09.04.2025

4 effective AI tools for marketing, brand & customer service

Author: Bernd Eßmann

AI in marketing is evolving fast, but many companies still struggle to get real results. Challenges like messy data, unclear ROI, and a lack of in-house AI expertise can make adoption feel overwhelming.

The good news? AI doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing approach. Yes, big transformation projects can be daunting, but even small, well-implemented AI solutions can drive big wins. Smart AI solutions can be integrated efficiently, offering immediate benefits. The key is finding the right balance between automation and human creativity— so AI enhances, rather than replaces, your marketing strategy.

Here are 4 real-life examples that we have implemented for large organisations like Berlin-Chemie.

Brand Compliance with the help of AI

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A global sportswear retailer struggled with endless hours of manually reviewing marketing assets such as images and texts for brand compliance. The goal was to automate those time-consuming and error-proned content reviews and reducing dependency on costly manual checks.

The Proof of Concept introduced Digital Brand Comply AI, an AI-powered solution integrated into Adobe™s Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Workfront content supply chain. The system identified non-compliant content regarding tonality, legal claims, and competitor branding. Designed for modular expansion, it could also assess branding, colors, fonts, and more based on client-specific guidelines.

The project resulted in an AI-driven brand governance system for our client, streamlining compliance checks with external providers and ensuring brand consistency.

Generate the perfect prompt for on-point images

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Every designer experimenting with AI is probably familiar with the problem: it can take a long time to find the right prompt that produces the desired creative result. And the search starts all over again with the next image.

So the result is not scalable and probably differs significantly from the previous one. Not a good foundation for brands and companies that develop large campaigns and rely on efficiency and consistency.

So we developed the AI Prompt Generator for Images. It streamlines the workflow by helping create detailed prompts, to build accurate and high-quality images. Detailed prompts allow the AI to match the designers vision closely, saving time and enhancing prompting skills. This tool gives more control over the final output, making the image generation process efficient and effective.

The prompt generator is a stand-alone tool that works with any AI generation platform, making it easy to create and scale visual assets like images, sizes, and videos. It streamlines workflows, speeds up content creation, and gives full control to align prompts with the brand’s style.

Chat with your data

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Companies often have vast amounts of data in their systems. However, analysing this data usually requires specialists who can derive useful insights from the figures and graphs. For example, if the marketing department wants to know how to improve its campaigns, it first has to send an enquiry to the specialist, wait for the results and then interpret them (or have them interpreted). We wanted to make this process much easier for one of our customers in the insurance industry and implementented a conversational AI to their systems.

Imagine you could simply talk to your data—and immediately get the answers you need. “Chat with your data” is a solution integrated with client datasets, allowing natural language querying and data visualisation. No complex queries, no technical hurdles. Your employees could make informed decisions faster and work more efficiently—all without any specialised data analysis skills.

This saves an enormous amount of time. It also gives us the advantage of being able to implement our findings immediately to improve operations. And it authorises all employees to evaluate their work immediately.

The interface can be embedded into any existing ecosystem or designed as a standalone platform.

Conversational AI for your website

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Chatbots are widely used and familiar, but users often struggle to find the right answers for their individual needs. A trained conversational AI is far superior to a basic chatbot, providing contextual, personalised and adaptive conversations that increase user engagement and efficiency. While basic chatbots are useful for simple queries, conversational AI is essential for scalable, intelligent, human-like interactions in customer service, sales, and marketing.

The “Digital Concierge” is a tailored conversational AI, embedded in any of your websites and trained on your website content, specific documents or knowledgebases to deliver valuable information faster and with unrivaled precision – to either your employees or your users.

For one of our customers, it was particularly important to have this kind of option for independent information.

In fact, “users” of our client Berlin-Chemie are patients with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and asthma, which often lack reliable, personalized medical information after the diagnose. Traditional resources may not provide tailored guidance, leaving many with unanswered questions.

Together we developed “TheraKey”, the digital therapy support with generative AI, and implemented ISA, an AI-driven chatbot that delivers structured, personalized, and scientifically validated responses. ISA leverages generative AI and a robust medical database to provide high-quality information.

Key features include:

  • Clear, structured responses
  • A strong knowledge base with 90 COPD and 115 asthma articles
  • Fine-tuned AI ensuring responses are accurate and well-founded
  • Strict data protection standards with no sensitive data storage

ISA has led to greater patient engagement, improved therapy support, higher trust and compliance due to scientifically backed content, better accessibility to reliable medical information while ensuring privacy and empowered patients with essential knowledge to manage their conditions effectively.

“The combination of generative AI and scientific validated data enables a tailored therapy support, that has the potential of sustainably improving therapy assistance. With the help of IBM iX, we were able to develop a chatbot, that brings personalized therapy support to a new level.”
Jan Hulshoff Pol
Head of Digital Healthcare Marketing, Berlin-Chemie

Conclusion: Small AI steps, big business impact

AI has the potential to transform marketing, branding, and customer engagement, but companies often struggle with implementation, integration, and proving ROI. Isolated AI tools won’t move the needle, and many businesses hesitate to invest in large-scale AI transformation projects due to high costs, complexity, and uncertainty.

However, AI adoption doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Smart, targeted AI solutions can bring immediate efficiency gains with minimal disruption. These tools help companies automate repetitive tasks, maintain brand consistency, and enhance creative workflows, all while keeping human oversight where it matters.

The key is to start with manageable AI projects that deliver real value. Small, well-executed AI implementations can drive big wins, provided they are designed and deployed by a team with the right expertise. With a trusted AI partner, companies can ensure seamless integration, rapid implementation, and long-term success.

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Bernd Eßmann
Executive Director Digital Platform Consulting, IBM iX Düsseldorf