Brands must meet customer demands. Unfortunately, more than half are failing even though the answer is right there.

The modern marketing landscape is flooded with buzzwords such as ‘customer-first’ and ‘experience-led’ by agencies attempting to gain a competitive edge.

But when it comes to practicing what you preach, the promises ring hollow.

84% of decision-makers believe that they meet or exceed customer expectations. But the reality differs – only 45% of customers actually agree that brands meet their needs to this point.

Truthfully, there’s a huge disconnect between the promise and how customers truly feel.

Here’s the truth behind it: modern buyers aren’t playing along. They are conducting research and making crucial decisions even before they talk to your SDRs.

What’s really causing the missteps?

It doesn’t always boil down to the execution.

When it comes to intricate marketing functions, the molecular details matter. And marketers, in a desperate attempt to meet their modern buyers halfway, cling to their traditional textbooks.

And the loop continues with marketers perceiving new problems through old definitions. Even though digital innovation has afforded marketing teams resources, most are stuck following tech trends instead of rethinking the system.

This, however, wouldn’t serve the purpose.

Modern marketers must pivot to a new playbook where the buzzwords don’t just ring hollow but can be proactively acted upon.

Revisiting and Refining Old Playbooks

The first play would be to outline a different perspective on developing customer relationships, i.e., integrating customer experience (CX) into your lead-nurturing strategies.

It’s easy to think of customer experience and nurturing as distinct functions handled by separate teams. CX is responsible for keeping clients engaged post-purchase, whereas lead nurturing is a pre-purchase tactic.

But they are really two sides of the same coin and deeply interlinked.

Lead nurturing isn’t merely about engaging leads through drip campaigns or guiding leads down the funnel. It’s an ongoing experience that influences how prospects perceive and engage with your brand.

In simple words, lead nurturing is a moment in a customer’s experience across the sales journey. And, the quality of this experience fundamentally determines whether the customer will convert and how they remember your business in the long term.

To actively turn prospects into advocates, there’s a fundamental need for continuity in the customers’ sales journey. And across the modern buying landscape, your efforts to do so would only fall flat if lead nurturing and CX were considered isolated silos.

The Customer Perspective: Rethinking Traditional Lead Nurturing

Engaging with a customer in this copy-paste market is demanding. They want to feel that they aren’t just another name in your database.

This is why savvy marketers developed personalized communications and tailored offerings.

So, why are marketers still feeling the brunt of engaging customers?

There’s a knowledge gap – customer experience isn’t only fundamental to post-sale activity. It’s synonymous with prospect experience. And this starts way before the sale has closed. Even before they purchase, the tone of your emails, follow-up gaps, and the services you suggest influence how leads perceive your brand.

So, if your nurturing communication feels mechanized or templated, you might lose the potential client.

Because customer experience is your brand’s emotional blueprint, lead nurturing is how these emotions are delivered or instilled, click by click.

Any technical drawbacks can lead to poor CX early on. It doesn’t wait to deliver a blow until a sale is closed, but silently erodes trust.

From unsubscribes to drop-offs to ‘Not Now’ clicks, leads will rarely tell you why.

But the silent answer is often a poor experience.

And even the most effective lead-nurturing efforts lead to this. Why?

1. Silos between marketing, sales, and CX.

Silos between customer-centric departments instill a fragmented journey. Each team is speaking its own language – they track distinct goals, resulting in a partial view of customers.

Additionally, communication is an integral component of businesses. It’s the driving wheel for consistent revenue flow. However, inconsistent messaging can lead to a fragmented brand experience.

Inconsistency equates to a lack of synergy between departments, which raises questions for potential buyers.

There’s a marketing team on one side making specific promises during lead nurturing, but sales start pitching a whole new set of priorities. And a CX team that doesn’t meet service-related expectations.

It makes the customers feel misled and confused, reducing trust and leaving them dissatisfied.

Similarly, siloed tech stacks can limit the view of the customers’ journey through the funnel. With limited background knowledge, CX teams have little to no space for personalizing the onboarding process.

The result is a templated experience that leaves customers displeased.

The solution?

Cross-team collaborations.

Departments must understand each other’s goals and strategies to avoid falling short or clashing in their efforts – no excessive outreach or mixed signals.

To avoid this, communication and integrated systems are imperative.

2. Misaligned messaging or irrelevant content.

Content is the single most efficient channel for effective marketing communications. With the right strategy and execution, it can afford tangible outcomes for small businesses and large enterprises.

All it requires is patience and consistency.

Consistency is the foundation for manifesting and earning brand trust.

And when it comes to content, irrelevance and inconsistency can prove detrimental.  While some messaging might align with the brand guidelines, others may digress, harming the brand identity because inconsistency doesn’t reflect what the brand stands for.

Often, it relays that you’re merely following trends and don’t care for a connection; it’s all about business, resulting in misinformed promises and confusion among prospects.

The solution?

Your brand must stand by a core message highlighted through distinct content formats and channels. But the crux remains the same, and each piece is another fragment of a unified whole.

When your content reflects the same values across multiple platforms and touchpoints, it demonstrates the trust you hold in your own brand.

Uniformity is crucial to align with the overarching business objective and what the audience truly wants.

This way, the overall content delivery becomes more impactful.

3. An overreliance on automation without a human touch.

A customer’s viewpoint signifies strategically employing personalization, empathy, and contextual understanding of customer pain points.

Even with all its capabilities, machines can’t match the insights only humans can instill.

With the advent of AI and automation, marketers are heavily relying on tech, from automated emails to onboarding. There’s a crucial lack that even technology cannot fill: finesse and nuance.

Think: Your automated system sends a customer an email regarding a product update while they are waiting for a response on a support issue, making your brand appear tone-deaf and disconnected.

Without at least some human oversight, these systems can’t always track real-time behavior signals. This could result in delays when customers require an urgent response to another issue.

The simple impact: prospects feel like just another number, hampering any emotional loyalty or the possibility of building one.

The solution?

Technology would possibly replace human workers. But here’s the truth: AI and automation should enhance human efforts, not replace them.

After the monotonous and generic content churned out, the marketplace has realized the need for a human touch. Without empathy or context, customers are witness to a cold and disconnected journey.

It even alienates them at key moments, such as being stuck in a bot loop to fix a critical issue.

Savvy marketers must pivot to a hybrid model of automation for scaling and efficiency, and a human touch for high-intent moments.

For the future of the business, this model could help elevate trust and long-term value.

4. The “perception gap.”

Have you ever heard of Mazagran? There’s a good reason why not.

Starbucks and Pepsi conducted market research to understand customers’ wants. The unanimous answer to the survey was simple: They wanted a sweet, cold, and bottled coffee beverage.

As an answer, Starbucks developed Mazagran.

Source: Starbucks

The customers were polarized. Some loved it, others didn’t. And the product didn’t meet their expectations, resulting in little to no sales.

And Mazagran was deemed a failure. It now sits in the Starbucks archives as a failed experiment caused by a perception gap.

Customers have become clever with every technological innovation. They know precisely what they want from you, and it should align with what they are looking for.

But it’s complex to pinpoint what they want. This leads to a significant gap between service performance and customer expectations.

And in this current landscape, where every task is completed with a click, they want their needs addressed as quickly as possible. Any slip-ups lead to a negative customer experience.

The thread binding customers and businesses has become weak. And only a tiny portion of decision-makers are aware of it.

So, the perception gap has only widened – 91% of customers drop off due to failed expectations. This results in a tide of negative reviews, which drives potential customers away.

It’s become a market-wide conundrum.

The solution?

Marketing’s awareness of this gap has fundamentally transformed the approach to their customer-first marketing strategies.

The focus must now be on:

1. Market research to fill the knowledge gap and outline customer motivations. Customer expectations matter at the end of the journey and at every touchpoint.
2. Delivering on promises on time to ensure brand standards. This is only possible through departmental collaborations to help gauge priority tasks and align goals.
3. An effective multichannel communications strategy that delivers. The spotlight should be on solutions that actually identify and resolve customer pain points.
4. Regular surveys and feedback loops that can help marketers highlight:
   1. Customer expectations
   2. What’s promised
   3. What got delivered
   4. The impact

In short, lead nurturing shouldn’t just be a strategy your old playbooks have made mandatory. It should be considered a channel that influences customer emotions positively.

Consistent CX Across Multiple Touchpoints: The New Way

Without a customer standpoint, most lead-nurturing tactics are unidirectional and lack nuance.

The underlying logic is the predictable nature of the traditional sales funnel – the prospect moves from interest to awareness and the decision to purchase.

Meanwhile, modern customer journeys are complex to outline.

Digitization of marketing has introduced newer channels and touchpoints for the modern buyer. Customers can now switch between multiple channels, further complicating the once-linear journey.

Even intent across a buying period might change – a blog might influence a purchase decision a month after reading it, while a demo request mightn’t guarantee readiness.

The modern customer journey is a tangled web.

To simplify this chaos, lead nurturing becomes a critical touchpoint in optimizing their overall experience. It offers clarity and consistency throughout the non-linear path, mirroring the actual journey and not the imagined funnel.

This is when CX and your lead nurturing efforts sync – it’s not about the conversion but shaping how your customers feel while interacting with your brand.

It’s not about telling a story but delivering the right message. How can project managers efficiently leverage the power of storytelling?

Almost 18 years ago, Steve Jobs revolutionized the phone – by surprise-launching the first-ever iPhone. It was during the Macworld convention in San Francisco in 2007 that Jobs was set to announce three new products, preceded by a robust media build-up.

The presentation resonated with the audience so strongly, that the Apple CEO has been titled a “master showman” until today. He starts by convincing the audience why they should listen to him and how it matters to them. There was suspense, anticipation, and lingering before the big reveal.

Storytelling – the deeply ingrained kernel of marketing.

Was it a phone? An iPod? An internet communications device? What was it going to be? It was all bunched in masterful storytelling. Jobs then breaks his usual pattern and reveals that the list he mentions doesn’t entail three different models but one new product.

Why is this day still rooted in the audience’s minds? The power of storytelling, especially when harnessed during interactions puts the audience in a delirium. And with Apple establishing itself as one of the most prominent tech giants, this moment has transcended time.

Since the dawn of time, storytelling can influence behaviors and attitudes – it persuades and convinces its audiences. Apple knew their new product would transform the market forever, but it was all in Jobs’ hands to intrigue their buyers – it was a well-evaluated marketing technique.

Today’s market is plagued with a never-diminishing thirst for content, even during the momentary flicks of content fatigue. However, have we ever analyzed how much of the published content actually receives engagement? According to a report, prospective clients spend an average of 8.5 minutes viewing stationary content, such as blogs, whitepapers, and eBooks.

There is content-centered noise rampant across the market, how do brands usually attempt to stand out? By harnessing their inherent uniqueness.

Storytelling helps weave this into a structure that can be leveraged to build an emotional connection.

Doesn’t a business reorganization or project planning require convincing the decision-makers and stakeholders?

HBR states that most high-level executives lack the act of communication, let alone instilling any sort of inspiration. Corporate jargon or intellectual rhetoric is significant but cannot always drive a conversation. What does impact the heart then? – integrating an intellectual idea with emotions.

And this is where storytelling becomes the crux of business activities.

But it’s not as simple as telling something. There have to be specific ingredients churned into the content and the implementation:

1. Make it memorable and compelling
2. Instill emotional power
3. Entails detailed insight
4. Not too much information
5. Good use of imagination

The final product should align with the conventional principles of good storytelling – Freytag’s Pyramid.

Through the purview of project management,

• Exposition: Introduces the main elements – project definition
• Inciting Incident: The conflict – the business challenges it’s addressing
• Rising Action: The “wrong” decision – potential conflicts the project may face
• Climax: the key message or the project vision
• Falling Action: Aftermath – what’s in store for the stakeholders and business-wide benefits?
• Resolution or Denouement: the conclusion – how will the project impact the business’ growth curve?

Business or not, there’s something unique regarding storytelling itself. Kendall Haven brings this to the readers’ attention in his book Super Simple Storytelling (2000) – storytelling is uniquely human.

When complex and ambiguous ideas are threaded into a story, the context helps unknot them into the form of natural fiber – in much simpler words, these complicated ideas become comprehensible.

This characteristic of storytelling is an integral component of effective communication, meanwhile, the latter is what a successful project is entirely based on.

Project management requires storytelling to wheel through.

Project creation to execution necessitates different levels of expertise and perspectives from the decision-makers. Various input helps the project’s effectiveness and elevates the probability of a project’s success. But bridging the communication gaps could be a bugger – storytelling might help rebuild this divide.

When the project manager has a specific vision and direction to curate a project, how does a stakeholder realize and instill their belief in it?

Storytelling isn’t just for the kids and spans beyond fiction. At the nucleus, it’s about making someone believe in what you have to say, and in the case of stakeholders, making them accept what’s in it for them. It has to personally communicate the “why” to them and evoke the right emotions.

Communicating with an audience is in itself an art of storytelling.

What about the technical aspects of storytelling?

There are specific ways that storytelling is leveraged, but does it work well for all forms of content?

Project management involves such diverse and in-depth branches – from project planning to execution and performance measuring – that it’s easy to get distracted. But storytelling grabs the listeners’ attention.

However, there are different phases to project management. It doesn’t merely include a presentation or a simple meeting. When the goal is to gain funding and recognizable positive reactions, the components to keep in mind are ample.

The project manager needs to consider the different possibilities (responses and conflict scenarios), the space where the communication is held, verbal and non-verbal messages, and the intended meaning as opposed to the perceived meaning, etc.

Furthermore, according to PMI,

“Only 7% of our communication is verbal—the content of our communication. Thirty-eight percent is conveyed through the quality of voice—tone, volume, speed, and pitch. Fifty-five percent is through posture, movements, gestures, facial expressions, breathing, and skin-color changes.”

This is where storytelling becomes a saving grace for businesses, especially in project management.

Applications of storytelling in project management

“You need to know how many and what kind of stories would generate momentum and demonstrate progress,” says a Forbes article on the power of storytelling.

This applies to different stages of project management as well.

1. Mapping project definition and vision

In the first part, defining the project is crucial. Project managers have to outline their attributions, challenges, and objectives. These elements will provide a base for a story – the project vision.

Beyond the technicalities, this instills a human aspect to the project, helping connect the vision between the primary and the additional stakeholders. It’s a crucial tool to address any challenges that might materialize while developing the story, even before the project has begun.

Because this initial stage includes persuasion and selling the vision effectively to acquire buy-in from stakeholders.

What’s better than leveraging dopamine production storytelling imbibes within us?

It’s not merely a fluke.

This has been proven through neuroscience research. It syncs the storyteller’s brain with the listener’s, which is called neural coupling. Through this connection, the listener feels they are present in the story themselves – bridging the boundary between imagination and reality.

So, storytelling calms the wandering mind, demanding attention. This is why it’s the right time to communicate the key message or a call to action. By outlining this at the right time in the story, its effect is emphasized and significantly boosted.

2. Building effective relationships

Second, to implement the vision as it is – from the beginning – different teams should mark the common objectives and streamline their paths. By effectively coming together, they can bring different perspectives and negotiate smoothly to negate conflicts.

Because project management is not only about working on a task together – its crux is embedded in the need to cooperate and build relationships. And this is foreseen by project managers.

Storytelling enhances their capabilities – inciting personalization into the entire process and simplifying any complexities. Hence, it depends on the process – how it affects the relationship between the managers and other involved parties.

Does it boost the strength? How does it affect the project? What is the purpose of the story?

If the story is meticulously planned and implemented, it can foster trust and connection between the two parties. Through this, project managers can establish a long-lasting relationship that works successfully for future projects. The personas that have created the bond will transform from a tactical or formal one to become fruitful and lasting.

Once this has been determined, it’s simpler to clarify any ambiguities, resolve conflicts, fulfill resolutions, and deter vagueness.

3. The project’s message?

The integral component of communication or storytelling is the same – a key message. Before the project is deemed successful or a story is communicated, curating the message is the primary step. This becomes the third vital aspect.

In project management, what does it comprise? The project’s purpose, intended action, and the call to action. It should maintain its originality, emotional appeal, catchiness, and memorable aspect.

Significantly, the message is the crucial facet of the storytelling process, but one that aligns with the business value and mission statement.

There’s a specific reaction or emotion every message hopes to evoke. Good storytelling keeps the listeners engaged and emotionally speaks to them.

So, it’s not easy to develop a message that equally resonates with everyone. To some extent, storytelling offers a multi-purpose approach. Its different corners acknowledge the varied viewpoints and help deliver it in several ways. In project management, it can help convince, inform, and inspire by adding authenticity.

If the message is personal or familiar, it can spark recognition in the stakeholders meanwhile, fresh stories can provide a unique angle. Stories work both ways. It significantly depends on the audience and how the message is delivered.

4. Are your listeners hearing what you want them to?

This urges the need to ask – how well do you know the audience involved in the project? As the project manager, one should map the different characteristics that result in the variable ways the parties take in the message.

The next phase is understanding who your listeners are.

People don’t merely act on reason – their actions include a bunch of thinking and decision-making that isn’t decipherable by everyone. The decisions also depend on specific social and cultural cues, which vary from person to person. It’s crucial to underline which traits, backgrounds, requirements, and interests might influence whether a stakeholder shows inherent intent in a project.

It’s never quite known what speaks to an individual. But the challenging task is this – fanning out a single message to different stakeholders. Does the curated vision convey the same message to all of them?

Hence, studying your audience beforehand for engaging storytelling is significant. It’ll establish attributes and growth direction that they are interested in. When their own stories are mirrored to them, they will evoke similar emotions and experiences, leading them to connect with the project vision.

An organization’s vision is a story in itself.

As a project manager, one has to leverage what the company is to build what it could be. This is the story they wish to weave through successful projects. Where do executives envision the company will be headed? This answer is best delivered through a great story.

But why?

Haven’t we learned from fiction that there is a huge gap between fantasy and reality? But business storytelling is different. It illustrates the data and the struggles of real life to maximize the impact rather than embracing a lie.

Storytelling aspects dwell in the complex data and emerge victorious – with meaning and purpose in hand. No immaterial data is presented to the audience. Instead, the teller journeys through the process of acquiring the said data, analyzing and then drawing conclusions from it.

This ascertains them – what matters.

Project managers hope to leverage these storytelling capabilities to build relationships and ensure profitability for the long run. Effectively interacting through storytelling will ensure differences between stakeholders are settled, foster more project approvals, sustain the proposal, and streamline the projects.

Because, after all, the bigger picture remains the priority – facilitating business growth and consistent success.

Currently, the wave of adopting the top AI agent development solutions is gaining momentum among organizations. Unlike chatbots, these are a step ahead of modern-tech innovation with advanced capabilities to improve business operations. These can perform tasks autonomously on behalf of a user through workflow design. It would be better to call them autonomous agents.

However, every industry operates differently, and it would be better to invest in custom development with an experienced AI development agency. Ensure you work with the right team to help build an AI-specific solution that meets your needs.

Brief Overview of the Working of AI Agents

It is vital to understand the workings of AI agents before actually investing in their development. Data is the primary source behind how they work. These intelligent agents are trained on many datasets, and their performance entirely depends on the quality and quantity of data.

This wide array of data is collected from different channels, including social media, interactions of users on the website, and transaction-related histories. Data collection is one thing, but these agents are smart enough to make decisions independently on that data by leveraging AI/ML technologies at their best.

The usage of machine learning algorithms helps in examining data and identifying patterns. Though, the main thing to notice is the learning ability of these agents. The better an AI agent learns, the more specific query-based replies it offers.

What are the Benefits of AI Agents Development For a Business?

When investing in a technology, it is wise to ascertain its benefits to your business. Flukes won’t work; hence, having a detailed understanding of the technology can help you further in making a competitive edge. AI agent development provides various benefits to a business, and here are some important ones that you must check out:

Better Customer Service

Customer service is the key aspect that most businesses ignore due to excessive workload and pressure. This indeed impacts the growth negatively. AI Agents here serve as a tool that elevates a business’ growth.

But the question is how? These agents remain active 24 hours and 7 days a week, offering prompt responses to specific queries as and when user required. Data is the primary source, and AI agents analyze data to deliver personalized responses to users in the language they raised a question.

Improved Operational Efficiency

What sets an organization apart from competition? Its ability to perform operations with efficiency. The introduction of AI has leveled up the bar, especially AI agents that help improve the efficiency of organizational operations.

Mundane operations, like data entry, order processing, or appointment scheduling, majorly kill productivity as one has to perform these operations on a daily basis. AI agents remove the stress of daily operations by automating them, saving employees time and allowing them to focus on more complex and business-specific tasks. Also, these software programs are assistive in streamlining the workflow.

Data-backed Insights

The introduction of AI agents in your organization will eventually improve the way you use data and draw insights.

How?

• These intelligent agents analyze large volumes of data to identify any trend or pattern you are missing.
• By analyzing and identifying patterns, AI agents power your business to predict customer behavior and make adjustments in strategy accordingly.

This is how the top AI agent development solutions will empower your business to use data and help you make informed decisions. It will significantly improve your decision-making capability as you leverage the insights that help improve product development and customer engagement.

Enhanced Sales and Marketing

Analyzed data can help you tailor your marketing campaigns in a way that you target the right customer for your product. This enables you to create and deliver personalized messages to them.

As a result, you will qualify more leads through improved customer engagement. This can better optimize the sales conversion ratio of your products.

Crucial Considerations While Investing in AI Agents Development

The more precautions you take, the better AI agents will perform. Development takes time and effort, but all that would be in vain if one doesn’t consider the essential things that can help stand out your developed product. Here are the main ones to consider before investing in the development:

Data Quality

Data is the backbone of how AI agents perform. It should not be compromised if you are aiming to build a software project that would work longer. The quality of data matters the most. Focus on not compromising it to ensure your AI agent will deliver high-quality responses to users by making the most of data-driven insights. You can do this by:

• Adhering to privacy regulations when using and collecting sensitive data
• Ensuring consistent and accurate labeling of data for supervised learning models.

Ethical Considerations

Checking data quality is necessary, and you will take care of that aspect. Now, consider transparency, data privacy, accountability, bias mitigation, and more to ensure the smart agent you develop will provide unbiased responses that are true to the query asked. This factor is of utmost importance in building AI agents that stay neutral in every condition.

Human Oversight

Overreliance on technology is not a better approach to every problem. You must maintain a distinctive space for humans to share their insights and control the tool effectively. Maintaining a proper balance is crucial for long-term success.

Continuous Training

AI is a technology, and it never works on its own unless it is being trained. However, one-time training is never enough while aiming to deliver specific responses promptly. Hence, you must invest in the continuous training of your AI agents to improve their accuracy and performance. Partnering with an AI development agency is wise for efficiently and continuously training your agent to be better and more specific to user queries.

Conclusion

AI agents have been in use since the early 90s, but in recent years, they have become more prevalent in the market. Every business (that visualizes a sustainable presence) is investing heavily in this technology. From improving customer service through round-the-clock presence to enhancing sales and marketing via data-backed insights, these offer various benefits to a business.

AI agent integration is gaining momentum in industries like e-commerce, Finance, Healthcare, and more. All because of AI agents’ ability to allow a business to gain a competitive edge in the market in their niche. However, the subtle nuance behind making the most of these smart agents lies in the requirements of your business.

While investing in the development, ensure that the data is of high quality and you are working with an AI development agency for continuous training and improvement of your AI agent. Remember to hire a skilled and highly experienced company for your project. A small mistake in development can ruin the entire effort. Hence, it is wise to thoroughly research service providers and select the right team for your project.

But now, it’s metamorphosing into our day-to-day sustenance. With AI transformations keeping the conversation fresh and relevant, it has become our blinding light.

According to the leading research firm Fortune Business Insights, The global AI data center market size was valued at USD 12.95 billion in 2023. The market is projected to grow from USD 15.13 billion in 2024 to USD 94.03 billion by 2032, exhibiting a CAGR of 25.7% during the forecast period.

Each day is just another opportunity to ask ourselves – what does AI have to offer in the long term? Do we actually trust it? Such questions can put tech enthusiasts in peril.

In line with the newest AI conversation in the market, the answer to this question has come to involve – Agentic AI. While you might have heard it thrown around, it’s not simply part of the tech jargon. This next step in AI innovation could drastically transform how machines and humans interact and communicate.

There’s one theme that has been consistent across the human-machine conversations – control. It’s ambitious for mankind to want control but, at the same time, forsake it all together. While humans wish to retain it, they want to relieve the decision-making chunk of it.

At large, it’s about minimizing the effort and gaining control over how much comfort we obtain.

So, we have reiterated AI as our partners instead of our tools. Where generative AI is reactive – it responds to prompts from an external stimulus – a human input; the new AI is said to be autonomous.

Was there a need for another upgrade?

Noticeably, the very first wave of AI was all about predicting – from customer behavior to forecasting market trends. Users wanted to know how to make smarter decisions instead of letting machines make them for us. The next wave carried with it – conversation and content creation.

Generative AI or AI agents lack autonomy as well as require context to function. Their decision-making is largely dependent on inputs given by humans. This is quite a one-sided interaction.

For example, consider how AI agents function as virtual helpers. They are constructed to help us with automated and repetitive tasks without a single instance to think for themselves.

After the advent of AI, we continue to overflow with uncertainty. There is a rupture to repair. The solution to this was handing over the decision-making capabilities to the machine and allowing it space to adapt.

Quite human-like, isn’t it? These functions come naturally to us; they are built into our genetics. And that’s what happened with the next transformation in AI.

The third and the current AI wave gave birth to agentic AI.

To unhand humans of complex tasks at the workplace, we could turn towards human-like instruments. Reasoning was always the determinant, but prediction and suggestive responses were the course for the initial waves of AI.

These assistants were rule-based and couldn’t adapt or act beyond the human-fed environment. How is the third wave different?

Enver Cetin, an AI expert at a global experience engineering firm – Ciklum, describes Agentic AI by defining its proactiveness. The system understands the objective of the user and the context without significant push from prompts or codes. Their priority is decision-making rather than content creation.

Another significant differentiating factor is their ability to carry out complex data sequences – from searching different databases to triggering workflows. The complex Agentic AI system is built to undertake complicated tasks with the minimum human help – from boosting sales to elevating supply chain efficiency.

But, because an autonomous machine is a complex build in itself, its system functions on an amalgamation of intricate machine learning algorithms, automation software, and NLPs. This has instigated a pivotal role for Agentic AI in the space of marketing.

It can make decisions that align with an organization’s business and brand value. Its practicality is still quite experimental, but one can only imagine the road it might take in the near future.

Where will Agentic AI end up?

In marketing, specifically, it can improve customer service by grasping their intent in a short amount of time. The customer service bots can obtain emotional responses from the customer and resolve queries based on the same. They learn from each interaction and respond accordingly.

Unique, right?

Agentic AI has transformed the age-old human versus machine debate.

From pitting one’s efficiency against the other to forming a collaborative relationship, a lot has shifted.

This innovation in AI facilitates independent action. The role of an AI model has shifted from a helper to a collaborator, with a significant amount of back-and-forth dialoguing because the need is not for another assistant that takes the commands and executes them as outlined but for a partner that takes the workload off of humans.

The simple logic?

To humanize machines to the extent where effortless automation of machines synergistically finds a balance with the human capability to think unchaperoned. Without overlapping and overshadowing the space both hold in this fast-paced society, tech wants to anchor onto each of its strengths.

The objective is to deter from the instinctive characteristics of machines and solidify their individuality – one where they make autonomous decisions. Agentic AI has the capability to process a vast amount of data, underline patterns, and derive accurate insights – ones more reliable than humans can.

They possess self-optimization capabilities in real-time in the event of fluctuations. Agentic AI can assess situations and take the most ideal course of action.

The era of this tech advancement has opened up possibilities for engineers and scientists who dreamt of this moment since the time of automation – for machines to act independently.

Glancing into a window of limitless possibilities – the future of Agentic AI.

This has instigated another discussion surrounding the limitless possibilities of AI and whether it can co-exist with humans. But techies aren’t ready to give up. The introduction of Agentic AI has transformed human-machine partnerships by fostering trustworthiness in AI and workforce specialization.

The job market is brutal, and it’s not as if humans lack specific skills, but there is a gap. Agentic AI has the power to change this. It can be behind the scenes to outline work for other agents. This form of trust across workspaces is crucial.

Generative AI has offered hallucinations and inventions out of thin air in the name of information, but Agentic AI offers the possibility to accomplish actual tasks. It has better abilities to sift through the cob-web of data and highlight reliable information to a user.

In other words, Agentic AI can work and think (close but not actually) like humans and better than its counterparts.

The promise of innovation that fosters effortlessness and convenience could be human’s downfall. It can be the bane as well as the boon. It’s too soon to derive particular conclusions because the Agentic AI system is relatively in the pilot stage. But if we could provide one single comment on its future direction, we would say – its golden future is carefully embedded within the cracks that AI automation couldn’t penetrate

A new revelation by Nvidia at the CES sparks curiosity.

New technologies are pouring in, and we are constantly in a flow to adapt and integrate. With so many global innovations surrounding us, there has been another addition to this tech stream.

Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, astonished the audience at the CES event in Las Vegas with this innovation — a $3000 mini computer. In his elaborate keynote, Huang followed the footsteps of the late Steve Jobs’ surprise reveal — Project Digits based on an Nvidia chip called GB10.

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Huang received the limelight as he introduced the mini computer having the capability to run the Nvidia AI stack.

Digits is by far the world’s first personal AI mini computer. It is created by compressing the world’s largest supercomputers in research labs. This fascinating tech is possible due to the GB10 superchip — a system-on-a-chip (SOC) based on the Nvidia Grace Blackwell architecture. It can deliver around 1 petaflop of AI performance. The GPU is paired with an ARM-based CPU.

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NVIDIA worked with MediaTek to build the superchip. ‘Digits’ is portable and equipped with a power outlet similar to mobile devices.  

What makes it amazing is its capability to handle 200b LLMs. It’s like placing an AI supercomputer on the desk. Digits also comprises 128GB with a unified DDR5X memory and NVMe storage of up to 4TB.

This mini supercomputer is super powerful and can be slipped into your bag. The size and features make it a perfect fit for prototyping, fine-tuning, and running large AI models.

In a world flooded with innovation and dominated by AI, Digits could be a complete game-changer. It’s like making Blackwell portable enough to place on desktops.

The surprise reveal may end up surprising us with its features and applications.

With AI’s dominance in business operations, reliability of the tool is questionable. Claude 3.5 or GPT— Which one’s better?

In today’s tech-led world, businesses are realizing the power of AI. 94% of execs believe that AI has the potential to amplify brand growth. Most of us assume AI to be a tool that merely responds to a prompt. But there could be more to this. We are yet to decipher how a particular response is generated, raising several questions and skepticism. Can it do more than synthesizing information from multiple sources? What if one day it becomes so great at content assimilation that businesses begin to replace humans?

Brands rely on high-quality content to generate revenue and traffic through various mediums like social media channels, emails, subscriptions, etc. With Perplexity AI, Open AI, and Google AI already coming to the forefront, more needs to be explored in the AI domain. A stream of tech is being introduced, requiring businesses to scale up and integrate the best AI tools.

After the release of ChatGPT, it became the fastest-growing app. Inculcating curiosity and debate, this technology began to dominate the tech domain. As ChatGPT gained popularity, more language models were launched in the market. One of them is Claude, a tech that became the closest rival. Businesses are now weighing which of these technologies is better than the other. However, ChatGPT stepped up by launching GPT-4o- a multimodal AI model. Claude didn’t stay behind this competition and released Claude 3.5.

The comparison between Claude 3.5 and GPT-4o is real and more relevant as Open AI is geared towards setting a new industry standard.  

Claude 3.5 and GPT-4o at a glance

With the generative AI market projected to reach $126.5 billion by 2030, brands like yours must recognize the strengths of these leading models.  

Claude 3.5

With this advanced large language model, you don’t need to stress about data safety. It builds on the strengths of previous models, enhancing AI applications. The design of this model successfully minimizes harmful outputs. You can generate coherent and relevant content across various domains, improving its suitability for various applications. The core focus of Claude 3.5 remains textual inputs and outputs.

GPT-4o  

OpenAI developed this tech— a multimodal model that integrates text, audio, and visual processing into one structure. Using GPT-4o, you can seamlessly manage AI advancements. This allows you to integrate text, audio, and visuals into one framework, promoting the management of complex interactions. A highlighting feature of the new GPT is better user interactions. There is also an attempt to address safety measures to ensure appropriate responses.

Key differences between Claude 3.5 & GPT-4o

1. Model Architecture

Claude 3.5 Sonnet will be beneficial to you for long-form content like processing large documents and complex workflows involving multiple steps. Its model architecture is designed such that it offers an extended window that makes Claude 3.5 perfectly suited for customer support. You can track detailed history or handle complex conversations. Moreover, brands dealing with extensive data processing or technical documentation can benefit from their ability to manage large inputs accurately and continuously.

GPT-4o can process text, image, audio, and video inputs, making it the best fit for cross-media processing applications. Although GPT-4o is not the best bet for your long-form content, its broad context window is powerful enough for most conversations, real-time problem-solving, or content-generation tasks.  

2. Multimodal Functionalities 

The expertise of Claude 3.5 lies in processing text and visual reasoning, promoting smooth integration of visual data like charts and graphs. This tech is useful, especially for integrating AI to interpret and draw insights from statistical data.

GPT-4o allows you to efficiently process text, image, audio, and video within a single model. It is a versatile model for multimedia applications. You can leverage this technology to launch personalized content, marketing campaigns, and interactive experiences. The best feature is text generation in response to visual prompts for various industrial domains.

3. Pricing

Cost-wise, Claude 3.5 is more cost-effective than GPT-4o. This applies to domains like back-end processing, data analysis, or customer service. Claude 3.5 has the potential to handle a lot of data internally without requiring a high output volume. On the other hand, GPT-4o is more expensive but gives you flexible costing options, especially for Batch API.     

GPT-4o is the better option for businesses with high multimodal output requirements, such as content creation, marketing, or media production, where the cost per output can quickly add up if not managed effectively.  

4. Coding and Reasoning  

When it comes to coding-related tasks and processing complex reasoning, Claude 3.5 is your champion. It can handle complex programming challenges like debugging, refactoring code, and solving intricate algorithms pretty easily. Additionally, it is ideal for software companies, data scientists, or brands working on modernizing tech applications. You can rely on Claude 3.5 to efficiently solve your tasks, even those that demand a deeper level of logical and mathematical reasoning.

Apart from coding, GPT-4o’s strong points lie in creative writing, language translation, and dealing with multilingual conversations. You can utilize GPT-4o to operate efficiently in multilingual settings. This version of GPT generates better content, making it a perfect fit for new or established brands in content creation or marketing domains.

5. Speed

The operating speed of Claude 3.5 is twice that of Claude 3 Opus. However, compared to GPT-4o, it generates outputs slightly slower while being accurate and operating over a large context window.

GPT-4o is well-suited for real-time applications where speed is important for live customer support, voice-to-text processing, or interactive AI-driven apps. This tech functions efficiently in real-time transcription or global business support.

When should you choose Claude 3.5?

Claude 3.5 offers a context window perfectly suited for long-form tasks, which serves well if you are dealing with technical research or multi-level interactions. This advanced Claude is great at debugging, refactoring, and handling complex algorithms. It is an ideal software solution for application modernization. If you are from an industrial domain that involves interpreting data with visuals, it is a valuable tool.

When you should opt for GPT-4o

GPT-4o holds the potential to process complex datasets, including texts, images, audio, and videos. It is the ideal pick for multimedia content and businesses demanding dynamic content flow across various formats like marketing and media. You can utilize this tech to generate campaign copies, image files, and videos for a product launch. This can be your go-to tool for streamlining your content production cycle, allowing you to deliver messaging in different formats. Another plus point of integrating GPT-4o is seamless real-time interactions and live customer support. This feature makes it a perfect fit for your global customer service operations. Explore Lead generation services.

Summing up – With the growing digitization, there is a need to dive into the inner workings of the upcoming AI models. Glaude 3.5 Sonnet, one of the large language models is great at reasoning and generating human-like responses. It lets you create an organic chat experience despite being a tech. Contradictory to Claude 3.5, GPT-4O is faster even for responding to multiple prompts at a time. Both these technologies are worth investing in, but the choice would depend entirely on your business offerings and the challenges you are looking to address.