The 9 best AI agents for marketing: A complete guide for 2026
Owen Badham
Sep 8, 2026
- Supermetrics AI is the strongest pick for marketing teams that need agents to work from governed, joined-up data across every ad and analytics platform, rather than from a single CRM.
- HubSpot Agent Hub suits teams already running the CRM, and Klaviyo AI suits e-commerce lifecycle marketing.
- Supermetrics' 2026 Marketing Data Report found that 80% of marketers feel pressure to adopt AI, while 6% have fully embedded it in their workflows.
- Pricing across the nine starts at $0 on Claygent's free tier, with the most affordable paid entry point at $44/month (Supermetrics, billed annually), verified August 2026.
- Marketing teams running paid, email, and analytics across several platforms should start with Supermetrics AI. Single-platform teams should start with the agents already inside the platform they use.
Nine AI agents are worth a marketer's time in 2026, and the one you pick should follow where your marketing data already lives.
AI agents for marketing now cover campaign optimization, lead qualification, journey orchestration, content production, and reporting, and the platforms behind them have split into distinct camps rather than converging on one product.
That split matters more than model choice. An agent built into a CRM reasons well about contacts and deals. An agent built on a marketing data layer reasons across paid, organic, email, and web together.
The data foundation is also where most agent rollouts stall. Supermetrics' 2026 Marketing Data Report, a survey of 435 marketers at various brands and agencies, found that 80% of marketers feel pressure to adopt AI, while only 6% have fully embedded it in their workflows. The most common blocker was not the technology. It was fragmented data. This is why the question of where your data already lives comes before the question of which agent to buy.
This guide covers the nine best AI agents for marketing: what they are, how they differ from the automation most teams already run, where they fail, what they cost, and how to implement them.
The 9 best AI agents for marketing
The nine best AI agents for marketing in 2026 are Supermetrics AI for cross-channel analysis and reporting, HubSpot Agent Hub for B2B teams on HubSpot, Salesforce Agentforce for enterprise customer experience, Klaviyo AI for ecommerce lifecycle marketing, Relevance AI for building custom agents, Copy.ai for go-to-market content workflows, Jasper for SEO and GEO content, Adobe's Experience Platform Agents for enterprise journey orchestration, and Claygent for B2B account research.
The criteria for accessing these platforms include: whether the agent takes action rather than only drafting output; how much of a marketing workflow it can complete without a handoff; what data it can access; whether pricing is published; and whether the product is generally available rather than in closed beta. We also checked every pricing figure against the vendor's own pricing page in August 2026.
The nine platforms are grouped into three sets, following how Google's AI Overview and the major answer engines already carve up this space.
| Platform | Agents included | Marketing use case(s) | Best for | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Supermetrics AI | Dashboard Agent, Insights Agent, Connector Agent | Cross-channel analysis, reporting, anomaly detection, and budget recommendations | Marketing and data teams running paid, analytics, and CRM across multiple platforms | $44/mo billed annually (Starter plan) |
| 2. HubSpot Agent Hub | Customer Agent, Prospecting Agent, Data Agent, Agent Builder | Support deflection, lead qualification, and CRM question answering | B2B marketing and sales teams are already on HubSpot | Included with Professional and Enterprise; $0.10 per data answer |
| 3. Salesforce Agentforce | Campaign, Loyalty, and Checkout agents, plus Agent Builder | Customer experience personalization across service, sales, and commerce | Enterprise teams with customer data in Salesforce | $0.10 per standard action (Flex Credits) or $2 per conversation |
| 4. Klaviyo AI | Composer, Customer Agent | Campaign and flow creation, service resolution, lifecycle marketing | E-commerce and B2C brands on Klaviyo | $157/mo list for 16,000 Composer credits |
| 5. Adobe Experience Platform Agents | Audience Agent, Journey Agent, Data Insights Agent, Experimentation Agent, Site Optimization Agent | Audience building, journey orchestration, experimentation, analytics | Enterprise teams already on Adobe Experience Platform | Consumption-based AI Credits license; no public list price |
| 6. Relevance AI | Custom agents and multi-agent workforces | Building marketing automation agents without code | Teams that want to build agents for their own workflows | Pricing is custom and not publicized |
| 7. Copy.ai | GTM agents, Agent Suite, Prospecting Cockpit | Content production and outbound go-to-market workflows | Joint marketing and sales teams running high-volume outbound | Chat $29/mo; workflow tiers from ~$1,000/mo billed annually |
| 8. Jasper | Marketing agents for SEO, GEO, translation, and research | Brand-governed content production and AI search optimization | Content teams producing at volume under brand rules | Pro $59/mo billed annually ($69 monthly) |
| Claygent | Claygent, Claygent Navigator, Account Research Agents | Company research, lead qualification, signal detection | B2B teams running account-based programs | Free (100 Data Credits/mo); Launch from $185/mo |
Verified as of August 2026.
1. Supermetrics AI
Best for: Marketing and data teams running paid, analytics, and CRM across multiple platforms
Supermetrics AI is the agent layer within the Supermetrics marketing intelligence platform, and it runs on data already unified from 170+ marketing and sales sources, including Google Ads, Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads, TikTok Ads, and GA4. That grounding is why Supermetrics AI ranks number one for cross-channel work: the differentiator is a governed marketing data foundation, where spend, conversions, and channel metrics are normalized to a consistent schema before an agent ever touches them. Other platforms connect to external systems; few bring cross-channel performance data into a single, trustworthy shape.
Supermetrics AI includes three purpose-built agents.
- The Dashboard Agent converts plain-language questions into interactive dashboards and reports, so a marketer can ask for paid social performance by channel for the last quarter and get a built report rather than a blank canvas.
- The Insights Agent analyzes performance changes, explains what drove them, continuously monitors metrics, flags anomalies, and surfaces budget optimization recommendations grounded in cross-channel data.
- The Connector Agent guides users through building a new marketing data integration in the low-code Connector Builder, which takes hours rather than the weeks it usually takes for an engineering ticket.
Beyond the three agents, Supermetrics AI supports custom agents, agentic workflows, and data products built on the platform's own data foundation. The Supermetrics MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server lets external AI applications, including Claude, ChatGPT, and Google Gemini Enterprise, query governed marketing data directly under the same permissions as the Supermetrics account behind it.
Supermetrics also built the Supermetrics agent inside Google Gemini Enterprise, which answers natural-language questions about campaign performance without a marketer leaving Google's environment.
Plus, Supermetrics ships ready-made nodes for workflow tools such as n8n, and Supermetrics Studio, launched in July 2026, lets a dashboard built by prompting Claude or ChatGPT run on live data and write back to ad platforms to pause campaigns or reallocate budget.
Data accuracy comes from a hybrid architecture that pairs language models with deterministic, rules-based logic. Agents work from a trusted dataset with live numbers, significantly reducing hallucinations.
Pick Supermetrics AI if your reporting question spans multiple platforms and you need a defensible answer in a budget meeting.
Example of how it helps: The Economist used Supermetrics to centralize online and offline marketing data collection, resulting in an 80% reduction in their collection and preparation workload. They were also able to significantly improve ROAS by enabling faster, more frequent analysis and budget reallocation. The Economist found that Supermetrics offered a competitive advantage over other providers thanks to its AI capabilities, which it used for automatic image and text labeling to streamline creative performance analysis.
Separately, Supermetrics built a marketing intelligence agent on Google Cloud that automates weekly reporting, freeing up 15+ hours per marketer per month for strategy and creative testing.
Pricing: Supermetrics core plans start at $44 per month, billed annually, with the total cost depending on the tier, destinations, data sources, and users. The Insights Agent is available to all users with an active paid or trial Supermetrics Hub subscription. Enterprise pricing for warehouse destinations and API access is quoted by sales.
2. HubSpot Agent Hub (formerly Breeze Agents)
Best for: B2B marketing and sales teams that are already on HubSpot
HubSpot Agent Hub is the management console for the agents HubSpot previously grouped as Breeze Agents, and it launched in public beta on 23 July 2026 for Professional and Enterprise customers. The rename matters for anyone researching the category, because most third-party coverage and several AI Overviews still refer to Breeze Agents.
Agent Hub covers four things that marketing teams use directly.
- Customer Agent handles inbound support conversations across nine channels, including SMS and Instagram. HubSpot reports that it resolves 65% of conversations across more than 8,000 customers. Prospecting Agent researches accounts, identifies decision makers, scores leads, and recommends outreach.
- Data Agent answers custom customer questions using CRM records, calls, emails, and documents.
- Agent Builder, which shipped in the same July beta, lets teams build custom agents rather than pick from the pre-built set.
HubSpot AEO, the platform’s answer engine optimization suite, sits alongside these and helps teams track how their brand appears in AI-generated answers.
Agent Hub is the clearest example of the pricing shift running through this category. In April 2026, HubSpot moved Customer Agent and Prospecting Agent to outcome-based pricing, so charges land when the agent completes the task rather than when it attempts it. The trade-off worth naming is the data foundation: Agent Hub agents are built around HubSpot’s customer platform, and while integrations and connected apps extend what those agents can work with, HubSpot’s CRM record is still the base they reason from. Teams whose paid media performance lives outside the CRM will still need a separate layer for that.
Pick HubSpot Agent Hub if HubSpot is already the system of record for your customer data and you want agents that inherit that context on day one.
Example of how it helps: A 15-person B2B marketing team running inbound on HubSpot Professional can route inbound questions to Customer Agent, pay only for resolved conversations, and hand qualified leads to sales through Prospecting Agent at $1 per lead recommended for outreach. This makes the cost of the agent legible against the pipeline rather than against seats.
Pricing: Agent Hub is included with Professional and Enterprise subscriptions for the Marketing, Sales, Service, Content, and Data Hubs. Agents bill through HubSpot Credits at $0.50 per resolved conversation (Customer Agent), $1.00 per recommended lead (Prospecting Agent), and $0.10 per response (Data Agent), with extra credits at $10 per 1,000.
Sales Hub Professional is $90 per seat per month, billed annually. Free and Starter portals do not get Agent Hub. Both flagship agents include a 28-day free trial.
3. Salesforce Agentforce
Best for: Enterprise teams with customer data in Salesforce
Salesforce Agentforce builds autonomous agents on top of Salesforce data, and its marketing use cases center on customer experience personalization.
Campaign agents brief, build, and optimize campaigns against goals set by the marketer. Loyalty agents use members' status and history to tailor offers. Checkout agents intervene in the commerce flow to recover or expand a purchase. Agent Builder and Prompt Builder let teams assemble agents for workflows that Salesforce doesn’t ship out of the box.
Agentforce prices on consumption rather than seats, which is the detail most likely to surprise a marketing buyer. Salesforce runs three meters in parallel: Flex Credits at $500 per 100,000 credits, where a standard agent action draws 20 credits and a voice action draws 30, a legacy model at roughly $2 per conversation, and per-user editions.
However, Flex Credits and Conversations can’t run in the same org simultaneously. Enterprise Edition customers and above can start on the free Salesforce Foundations tier, which includes Agent Builder, Prompt Builder, and a pool of Flex Credits.
The cost that rarely appears on the pricing page is the underlying data layer. Independent 2026 analyses of Agentforce deployments consistently flag Data 360 (formerly Data Cloud) as the line item that dominates total spend, alongside implementation timelines measured in months rather than weeks.
Marketing teams evaluating Agentforce should scope that before scoping agent volume. Reviewers also note that pre-production environments consume credits, so testing carries a cost.
Opt for Agentforce if Salesforce is your system of record and you have the data foundation and the implementation runway to make consumption pricing work in your favor.
Example of how it helps: A retail brand running loyalty on Salesforce can point a loyalty agent at tier status and purchase history so high-value members receive a different offer from first-time buyers, which is precisely the segmentation gap the 2026 Marketing Data Report identified when 44% of marketers reported doing audience segmentation and 24% reported achieving personalization at scale.
Pricing: $500 per 100,000 Flex Credits, which works out to roughly $0.10 per standard agent action and $0.15 per voice action, or approximately $2 per conversation on the legacy model.
Per-user licensing runs from $125 per user per month, and Agentforce 1 Editions start at $550 per user per month, billed annually with 1 million Flex Credits (plus 2.5 million Data Services Credits) included per org per year. Salesforce Foundations is free for Enterprise Edition and above. Data 360 is licensed separately.
4. Klaviyo AI
Best for: E-commerce and B2C brands on Klaviyo
Klaviyo AI runs two agents on the same real-time customer profile, which is what sets it apart from a general content tool for an email platform. Composer, Klaviyo's marketing agent, audits live campaigns, flows, and segments, then returns a ranked list of revenue opportunities, like an abandoned-cart flow that has not been revisited or a welcome journey where new customers stall before their first purchase.
From there, Composer builds a launch-ready campaign, including audience segments and messaging across email and SMS, and stages it for approval before anything is sent.
Customer Agent handles the service side and acts, rather than only answering. Through pre-built connectors and open APIs, it completes returns, applies loyalty points, and runs across web chat, email, SMS, and WhatsApp. Teams can describe a service experience in a prompt and have Klaviyo build the questions, logic, and product recommendations behind it.
Composer moved to public beta on 30 June 2026, and Customer Agent is now available as a full-service platform, with additional functionality rolling out through 2026. Klaviyo also publishes an MCP server, available to all customers at no extra cost, that lets tools, including Claude, connect directly to account data.
The constraint worth flagging early: Klaviyo's predictive models are built on ecommerce transaction data, so predicted lifetime value, next purchase date, and churn risk are calculated from real order history. Reviewers note this makes the predictions materially more accurate for direct-to-consumer brands and materially less useful for B2B SaaS or content businesses where those order signals do not exist.
Pick Klaviyo AI if your revenue comes from repeat consumer purchases and your customer history already lives in Klaviyo.
Example of how it helps: A skincare brand can ask Composer where the revenue is leaking, get back a ranked list showing an underperforming post-purchase flow, and have a rebuilt version staged for review the same afternoon rather than in the next sprint.
Pricing: Klaviyo AI ships as usage-metered add-ons on top of a Klaviyo plan. Composer meters Composer credits at $157 per month list for 16,000 credits, and Customer Agent meters resolved AI conversations at $200 per month list for 200, with 30% introductory discounts running in 2026. New accounts receive 10,000 complimentary Composer credits for up to 90 days.
Klaviyo's own free plan covers 250 active profiles and 500 email sends per month with 10,000 Composer credits included
5. Adobe Experience Platform Agents
Best for: Enterprise teams already on Adobe Experience Platform
Adobe Experience Platform Agents are the agent layer across Adobe's enterprise applications, coordinated by Agent Orchestrator. At the Summit on April 20, 2026, Adobe rebranded Experience Cloud as CX Enterprise and positioned these agents as its foundation layer, with a new Coworker tier above them for longer-running, goal-oriented work.
More than 10 agents previewed in 2025 are now in production, and Adobe reported that 1,770-plus customers are entitled to use them under a credit-based model. Anyone researching this category will find both names in circulation, so treat Experience Cloud and CX Enterprise as the same product family.
Four agents do the bulk of marketing work.
- Audience Agent detects significant changes in audience size, identifies duplicate audiences, estimates an audience's size before it is built, and creates audiences from natural language prompts.
- Journey Agent creates, analyzes, and optimizes journeys in Journey Optimizer, including flagging when multiple touchpoints target the same customer so teams avoid over-communicating.
- Data Insights Agent answers questions about data inside Customer Journey Analytics and builds the supporting visualizations in Analysis Workspace.
- Experimentation Agent analyzes past and active experiments, predicts impact, and proposes what to test next. Adobe also ships a Marketing Agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot, which pulls Experience Platform insights into Teams, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
Access is the practical hurdle. Agents run for customers who hold an Adobe Experience Platform Agents AI Credits license, are in a usage-bound trial, or transact with the Agent Orchestrator promotional SKU. Every agent job consumes AI credits. Adobe publishes no list price for any of this, so cost discovery runs through sales.
Choose Adobe's agents if Experience Platform is already your customer data foundation, since the agents inherit its governance and access controls rather than asking you to rebuild them.
Example of how it helps: An airline running loyalty and booking journeys in Journey Optimizer can ask Journey Agent to surface where members drop out of a re-engagement flow, then have the agent propose and apply touchpoint changes without an analyst having to rebuild the journey by hand.
Pricing: Consumption-based through Adobe Experience Platform Agents AI Credits, with no published list price. Pricing depends on existing Experience Platform and application licenses. Contact Adobe.
6. Relevance AI
Best for: Teams that want to build agents for their own workflows
Relevance AI is a low-code platform for building agents and multi-agent workforces, and marketing teams use it where an off-the-shelf agent does not match the workflow.
A campaign reporting agent that pulls from three tools and posts a summary to Slack, a research agent that qualifies inbound before it reaches sales, a content operations agent that routes drafts for review: each is assembled from tools, triggers, and approval steps rather than bought as a product.
Relevance AI supports human approvals, escalations, and structured handoffs, which matter to any agent who touches customer-facing output. It is model-agnostic and offers MCP access and Python steps for technical teams. Relevance AI also publishes a marketplace of more than 400 agent templates covering research, outreach, content generation, and analysis. Enterprise plans add agent evaluations, tracing, RBAC, SSO, and audit logs.
Reviewers consistently flag two constraints, though. Relevance AI is a build-your-own platform rather than a plug-and-play one, so getting to a production-ready agent takes real setup time. And its dual-meter billing, which splits Actions from Vendor Credits, makes cost forecasting harder than with a flat seat price, since a failed tool execution still counts as an Action.
Pick Relevance AI if your workflow is specific enough that no vendor ships it, and you have someone willing to own the build.
Examples of how it helps: A four-person demand generation team can build an agent that watches for form fills, enriches the record, checks it against ICP criteria, and either routes it to sales or adds it to a nurture list, replacing a rules-based flow that broke whenever the form changed.
Pricing: Pricing is custom and not publicized.
7. Copy.ai
Best for: Joint marketing and sales teams running high-volume outbound
Copy.ai has repositioned from an AI writing tool into a go-to-market platform, and its agent layer reflects that. The platform’s Agentic Actions handle discrete steps such as enriching a record or summarizing a call. Agentic process automation strings those steps into workflows that run without requiring a person to trigger each stage.
Creative decision-making agents choose among output variants based on brand rules stored in Infobase, Copy.ai's company knowledge store. GTM agents run the composite motions: research an account, draft the outreach, personalize it against CRM data, and push it back to Salesforce or HubSpot. The Prospecting Cockpit researches accounts and contacts before any copy is written. Copy.ai is model-agnostic across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google and holds SOC 2 Type II certification.
Reviewers note that long-form output needs substantial editing, so Copy.ai is stronger for short-form and sequence work than for publish-ready articles.
Choose Copy.ai if outbound volume, not article quality, is the thing you’re trying to automate.
Examples of how it helps: A B2B team launching into a new vertical can run 300 target accounts through a single workflow that researches each company and drafts a first-touch email aligned with the Infobase brand voice, then writes the results back to the CRM for a rep to review.
Pricing: Chat starts at $29 per month ($24 billed annually) for five seats with unlimited chat. Workflow automation is available on the Growth, Expansion, and Scale tiers, which start at roughly $1,000 per month, billed annually, with custom Enterprise pricing above that. Workflow credits meter each workflow run.
8. Jasper
Best for: Content teams producing at volume under brand rules
Jasper has moved from an AI writing tool to an agentic marketing platform, and its agents specifically target SEO and generative engine optimization. For example, the listicle agent produces structured roundup content against a target query, and the rewriter agent updates an existing post against a query it should rank for.
What sits underneath those agents is the part worth evaluating. Jasper IQ holds brand voices and knowledge assets, as well as audience definitions, so agents produce personalized outputs governed by brand rules and relevant context rather than by whatever the prompt contains.
Jasper also measures brand performance across AI answer engines and generates content intended to be cited by them, making it the clearest AI search play among the nine. The Business tier adds advanced agents, a no-code app builder, Jasper Grid for batch execution, and API access.
One downside is that outputs still require fact-checking. Additionally, the most useful agents are behind the custom-priced Business plan. Some newer features, including generative engine optimization work, draw on usage-based credits rather than the unlimited word pool, so a business quote can understate the real bill.
Pick Jasper if brand consistency across a high volume of content is the problem, and AI search visibility is the outcome you’re measured on.
Examples of how it helps: A content team maintaining 400 published posts can run the rewriter agent across the 40 that have slipped in rankings, with each rewrite constrained by the brand voice and product facts stored in Jasper IQ rather than reinvented per post.
Pricing: Pro is $69 per month, or $59 per month billed annually, for one seat with two brand voices, five knowledge assets, and essential agents. Business is custom-priced and unlocks advanced agents, unlimited brand voices, API access, and SSO. A 7-day free trial is available and there is no permanent free plan.
9. Claygent
Best for: B2B teams running account-based programs
Claygents are Clay's AI research agents. It browses the public web to answer questions a database cannot: whether a company runs a particular technology, whether it has posted a relevant role, and what a recent funding announcement implies about the budget. Claygent Navigator also adds vision-based website crawling for pages that resist text scraping.
Clay also offers Account Research Agents and custom agents that run against a table of target accounts, which is how B2B marketing teams use it for lead qualification and signal detection at volume.
Claygent shows its reasoning and sources for each output, so a researcher can check why a field was filled the way it was rather than accepting an unexplained value. Clay connects to 150+ data providers and runs waterfall enrichment across all of them.
Claygent is the narrowest tool in this list, and that is deliberate. It doesn’t send outreach or build campaigns, and it can’t handle reporting. It produces the research layer that feeds a sequencer or CRM. Reviewers also note that Clay rewards a dedicated operator, with productive use typically arriving four to six weeks in, and that AI research steps consume more credits than standard enrichment.
Pick Claygent if your bottleneck is knowing enough about target accounts to say something specific, and you have someone who will own the workflows.
Examples of how it helps: An ABM team building a list of 700 target accounts can run Claygent once per company to confirm whether each company uses a competing tool, which turns a generic campaign into a segmented one without a researcher having to open 700 websites.
Pricing: Free includes 100 Data Credits and 500 Actions per month with unlimited seats and Claygent access. Launch starts at $185 per month ($167 billed annually) with 2,500 Data Credits and 15,000 Actions. Growth starts at $495 per month ($446 billed annually). Enterprise is custom.
Clay restructured pricing on 11 March 2026, separating Data Credits from Actions, and legacy Starter, Explorer, and Pro plans remain available only to existing customers.
Where AI agents go wrong in marketing
H2: Where AI agents go wrong in marketing
AI agents fail in three predictable ways.
- They act on data they have misread
- They optimize toward the metric you set rather than the one you meant
- They keep going when a human would stop to check.
The first failure is the most common and the least visible. An agent that misreads "first week" as "first seven days," or that pulls a metric with a different attribution window than the one a marketer assumed, produces an answer that looks correct but is not.
Errors compound in multi-agent systems, where a misread at step one propagates through every subsequent step. This is why grounding matters more than model quality, and why some platforms pair language models with deterministic logic.
The second failure is a goal specification problem. An agent told to reduce cost per acquisition will reduce it, including by shifting spend to a channel that converts existing customers who would have bought anyway. Marketing outcomes are rarely captured by one metric, so agents need guardrails on what they may optimize and what they may not touch.
The third failure carries real operational risk. Agents accessed advertising dashboards via browser automation rather than official APIs, triggering the exact behavior platform policies were written to prevent, and marketers have had their ad accounts terminated as a result.
Meta, Google, and LinkedIn all prohibit automated interaction outside their official APIs, and those rules predate the current AI cycle. Supermetrics covers the distinction and how to check which approach a tool uses, in a recently published article: ad accounts banned due to agentic AI.
How much do AI marketing agents cost?
AI marketing agents range from free tiers to enterprise contracts costing tens of thousands per year. The cheapest paid entry point on this list is $44 per month (Supermetrics Starter plan, billed annually), while free plans are available at both Clay and Relevance AI.
Three pricing models are in play, and they behave differently as volume grows.
- Per-seat pricing charges for access, as Jasper does at $59 per month per seat, billed annually.
- Per-credit or per-action pricing charges for work performed, as Salesforce Agentforce does at roughly $0.10 per standard action, and Clay does through Data Credits and Actions.
- Per-result pricing charges only when the agent completes the task, which HubSpot moved two agents to in April 2026 at $0.50 per resolved conversation and $1.00 per recommended lead.
What drives the bill up is usually not the agent but rather the underlying data layer and the number of steps a workflow takes. The platform subscription the agent requires is also factored in. Agentforce needs Data 360. Klaviyo's agents need a Klaviyo plan. Copy.ai's workflow tiers are priced around $1,000 per month, while its chat tier is $29. Before comparing headline prices, price the whole stack that the agent depends on.
Can you create AI agents for marketing?
Marketing teams can prototype their own AI agents without input from an engineering team, but production agents often require technical support to handle integrations, permissions, testing, and governance. Most platforms on this list now support this process. Relevance AI and Clay are built around custom agents. HubSpot shipped Agent Builder in July 2026. Salesforce offers Agent Builder and Prompt Builder. Jasper's Business tier includes a no-code app builder.
Supermetrics supports custom agents and agentic workflows built on its own data foundation via the Supermetrics MCP Server and Enterprise APIs, as well as ready-made nodes for workflow tools such as n8n.
The advantage of building at the data layer rather than inside a single application is reach: an agent built there can query unified data from across platforms in the same run.
How can agencies use AI agents for marketing?
Agencies get the clearest return from agents because the same work repeats across every client.
- Reporting is the obvious case: an agent that assembles a client's cross-channel performance, explains what changed, and drafts the commentary removes the manual assembly that consumes most of a reporting cycle.
- Client onboarding is another popular case. The Connector Agent in Supermetrics lets an agency build a new data integration for a client platform in hours inside a low-code environment, rather than waiting on a technical team, which matters when a new client arrives with a platform nobody has connected to before.
- The third case is capacity at the analyst level. Analysts use agents to draft starting dashboards and run outlier detection, then refine and validate the output. That reduces the backlog that makes account teams wait, without handing final judgment to the agent. More on this in marketing agent platforms.
Which AI agent for marketing should you choose?
The right AI agent for marketing follows your data and your team's shape. In-house teams running paid, email, and analytics across several platforms should go with Supermetrics AI because the agents work from data already unified across those sources rather than from a single application's view of the customer.
Teams whose customer data sits almost entirely in one platform should start with the agents already within it: HubSpot Agent Hub for B2B and Klaviyo AI for e-commerce.
Agencies should prioritize reporting volume above all else, since that is where recovered hours multiply across clients, and should confirm that any agent working with ad platforms connects through official APIs.
Enterprise teams already invested in Salesforce or Adobe Experience Platform will get more from the agents within those platforms than from adding another vendor, provided the underlying data foundation is already funded.
All three of those recommendations come down to the same test: whether the agent hands a marketer something they can act on without checking it twice.
Marketers don't need more hype. They need reliable AI that simplifies their work and helps them make confident decisions that move campaigns forward.
Whichever platform you choose, the agents will only be as good as the data they read. Supermetrics unifies marketing and sales sources into a governed layer that the Insights Agent, the Dashboard Agent, and external tools (including Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini Enterprise) can all query, so every tool starts from the same governed data.
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FAQ
What are the best AI agents for B2B marketing?
HubSpot Agent Hub, Claygent, and Copy.ai are the strongest picks for B2B marketing, covering lead qualification, account research, and outbound content, respectively. B2B teams that also need cross-channel performance analysis should pair one of them with Supermetrics AI, since none of the other three reports across paid and analytics data.
How is Supermetrics AI different from an AI assistant like ChatGPT?
Supermetrics AI queries live, governed marketing data across sources, so answers reflect actual campaign performance rather than training data or pasted screenshots. It also pairs language models with deterministic logic, so the numbers in an AI-generated dashboard are calculated rather than generated.
Teams that prefer working with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini Enterprise can connect Supermetrics data directly to those tools.
What are the best practices for human-in-the-loop oversight when using AI agents in marketing?
Put a human gate on any action with real stakes, and let agents run unattended for back-end tasks like analysis and monitoring. Set spend thresholds above which an agent must ask for approval. Review the agent output against a period where you already know the answer before trusting it on a new one.
How do multi-agent systems coordinate complex campaign workflows?
Multi-agent systems assign each agent a narrow task and pass output between them through an orchestrator that decides which agent runs when. Salesforce uses Agent Builder, Adobe uses Agent Orchestrator, and Supermetrics uses a specialized multi-agent system in which each agent is trained for a single step.
The main risk is compounding error, where a misread at one step propagates through the rest, which is why narrow, checkable steps outperform one general agent.
How can I measure the ROI of AI agents in marketing?
Measure hours recovered per workflow and the value of the decisions those hours enable, rather than agent output volume. Baseline how long a task takes manually before you automate it, then compare.
For outcome-priced agents, the unit is already tied to results, so compare cost per resolved conversation or per qualified lead against your existing cost for the same outcome.
Are there any legal or ethical considerations when using AI agents for customer personalization?
Yes. Personalization agents process personal data, so GDPR and CCPA obligations around consent, purpose limitation, and data minimization apply to what the agent can access and how it uses it.
Check whether a vendor uses customer data to train its models and whether the agent inherits your existing access controls rather than operating with broader permissions than the person who triggered it.
About the author
Owen Badham
Lead Product Marketing Manager
Owen Badham is Lead Product Marketing Manager at Supermetrics, where he shapes how marketers understand and adopt the platform's data solutions. He bridges product and go-to-market strategy, translating complex capabilities into messaging that resonates with marketing and analytics teams.