authoritative websites can drive direct traffic to your site, in addition to the visits you get from better SERPs. This traffic is likely to be interested in your content or products.
• Builds credibility and trust. When reputable websites link to your site, it signals to both search engines and users that your content is trustworthy and valuable. This helps to build your online reputation and credibility in your industry.
• Bolsters brand authority. Websites with a strong link profile are perceived as authoritative sources of information within their niche. This authority not only boosts your SEO efforts but also positions your brand as a leader in your field.
• Facilitates indexing and crawling. Search engines use links to discover new web pages and determine how they should be indexed in their databases. Quality backlinks can help search engine crawlers find and index your content faster and more efficiently.
• Provides long-term SEO benefits. Unlike some SEO tactics that may be short-lived or susceptible to algorithm changes, building a strong and natural link profile is a sustainable strategy that can continue to benefit your website over time.

How to develop a link-building strategy

A solid link building strategy will take time to execute, and also some trial and error. No one gets it perfect right off the bat. Here are the steps needed to develop a strategy.

Understand your audience and industry

Who is your target audience and what are their interests, preferences, and online behavior? Use a competitive analysis to look at competitors’ link profiles and identify opportunities and gaps. Remember, a link from a site that is not relevant to your content, and thus not relevant to your target audience, will not impress the Google bots. 

Create high-quality content

The first step in link-building is having content that's worth linking to. Develop a content strategy that focuses on creating valuable, relevant, and shareable content that naturally attracts links. That's where Rellify can help by providing a Relliverse™, in-house, customized AI subject-matter expert that shows your team the best content opportunities.

Identify link building opportunities

Identify existing and potential content assets that are link-worthy and valuable to your target audience. To do this, you can try:

• Prospecting. Use tools and techniques to find websites and influencers in your industry that might be interested in linking to your content. Ahrefs, SemRush, and BuzzSumo all have tools you can use to prospect for appropriate opportunities.
• Personalized outreach. Craft personalized outreach emails or messages that clearly communicate the value of your content to the recipient.
• Relationship building. Build relationships with influencers, bloggers, journalists, and webmasters through genuine engagement and an appeal to mutual benefit.
• Guest blogging. Write high-quality guest posts for other relevant blogs in your industry, including a link back to your site. Or, engage respected figures in your niche to guest blog for you, and ask them to backlink to your post from their site.
• PR and media coverage. Pitch your great content and expertise to journalists or media outlets to earn mentions and backlinks.

Monitor and measure performance, then adapt your strategy

Once you've made some progress on link-building, it's time to monitor the impact on your SEO metrics. Assess the ROI — the effectiveness of your link-building efforts — and adjust strategies based on performance data. Ahrefs, SemRush, Moz, and Google Search Console all have link analysis software capabilities for analyzing backlinks, tracking performance, and identifying opportunities.

As a content management system (among other things), Rellify can also provide some key metrics about your content performance and analytics platforms to measure the impact of your content and link-building efforts after publishing.

Finally, be sure to keep abreast of changes in SEO trends, algorithms, and best practices related to link building. Keep in mind that the performance of your backlinks isn't just a function of your efforts. It also depends on search engines' algorithms and policies.

Use external links and internal links, too

Internal links are hyperlinks in content on a website that take users to other content on that same site. They're about connecting your website's pages to improve navigation and SEO within your domain.

Navigational links are internal links that are primarily intended to help users navigate between different pages or sections within a website. This type of internal linking is typically found in navigation menus, sidebars, and footers.

External links connect your content to outside resources — giving that outside source a backlink. Linking to reputable sources can enhance your credibility and give valuable information for your audience. In addition, reciprocal backlinks can be a valuable part of link-building.

Avoid common pitfalls

Avoid manipulative practices such as buying links or participating in link schemes that violate search engine guidelines. These are known as "Black Hat Tactics" and they'll do more harm than good, however tempting they seem. Prioritizing backlink quality over quantity can help you maintain a healthy link profile.

You should also do some regular audits and web analytics. Broken links or a messy internal link structure are two surefire ways to signal to search engines that you're an amateur. Just as it's important to update your web pages to preserve content freshness, it's vital that you make sure all your links are working. Broken link building is a common tactic for link building in which you search for broken links on websites and ask the site administrator to exchange it for a link to your site. Don't leave your site vulnerable to that trick from your competitors.

Don't let your technical SEO slip

While you're focused on backlinks, it's easy to let other aspects of your SEO fall to the wayside. Here are some key aspects of technical SEO that you should stay on your radar as you continue to build a strong backlink profile:

• Website structure and navigation. Implement a logical and crawl-able site structure with an optimized URL structure and breadcrumb navigation so both search engines and users can easily maneuver through your site.
• Site speed and performance. Optimize your page load times and minimize your server response times. You can also leverage caching techniques and image optimization to improve the user experience. This helps keep bounce rates low, too. If you're doing site updates or maintenance, implement 301 redirects to keep the website easy to navigate for both crawlers and visitors. A website with too many 404 errors will inevitably have poor SEO.
• Mobile friendliness. The website should use responsive design and operate well on different devices and screen sizes. Remember, over half of all web traffic comes from mobile browsing and Google is mobile first when it assesses websites.
• Indexing and crawling. Make sure search engine bots are able to crawl and index the website effectively by properly using robots.txt, meta robots tags, and XML sitemaps.
• Security. Implement HTTPS encryption for your URL, which can help protect against vulnerabilities like malware.
• Schema markup. Add structured data to help search engines understand the content and context of web pages.
• Canonicalization. Avoid duplicate content issues by using canonical tags and setting preferred URLs.

While link-building is just one aspect of your SEO, these other elements play a big role in the full picture of content optimization and successful digital content marketing.

Let Rellify help you with link-building

Rellify experts know how important link-building is for a robust content marketing strategy. With plenty of experience in content optimization, our SEO experts can help you craft a link-building strategy as part of a broader effort to improve your search engine rankings and web traffic. With an AI-driven content strategy for your topics, you can also use Rellify to create relevant, optimized content that will get better results. Curious about how? Schedule a call with one of our experts for a brief demo today.

By Jayne Schultheis — For anyone tasked with writing a rich and compelling blog, AI content generators present a tempting new avenue for content creation. According to a recent Mckinsey report, 92% of businesses across sectors plan to invest in generative AI tools within the next three years. It's particularly appealing for brands who need to get a lot of content out quickly, work on tight deadlines, or wish to stay ahead of trends. It can be a lifesaver for time management, too.

This new writing technology has some pros and cons, though. It's important to understand exactly how implementing AI in blogging can work for your brand. In this article, we'll take a look at some practical tips for integrating AI  that go beyond simple text generation.

How AI content generators can change the way you blog

Whether you go with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, these intelligent automation tools are powerful allies for bloggers. The beauty of these systems lies in their ability to handle repetitive tasks. While AI tools perform headline optimization, write meta descriptions, and research topics, bloggers can focus on adding their unique voice and expertise to the content.

Smart bloggers are discovering that AI doesn't replace their creativity, but it can amplify it. It can provide the foundation for well-structured, SEO-optimized content that can be refined and personalized. Ultimately, you can end up with a more sustainable approach to blogging that allows you, as a creator, to produce more engaging content without sacrificing personal touch or burning out.

Ways to implement generative AI in blogging

Let's review some of the many ways that natural language processing and other forms of AI can help you boost blogging productivity.

Spark ideas and break through creative blocks

Staring at a blank screen? You’re not alone. AI is an invaluable tool for marketers and content creators needing a fresh jolt of inspiration. Rather than spinning your wheels, use AI to generate original ideas that can kickstart your next campaign or editorial calendar.

Example:  “List 12 compelling webinar topics that would appeal to SaaS founders focused on scaling product-led growth.”

Speed up content briefs and outlines

Creating content briefs and outlines is crucial, but time-consuming. AI can synthesize your goals and offer structured outlines that help you stay focused while freeing up mental energy for creativity.

Example: “Create a detailed content brief for a white paper on AI-driven personalization in retail, including target personas, key talking points, and recommended sources.”

Generate first drafts

Need to get something down quickly? AI can deliver a rough first draft for everything from blog posts to social captions to campaign headlines. It’s a fast way to build a working base that's ready for human polish, strategy, and storytelling finesse.

Example: “Generate a 600-word introductory article on ethical AI design for a general business audience, using a professional yet accessible tone.”

Optimize for SEO, tone, and engagement

Whether you're refining for readability, audience targeting, or search engine performance, AI can help. Tools like Jasper, Writer, or Optimizely’s Opal AI can adjust tone, simplify complex language, or recommend ways to boost engagement. Your brand voice is unique. As search engine results pages are populated with AI content, there will be greater value in content that's engaging, original, and representative of a brand's expertise. It creates a better user experience, too.

Example: “Improve this newsletter draft to appeal to time-pressed CFOs by using concise language and highlighting ROI-focused outcomes.”

Analyze data and extract content insights

Are you piling up a big stack of keyword lists, traffic stats, or social engagement metrics? AI innovations can help make sense of it all. New tools can identify patterns through a trend analysis, uncover content gaps, and guide your content strategy with sharper insights.

Example: “Review last quarter’s blog performance data and recommend three underused content categories based on engagement and conversion metrics.”

Common pitfalls to avoid when implementing AI in blogging

Not everything is perfect in the realm of AI implementation. Here are some common pitfalls to avoid.  

Focusing your AI in the wrong part of the process

Using NLG to generate your text could certainly be a time-saver, there's no denying that. But what really holds back a lot of marketers is failing to use AI in other parts of their processes. The capabilities of AI go much deeper than just text synthesis. You can also use it for:

• Topic discovery and gap analysis. AI analyzes your existing content and compares it with your competitors' to identify gaps and opportunities. You can sharpen your content strategy to have just the right amount of competitiveness to help you beat the other players in your niche for that top spot, or even a Google AI overview.
• Content planning and briefing. AI assists in creating detailed content plans and briefs, streamlining the planning phase and aligning content with strategic goals.
• Performance monitoring. Post-publication, AI tools can track content performance. You can follow engagement metrics and act on suggested adjustments for optimizing reach and impact.

Plagiarism and poor quality

AI models are trained on large swaths of publicly available data, which means the content they generate often reflects what’s already out there. The result? Output that can feel derivative, lackluster, or worse, alarmingly similar to existing content.

The solution: AI-generated text should never be your final draft. Infuse your content with brand-specific insights, real-world experiences, and a distinct voice. Keep a list of editorial guidelines handy as you edit your text, and keep real humans involved at key stages of the content workflow.

Inaccuracy

If you've ever used a generative AI platform, you might have noticed a small disclaimer at the bottom of your screen, "ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info," or Claude, "Claude can make mistakes. Please double-check responses." When inaccuracies occur, this is known as "hallucinating" information. It’s a byproduct of some of the current limitations of frontier Generative AI models.

In some subject areas, the model may not have been trained on the most-up-to-date information and may get confused when prompted about current or changing events. These models have also been known to fabricate examples and case studies but present them as facts. This points to the critical role of human oversight in these integration processes.

Partner with Rellify and use AI to its full potential

Earlier, we mentioned topic discovery, gap analysis, content planning, briefing and performance monitoring. These are all functions that are raised to a higher level with a Relliverse™, an AI-powered system tailored to your brand's unique voice and objectives.

We also provide text generation tools that offer tremendous scalability. Instead of bopping around between a bunch of different platforms, you can leverage all these AI capabilities in one place. With our deep machine learning tools, you can determine exactly which topics and keywords will best signal your expertise to search engines.

We tailor AI to your brand’s voice and goals, helping you produce high-performing content that’s original, relevant, and optimized for discovery. Instead of piecing together disconnected tools, Rellify brings it all into one cohesive system so you can scale smarter, write faster, and deliver content that actually connects. Ready to turn AI into your blogging advantage? Let Rellify show you how. Schedule a brief demo with one of our experts today.

By Jayne Schultheis — Does it feel like the AI rocketship is launching into the unknown at warped speed? It's actually been here for longer than you might think.  Google has been using AI for decades, with the introduction of BERT in 2018 representing a milestone in natural language processing in search.

For marketers, what really threw a wrench into the game was Google Overviews, launched in 2024. This feature uses generative AI to provide summarized answers directly. These overviews are presented at the top of search pages and tend to reduce online visibility and clicks to traditional websites.

If you've spent any time on longform content marketing and search engine optimization, you might be wondering how artificial intelligence fits into the new picture for your company. The reality is, AI presents new opportunities for SEO professionals. AI can now:

• Automate keyword research.
• Predict trends.
• Optimize on-page SEO and metadata.
• Boost site speed and user experience.
• Personalize content dynamically.

In this article, we'll show how AI-driven content strategies can be your friend. You learn ways to improve strategies, content quality, and search relevance through better tools and insights.

Implementing AI in content personalization

The AI tools available today use sophisticated natural language processing to analyze how different audience segments interact with your content. They next create personalized experiences that feel genuinely tailored rather than obviously automated.

It's fascinating to watch the machine learning algorithms identify patterns in user behavior that we'd never spot manually. Search results for an online shopper reflect what they've bought before and previous pages they've visited. Users in different parts of the country get results that reflect subtle differences in regional preferences. AI analyzes what stage in the buyer's journey a user has reached, based on previous search history and other data, and provides search results suited to the appropriate stage.

The AI technology creates a feedback loop that benefits both users and search engines simultaneously. When AI-driven personalization increases user engagement metrics like time on page and click-through rates, search engines interpret these signals as indicators of content quality and relevance.

AI tools can analyze search patterns, user demographics, and behavioral data to serve up content variations that match specific search intents. That means your pages are more likely to satisfy the queries that brought users there in the first place.

These tools can dynamically adjust content elements like headlines, meta descriptions, and even internal recommendations based on who's viewing the page and how they arrived there. This helps improve user experience, but also allows search engines to understand your content's relevance for different query types and user contexts.

Leveraging predictive analytics for improved search rankings

Predictive analytics is where SEO strategy gets really sophisticated, and it's staggering just how much it's changed our approach to content planning and optimization.

AI-driven predictive models can analyze historical content performance data alongside current search trends to forecast which topics and content formats are likely to perform well in the coming months. The semantic search capabilities of modern search engines mean that AI-powered predictive analytics tools can identify emerging query patterns and topic clusters before they become competitive, giving you an edge in content distribution timing.

What's particularly powerful is how these systems combine data analysis from multiple sources. That can include your own content analytics, competitor performance patterns, seasonal search trends, and even social media signals. With these varied sources, AI can predict what content to create and how to distribute it for maximum impact on your search rankings.

The landscape of search engine optimization changes faster than most marketing teams can keep up with, but this AI technology has become a weapon for staying ahead of SEO trends rather than constantly playing catch-up.

Practical steps to maximize AI-driven SEO

The real power of AI in SEO is weaving intelligent analysis and optimization throughout your content workflow, from initial research to ongoing performance monitoring.

Content strategy and planning phase

Start by integrating AI-powered topic analysis tools into your content planning sessions. Use AI and deep machine learning to:

• Analyze your existing content library.
• Identify gaps in your topical coverage.
• Suggest content clusters that align with search intent patterns of your target audience.

AI can also help you examine your competitors' content strategies, identify emerging trends in your industry, and map out semantic relationships between keywords that human researchers might miss.

You can also use AI-powered SEO tools to analyze your site's current performance data and identify pages that are underperforming relative to their potential. Machine learning algorithms can spot patterns in your top-performing content and suggest structural elements, content length, and topical depth that correlate with higher rankings. It's all about understanding the underlying patterns that search engines reward.

Research and content development

During the research phase, AI tools can help analyze search results for your target keywords and extract insights about what's actually ranking. They'll examine the semantic structure of top-performing pages, identify common subtopics, and even suggest content angles that fill gaps in the current search landscape.

Beyond natural language generators like Claude.ai and ChatGPT, there are  ways to implement AI-driven content optimization during the writing process itself. Instead of retrofitting SEO after content creation, some platforms can provide real-time suggestions for improving semantic relevance, readability, and technical optimization.

These tools analyze your content as you write, suggesting related terms, optimal heading structures, and internal linking opportunities that strengthen your content's topical authority.

Google does not restrict the use of AI-generated content. It states: "Appropriate use of AI or automation is not against our guidelines." However, it will punish sites for content that is "used to generate content primarily to manipulate search rankings." Google also continues to "reward original, high-quality content that demonstrates qualities of what we call E-E-A-T: expertise, experience, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness."

Technical SEO auditing process

Machine learning algorithms can crawl your site continuously to identify technical issues that hurt performance and suggest prioritized fixes based on their potential impact. This includes everything from site speed optimization to schema markup implementation. The AI helps you understand which technical improvements will deliver the biggest SEO gains.

AI-powered tools can also help optimize your internal linking strategy. These platforms can analyze your content library and suggest linking opportunities that strengthen topical clusters and improve page authority distribution. The AI considers factors like content relevance, user flow, and link equity to recommend internal links that both users and search engines will value.

Performance monitoring and iteration

AI analytics tools can go beyond basic ranking reports to understand the "why" behind performance changes. These platforms can correlate ranking fluctuations with content changes, technical modifications, and external factors to help you understand what's actually driving your SEO results.

The specialized machine learning algorithms identify patterns that would be impossible to spot manually, especially when managing large content libraries.

Instead of doing periodic content audits, you can use these tools to continuously optimize content performance. These systems can:

• Flag when pages are losing traction.
• Suggest content updates based on evolving search trends
• Recommend structural changes that align with algorithm updates.

Workflow integration best practices

The key to maximizing AI's impact is treating it as an integrated intelligence layer rather than a standalone tool.

• Build content AI insights into your editorial calendar, content briefs, and performance review processes.
• Train your team to interpret AI recommendations within the context of your brand voice and audience needs.
• Use the technology to inform decisions rather than replace human judgment.
• Establish feedback loops where your AI tools learn from your specific content performance patterns.

The most effective implementations customize AI recommendations based on your unique audience behavior, industry dynamics, and business objectives. Ultimately, you can create a competitive advantage that goes beyond generic SEO best practices to strategies that work specifically for your content management.

The future of AI-driven content strategies

It's tough to predict exactly where AI is poised to take digital marketing. But as AI evolves, we expect SEO will:

• Focus more on search intent than keywords alone.
• Require conversational, natural language content (especially for voice search).
• Rely on predictive analytics to adjust strategies proactively.

Agentic AI is the latest advancement in the world of AI innovation. These are artificial intelligence systems that have advanced decision-making capabilities and the ability to act autonomously. Agentic AI can analyze complex data, make decisions in real-time, and execute tasks on its own. These systems are designed to solve problems, adapt strategies, and improve by learning from their environment and adjusting their actions.

At Rellify, we're pioneering the future of AI-driven content strategies. With a custom Relliverse™ for your brand, we leverage agentic AI to analyze content opportunities so you can identify and address relevant topics and trends ahead of your competition. Using that data, our platform can then autonomously select the best keywords and natural language queries for each topic.

Ready to jump into the world of AI-driven SEO content and see the results you've been hoping for? Schedule a brief demo with one of our Rellify experts and find out exactly how you can best use an AI-centered strategy to get the most out of your content marketing.

By Jayne Schultheis — AI advancements have been making serious waves in the content marketing world. Tools powered by artificial intelligence are quickly becoming go-to resources for marketers looking to create targeted content in ways that are smarter and faster.

For a lot of marketers, these tools help save time on repetitive tasks and offer AI-driven insights that are tough to get manually. Powered by technologies like machine learning and natural language processing (NLP), AI tools for marketers can analyze huge amounts of data, learn what works, and even suggest ways to tweak your content for better results.

What role does AI play in digital marketing?

The short answer? Whatever role you want it to play and however much you want to incorporate it!

According to a Salesforce survey, marketers said the following about generative AI:

• 71% say generative AI will eliminate busy work. 
• 71% say generative AI will allow them to focus on more strategic work.
• In fact, they estimate generative AI will save them over five hours a week – the equivalent of over a month in one year.

A lot of hype has promoted a complete "digital transformation" and easy content generation. There are caveats and concerns, however, that every marketer should keep in mind. 

First: The quality of an AI tool depends on the quality and breadth of the data it's trained on. According to that same Salesforce survey, 67% of marketers say their company’s data is not properly set up for generative AI.  

Second, AI isn't perfect and can lack contextual understanding, nuance, and creativity. It often requires human oversight, expert prompting, and editing. A lot of marketers aren't sure how to get the most value out of the technology quite yet. That being said, plenty of the available tools go beyond the basics, offering value at different steps of the marketing and content distribution pipeline.

Many marketers are curious about the digital tools needed to make the most of AI integration. In this article, we'll walk you through some of the most useful content AI tools. Whether you’re looking to automate parts of your workflow, improve your SEO game, or just stay ahead of the curve, there’s probably a tool that can make your life a little easier.

Marketing management

Marketing managers are often juggling a lot of plates. Fortunately, these marketing tools have integrated the power of AI to automate common tasks, so managers can focus more on strategy.

• Hubspot. HubSpot is arguably one of the most widely adopted marketing platforms out there (and for good reason). It's evolved past a basic CRM into a full-blown marketing automation powerhouse with AI features baked in. Marketers use it for everything from email personalization and lead scoring to content optimization and predictive analytics. Its user-friendly interface and robust integrations make it a go-to for businesses of all sizes, especially those wanting an all-in-one solution with strong AI support.‍
• Sprout Social. Sprout Social is a well-established social media management platform that incorporates AI features like smart scheduling, sentiment analysis, and performance predictions. While it’s not a full marketing suite, it can help teams focus on content-driven social strategies and community engagement. Its intuitive interface and solid reporting features make it a favorite among small and medium-sized teams, especially those managing multiple brands or platforms.‍
• Albert.ai. Albert.ai is a rising star that’s gaining attention for how it automates entire digital marketing campaigns. It’s not just about analytics or task automation. Albert also can run paid ad campaigns across channels like Facebook, Google, and YouTube. It analyzes data in real time, tests variations, allocates budget, and continuously optimizes toward performance goals. It's more of an "autonomous marketing" tool than just a dashboard or assistant. This makes it stand out, especially for brands looking to scale without dramatically increasing headcount.

Writing assistants and generators

If you're short on time or resources, especially if you need to churn out a lot of content, these helpful AI-powered tools can be useful.

• Jasper. Jasper is one of the most recognizable names in AI writing tools, especially for marketers and content teams. It is known for being easy to use and having the ability to generate high-quality long-form content. Agencies and marketing teams that need to scale content creation quickly have jumped on board. Jasper also has added AI-powered brand voice training and collaboration tools to stay competitive.‍
• Claude. Claude, from Anthropic, is proving to be a seriously capable writing assistant, especially for long-form, thoughtful content. It’s more conversational and less templated than tools like Jasper, which makes it a good fit for marketers writing in-depth guides, whitepapers, or nuanced messaging. Claude is also known for being more context-aware and safer in tone, which helps when you're working with complex ideas or sensitive topics. It’s a rising star that may be worth experimenting with.‍
• Writer. Writer (formerly Writer.com) strikes a balance between power and specialization. Unlike general-purpose AI tools, Writer is tailored for enterprise use, with a big emphasis on brand consistency, tone, and compliance. It's ideal for larger teams that need to make sure everyone’s writing sounds like one voice. It even integrates with existing workflows like Google Docs and Chrome. It’s not flashy, but it's dependable and purpose-built for serious content operations.

Content AI tools for editing

If natural language generation doesn’t suit your content creation needs, you might find that AI can help edit content. If you want to conserve time and resources, these tools might help.

• Grammarly. Grammarly is basically the household name of AI editing tools. It’s been around long enough to earn trust, and it’s constantly improving with AI-driven suggestions for clarity, tone, engagement, and even inclusivity. It works across email, documents, and browsers, making it a favorite for both casual writers and professional teams. For marketers, it’s especially helpful in publishing polished, error-free content quickly, while sticking to a consistent brand voice.‍
• Hoppy Copy. Hoppy Copy is a newer tool built specifically with marketers in mind. While it offers standard editing help, its real strength is optimizing email and ad copy. It uses AI to spot spam triggers, rewrite subject lines for better open rates, and fine-tune tone for different audiences. It’s not your traditional grammar checker. It’s more like an AI coach focused on conversion. For teams doing a lot of email marketing, it's a great asset.‍
• Hemingway Editor. Hemingway Editor has been quietly helping writers simplify their content for years. It doesn’t use AI in the traditional, generative sense. Instead, it flags overly complex sentences, passive voice, and readability issues. It’s perfect for marketers who want to make sure their content is tight, scannable, and digestible (especially for web readers). It doesn’t try to do everything, but what it does, it does well.

Visual content generators

We've all seen some wild AI-generated photos and videos. These innovative solutions can generate whatever visual assets you need to get quality audience engagement.

• Canva. At this point, Canva is practically a marketer’s best friend. It’s simple enough for non-designers but powerful enough to produce polished content. Whether you’re creating social graphics, slide decks, or ad creatives, it’s fast, intuitive, and packed with templates that actually look good. AI features like background remover and Magic Resize also save a ton of time when you're juggling multiple platforms. If you're working in a small team or flying solo, Canva can easily handle most of your design needs without ever opening Photoshop.‍
• Lumen5. Lumen5 flies under the radar a bit, but it’s a game-changer for marketers who need to crank out video content without a video team. It takes blog posts or marketing copy and automatically builds a social-friendly video out of it, complete with visuals, transitions, and music. It’s especially useful for repurposing written content into something more dynamic for platforms like LinkedIn or Instagram. If you’ve ever wished your blog posts could just magically become videos, this tool gets you pretty close.‍
• Visme. Visme sits in that sweet spot between design flexibility and business-focused features. It’s not as mainstream as Canva, but it offers more customization for things like infographics, data visualizations, and interactive content. Those features can really help when you’re trying to explain complex ideas in a compelling way. It’s especially helpful for marketers who need to create reports or client presentations that don’t look like they came out of a spreadsheet. Not quite a beginner tool, but definitely not overwhelming either.

Audio and voice content tools

In marketing, "brand voice" is one of the most important parts of outward-facing brand visibility. These tools can help you to make it count.

• Descript. Descript is the Swiss Army knife of audio content. In one platform, you can record, transcribe, edit, and even clone your voice. It lets you edit audio as if it were a Google Doc (literally deleting text to cut audio), which is a game-changer for folks who hate traditional timeline editing. For marketers working on podcasts, webinars, or quick voiceovers, Descript makes high-quality production manageable without the need for a studio setup.‍
• Murf.ai. Murf.ai is a standout if you’re focused more on voiceovers than full podcast editing. It offers a library of natural-sounding AI voices (with emotional tones), and even lets you sync those with visuals for things like explainer videos. It’s great for marketers or small teams who need consistent, professional audio without hiring voice talent. Not as flashy as other products in this sector, but is quietly powerful.‍
• ElevenLabs. ElevenLabs has been generating a ton of buzz thanks to its incredibly lifelike voice synthesis—but it’s still not as widely adopted in marketing circles as Descript. What makes it interesting is the ability to clone your own voice for narration or video and to create unique branded voices. If you're into content personalization or brand storytelling, this tool has real potential, especially as voice-driven content keeps growing.

AI-powered SEO tools

Here's a roundup of useful AI-powered SEO tools.

• Surfer SEO. Surfer SEO has quickly become a staple for content and SEO teams looking to climb the SERPs without drowning in complexity. It breaks down the top-ranking pages for any keyword and gives you a content score, suggested word count, heading structure, and even NLP keywords to include. It’s intuitive, integrates with Google Docs, and makes SEO feel less like guesswork. For content writers who want to rank without becoming full-blown SEO experts, this is one of the best tools out there.‍
• Market Brew. Market Brew flies under the radar, but it’s incredibly smart. It essentially acts like a search engine simulator—helping you test and predict how algorithm updates or site changes might affect your rankings. It’s not as beginner-friendly as other tools, but if you’re into data modeling or want deep insights into how Google thinks, this tool gives you something other platforms just don’t.‍
• Frase.io. Frase.io hits a nice balance between content research and SEO. It pulls in SERP data, helps you build an outline, and even writes draft sections using AI. It’s especially good for marketers who want one tool to handle research, writing, and optimization without bouncing between tabs. Not as well-known as Surfer, but more approachable than Market Brew — and very capable.

Content performance predictors

If you're investing a ton in your content, you want to see the data and trends that could point you in the right direction.

• Clearscope. Clearscope is a trusted resource for content teams looking to improve SEO performance before hitting publish. It uses NLP to analyze top-ranking content and gives you clear, actionable suggestions on how to make your content more competitive — from keyword usage to readability. It doesn’t overcomplicate things, which makes it ideal for busy marketers who want results without the fluff.‍
• Predis. Predis is an emerging tool built with social media marketers in mind. It helps generate content ideas and then predicts how well those posts will perform based on your past engagement. It’s lightweight, quick to use, and surprisingly insightful—great for brands that post often and need to know what’s likely to land well.

AI content detection

Teachers and professors everywhere will tell you: AI content detection is much-needed. If you want to make sure you're providing authentic content that reads as expert and not artificial, tools like these can help you edit.

• Originality.ai. Originality.ai is probably the most widely adopted detection tool among SEO agencies and publishers. It’s designed specifically to spot AI-generated content (including GPT-4) and check for plagiarism at the same time. You get detailed scoring, version tracking, and team features, making it especially useful if you’re managing outsourced or AI-assisted content. ‍
• BrandWell (formerly ContentAtScale). Even though it’s not as well-known outside the SEO crowd, the BrandWell is actually quite good at what it does. It uses a mix of AI models to detect generated content and is tuned specifically for long-form marketing content. If you’re producing blog posts or landing pages at scale and need to make sure it all passes human-authenticity checks, this one’s worth a try.‍
• GPTZero. GPTZero had a viral moment when educators were trying to curtail students using ChatGPT. But it has found broader use with marketers, editors, and media teams. It’s not the most technical tool on the list, but it’s fast, simple to use, and pretty reliable for flagging content that “reads” as AI-written. Great for spot-checking drafts without diving too deep.

AI competitor analysis

In order to know what it takes to win, you've got to know your competition.

• Crayon. Crayon is probably the most well-known and well-rounded tool when it comes to AI-powered competitive intelligence for marketing. It doesn’t just track what your competitors are doing. It shows you how they’re positioning themselves, when they launch new campaigns, and how their messaging evolves over time. Marketers and sales teams use it to fine-tune their own strategy and give their teams a smarter, real-time edge in the field.‍
• Contify. Contify pulls competitive insights from tons of sources (news, websites, press releases, blogs) and uses AI to filter and summarize what actually matters. It’s especially good for B2B teams that need market context without digging through endless feeds. If your marketing decisions are tied to broader industry moves, Contify gives you a smarter lens.‍
• Similarweb. Similarweb is a reliable choice for marketers who want a bird’s-eye view of their competitors’ digital performance. It breaks down traffic sources, audience behavior, paid vs. organic strategy, and even referral traffic paths. It’s not too complex to use, but it still delivers deep insights. It's a particular favorite among teams that want to keep an eye on the competition without drowning in data.

One tool to consolidate

If you’ve been exploring all these tools and thinking, “Why do I need five different platforms to do my job?”—you’re not alone. That’s exactly the kind of fragmentation Rellify is designed to solve.

You don't need to stitch together a hodge-podge of subscriptions. Rellify brings these core marketing capabilities into one powerful, AI-enhanced platform:

• Marketing management. Plan and execute content strategies with our intuitive planning tool that keeps everything aligned across your team.
• Writing assistants. Generate Smart Briefs and AI-supported content that includes optimized metadata, keyword guidance, and on-topic answers pulled directly from relevant sources.
• Editing. Get real-time feedback on your writing’s clarity, structure, and effectiveness with AI that helps you improve before you hit publish.
• Visual content. Generate creative assets and branded visuals using simple AI prompts.
• Competitor analysis. Tap into a Relliverse™, our content intelligence engine, to track what competitors are writing, how they’re ranking, and where the real opportunities are.
• Social media. Instantly generate LinkedIn-ready posts that summarize your latest content or highlight key industry takeaways—no separate scheduler or AI copywriter needed.

In short, Rellify helps marketers work faster, create smarter, and compete with confidence. Even better, you centralize everything and stop bouncing between five different tabs. If you're looking for an end-to-end solution that actually speaks your company's language, Rellify is built for exactly that. If you're ready to find out exactly what a Relliverse™ can do for your content management and creation processes, chat with an expert today and get a brief demo. 

By Jayne Schultheis —  AI integration isn't just a novel tool for marketing, it's crucial for keeping pace with your competitors (who are probably using AI). In one recent study by Siege Media, 90% of content marketers said they plan to use AI to support content marketing efforts in 2025 — up from 83.2% in 2024 and 64.7% in 2023.

While AI is an exciting new development, integrating it into your marketing plan can seem pretty intimidating, especially with the technology changing rapidly.

Ready to maximize your return on investment and maintain a cutting-edge position in the market? Then let's take a deep dive on the essentials of content AI. We'll identify potential obstacles in deployment and outline strategies for successful integration.

Understanding content AI and its role in business

Content AI is a transformative force, leveraging machine learning and natural language processing to automate a wide range of content-related tasks. These technologies are the core mechanisms of efficient data analysis, real-time content generation, and personalized communication. They enable businesses to boost operational efficiency and remain competitive. According to Salesforce, most marketers are already using AI for basic content creation (76%) and for generating a copy (76%). 

Beyond automation, Content AI supports functions like content optimization, sentiment analysis, and adaptive learning systems. These features can help you refine messaging strategies. As organizations manage growing volumes of data and customer interactions, Content AI provides solutions with scalability for content creation, curation and delivery.

Businesses are already seeing profound results with AI integration. By automating repetitive tasks, Content AI frees employees to focus on more strategic initiatives, accelerating workflows and inspiring innovation. With smarter decision-making capabilities powered by AI, companies can improve productivity, customer experience, and overall operational effectiveness.

Key challenges in implementing content AI

All technology has its caveats, and AI is no exception. Beyond the questions of AI ethics regarding data scraping and plagiarism, there are some potential pitfalls you should watch out for.

Engaging the reader

The challenge: One of the primary challenges with Content AI is making sure the generated content is relevant and engaging. AI excels at producing large volumes of information quickly. It can sometimes fall short, however, in capturing human emotion, tone, and nuance — elements that are essential for connecting with audiences. Readers can easily detect content that feels robotic, generic, or uninspired. This makes it crucial for organizations to strike a balance between automation and human creativity. The goal is to blend AI with editorial oversight to make sure content feels authentic, compelling and aligned with the brand voice.

Additionally, engaging content often reflects an understanding of cultural context, current trends and audience intent — areas where AI still struggles. Relying solely on machine-generated content without refinement can lead to missed opportunities for emotional resonance and reduced reader retention.

The solution: Companies must invest in training AI systems with domain-specific data and pair them with skilled content strategists to craft content that truly captivates the target audience.

Accuracy

The challenge: Maintaining accuracy is a significant hurdle in the adoption of content AI. AI tools may inadvertently produce incorrect or outdated information if not properly monitored. This issue is particularly critical in industries like healthcare, finance, or law, where even minor inaccuracies can have serious consequences.

The reliance on third-party data sources and historical training data further complicates the situation, as the AI might replicate biases or misinformation found in those sources.

The solution: Organizations need to set up rigorous fact-checking mechanisms and establish clear editorial guidelines for AI-generated content. Human oversight is essential — not just to catch errors, but to make sure the content reflects the company’s credibility and compliance standards. Additionally, integrating real-time data sources and feedback loops can help improve the reliability and trustworthiness of content AI over time.

Quality control

The challenge: Automated systems can sometimes generate content that is repetitive, off-topic, or lacking in depth, especially when dealing with complex or niche subjects. Without proper quality control measures, the risk of publishing subpar or irrelevant material increases, potentially damaging brand reputation and user trust.

The solution: Companies need a strong framework for content review and refinement. This may include layered approval processes, AI performance audits and feedback mechanisms from both internal teams and end users. Constant monitoring and regular updates to the AI model are also vital to maintaining high standards. While AI can enhance productivity, maintaining AI content quality still depends on a well-orchestrated collaboration between technology and human expertise.

Strategies for successful content AI integration

A lot of people love the idea of content AI, but don't know how to make the best use of it. Here are some guidelines.

Develop a robust implementation strategy

First, assess your resources. Where are you falling behind technologically? What's preventing your ideal workflow optimization? What are the best applications of AI for your marketing plans? This evaluation will identify potential areas for AI integration and help you align it with business objectives.

Design a better user experience for your readers

Content AI can be a game-changer for boosting relevancy and user engagement. It’s great for speeding up tasks like:

• Determining the topics you should address in your content
• Creating briefs for that content
• Writing meta titles and descriptions
• Generating eye-catching art
• Crafting LinkedIn posts

It can also be a lifesaver when you’re staring down writer’s block — and we've all been there. But as a human content expert, you should know when to lean on AI and when a human touch is still the better call.

Maximize your ROI through effective (and strategic) content AI integration

Many businesses with limited time and resources for content are looking for shortcuts with AI. If your goal is to get a lot of content online quickly, you can use AI to generate entire articles. Rellify certainly can handle that for you.

We recommend, however, that you carefully and thoughtfully create detailed prompts when using AI to generate whole articles. You will get much better results.

Even so, you'll still need to review the output, check the facts and add your own flavor. That might be industry-specific statistics, customer success stories or even just language that reflects your core values. Your brand's voice is an important part of the marketing strategy, and your content reflects the effort you put into it.

Rellify and AI integration

Rellify uses cutting-edge AI technology to help clients figure out what topics and keywords will resonate best with their readers, and what will get their content to the top of search engine results. With a focus on discoverability, relevance, and differentiation, Rellify can help you find content gaps, get winning ideas, and create smarter plans and briefs — all in one platform.

And with a custom Relliverse™ you can further leverage deep machine learning and AI to make sure you're writing quality content about the right topics. Ready to start seeing results? Schedule a brief demo with one of our Rellify experts today.

By Jayne Schultheis — We all know that LinkedIn is a social platform built for the corporate world. But more importantly, it’s the key to building brand awareness, nurturing connections, and driving qualified lead generation for your business.

Whether you’re posting video content, running LinkedIn Ads, or leveraging a strategy to get the most out of longform content, LinkedIn has the tools to make your marketing pop. So, let’s break down how to execute a well-crafted LinkedIn strategy focused on content marketing.

LinkedIn is the MVP when it comes to brand awareness in B2B marketing

When LinkedIn hit the corporate world, it changed the game for B2B marketers, offering a direct line to a super-targeted, professional audience. And it's only improved with time. With advanced filters like job title, industry, company size, and location, it’s easy to get your message in front of the decision-makers and influencers who actually matter. This precision makes LinkedIn an ideal platform for building brand awareness and connecting with the right people in a meaningful way.

One of the best ways to grow your brand on LinkedIn is by consistently sharing high-value content. Use thought leadership articles, case studies, and industry insights to position your company as a trusted expert. By providing real value, you’ll keep your audience engaged and build the trust that’s essential for long-term success in the B2B space.

On top of content, LinkedIn’s suite of tools — like targeted ads, sponsored posts, and lead gen forms — enables you boost your visibility and generate quality leads. These features help you to meet prospects where they are, making it easier to spark conversations that turn into relationships. Finally, a solid company page can showcase your brand’s culture, values, and latest updates. You can keep your brand front and center with both potential clients and talent.

10 ways to optimize your LinkedIn strategy

Let's get into the heart of the matter.

1. First impressions matter: Profile optimization

You wouldn’t walk into a meeting with a crumpled resume, right? Same thing goes for your LinkedIn profile. Make sure your company page and personal profiles are optimized for maximum impact. This is your digital business card, your online storefront. Optimize with SEO in mind, fill out every section, and make sure the content resonates with your target audience. This is your first impression — make it count.

2. Content that sparks engagement

For the most part, people are on LinkedIn to grow professionally and stay informed. That’s where your content comes in. But beware of spammy posting and entirely AI-generated copy. Instead, you want to focus on content that drives engagement. Think thought leadership, case studies, and of course, video content. Whether you’re sharing industry trends, thought-provoking posts, or sponsored content, get people talking. Encourage comments, shares, and direct messages. That's where real engagement starts.

3. Use LinkedIn Ads for precision targeting

Want to get your message in front of exactly the right people? LinkedIn Ads are the way to go. With LinkedIn Ads, you can target decision-makers, influencers, and professionals in your niche with laser precision. LinkedIn ads have become more sophisticated, offering options like conversational ads, carousel ads, and video ads. Use LinkedIn's analytics tools to fine-tune your targeting. You'll notice a boost in your conversion rates when you reach the exactly right audience.

4. Influence the influencers

Although "influencers" on LinkedIn might be a little different than the ones on Instagram and TikTok, they're just as powerful when it comes to making waves in your industry. Build partnerships and run co-branded campaigns that tap into their established network. Cross-promotion on LinkedIn with an influencer can boost both your brand awareness and credibility. Plus, it’s an easy way to get your content in front of thousands, if not millions, of new potential connections.

5. Don't forget analytics

Don't cast a wide net and hope for the best. That's a great way to waste your marketing budget. Instead, lean on LinkedIn’s analytics tools. They provide detailed insights into how your posts, ads, and overall strategy are performing. Are people engaging with your content? What specific factors have had the greatest impact on lead generation? Use this data to tweak your content marketing strategy and continuously optimize your approach.

6. The power of hashtags and SEO

SEO isn’t just a Google thing, it’s helpful for LinkedIn too! Use relevant hashtags to get your content discovered by more people. Develop a smart hashtag strategy that makes sense for your niche, and watch your reach grow. Combine that with profile optimization and you’re setting yourself up for maximum visibility and reach.

7. Email marketing and customer relationship management

Email marketing might seem like old-school stuff, but it can provide a powerful one-two punch when paired with LinkedIn. By combining email campaigns with your LinkedIn presence, you can nurture leads from multiple angles. Plus, you can integrate your LinkedIn insights into your customer relationship management tools to track and convert more leads.

8. Use cross-promotion

In marketing, the old adage, "don't put all your eggs in one basket," is a wise strategy. Especially when you choose a few baskets that are uniquely woven to meet your brand's needs.

Cross-promotion is one way to make sure you're getting the most out of what you have. Share snippets of your LinkedIn content on your other social platforms, link to your LinkedIn company page in your email signature, or collaborate with other companies to co-create content. This is all about expanding your professional network and reaching a broader audience. This is where SEO-optimized, evergreen content can be one of your best assets. Extract the most eye-catching and hard-hitting quotes that leave a reader wanting more and use it as a teaser for the article. Create a great graphic that sparks curiosity.

9. Leverage AI

LinkedIn's algorithms are becoming more sophisticated. The network is using AI to recommend content to users based on their behavior, industry trends, and professional networks. Now is the time for marketers to focus on creating personalized content that aligns with these evolving AI patterns.

LinkedIn has also introduced more advanced automation tools to help businesses streamline their outreach, lead generation, and campaign management, which can be useful for optimizing time and resources.

10. Use Rellify

If you want to pair a great content strategy with a powerful LinkedIn approach, Rellify can help.

Rellify is the all-around solution for getting your content better found in the B2B sector. With a custom Relliverse™, you can find niche topics and keywords that are already resonating with your target audience. That way, when you're ready to post on LinkedIn, you're ready to reach and engage the right people — the ones who are most likely to.

We make it easy to create LinkedIn posts from your content. One click will engage our AI tool to create a LinkedIn post, including hashtags. We also make it easy to add icons and photos. Once you've reviewed the post, another click will publish it on your LinkedIn page.

Want to find out more? Schedule a brief demo with one of our Rellify experts, who can show you exactly what a Relliverse™ can do for your brand.

By Jayne Schultheis — Marketing has always been about understanding people — their desires, their pain points, their hidden motivations. But what if you could have a digital partner that understands your customers better than they understand themselves? Welcome to the world of agentic AI marketing, where intelligent systems don't just analyze data — they predict, personalize, and propose courses of action.

In this article, we'll dive into how agentic AI is transforming marketing from a game of educated guesswork to a science of pinpoint precision. We'll explore how these intelligent systems are reshaping everything from customer segmentation to personalized content creation.

Ready to build an agentic AI marketing strategy?

What is agentic AI?

Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that have advanced decision-making capabilities and the ability to act autonomously, without the need for direct human oversight. Agentic AI can analyze complex data, make decisions in real-time, and execute tasks on its own. These systems are designed to solve problems, adapt strategies, and improve outcomes by learning from their environment and adjusting their actions accordingly.

Agentic AI allows for more agile, data-driven marketing strategies that evolve based on continuous learning.

At Rellify, our patent-pending platform automatically creates custom AI models trained on data from your industry and competitors to be a subject matter expert. We leverage agentic AI to analyze content opportunities so you can identify and address relevant topics and trends ahead of your competition. Using that data, our platform can then autonomously select the best keywords and natural language queries for each topic. If you choose, it also can general content automatically.

To learn more about how it could help your business, contact us for a free demo.

Benefits of using agentic AI in marketing

Agentic AI is still in an experimental stage, and lots of companies are still figuring out exactly how to best use natural language processing tools and machine learning within their already-established processes. Marketing automation in any form still needs the helpful, watchful eye of human oversight, especially since predictive modeling can operate on inherent biases

Here are some of the broader ways you can expect to see positive growth when you employ agentic AI in your marketing:

• Efficiency and speed. Automate repetitive tasks and reduce time spent on manual data analysis and decision-making.
• Scalability. Scale campaigns and operations without additional human resources.
• Better customer experience. Improve the customer experience through seamless, personalized engagement and recommendations.
• Data-driven insights. Leverage vast amounts of data for more accurate insights and lead generation.
• Cost-effectiveness. Cut costs by automating processes and optimizing campaigns.

Now, let's take a closer look at how you might develop and implement an  agentic AI marketing strategy.

What makes a great agentic AI marketing strategy?

If you're considering agentic AI, you'll want to know the mechanisms and algorithms in play, just as you would want to know a job candidate's qualifications before you put them to work.

For an effective agentic AI marketing strategy, you'll need several key components come together.

Advanced personalization

In today's market, the name of the game when it comes to consumer engagement is personalization.

Advanced personalization with AI takes this a step further. Agentic AI can analyze vast amounts of customer data and use it to create hyper-targeted, individualized experiences. Unlike traditional methods that rely on broad demographic categories or pre-defined customer segments, agentic AI dives deeper into behavioral data, such as browsing habits, purchase history, social media interactions, and even sentiment analysis from customer feedback.

By continuously learning from this data, agentic AI can understand each customer's unique preferences, needs, and pain points in real time. For example, AI can tailor email subject lines, product recommendations, or even website layouts based on a customer’s previous interactions, interests, and even their stage in the customer journey.

Furthermore, agentic AI can adapt to changes in customer behavior on the fly. If a customer shifts their preferences or starts exploring new products, the AI can automatically update its recommendations and adjust marketing strategies without human intervention. Each person who interacts with your brand could receive a continuously evolving, personalized experience that drives engagement, conversion, and customer retention.

Predictive analytics and forecasting

One of the greatest benefits of this type of technology integration is the elimination of guesswork when it comes to predicting what will work for your brand.

• Data sourcing. Agentic AI uses automation to collect and integrate big data pools from various sources in real time, including customer behaviors, website interactions, social media, CRM systems, and market trends. This allows for a more holistic view of the market and customer behavior.
• Customer insights and market segmentation. Agentic AI can use machine learning algorithms to create highly granular customer segments based on predictive behaviors, such as likelihood to buy and lifetime value. This helps marketers target the right audience with tailored messages. Agentic AI can also help forecast the potential lifetime value of different customers or customer segments. Businesses can then focus resources on retaining and nurturing high-value customers through the sales funnel.
• Behavioral analysis and predictions. It can predict future customer actions such as buying decisions, churn, and engagement, based on historical data and real-time signals. Businesses can optimize campaigns before they even launch.

Streamlining marketing campaigns and ROI optimization

When you're running a small to medium-sized business, every single penny counts. Agentic AI can help cut out wasteful spending and sharpen your focus on paths that have the best chance of success.

• Dynamic pricing models. Agentic AI can help predict demand fluctuations and adjust pricing strategies in real time to maximize revenue and market share. It can analyze historical pricing patterns, competitor pricing, and consumer demand elasticity.
• Efficient budget allocation. Agentic AI can predict which marketing channels, ads, or strategies are likely to bring the highest ROI, helping businesses allocate marketing budgets more efficiently. Dynamic resource allocation minimizes waste and maximizes the impact of every dollar spent.
• Scenario simulation. Agentic AI can model future scenarios and predict outcomes for different marketing strategies, allowing businesses to select the most profitable options. This leads to better decision-making and reduced risk. Think of it like virtual reality meets digital marketing, and you achieve the best outcomes without real-life trial and error.
• Scalable campaign execution. Once predictive models are in place, agentic AI can automatically execute marketing campaigns at scale and adjust variables based on continuous data feedback.
• Competitor analysis. By autonomously tracking competitors’ activities, pricing strategies, and marketing campaigns, agentic AI can predict their next moves and help businesses position themselves effectively in the market. More broadly, agentic AI also can forecast industry trends and competitor actions.

Challenges and considerations with agentic AI

While agentic AI offers tremendous marketing advantages, it also introduces significant ethical considerations. The ability to analyze vast consumer data and predict behaviors raises data privacy concerns. These systems might access and use personal information in ways consumers never intended or consented to.

There's also the challenge of algorithmic bias. If the AI is trained on skewed data, it may perpetuate or even amplify existing prejudices, unfairly targeting certain demographics while excluding others.

Transparency presents another hurdle. When AI automatically decides who sees which marketing messages, both marketers and consumers may lose visibility into how these choices are made.

Companies must balance effective marketing with the ethical responsibility not to manipulate consumers, especially vulnerable populations. Organizations implementing agentic AI must develop clear governance frameworks, establish boundaries for AI autonomy, and regularly audit their systems to ensure they align with both regulatory requirements and broader societal values.

We should also address the elephant in the room: Is agentic AI going to replace real-life employees? We think that AI won't replace human creativity. Instead, it can enhance it by creating hybrid workflows where AI handles the data-heavy tasks and human marketers get more time to focus on strategic planning, creativity, and brand positioning.

Case study: How HubSpot's Breeze uses agentic AI to transform marketing workflows

Before implementing Breeze, HubSpot had noticed that marketing teams faced some very real challenges:

• Lead nurturing sequences required constant manual adjustment.
• Campaign performance analysis consumed hours of specialist time.
• Personalization efforts couldn't scale effectively.
• Despite having access to mountains of customer data, it was difficult to extract actionable insights quickly enough to respond to market changes.

The AI solution

In early 2024, HubSpot rolled out Breeze, an agentic AI system designed specifically for marketing workflow automation. It can observe, learn, and make autonomous decisions within carefully defined parameters.

Breeze integrates with HubSpot's existing marketing platform, analyzing real-time data from multiple sources: website interactions, email engagement, social media activity, and CRM data ability. The system can:

• Enrich company and contact records so you can make data-driven decisions to convert your best opportunities.
• Personalize content at scale by understanding individual contact behaviors, preferences, and buyer intent.
• Optimize lead scoring models by identifying which engagement patterns truly predict conversion
• Create optimized forms that autofill information from the Breeze Intelligence commercial database behind the scenes — and convert better.

Hubspot also offers specific AI "agents" that are specialized for certain functions:

• Breeze Content Agent. Create quality blogs, landing pages, podcasts, and case studies in your brand voice.
• Breeze Social Media Agent. Analyze performance, industry data, and best practices to create compelling social content.
• Breeze Prospecting Agent. Craft and implement tailored outreach for CRM prospects to enhance your sales pipeline.
• Breeze Customer Agent (Beta). Respond quickly to site visitors with AI trained on your website, blog, and knowledge base.

The results

Six months after full deployment, HubSpot customers documented remarkable improvements in their processes, including:

• Higher marketing-qualified lead conversion rates.
• Lower cost-per-acquisition across digital channels.
• Less time spent on routine campaign adjustments.
• Better email engagement metrics like click-through rates.

Perhaps most significantly, the marketing team reported spending more time on creative and strategic initiatives than before Breeze implementation.

Best practices for agentic AI employment in marketing

When any company decides to employ new digital tools, especially one like agentic AI which is still in its infancy, it's important to set some clear parameters for how it will be used within your processes.

1. Start with clear boundaries. Define explicit parameters for the agentic AI's decision-making authority, gradually expanding them as trust developed.
2. Maintain human oversight. While agentic AI operates autonomously, you should establish regular review protocols and approval thresholds for major changes.
3. Focus on transparency. Make sure you can explain the AI's decisions in business terms that marketers could understand and evaluate.
4. Invest in team adaptation. Devote resources to helping marketers develop new skills for collaborating effectively with AI systems.

The Rellify difference

Rellify is no stranger to the realm of agentic AI. Rellify can help you harness AI to transform your content processes for the better. Whether you're looking for content gaps in your niche or need to implement robust marketing campaigns to win better leads, Rellify implements targeted AI content solutions to help you meet your goals.

With a custom Relliverse™, you can have an in-house, customized AI subject-matter expert that shows your team the best content opportunities.  ‍We use it to find niche topics and keywords that will poise your brand as an expert in your industry. And when you're an expert, you're better found online.

If you're ready to see how Rellify can transform the way you do content marketing with cutting-edge AI-powered insights, schedule a brief demo today with one of our experts!

Welcome to the era of agentic AI, where smart systems aren't just following orders but actively solving problems like clever colleagues. What is agentic AI? Agentic AI refers to an artificial intelligence system that  can analyze data, develop solutions and put them into effect autonomously.

At Rellify, we're leveraging agentic AI workflows for content opportunity analysis so you can spot and speak to the relevant topics and trends ahead of your competition. Our patent-pending platform automatically creates custom AI models trained on relevant market data to be a subject matter expert. Our platform can then autonomously select the right keywords, phrases and natural language queries associated with topics related to the growth opportunities you decide to act on.

We'll be happy to show you how it works. Just contact us for a free demo.

Understanding this shift toward autonomous decision making and execution is like discovering electricity while competitors still use candles. Another remarkable AI evolution  has occurred — from digital assistant to digital strategist.

In this article, we'll explore what's happening now and what's waiting just around the corner. We'll look at specific examples of how these intelligent agents are bringing innovation to fields like healthcare and manufacturing. And we'll examine the possibilities alongside the challenges. Then you'll be set to leverage agentic AI for both competitive advantage and lasting growth.

Types of agentic AI systems: A comprehensive overview

Agentic AI represents a leap in artificial intelligence: autonomous systems that don't merely follow instructions but independently perceive, decide, and act with minimal human oversight. At their heart, these systems use advanced algorithms to learn from and adapt to their environments.

One example that dramatically brings this home is the way two AI agents can now talk to each other in "Gibberlink Mode," a protocol tailored for machine efficiency that enables AI-to-AI interactions. The fact that they communicate in a language that humans can't understand, however, raises questions involving control, ethics, and security.

Developers have created different types of agentic AI systems with specific capabilities and purposes in mind. Let's look at the major categories of these AI applications and systems and what makes each distinct.

Reactive agents

Reactive agents, the simplest form of agentic systems, operate based on the current state of their environment without maintaining memory of past states or actions.

These systems follow a direct stimulus-response model, matching specific situations to specific actions. Think of them as implementing sophisticated "if-then" rules, like a chess-playing program that evaluates the current board state to select a move without explicitly planning multiple steps ahead through internal modeling.

Model-based agents

Model-based agents maintain an internal representation (or model) of their environment, allowing them to understand how their actions affect the world around them. This internal model enables them to predict potential outcomes before acting. These agents excel in complex, dynamic environments where understanding causal relationships is crucial — like controlling an autonomous vehicle.

Goal-based agents

Rather than simply responding to their environment, like model-based agents, goal-based agents continuously evaluate how different actions might help them achieve specific objectives. They can use means-end predictive analytics to consider actions will lead to desired outcomes.

Utility-based agents

Utility-based agents refine the goal-based approach by measuring the desirability of different states. Instead of viewing goals as binary (achieved or not), these systems can evaluate how preferable one outcome is compared to another. A financial trading agent, for example, would go beyond a goal of "make money." A sophisticated utility function could  balance potential returns against risk exposure, liquidity constraints, and diversification principles.

Learning agents

Learning agents incorporate mechanisms to improve their performance over time based on experience. They modify their internal models, decision processes, or evaluation criteria as they interact with their environment.

A recommendation system is an example of this approach. Initially, it might make suggestions based on general patterns, but as it observes user interactions, it refines its understanding of individual preferences to provide increasingly personalized recommendations.

Multi-agent systems

In multi-agent systems, AI-powered autonomous agents interact within a shared environment. These agents may cooperate toward common goals, compete for resources, or engage in mixed strategies with both cooperative and competitive elements.

Smart traffic management systems demonstrate this approach, with individual intersection controllers coordinating to optimize overall traffic flow while each manages its local conditions. Coordinated behavior of multiple agents works better than centralized control.

Hybrid architectures

In practice, many sophisticated agentic systems employ hybrid architectures that combine elements from multiple categories. These systems might use different approaches for different aspects of their operation or switch between modes based on context.

Real-world applications of agentic AI

Agentic AI isn't just changing industries — it's helping to reinvent them. Here are two examples of how these intelligent systems are being applied.

GE Healthcare has leapt into agentic AI with cloud-related research and development efforts. Their "Health Companion" project explores whether an agentic AI approach driven by multiple agents, each an expert in a particular area (i.e., genomics, radiology, pathology), could help physicians streamline their clinical decision-making and deliver more personalized care. Their vision for the project is for these agents to collaborate and analyze multi-modal data in order to proactively generate treatment plan recommendations, continuously adapting based on new information.

Toyota is one manufacturing company that's been raising operational efficiency with agentic AI. Its “O-Beya" system draws on design data from real-life engineers and other sources to inform nine specialized AI agents. If, for example, a car designer asked O-Beya how to make a car run better, an "engine agent" might give an answer related to engine output while a "regulatory agent" provides an answer on limits to emissions, which O-Beya would then consolidate into a single reply. 

What is agentic AI's future

We can expect agentic AI to become more integrated into business strategy, but ethical considerations and regulatory frameworks will be critical for its responsible development and scalability. Here are just a few things you can anticipate in the development of agentic AI:

• Increased automation. AI will handle more complex, real-time tasks across sectors like marketing, healthcare, finance, risk management, and autonomous driving.
• Personalization & interactivity. Expect more adaptive, human-like AI that personalizes interactions in areas like virtual assistants, e-commerce, and education. AI will increasingly understand and respond to human emotions, making interactions more natural and useful.
• AI ethics and governance. As AI autonomy grows, there will be a stronger push for ethical guidelines, regulation, and making sure AI aligns with human values to avoid harmful outcomes. AI content generators themselves have already run into some ethical snags in education, as students use AI generators to complete assignments.

Rellify's AI difference

Rellify will continue evolving alongside agentic AI technology, harnessing it to help businesses find topics and create content that resonates with their target customers.

As we have seen, part of agentic AI involves one model thinking about how to solve a problem and then asking other models to go solve it. In a sense, that's what a Relliverse™ does for our clients. It "thinks" about the content opportunities and then prompts another model to capture them. ‍With a custom Relliverse™, you can leverage deep learning, machine learning and AI research to change the way you plan, write, and distribute content.

Ready to find out how? Contact a Rellify expert today for a demo and find out exactly what you're missing.