Marketing Make-or-Buy Audit

Make it or buy it? AI shifts the answer.

A two-axis grid across your portfolio. Scored, prioritized, decided.

Which marketing services you'll deliver in-house with AI in future and which stay external. Assessed systematically instead of by gut.

⚖️ Every service on two axes: AI deliverability and importance.
💰 Saves budget where internalizing pays off. And only there.
🎯 A clear decision instead of expensive insourcing misfires.
Futuristische grüne Gebäude neben einem leuchtenden Datenstrom, der zu einem digitalen Gehirn und vernetzten Mustern führt.
The Situation

AI shifts the line between doing it yourself and buying it in. For nearly every service at once. Suddenly what the agency used to handle looks doable in-house. But not every internalization pays off. Some eat more effort than they save. Decided by gut, you bring expensive misfires into the house.

What You Get

A systematic assessment of your full service portfolio on two axes: how well the service can be delivered in-house with AI today - and how strategic it is for you. From that, a clear make-or-buy map: what you internalize, what stays external, what runs hybrid. With reasoning and sequence.

Approach

We capture your portfolio and your current sourcing setup. Every service goes onto the two axes, with an honest read of AI maturity and internal effort. Returned as a decision map with a concrete recommendation per service and an implementation order.

Who It's For

Marketing leaders and managing directors who are re-sorting their provider portfolio under the AI lens - especially under budget pressure or an upcoming agency decision.

Not For

Anyone who needs a full target picture of their marketing organization - for that, there's the AI Marketing Operating Model. The Make-or-Buy Audit answers the question of delivery depth, not the whole org rebuild.

Interested?

Book a call with

Thomas
Hutter
Managing Partner
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Agency Transformation

Future-proof your agency model before AI upends it. Advised by people who have built, scaled, and sold an agency themselves.

AI Content Supply Chain

Content production as one continuous chain. AI speed plus quality gates that keep your brand from sliding into the generic middle.

AI-CRM, Automation & Lifecycle

AI made usable across CRM, automation, and lifecycle. From dead data to automated customer journeys with measurable monetary value.

AI Customer Insights & Social Listening

Customer understanding and market mood drawn from real signals with AI - conversations, reviews, social. Instead of assumptions and expensive studies.

AI-for-Marketers Academy

Your marketing team, made AI-ready. Role-based, not one-size-fits-all, practiced on real material. Measurable skill, not a certificate to forget.

AI Marketing Compliance & Legal

AI use in marketing set up on solid legal ground. nDSG-compliant guardrails that permit broad use instead of blocking it out of fear.

AI Marketing Operating Model

Your marketing function's operating model, rethought for the AI era. Roles, processes, structure, and control as one target state.

AI Marketing Readiness Check

A baseline for your marketing's AI maturity. Assessed across every discipline, condensed into an index and the one step that counts now.

AI SEO Transformation

SEO rethought for the AI era. From keyword lists to topic authority and entities, scaled with AI, ready to connect to AI visibility.

Brand & Tone-of-Voice Governance

Your brand voice codified so AI amplifies it instead of diluting it. As governance that holds consistency across teams, channels, and tools.

Champion & Multiplier Program

A few key people trained as internal AI champions who carry the knowledge forward. Capability grows from within instead of through permanent consulting.

Content Production Bootcamp

Intensive hands-on training that gets your team to AI-powered content production in a few days. You leave with real workflows, not notes.

Executive Briefings & CMO Sparring

Perspective and sparring on AI in marketing for executives and CMOs. From a compact briefing to ongoing exchange. Clear and decision-oriented.

Fractional AI Marketing Lead

Experienced AI marketing leadership on time that steers your transformation operationally and enables the team. With a built-in handover point instead of permanent dependency.

GEO / AI Visibility

Measure and grow your visibility in AI answers. The new field of discoverability - while it's still thinly occupied.

In-House Agency Setup

A dedicated, AI-powered in-house unit built up - structure, roles, processes, tools - that increasingly replaces external agency work. From people who know the agency business.

Marketing Make-or-Buy Audit

Which marketing services you'll deliver in-house with AI in future and which stay external. Assessed systematically instead of by gut.

Martech & AI Stack Check

Your marketing tools examined and consolidated. What delivers impact, what's ballast, and where the AI gap sits.

Paid Media AI Audit

Paid media accounts analyzed by people with real ads know-how, AI-accelerated. Across every lever from creative to measurement. With scoring and quick wins.

Prompt-Ops & Custom Assistant Workshop

Scattered prompt knowledge turned into built tools. Vetted prompt libraries and tailored assistants for your recurring tasks.

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