The best AI tools for marketing managers

Build a practical AI marketing stack for content, campaign reporting, competitor research and lead follow-up.

Five recurring tasks

  1. Writing campaign content
  2. Creating social visuals
  3. Building reports
  4. Competitor research
  5. Lead follow-up

Five recommended tools

Perplexity

Fast web research with sources

From $20/mo

ChatGPT

Writing, analysis and everyday problem-solving

From $20/mo

Semrush

Search and competitor intelligence

From $140/mo

Ahrefs

SEO research and backlink analysis

From $129/mo

Claude

Long documents and careful reasoning

From $20/mo

Example AI workflow

  1. 1. Perplexity — Sends sourced research. Find credible starting points and synthesize current information.
  2. 2. ChatGPT — Creates the first draft. Turn rough ideas into plans, drafts, analysis and reusable prompts.
  3. 3. Semrush — Finds the growth opportunity. Find demand, benchmark competitors and plan content with evidence.
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