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Certificate: AI Marketing Course

Become an AI-powered marketer

with Carlos Doughty

Next cohort starts: Monday 15th June 2026, Online

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Overview

Unlock the future of marketing with this comprehensive AI Marketing course designed to equip you with the skills to thrive in the AI era. 

This course is designed for marketing professionals looking to harness AI for greater efficiency, smarter execution, and enhanced marketing impact. Covering foundational AI models, generative AI for content, AI-driven campaign activation, analytics, and the rise of AI marketing agents, it provides a structured, hands-on approach to integrating AI into daily marketing workflows. Participants will learn how to optimize content operations, automate decision-making, personalize at scale, and leverage AI-driven insights—all while future-proofing their roles in an AI-first marketing landscape. Through practical exercises, real-world case studies, and AI tool demonstrations, attendees will leave with a clear roadmap for transforming their marketing functions with AI. 

Cohort Session 1
3pm - 6pm BST, Monday 15th June
Cohort Session 2
3pm - 6pm BST, Wednesday 17th June
Cohort Session 3
3pm - 6pm BST, Monday 22nd June
Cohort Session 4
3pm - 6pm BST, Monday 29th June
Instructor
Carlos Doughty
Duration
16 hours
Price
£995 (GBP) / $1300 (USD) - All Access Learning Pass

Module 1: Essentials of AI Marketing 
AI Landscape, Marketing Prompting and Logic, AI Framework

  • AI landscape overview
  • Shift from knowledge worker to AI knowledge worker, augmented intelligence
  • Why one-shot prompting is being displaced by planning and context curation
  • The mega meta prompt technique for production-grade prompts
  • Prompt reasoning constructs: assumption extraction, inversion, decision trees, hidden-assumption flagging, competitive blind-spot mapping
  • Moving from prompt engineering to intelligence engineering
  • Building thought partners: Custom GPTs, Claude Projects, Copilot agents
  • Connectors and grounding (HubSpot, Outlook, Teams)

Module 2: AI Marketing Strategic Planning

Maturity Assessment, Transformation Pillars, Initiative Prioritisation

  • Trends and insights on AI transformation: budgets, initiatives of focus and challenges
  • AI marketing maturity assessment
  • The pillars of AI marketing transformation
  • AI marketing maturity benchmark: 5 dimensions × 5 stages
  • The 5 As framework: Artisan, Automated, Assisted, Autonomous, Agentic
  • AI initiatives scoping, prioritisation, budget realities
  • Pilot selection and scoping

Module 3: GenAI and AI Content Operations

Creative, Content Ops, AEO

  • Content generation maturity (Level 1 assisted to Level 5 fully orchestrated)
  • AEO and GEO: Answer Engine Optimisation and Generative Engine Optimisation as SEO successors
  • Content operations: centralising, tagging, distribution
  • Content Stack: DAM, MAM, CDP, CMS, DXP
  • NotebookLM and similar tools for content synthesis

Module 4: AI Activation
Segmentation, Orchestration, Personalisation, Testing

  • AI logic, automation and action in campaigning
  • AI decisioning – the right message, at the right time, to the right person
  • AI enabled audience profiling
  • Customer journey audit and orchestration redesign
  • TOFU / MOFU / BOFU funnel: where AI intervenes at each stage
  • Advanced channel orchestration. Moving from multi-channel to omnichannel
  • Next best action (NBA) in campaigning
  • Hyper personalisation at scale
  • Multivariant testing and optimisation in campaigning
  • AI tools underpinning activation
  • Multi-channel to omnichannel to agentic personalisation

Module 5: AI Marketing Analytics and Insight
Customers, Competitors, Channels

  • Analytics maturity ladder: descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, prescriptive, cognitive
  • Foundational AI capabilities: clustering, segmentation, lookalike, anomaly detection
  • Structured vs unstructured data, why unstructured has become tractable
  • Synthetic personas: building, enriching, using in live decisions (extended demo)
  • Social listening and audience intelligence
  • Media and channel analytics
  • Practitioner technique for hunting non-obvious data sources

Module 6: AI in Selling and Commerce
Revenue enablement, Agentic commerce

  • Buyer and account intelligence, intent data
  • Predictive revenue and opportunity scoring
  • AI sales orchestration and prompt-driven selling
  • Agentic selling: AI SDRs (Artisan), limitations and failure modes
  • AI powered revenue enablement
  • AI-powered deal rooms
  • Agentic commerce

Module 7: The Marketing AI Agent Revolution
Agentic AI, Agent Builder, Digital Employees

  • Understanding the spectrum of automation to AI to agentic AI. Marketer to AI enabled marketer to AI marketing agent / marketing digital employees
  • AI agent landscape
  • Reimagining the marketing org, function, workflows and tasks
  • Review and remap human marketing workflows to AI agents
  • Building your AI agent
  • AI agent tools

Learning Outcomes

  1. Understand the AI Marketing Landscape – Identify key AI models, their capabilities, and their role in marketing transformation.
  2. Master AI Prompting & Logic in Marketing – Develop effective AI prompts and briefing techniques to optimize AI-generated outputs.
  3. Learn to evaluate AI marketing maturity and develop a strategic roadmap using the LXA 5s framework and transformation pillars.
  4. Apply AI in Content – Leverage generative AI for scalable content creation, AEO, and automated workflows.
  5. Enhance Marketing Activation with AI – Use AI for audience segmentation, next best action (NBA), personalization, campaign orchestration, and testing.
  6. Leverage AI for Data & Insights – Utilize AI for real-time and predictive analytics, market monitoring, and performance optimization.
  7. Implement AI-Driven Decisioning – Automate marketing actions with AI-powered decision-making for improved targeting and engagement.
  8. Uncover how to assess how AI and agentic systems are reshaping selling and commerce across the revenue lifecycle.
  9. Transform Marketing Teams with AI Agents – Understand AI agents, digital employees, and how to integrate them into marketing workflows.
  10. Select & Implement AI Tools – Evaluate and integrate AI tools across content, activation, analytics, and agent-based marketing.

Resources & Exercises

Your project work will involve building the AI marketing transformation plan for a fictional company (or your own). All course learning will be applied in rich detail and accompanied but a suite of tools and resources including:

  • AI marketing maturity calculator
  • AI Marketing Initiatives template
  • Next best action (NBA) design template
  • AI agent builder canvas design
  • Prompt Discipline Construct Reasoning
  • Thought Partner Planner Pack
  • Customer journey mapping template
  • AI content marketing maturity model
  • AEO Guide
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Learning Design

12 hours

 

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Tools & Resources

 

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Live, Instructor-led

 

Fully Online

 

Interactive

 

£995 (GBP)

 


 

Carlos Doughty

Instructor: Carlos Doughty

Carlos Doughty is the Founder and CEO of LXA, an education and intelligence business built for marketing, sales, and technology professionals. He is also the founder of AntiCon Media, a flagship event series exploring digital transformation across AI, martech, sales, and marketing.

In his day-to-day role, Carlos leads LXA Group as CEO while remaining deeply hands-on as a course instructor, analyst, and consultant. He specialises in the intersection of marketing and technology, with particular focus on martech, AI-enabled marketing, and marketing operations. As a sought-after keynote speaker, he regularly presents at industry-leading events and has trained, advised and consulted global enterprises including 3M, Virgin, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, McKinsey, TikTok, Shell, WPP, and the Financial Times.

Before launching LXA, Carlos spent over 15 years in learning, events, consulting, and media, including as Marketing Director of a FTSE250 media company, where he led functions across learning, audience development, subscriptions, marketing services, and events. His work has taken him around the world, delivering projects and partnerships across cities such as New York, London, Singapore, Shanghai, Paris, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, and beyond. 

Carlos has produced and led a number of high-impact initiatives, including:
- Global certification programs in MarTech, Sales Enablement, and Marketing Operations
- Consulting and implementation projects across CDPs, MAPs, CRMs, attribution, analytics, and the full marketing stack
- Creator of the AntiCon event series and the #MarketingBookClub
- Market research and analysis across AI and agentic marketing, data transformation, and martech

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All Access Learning Pass

12 Months access (No hidden fees/clauses - just packed with unbelievable value)

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£595
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What's Included?

🚀 All live online & on-demand courses:
🎓 Certificate: AI Marketing Course
🎓 Certificate: NextGen Digital Marketing
🎓 Certificate: Marketing Technology Course
🎓 Certificate: Marketing Operations Course
🎓 Certificate: Sales Enablement Course
📚 Plus the LXA Learning Library:
📂 100+ Lessons
📂 70+ Modules & 50+ Resources
📂 20+ Courses
📂 50+ Reports & Guides
📂 100+ Event series video sessions

Who should enrol?

Generalist

  • Marketing
  • Branding
  • Technology
  • Operations
  • Programme & Project
  • Career Movers






Example job titles: Marketing manager, operations manager, BDMs, etc.

Leaders

  • Marketing
  • Branding
  • Data & Analytics
  • Digital
  • Transformation
  • Technology
  • Growth





Example job titles: Heads & directors of marketing, GMs, MDs, Heads & directors of digital, etc

Technical

  • eCommerce
  • Digital
  • Marketing Operations 
  • Marketing Automation & Tech
  • Agency MDs / Consultants
  • CRM / CDP / Data / Email
  • Digital marketing
  • ABM / Demand Generation
  • Transformation / Innovation
  • Strategists


Example job titles: CRM manager, marketing operations manager, sales operations manager, etc.

Why LXA?

Learning that Lands

Multimodal Intelligence
Blending education, expert human analysts and AI agent advisors, frameworks and templates to build lasting embedded capabilities.

Enablement Centred

Rich Learning Design
Learning design of materials and experiences that connect to your marketing operating model, stack and ways of working. Learning becomes a catalyst to enable the broader marketing strategy and framework.

Building Marketing Excellence

Deep Topic Expertise
Informed by surveying 1000s of C-suite business professionals annually and hosting events which attract 100s of SME speakers. 

Fast, Fresh Content

AI-Powered Production
60% cost efficiency vs classic in studio filming and script writing. Our proprietary AI powered production capabilities ensure we can quickly create and update content as the marketing landscape, buyer behaviours and market changes evolve.

Uniquely Informed

Community & Content
A community base of 250k built through event series and research bank developed over 9 years which provides unique market insight to inform our knowledge.

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