What you’re actually paying for, today
Most enterprise CMOs run two parallel strategy budgets — a consulting line item the CFO approves, and an internal headcount line item. The consulting work takes weeks and produces decks that no one re-reads after the quarterly review. The internal team is faster but inconsistent across regions, and the senior strategists you most need are also the most likely to leave with their playbooks. ChatGPT and the generic enterprise AI tools haven’t solved either problem: the outputs are too shallow, too generic, and have no governance story your security and legal teams will sign off on. Brandnetics is the third option — a private AI platform your team owns, built for the kind of strategy decisions the consulting firms used to handle.
Five recurring decisions, old way and new way
1. Repositioning a business unit or sub-brand
Today
Six-week consulting engagement. Two analysts. A 60-slide deck. Decision delayed to the next quarterly review.
With Brandnetics
Ninety minutes in the Brand Strategy tool with the CMO agent. A structured positioning brief by end of day. Refined with your team across the week. Decision in your hands before month-end.
2. Competitive read on a new entrant
Today
Research desk produces a 12-page memo in two weeks. By the time it lands, the competitor has launched.
With Brandnetics
Competitive Analysis tool. By lunchtime: a structural read of the entrant’s strategy, where they’re ahead, where they’re exposed, what’s transferable to your context. Brief your team by end of week.
3. Regional alignment across three markets
Today
Three regional teams. Three vocabularies. Weeks of alignment calls. The same question gets three answers and the difference is hard to reconcile.
With Brandnetics
A private agent trained on your brand book, campaign history, and past consulting reports. Every regional CMO queries the same logic. Your Shanghai team works in the same workspace as your London team — no VPN, no separate platform.
4. A 90-day marketing plan for a new launch
Today
Agency-led, multi-round reviews, four to six weeks. By the time the plan is final, the launch window has shifted.
With Brandnetics
Marketing Plan tool. Channel mix, campaign backbone, 90-day calendar in a single working session. Iterate with your team, not your retainer. Decision-ready in days.
5. A customer segmentation refresh
Today
Research firm engagement. Six-figure spend. Three months. The output is then handed off to a separate activation team.
With Brandnetics
Customer Persona tool. Initial segments, jobs-to-be-done, behavioral and pain-point cuts from your data in a session. Refined with your CRM. The research firm becomes optional, not default.
Where this fits in your operating model
Brandnetics isn’t a replacement for every consulting relationship. It’s a way to rebalance how strategy work gets done across three categories of decision:
Decisions that used to require an outside firm
Produce a defensible first draft internally before deciding whether to commission the external work. Many decisions never need to leave the building.
Decisions that used to take your internal team weeks
Reduce cycle time. Free your senior strategists for the higher-value problems — the ones that actually need their judgment, not their wordsmithing.
Decisions you couldn’t afford to study at all
The competitor reads, the secondary-market diagnostics, the "should we even be in this category" questions. Now in scope, because the marginal cost is hours instead of months.
What your team logs into
One workspace. Five strategy tools. Five preset agents tuned to specific roles, plus unlimited private agents at the Enterprise tier.
Tool
AI Brand Strategy
Positioning, value proposition, brand architecture for new businesses or repositioning work.
Tool
AI Marketing Plan
Channel mix, campaign backbone, 90-day calendar tied to your business priorities.
Tool
AI Customer Persona
Segments, jobs-to-be-done, behavior, and pain-point maps from your data.
Tool
AI Competitive Analysis
Competitor maps, whitespace identification, strategic trade-offs you can act on.
Five preset agents pick the lens for each query: CMO for portfolio and board-level questions, Brand Director for category-level work, Founder for build-from-scratch decisions, Strategy Consultant for outside-in diagnostics, Digital Lead for execution planning. At Enterprise, you also get unlimited private agents — trained on your internal research, client data, and past engagements, stored in a vector store only your team can see.
Example team prompt
We are [your firm], a [industry] company. Diagnose our brand position relative to [named competitors]. Identify the binding constraint on growth and the three moves we should sequence first. Use the framework I uploaded.
What your security and legal teams need to see
Authentication
Clerk-based SSO. Google OAuth. WeChat OAuth available for China-based teams. Role-based access tiers.
Private vector store
Your internal research, client data, and past consulting reports live in a vector store only your team can see. The AI reasons over your IP plus the framework — never anyone else’s data.
Audit logs
Every query and output logged with user, timestamp, agent, and tool. Exportable for compliance and review.
SLA
Uptime and response service-level agreement, tier-specific.
Custom branding
Outputs can carry your firm’s branding for internal use. Source attributions remain.
Export formats
Markdown (Pro+) and docx (Team+) export. Drops straight into your existing PowerPoint, Notion, or document workflows.
China access
The AI backend is reachable from mainland China without VPN. Your Shanghai team logs in alongside your London team — same workspace, same outputs, no separate stack.
Privacy
GDPR-aligned data handling. PIPL compliance under design for China-based users. Data retention policy configurable per deployment.
Architecture
Separate service from the brand-ai.org content site. Your security review covers a single AI backend, not a sprawling stack.
Deployment that respects your existing rhythm
Week 1–2 — Workshop. Two-day workshop with the founding author on site or remote. Your team leaves with a diagnostic of your own organization and a deployment plan that names the first three decisions Brandnetics will support.
Week 3–6 — Build. Configure your private agents. Upload internal research, brand books, and past consulting reports. Train custom case patterns on your sector. Integrate SSO. Calibrate output style to your firm’s tone.
Week 7+ — Embed. Roll out across your CMO and strategy teams. Internal certification for your champions. Quarterly check-ins to refresh frameworks and add cases as the market shifts.
Talk to us about a pilot
The fastest path is a two-day workshop on one of your live strategic decisions. By day two, you know whether Brandnetics fits your operating model. No commitment beyond the workshop.
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Enterprise pricing