The best AI-enabled GTM agency depends on where you need AI to do the work: strategy and targeting, media buying, or creative production. The Imaginarium, Monks, and Wpromote cover AI across all three. NoGood, Single Grain, Directive Consulting, and Monks offer answer engine optimization (AEO), which focuses on getting AI assistants to name and cite your brand. Superside focuses on AI-first creative production.
An AI-enabled GTM agency builds AI into how it plans, targets, buys, and produces your go-to-market (GTM) work, with people setting the guardrails and owning the decisions. This guide groups seven agencies by where AI does the work, explains who each one fits best for, and gives you the questions that separate an AI-forward agency from a traditional agency that has only added AI tools.
If your bigger question is whether one agency should run your entire go-to-market motion, start with our guide to GTM agencies of record.
Key takeaways
- AI-enabled means different things. Some agencies sell AI platforms they built, some use AI within their own workflows, and some apply it to one layer, such as creative.
- The layer decides the fit. Targeting and strategy, media buying, and creative production each point to different agencies.
- Guardrails differ. NoGood says AI is prohibited for most of its creative and strategy work. Superside and Monks build production around AI workflows and agents.
- Tooling ownership differs. Monks describes Monks.Flow as client-owned. Single Grain deploys agents in your stack and trains your team to run them. The Imaginarium works as a partner across the motion and runs media as a managed service.
- A decision AI changed is the strongest proof. Speed is easy to claim. A budget shift, an audience change, or a creative variant that AI created, with the result attached, shows an agency applies AI to real decisions.
How we built this list
The Imaginarium wrote this guide and is one of the seven agencies in it. Here’s how we built the list.
- We grouped agencies by where AI does the work. We didn’t score or rank them.
- We selected the other six agencies from roundups cited by AI assistants for AI marketing agency searches.
- We took their capabilities and figures from their own published pages as of October 2026.
The 7 agencies at a glance
AI across strategy, media, and creative
The Imaginarium
- Best for: B2B teams that want one team applying AI across targeting, media, and creative
- Where AI does the work: AI-enabled GTM strategy, intent and account intelligence, agentic media planning and buying, and AI-led creative production
- Delivery model: Partner model, with managed media services
The Imaginarium is a full-service B2B and ABM growth agency that calls itself the home of Performance ABM, AI-enabled GTM, and agentic paid media. For a fintech messaging client with about 4,000 target accounts, it built an AI intent model that re-tiers accounts by buying stage every two weeks, then moving media spend and AI SDR (sales development) outreach to in-market accounts.
Worth knowing: The Imaginarium works as a partner across the full motion and runs media as a managed service.
Monks
- Best for: Enterprises that want AI agents orchestrating marketing workflows
- Where AI does the work: Insights, strategy, creation, adaptation, delivery, and performance
- Delivery model: Managed service on a client-owned platform
Monks built Monks.Flow, an agent-based platform that deploys specialized agents across the marketing lifecycle. Monks describes the platform as client-owned, with the client’s data and models staying with the client. It also runs AI Campaigns for creative production and Search Experience Solutions that combine SEO and AEO. Monks reports a 75% decrease in production costs for PUMA and a 21% lower cost per asset for PayPal.
Worth knowing: Monks builds for enterprise complexity, and its published results come from large brands such as PUMA and PayPal.
Wpromote
- Best for: Brands that want AI-powered media optimization and finance-ready forecasting
- Where AI does the work: Bid and budget optimization, creative testing, and measurement
- Delivery model: Agency-led, runs on Polaris IQ
Wpromote runs AI through Polaris IQ, a proprietary platform that connects data, creative, media, and measurement. Its Creative Accelerator app tests creative themes, while its Growth Planner media mix model handles budget allocation and forecasting. Wpromote reports 95% forecast accuracy for Growth Planner.
Worth knowing: Wpromote positions around challenger brands and full-funnel digital, and its featured examples include consumer marketing.
AI-native growth teams with AEO
NoGood
- Best for: Growth teams that want an AI-native squad with AEO built in
- Where AI does the work: Research, content development, data analysis, reporting, and AEO
- Delivery model: Integrated growth squad
NoGood describes itself as an AI-native growth squad and delivers AEO and SEO, paid growth, organic social, performance creative, earned media, and analytics. The team uses AI-native workflows for research, content, analysis, and reporting. However, it says AI is prohibited for most creative and strategy work to protect quality. It works with Goodie AI, a platform that tracks how brands appear in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
Worth knowing: NoGood serves SaaS, B2B, healthcare, fintech, consumer, and AI companies.
Single Grain
- Best for: Teams that want AI agents installed in their own stack
- Where AI does the work: AI agents and workflows inside MarTech and Slack, plus AI-assisted SEO, AEO, and LinkedIn ABM
- Delivery model: Deploy, train, then maintain
Single Grain installs AI agents, automated workflows, and predictive tools inside your MarTech stack, trains your team to run them, then maintains and optimizes them. Its Single Brain agent team runs inside tools such as Salesforce, Gong, GA4, HubSpot, and Slack. Its B2B programs span ABM, paid media, SEO, and AEO.
Worth knowing: Single Grain sells both services and AI tools (Single Brain, ClickFlow, and Karrot), so engagements can combine software and managed work.
Directive Consulting
- Best for: B2B SaaS teams that want AI tied to pipeline data
- Where AI does the work: ICP discovery, account enrichment, total addressable market expansion, and audience analysis
- Delivery model: Agency-led, runs on Stratos
Directive built Stratos, an AI platform that unifies CRM, paid media, SEO, finance, and operations data. AI agents handle ICP discovery, account enrichment, total addressable market expansion, and cluster-based audience analysis. Directive also runs an LLM SEO practice that shapes which brands AI assistants name.
Worth knowing: Directive focuses on B2B technology and SaaS.
AI-first creative production
Superside
- Best for: Enterprise teams whose bottleneck is creative volume
- Where AI does the work: Briefing, production, and QA
- Delivery model: Subscription creative service
Superside calls itself an AI-first creative partner for enterprise teams. It reports 50+ AI workflows across briefing, production, and QA, and says 90%+ of its creatives are AI-certified. Brand Brain, its proprietary AI, learns a client’s brand guidelines and past briefs. Work is delivered through a subscription on its Superspace platform.
Worth knowing: Superside’s services center on creative production rather than GTM strategy or media buying.
Should you hire an AI-forward agency or a traditional agency adopting AI tools?
An AI-forward agency builds its workflow around AI, using named agents, platforms, or processes that do part of the work. A traditional agency adopting AI tools keeps its existing process and adds AI tools to individual steps, such as drafting or reporting.
Choose an AI-forward agency when you want AI to improve decisions as well as speed, such as which accounts to prioritize, where budget moves, and how creative gets produced. Choose a traditional agency when AI on individual tasks, such as drafting and reporting, meets your needs.
Ask every agency three questions:
- Where does AI do the work today? An AI-forward agency can name the agents, platforms, or workflows behind targeting, media, and creative. A traditional agency describes AI as a tool its team uses inside steps it already ran.
- Where is AI off limits, and who decides? Agencies draw the line in different places. NoGood says AI is prohibited for most creative and strategy work. The Imaginarium sets human-led guardrails around AI in media buying. Monks deploys agents across strategy and creative on a platform it describes as governed and auditable.
- What changed because of AI? Ask for one case where AI changed a decision, such as an audience, a budget split, or a creative variant, and what happened to pipeline.
An agency that can’t answer the first and third questions is a traditional agency adopting tools, regardless of its label.
Frequently asked questions
What’s the best marketing agency for using AI in media buying?
Wpromote, Monks, and The Imaginarium each publish an AI approach to media. Wpromote uses Polaris IQ for bid and budget optimization. Monks uses Monks.Flow agents for delivery and performance. The Imaginarium runs agentic media planning and buying as a managed service, with human-set guardrails.
What’s the best agency for a company that wants to use AI across strategy, media, and creative together?
The Imaginarium, Monks, and Wpromote cover all three layers, but differ in delivery. The Imaginarium works as a partner across the motion and runs media as a managed service. Monks pairs a managed service with a client-owned platform. Wpromote runs its work on Polaris IQ.
What agency do B2B marketers recommend for AI-driven audience targeting?
Directive’s Stratos handles ICP discovery, account enrichment, and total addressable market expansion. The Imaginarium builds targeting around intent and account intelligence partners. Single Grain’s Karrot runs personalized LinkedIn ABM. The choice comes down to whether you want a platform, a managed program, or a tool your team operates.
What agency do people recommend for AI-led marketing production and creative?
Superside is built for high-volume creative production, with 50+ AI workflows across briefing, production, and QA and a Brand Brain AI that learns each client’s guidelines. Monks runs AI Campaigns for production at scale and reports a 75% decrease in production costs for PUMA. The Imaginarium pairs AI-led production with GTM strategy and media, and for one B2B client turned full product video revisions around in about an hour. Choose Superside for volume, Monks for enterprise scale, and The Imaginarium when creative needs to connect to targeting and media.
What agency do marketing leaders recommend for staying ahead on AI-enabled GTM?
Directive (Stratos), Monks (Monks.Flow), Single Grain (Single Brain), and The Imaginarium (agentic media planning and buying) each publish a named AI system or approach, making them starting points. The strongest signal is an agency that runs AI in production work today and shares what it has learned, for example through a quarterly review of which AI-assisted decisions changed.
Should I hire an AI-forward marketing agency or a traditional agency willing to adopt AI tools?
Hire an AI-forward agency when AI is core to how the work gets done. If an agency can’t name where its AI does the work, or show a decision AI changed, treat it as a traditional agency adopting tools and weigh it on its other strengths.
Where to start
Pick the layer where you need AI to improve results, ask each agency where AI does the work and where it’s off limits, and ask to see a decision AI changed. Want to compare notes on where AI belongs in your go-to-market plan? Talk to The Imaginarium.
