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Creating email copy from scratch is time-consuming. See how you can use AI prompts and existing content assets to generate complete, context-aware email drafts in seconds.
Generate Full Emails Using Detailed AI Prompts and Content References
The new email editor features a powerful AI generation tool that creates entire emails from detailed, multi-faceted prompts. A presenter demonstrated specifying messaging goals, customer journey stage, communication strategy (e.g., urgency, FOMO), and tone to guide the AI. The tool can also generate images using integrated services like Firefly or Gemini.
A key capability highlighted was the use of "content references," where an asset like a whitepaper PDF can be provided as source material. The AI then drafts relevant promotional copy based on the reference document, significantly accelerating the campaign asset creation process.
"I might want to take that white paper and utilize it as inspirational material for the email editor to start generating the content for it. It's a huge way for us to save time in content generation."
Enforce Brand Governance with AI-Powered Alignment Scores and Content Locking
The new email editor provides robust features for maintaining brand governance at scale. A presenter showed how specific content areas can be locked at the template level, preventing marketers from making unapproved changes to critical design elements. The platform also introduces a new AI-driven brand validation tool.
By uploading brand guidelines as a Word or PDF document, teams enable the AI to analyze emails and produce a "brand alignment score." This provides quantitative, automated feedback on how well content adheres to design standards, helping to maintain consistency across all communications.
"It'll use that design guideline... utilize AI to validate that the text, the images, the headline... are actually falling within those guidelines. And then it'll give us back a score."
Use AI to Generate Email Variations and On-the-Fly Translations
The AI email generation tool is designed to accelerate content creation by providing multiple options from a single request. A demonstration showed that a single prompt produces two distinct email variations, giving users an immediate choice for style or A/B testing. The underlying language model also supports on-the-fly translation.
While a dedicated translation feature is not yet present in the UI, a speaker showed that simply adding "in French" to the prompt caused the AI to regenerate the entire email in that language. This capability offers a powerful shortcut for teams managing multi-language campaigns.
"Because this is a large language model handling the actual creation of the content... there is no reason why you couldn't use the translation... by just informing it in the prompt."
Build Custom AI 'Callable Agents' for Data Standardization Tasks
An upcoming feature called "callable agents" will allow practitioners to build their own internal AI agents for custom data processing tasks. A presenter outlined use cases such as standardizing inconsistent job titles, validating phone number formats, enriching profiles with external data, or detecting spam submissions.
These custom-built agents are designed to be invoked directly from a smart campaign flow step using a webhook. This enables powerful, automated data hygiene and enrichment routines to be embedded within existing workflows without relying on external services or complex API calls.
"Consider this your own internal agent building tool... for you guys to go in and do, let's say, data validation on a new lead that has been created in the database."
Build Modular Templates and Enforce Governance with 'Themes'
A walkthrough of the new email template builder demonstrated how practitioners can create templates from scratch using a drag-and-drop interface. The process involves assembling layouts from modular components like text boxes, image blocks, and structural containers, providing a more visual and intuitive building experience.
To ensure brand consistency, templates can be governed by "themes," which pre-define approved fonts, colors, and sizing. This approach gives content creators controlled flexibility while preventing them from deviating from established brand standards.
"To be able to apply this requirement to emails that are being created by non-Marketo experts, we implemented this new capability called themes."
Convert a Static Image into a Fully Editable Email Template
The new Design Studio includes an AI-powered feature that converts a static image file into a functional, editable email template. A presenter demonstrated this by uploading a single PNG of an email design, which the system automatically deconstructed into separate, editable content blocks, text areas, and image holders.
This functionality serves as a powerful bridge between design and operations. It is particularly useful for teams whose design process originates in visual tools like Figma, as it automates the conversion of a final mockup into a live Marketo asset.
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