AI Marketing Engineer

AI Training for Marketers and Marketing Teams

Most AI training starts with the prompt.
This starts with your stack.

Learn how your marketing systems and data fit together, where AI adds value, and how to turn it from an occasional tool into the way your team works day to day.

Not sure where to start? Take the 3-minute check-in →

Built from more than two years of production AI, marketing and growth implementation projects.

How did we get here?

Marketing never got simpler.
We just kept stacking.

Where we've come from

LayerWhat it promisedWhat it left unfinished
Website late 1990sA shop window open all hoursVisitors stayed anonymous
CRM 2000sOne record per customerRecords split across teams and tools
Marketing automation late 2000sThe right message at the right timeRules built on incomplete data
CDP mid 2010sA single view of the customerHard to connect and harder to own
Omnichannel 2010sA joined-up experience everywhereMost teams still run channels separately

New to any of these terms? Read the glossary →

Where we are

Every new layer added something. None took anything away. Most organisations now have the layers but not the connections, and AI is being added on top.

AI can make your marketing dramatically faster. The question is what exactly it's speeding up.

Where we're going

  • From making work to running systems that make it. Marketers spend less time producing and more time designing, checking and improving the systems that produce.
  • Context becomes the advantage. Everyone has the same models. What sets you apart is your data, your brand knowledge and how well they're connected.
  • Agents take on repeatable execution. People keep judgement, brand, relationships and governance.
  • Discovery moves into AI answers. Buyers increasingly ask an assistant instead of searching, which changes how content and SEO work.
  • Teams change shape. Fewer hand-offs, and new roles that connect marketing, data and AI.

What that means for you

If you're a…Your job becomes…
Marketing leaderDeciding where AI goes first, and making it safe to scale
Marketing managerTurning good individual AI use into team habits
Marketing opsConnecting the layers so AI has the context it needs
Marketer or assistantUsing AI well every day, and knowing when to check its work

Learn in three layers

Understand. Apply. Build.

01UnderstandFoundations & StrategyUnderstand your marketing systems, customer data, platforms and customer journeys well enough to make informed AI decisions.
02ApplyApplied AILearn how to use AI across research, content, campaigns, analysis and everyday marketing work.
03BuildAI Marketing EngineeringTurn useful AI tasks into reusable workflows, knowledge systems, automations and agents.Course 02 Part 5 and the Toolkit Vault cover your first workflows and automations.

Go as deep as your role requires. A marketing leader does not need to become a developer, but they should understand enough to make better decisions.

What is an AI marketing engineer? Someone who understands how marketing systems fit together and can turn AI into repeatable ways of working. You don't need to write code. It's a way of thinking, and you can go as deep as your role needs.

Find your path

I'm a…Start withYou'll leave with
CMO or marketing leaderCourse 01Readiness assessment, prioritised use cases, draft business case
Head of marketingCourse 01, then Course 02A plan and working workflows for the team
Marketing ops or MarTechCourse 02 and the VaultSchemas, integrations and first automations
Content or campaign marketerCourse 02Brand voice guide, prompt library, three workflows
Assistant or coordinatorCourse 02, Parts 1–3Confident everyday AI use and real work samples

Not sure? Take the 3-minute check-in →

Course 01 - Foundations & Strategy

Understand the system before you change it.

AI doesn't sit on top of marketing. It sits inside your data, platforms, processes and customer journeys.

This course gives you a working model of how modern marketing systems fit together, why organisations still struggle with omnichannel, and where AI creates value. Then it moves from spotting opportunities to prioritising them, and on through governance, investment and implementation.

For: CMOs, Heads of Marketing, marketing leaders, strategists, consultants and senior marketers who need to lead AI decisions without becoming technologists.

14 lessons · No technical background required

What it covers

  • From digital to connected customer, omnichannel and AI
  • Marketing technology architecture
  • CRM, CDP, marketing automation and analytics
  • Customer data, identity and data flows
  • APIs and integrations
  • Structured and unstructured data
  • Customer journeys and decisioning
  • Where AI fits in the stack
  • AI maturity and readiness
  • Governance, privacy, copyright and risk
  • Prioritising AI use cases
  • Business cases and implementation planning
  • Measurement
  • Organisational capability and skills gaps

Course 02 - Applied AI

Learn how to work with AI every day.

Knowing what AI can do is easy. Getting consistently useful work out of it is different.

This is the hands-on course. Learn how models behave, how context changes results, how to prompt properly, and how to apply AI across the actual work marketers do. Then move beyond individual prompts and start turning successful work into repeatable systems.

For: Any marketer who wants to get good at AI. No technical background required, and Course 01 is not a prerequisite.

18 lessons · Practical · No technical background required

What it covers

  • Generative AI and LLM fundamentals
  • Models, context windows and hallucinations
  • Prompting fundamentals
  • Roles, context, constraints and examples
  • Capturing brand voice
  • Building a prompt library
  • Research and customer insight
  • Content generation and repurposing
  • Email, social and advertising
  • Image generation and video
  • Data and campaign analysis
  • A/B testing and reporting
  • Working with files and large datasets
  • Knowledge bases and retrieval
  • Repeatable workflows
  • Automations
  • Introduction to agents
  • Human review and quality control

Go deeper when you need to

The core courses are only the beginning.

The two core courses give you the broad path. Everything below goes narrow, on one problem at a time, and grows as the work does.

Short Courses

Focused, one-problem courses that go narrow where the core courses go broad.

First up: Building an AI research workflow and Building your first marketing agent.

Being written. Not released yet.

Toolkit Vault

Six collections of working assets: AI skills, prompts, code snippets, checklists, data schemas and integration maps.

Clients also get a vault customised to their business. All of it is meant to be opened, adapted and used inside real work.

Open the Toolkit Vault →

Field Notes

What I'm seeing in client work: experiments, things that worked, and things that did not.

Read Field Notes →

Don't just watch

Make something.

Every module should leave you with something useful, not just another video watched or certificate completed.

Learn something → build something → keep it.

AI readiness assessmentCustomer journey mapUse-case backlogPrioritisation frameworkResearch workflowBrand context documentCampaign analysisAutomationAgent specificationGovernance checklist

Where this came from

I built the training because clients kept asking for it.

For the last two years I have worked with marketing teams on AI, data, technology and automation. The same problem kept appearing.

Leaders were being asked to decide on AI without a clear view of the systems underneath it. At the same time, others were using AI constantly but could not turn those experiments into repeatable ways of working.

So I started teaching both. This library is the result.

Built by Benny R, a marketing and growth practitioner with 25+ years across SaaS, ecommerce, retail, construction and regulated industries, with the last two focused on AI, marketing and technology.

How this fits our work together

WhenWhat to use
Before kickoffEveryone takes the check-in. Leaders take Course 01, Parts 1–2.
During the engagementModules and Toolkit Vault entries that match each workshop topic.
After handoverYour customised vault, plus Course 02 for anyone new to the team.

Clients get everything included.

If we're already working together, everything here is included. Use it before a workshop, send a module to someone on your team, revisit something after an engagement, or use the tools whenever you need them.

Not a client? You can purchase access separately.