E-commerce moves by the hour. One minute you’re planning a drop; the next you’re chasing a TikTok spark and nudging budgets. “Launch and leave”? Gone.
The fix isn’t more meetings—it’s smarter execution. Use AI marketing tools to forecast, launch, and tune campaigns while your team does the work only humans can do. And when briefs, assets, and reporting live in one place (hi 👋), speed turns into scale.
What you’ll get in this blog: Key principles, step-by-step workflows, and the tools (including ) to make it real. ✨
AI Campaign Execution for E-commerce
What Is AI Campaign Execution in E-commerce Marketing?
AI campaign execution isn’t “ask a bot for copy.” It’s your entire loop—plan → launch → optimize—running with help. Forecasts guide the plan, workflows assign themselves, and budgets shift before you even log in. You steer; the system handles the busywork.
Here’s what that looks like in action:
- Smarter planning → AI forecasts demand, identifies the best customer segments, and recommends when and where to launch campaigns
- Automated execution → Workflows like task assignments, approvals, and campaign launches happen automatically—freeing your team to focus on strategy, not chasing status updates
- Predictive optimization → Instead of waiting weeks for performance reports, AI reallocates budgets, adjusts bids, and fine-tunes targeting in real time when connected to your ad platforms via integrations
- Creative at scale → Need 10 variations of ad copy or product captions? Generative AI handles it in seconds
📌 Example: An e-commerce skincare brand could use predictive analytics to spot rising demand for a serum, shift budget toward high-performing Meta Ads using integrated attribution data, and generate fresh ad creatives—all while keeps every task, asset, and update centralized in one place.
With AI in the driver’s seat and a platform like acting as your command center, campaign execution stops being reactive and starts becoming proactive, scalable, and delightfully predictable.
📮 Insight: 24% of workers say repetitive tasks prevent them from doing more meaningful work, and another 24% feel their skills are underutilized. That’s nearly half the workforce feeling creatively blocked and undervalued. 💔
helps shift the focus back to high-impact work with easy-to-set-up AI agents, automating recurring tasks based on triggers. For example, when a task is marked as complete, ’s AI Agent can automatically assign the next step, send reminders, or update project statuses, freeing you from manual follow-ups.
💫 Real Results: STANLEY Security reduced time spent building reports by 50% or more with ’s customizable reporting tools—freeing their teams to focus less on formatting and more on forecasting.
Why AI Is a Game-Changer for E-commerce Campaigns
E-commerce never takes a breath. Trends shift overnight, ad costs climb without warning, and shoppers expect a smooth, personalized experience every time they land on your site. Try keeping up manually, and it’s like showing up to a smartphone fight with a flip phone.
Speed. Personalization. Survival. 🎯
From guesswork to growth: Here’s why AI rewrites the rules for e-commerce campaigns:
- Budgets that move: When TikTok wins, spend tilts there—no late-night spreadsheet dives
- Personalization without chaos: Returning buyers see bundles they actually want
- Creative on tap: Ten headline variants in minutes means you test this week, not next month
- Cross-channel clarity: Ads, email, SMS, site—all in one view
Mini story: Your growth team kicks off a holiday push. Day two, CPA spikes on Google. Spend shifts to Meta and fresh copy rolls out before fatigue hits. You get a clean summary—not a fire drill.
At the same time, keeps tasks, assets, and timelines aligned across marketing, product, and ops—so execution runs smoothly and nothing slips through the cracks.
The result? Campaigns that are faster, smarter, and built to scale.
🎥 Want to see AI marketing in action?
Before diving deeper, check out this quick explainer that explains how businesses use AI to plan, execute, and optimize their campaigns.
📌 Watch: How to use AI for marketing
💡 You’ll learn:
- Practical tips to start integrating AI into your marketing strategy
- How AI helps with ad targeting and personalization
- Ways to analyze real-time customer data for smarter campaigns
Use Cases of Artificial Intelligence in E-commerce Campaign Execution
AI is now woven into every campaign milestone from creative briefs to budget shifts. Here’s what that looks like in practice.
Campaign budget optimization
Why it matters:
One of the most complex parts of running e-commerce campaigns is deciding how much budget to allocate across channels. Manually checking dashboards, comparing CAC/ROAS, and redistributing spend is slow and often reactive. AI solves this by real-time monitoring campaign performance and automatically reallocating spend to the best-performing channels, audiences, or creatives.
How it works:
- Tracks spend and conversion data continuously using AI models
- Reduces budget allocation to underperforming channels or ad sets in real time
- Increases spend on higher-performing channels or audiences to maximize ROI
- Creates a dynamic, “fluid budget” that adapts daily—or even hourly—without human intervention
📌 Example:
Many brands lean on platform-native automations to keep budgets fluid. For instance, Meta Advantage + campaign budget automatically redistributes spend across ad sets to improve overall results. At the same time, Google Performance Max dynamically allocates budget across Google channels based on predicted return (including marginal ROI considerations).
In : Centralize your campaign budget tracking and approvals in one place, and use integrations to pull performance data for real-time decision-making.
💡 Pro Tip: Set up an Autopilot AI Agent in to monitor campaign budgets and automatically assign tasks or send alerts if spend exceeds thresholds or performance dips.
Predictive analytics for campaign planning
Why it matters:
Guessing what customers will want next month is risky business. Over-ordering inventory ties up cash, while underestimating demand leads to stockouts and missed sales. Predictive analytics changes the game by analyzing purchase history, seasonality, and customer behavior to forecast demand, customer lifetime value, and churn risk.
How it works:
- Historical sales + customer data feed into machine learning models
- The AI identifies patterns, such as which products will likely trend or which customer segments are ready to churn
- Marketers use these insights to plan campaigns with precision—targeting high-value buyers, stocking the right products, and timing launches strategically
📌 Example:
A UK DTC skincare brand, Balance Me, used Klaviyo’s data-driven replenishment timing to nudge reorders and saw an 83% increase in repeat purchases—proof that predictive/lifecycle signals can lift retention around key promos. (Freshly Cosmetics similarly grew post-purchase flow revenue by 136%.)
In : Bring predictive insights from your analytics tools into a Docs. Then use Brain to summarize those signals into campaign priorities instantly—so your team sees the “what to do next” without combing through raw data.
Personalized customer journeys
Why it matters:
Shoppers today expect more than discounts—they expect brands to know them. That means emails that recall past purchases, product suggestions that feel handpicked, and ads that speak directly to their interests. AI makes it possible to deliver that level of personalization not just to one customer, but to thousands—at scale.
How it works:
- AI tracks customer browsing and purchase data
- It builds behavioral profiles to segment audiences dynamically
- Campaigns are then personalized at each touchpoint (email, SMS, ads, site recommendations) with smarter customer segmentation built in
- Over time, the system learns what messaging or offers drive engagement for each individual
In : Map out customer journeys—like welcome sequences, abandoned cart reminders, or loyalty offers—alongside the rules that decide who gets them. Store these plans in Docs for cross-team visibility, use Whiteboards to visualize the flow, and let Brain summarize them so marketing, product, and ops stay aligned.
💡 Pro Tip: Use ’s AI-powered templates to save your best-performing customer journey flows and reuse them for future campaigns.
Creative generation at scale
Why it matters:
Creative bottlenecks are one of the biggest pain points in campaign execution. Teams often need multiple ad versions for testing, but producing them manually takes weeks of copywriting and design; AI-powered content creation delivers them instantly. Generative AI instantly removes this friction by producing creative assets, allowing for more experimentation and faster iteration.
How it works:
- AI tools generate ad copy, product descriptions, and social captions in bulk
- Design tools create variations of visuals (different colors, layouts, or CTAs)
- Marketers can A/B test more ideas and scale the ones that perform best
- Bulk-generate creative angles, headlines, and product descriptions using Brain MAX’s multimodal AI models—tailored to your brand voice and campaign context
In : Keep everything creative in one place—prompts, copy drafts, and asset links all live inside campaign tasks. Use Automations to move assets through stages like draft → review → approved, so designers, writers, and marketers always know what’s ready to launch and what still needs work.
Workflow automation
Why it matters:
Campaign execution requires tight coordination between marketing, creative, product, and operations teams. Without automation, projects get stuck waiting on approvals, missed handoffs, or repetitive manual updates. AI-driven workflows ensure campaigns move smoothly from idea to launch.
How it works:
- Connects e-commerce platforms (like Shopify, Klaviyo, Meta Ads) with project management tools via AI and automation
- Auto-generates campaign workflows when triggers fire—such as a new product launch in Shopify
- Assigns tasks, sets deadlines, and sends reminders automatically to eliminate manual effort
- Generates reports and campaign updates without requiring team input
📌 Example:
📮 Insight: 21% of people say more than 80% of their workday is spent on repetitive tasks. And another 20% say repetitive tasks consume at least 40% of their day.
That’s nearly half of the workweek (41%) devoted to tasks that don’t require much strategic thinking or creativity (like follow-up emails 👀).
AI Agents help eliminate this grind. Think task creation, reminders, updates, meeting notes, drafting emails, and even creating end-to-end workflows! All that (and more) can be automated in a jiffy with , your everything app for work.
💫 Real Results: Lulu Press saves 1 hour per day, per employee using Automations—leading to a 12% increase in work efficiency.
In : Autopilot AI Agents automate task assignments, status changes, reminders, and escalations—so your campaign never stalls waiting for a manual update.
👉 Together, these use cases show how AI isn’t just powering pieces of your e-commerce campaigns—it’s orchestrating the entire process. And when you bring everything into a single hub like , you don’t just get marketing automation—you get clarity, accountability, and scale.
✨ Feel-Good Reminder:
Even if your first AI-powered campaign feels like feeding prompts into a magic eight-ball, you’re ahead of the 85% of brand and agency marketers who still manage media planning in spreadsheets. Centralize, experiment, and iterate— makes it less scary.
How to Execute AI-Powered E-commerce Campaigns: A Step-by-Step Guide
The challenge with running e-commerce campaigns isn’t just execution; it’s that execution is spread across too many tools and too many people. With AI, you have one connected, intelligent system that supports every stage of the campaign lifecycle and drives sustainable business growth.
Here’s how to execute an e-commerce campaign with AI from start to finish:
Step 1: Align on strategy (without chasing inputs)
The problem: Campaign planning is chaotic. Launch notes live in email, priorities pop up in Slack, and creative teams wait on a brief that never arrives. By the time everything is stitched together, momentum is lost.
The AI solution:
1. Start with clarity:
Set your campaign’s purpose using Goals. This gives your team a clear target and keeps everyone aligned.
2. Turn Ideas into action:
Describe your campaign vision to Brain. Instantly, it drafts a campaign brief in Docs—no blank page, no wasted time.
3. Let build the plan:
As soon as your brief is ready, Docs automatically creates all necessary Tasks and Milestones.
Each task is assigned to the right person, with deadlines set—so nothing slips through the cracks.
4. Fill in the gaps, effortlessly:
Are there missing assets, offers, or legal details? Forms collects everything you need from stakeholders in one place and links it to your campaign.
5. Capture every meeting, action, and next step:
During campaign meetings, Notetaker records the conversation and creates a transcript.
- The AI scans the transcript and pulls out “AI Action Items”—concrete next steps, automatically added to your campaign’s task list
- No more manual notes, no more chasing people for follow-ups
✨ Why it’s smart
- No manual busywork: automates the boring parts—task creation, info gathering, and meeting notes
- Nothing gets lost: Every action item, asset, and update is tracked and linked to your campaign
- Your team stays focused: Everyone knows what to do, when to do it, and where to find what they need
AI doesn’t just organize your campaign—it runs it for you, from goal-setting to execution, so that you can focus on results.
👉 Try this prompt in Brain:
Create a campaign brief for the launch of “SleepEase Weighted Blanket,” formatted for Docs. Use clear section headings, dividers, and short paragraphs (no tables or bullet points). The brief should cover product overview (features and target audience), campaign goals and KPIs, messaging and differentiators, marketing channels and creative requirements, timeline and milestones, budget outline, Brain action items, and team action steps. Keep the content concise, actionable, and fully editable in Docs.
Now that you have seen the prompt and the Brain Rain output, you will find the little one!
📌 Example: A DTC skincare brand uploads a messy PDF of product details + Slack approvals. Brain outputs:
- A polished campaign brief in Docs with a Nov 15 launch date
- Tasks auto-created for Photography, Landing Page, and Email Sequence
- A content calendar mapped to Black Friday–Cyber Monday
💡 Why it’s convincing: Instead of losing a week to alignment, the team kicks off on day one with a ready-to-execute roadmap.
💡 Pro Tip: AI won’t judge your 47 open campaign drafts—but your CMO might. Use Docs + Brain to turn half-baked notes into polished briefs before anyone else sees the chaos.
Step 2: Generate creative ideas in context
The problem: Creative ideation drags. Copywriters hit writer’s block, designers lack reference points, and campaign ideas often drift off-brand. By the time teams align, deadlines are already looming.
The AI solution:
1. Ideation that’s always on-brand
With Brain, every creative idea is rooted in your past campaigns, documents, and assets—so your team’s output is always original and aligned with your brand.
2. AI-powered suggestions, tailored to you
AI analyzes your campaign history and uses advanced multimodal models to suggest ad copy, design prompts, and A/B test ideas—all tuned to your unique brand voice.
3. Instantly generate creative variants
Need options? generates multiple headlines, carousel captions, product descriptions, and emails in bulk—right inside the Tasks or Docs, with no copy-pasting between tools.
4. Fine-tune with model switching
Choose the best AI for the job—OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and more—all accessible within Brain. Instantly switch models to optimize for persuasion, emotion, or technical accuracy, always using the full context of your work.
5. Visual collaboration with Whiteboards
Brainstorm as a team in real time. Map out customer journeys, campaign flows, or creative concepts visually. When inspiration strikes, convert sticky notes into actionable tasks with a click.
6. Accelerate production with AI-generated visuals
Whether you need image prompts or carousel concepts, AI (or your designers) can create them directly from campaign briefs—speeding up creative production and eliminating the need to start from scratch.
✨ Why it’s smart
- Context-aware creativity: Every idea is informed by your brand’s history and assets
- Bulk generation: Save time by producing multiple creative options at once
- Flexible AI: Switch between top AI models to get the perfect tone or technical detail
- Seamless collaboration: Move from brainstorming to execution without leaving
- Faster visuals: Instantly turn briefs into images or concepts, keeping campaigns moving fast
AI transforms creative ideation from scattered and manual to focused, fast, and consistently on-brand—so your team can always deliver standout campaigns.
👉 Try this prompt in Brain:
Generate three ad headline variations and carousel caption ideas for the launch of our ‘EcoFlex Denim.’ Include one lifestyle-driven, one value-driven, and one urgency-driven angle. Reference our Spring 2024 campaign stored in Docs. Provide Instagram carousel concepts for each.
📌 Example: A fashion retailer launching a denim line uploads last season’s campaign brief into Docs. Brain instantly generates:
- Lifestyle angle: “Denim that moves with you—built for city streets and late nights.”
- Value angle: “Premium denim, half the price. Your everyday essential.”
- Urgency angle: “Back in stock. Don’t wait another season to grab your fit.”
From there, designers use Brain to produce Instagram carousel mockups aligned to these angles. The concepts flow into Tasks with due dates and owners auto-assigned—ready for feedback and launch prep.
💡 Why it’s convincing: Instead of waiting weeks for brainstorm meetings, rewrites, and design drafts, the team has polished, test-ready creative ideas in hours—every concept consistent with brand tone and past campaigns.
💡 Pro Tip: Don’t let your campaign moodboards live on 14 open Chrome tabs. Let Brain auto-summarize your ideas and dump everything into a Whiteboard, where you can start organizing the information and collaborating.
Step 3: Automate execution with Autopilot AI Agents
The problem: Campaigns often stall in the “handoff” stage. Creative might be approved, but assignments, dependencies, and reminders get buried in email threads or Slack pings. By the time tasks are actually assigned, deadlines are already slipping. This manual follow-up kills campaign momentum.
The AI solution:
Autopilot AI Agents keep campaigns moving without human micromanagement. They don’t just automate task workflows—they understand campaign context and act as proactive coordinators.
1. Trigger-based execution
Set rules like “If campaign brief = approved, then assign tasks, notify stakeholders, and update the campaign calendar.”
2. Contextual reasoning
Agents can read campaign briefs, check dependencies, and escalate blockers before they become issues.
3. Smart routing
If the budget is over $20K, an agent automatically tags Finance for review; if assets are overdue, the agent pings the owner and updates the campaign timeline.
4. Always-on workflow
Campaigns move from approval to launch without waiting for a project manager to push things forward manually.
📌 Example: For a Valentine’s Day promo campaign:
- As soon as the campaign doc is marked “Approved,” an Agent assigns tasks—Design gets Ad Creative, Content gets Email Drafting—with deadlines auto-populated
- Stakeholders see a notification: “Campaign: Valentine’s Promo: tasks assigned, launch in 10 days.”
- If assets aren’t uploaded on time, the Agent pings the task owner and updates the campaign status so leadership sees risks in real time
💡 Why it’s convincing: Instead of PMs chasing updates, campaigns move forward automatically. Teams stay focused on strategy and creativity, while Autopilot handles the handoffs and nudges that usually cause delays.
Step 4: Stay aligned with Enterprise AI Search
The problem: During campaign execution, teams waste hours hunting for last year’s performance data or tracking the latest creative update. Review reviews are outdated, and decisions are delayed by the time they piece everything together.
The AI solution:
Brain + Enterprise Search eliminates the back-and-forth. Instead of digging through dashboards or pinging analysts, teams get instant, contextual answers from across their entire workspace.
Here’s how it works in :
1. Enterprise AI Search
Ask questions in natural language across tasks, docs, messages, and connected tools like Slack, Gmail, and Sheets. With full context from your workspace, you get precise answers instantly—no dashboards or data digging required.
2. Real-time campaign visibility
Need updates on the fly? Ask “What’s the Spring campaign landing page status?” or “Show me 2023 Q4 attribution data for Facebook ads.” delivers accurate answers in seconds, giving you live campaign intelligence when needed.
3. Built-in proofing and approvals
Review creative assets without leaving your workspace. Comment directly on images, videos, or docs, and push them through automated approval workflows—so feedback loops that once took days now happen in minutes.
4. Continuous optimization
Forget bottlenecks buried in inboxes. With AI surfacing insights instantly, teams can make smarter decisions, tweak campaigns while they’re still running, and scale faster than ever before
✨ Why it’s smart
- Instant context: Enterprise Search unifies data across tasks, docs, and integrations
- Faster insights: Get real-time answers without analyst back-and-forth
- Streamlined workflows: Proofing, comments, and approvals happen in one place
- Agile campaigns: Optimize while live, not weeks later
Brain transforms marketing operations from reactive and fragmented to proactive, fast, and insight-driven—helping your team launch smarter campaigns with confidence.
📌 Example: An e-commerce growth lead prepping for a board meeting asks Brain
- “Summarize last Black Friday campaign ROI and compare with current pacing.”
Enterprise Search pulls:
- 2023 ROI: 5.4x
- Current pacing: 4.1x mid-campaign
- Notes from performance review doc
💡 Why it’s convincing: Leaders don’t need analysts or multiple dashboards—they have instant customer insights in seconds.
🧐 Did You Know? Some marketers use AI to build “anti-personas”—profiles of people least likely to buy—helping teams avoid wasted ad spend.
Step 5: Execute and optimize at scale
The problem: Launches are messy. Calendars don’t sync, asset versions clash, and performance feedback lags by days.
The AI solution:
1. Plan every launch in one place
Use Calendar to see emails, ads, SMS, and social media side by side, so timelines align and nothing is missed.
2. Automate the busywork
Set smart rules with like “if asset uploaded → status = Ready for QA” to keep campaigns moving without manual check-ins.
3. Spot issues instantly with AI
Dashboard AI Cards highlight changes like “CTR down 12% vs. last week” and suggest fixes—such as running a headline test—before performance dips further.
4. Report in seconds, not hours
AI auto-generates weekly or monthly performance summaries for leadership, turning raw data into polished insights with a single click.
5. Track effort, prove ROI
Built-in time tracking connects hours to campaign tasks, helping agencies justify billables and teams understand effort vs. impact.
6. Slice data your way
Custom Fields and advanced views let you segment campaigns by channel, budget, or owner—making pivots simple and precise.
✨ Why it’s smart
- AI monitors live performance and recommends next steps
- AI creates leadership-ready reports automatically
- Teams stay focused on strategy while workflows, tracking, and reporting run themselves
AI transforms campaign management from a manual, reactive process into a connected, proactive system—so teams can launch faster, optimize continuously, and confidently report.
📌 Example: A health supplement brand launches across Meta, Google, and Klaviyo. Instead of toggling tools
- Dashboard shows spend and results by channel
- On-screen suggestion: Google ads are under goal; Meta is performing better. Suggest moving $5,000 from Google to Meta
What happens when you click “Review budget”:
- A Budget Review task opens in , pre-filled with the current Google/Meta spend, the last 24-hour ROAS, and the proposed $5,000 shift
- The task is assigned to the channel owner, adds Finance as a watcher, sets a due date (today), and (optionally) notifies the team in Slack via the –Slack integration
- From that task, you either approve and execute the change in your ad platforms or adjust the amount and re-run the next steps
💡 Why it’s convincing: Teams see what underperformed, what’s outperforming, and the exact dollar move in one place—no tab hopping, guesswork, and accidental auto-spend.
💡 Pro Tip: Stay on top of campaign progress from anywhere with the mobile app—review, comment, and approve on the go.
Step 6: Build repeatable AI-powered playbooks
The problem: Every campaign feels like starting over—learnings get lost and templates stay buried.
The AI solution:
1. Save campaigns as repeatable templates
With Templates, you can capture entire workflows—briefs, tasks, automations, and reports—and reuse them for future campaigns instead of starting from scratch every time.
2. Organize by campaign type
Tag your templates for Holiday Promos, Product Launches, or Retargeting Flows. For example, the Promotional Calendar Template helps manage seasonal campaigns in one workspace, giving your team a plug-and-play starting point.
3. Refine with AI prompts and agents
Over time, Brain prompts and Autopilot Agents learn from your workflows, so campaign setup and execution get faster and more efficient with each iteration.
4. Bake best practices into every launch
Templates can include Automations, reporting dashboards, and embedded AI prompts—ensuring every new campaign is built with proven processes and optimization tools ready to go.
✨ Why this works
- Templates make every campaign repeatable and scalable
- AI prompts + Autopilot Agents drive continuous efficiency gains
- Automations + Dashboards ensure best practices are always included
turns successful campaigns into playbooks—so your team can launch smarter, faster, and consistently across every channel.
📌 Example: After running three seasonal promos, a fashion brand saves its best-performing Holiday Playbook as a Template. The following year, they spin it up in a single click—updated with new Brain prompts and automation rules.
💡 Why it’s convincing: Each campaign strengthens the next, transforming execution from a one-off effort into a scalable growth engine.
👉 With AI-powered playbooks in place, teams move beyond “just executing” to compounding growth every campaign cycle.
✨ Feel-Good Reminder:
AI isn’t here to replace your creative spark but to stop you from crying over last-minute pivots. With Agents auto-shifting tasks and deadlines, you can stay in the zone while the boring stuff updates itself.
🚀 Why AI is built for e-commerce campaign execution
- Compliance & Brand Guardrails = AI review for brand voice and approval workflows
- Brain = Instant intelligence (summaries, briefs, answers in context)
- Brain Max = Creative horsepower (multimodel outputs, A/B angles, visuals)
- Autopilot Agents = Execution momentum (trigger-driven workflows that think)
- Enterprise Search = Real-time alignment (no data silos, no delays)
- Templates + Automations = Scale that compounds
- AI Notetaker = Meeting transcription and action item extraction
- AI Writing & Editing = Generate, rewrite, and improve campaign content natively
- AI Action Items = Instantly convert notes and discussions into tasks
- AI Cards & Dashboards = Real-time performance summaries and insights
👉 The result? Campaigns that finally work as hard as you do.
Google Ads AI vs. Other e-commerce AI platforms
Not all AI platforms are created equal. Here’s how Google Ads AI stacks up against other leading tools:
| Feature | Google Ads AI | AdCreative.ai/Canva AI | Klaviyo Predictive AI | Triple Whale/Northbeam |
| Automated Bidding | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Creative Generation | Limited (text only) | ✅ (visuals & copy) | ❌ | ❌ |
| Predictive Analytics | Basic | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Attribution | Basic | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ (multi-touch) |
| Integration with | Via Zapier/Make | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Takeaway: Google Ads AI is great for paid search/display, but the best results come from combining it with creative, analytics, and workflow tools in a unified system.
🧐 Did You Know? AI agents are already handling the majority of customer inquiries. The 2025 Rep AI Ecommerce Shopper Behavior Report found that 93% of customer questions are resolved by conversational AI—no human needed.
Measuring the ROI of AI in E-commerce Advertising and Campaign Performance
AI only matters if it pays for itself. Your leadership doesn’t care about “automation” or “generative copy”—they want proof that campaigns launch faster, perform better, and scale without ballooning headcount.
How to prove ROI (the CFO way):
- Efficiency: Track time-to-launch and reporting hours saved.
- Performance: Compare ROAS, CPA, and CTR against control groups or holdouts.
- Scale: Measure how many campaigns you can ship per quarter without adding people.
In : Dashboards + AI Cards surface live ROI snapshots (CTR, ROAS, conversions). Automated reports roll up weekly wins and budget tips so that you can show impact in minutes—not weeks.
💡 Pro Tip: Save your ROI dashboard as a Template so every future campaign comes with built-in reporting.
How makes ROI tangible
- Dashboards + AI Cards → real-time ROI snapshots (CTR, ROAS, conversions, pacing)
- Automated Reports → weekly leadership summaries with top-performing channels + budget tips
- Native Integrations → Shopify, Meta Ads, Klaviyo, and Google Ads feed spend + revenue directly into dashboards
- Enterprise Search → ask “What was the ROI of the holiday promo vs. the spring launch?” and get instant answers
💡 Pro Tip: Save your first ROI dashboard as a Template so every future campaign comes with built-in reporting.
AI is no longer just ‘support tech’ for e-commerce—e-commerce brands now see it as the operating system of campaign execution. From creative generation to attribution modeling, every funnel part can now be automated or optimized with AI. But the real power comes when these tools work together, not in isolation. Below are the top AI tools to consider, with Brain as the central hub to connect your campaign from planning to execution.
Brain (Copywriting, project & campaign management) 🧠
Every successful campaign begins with planning, and many teams lose speed. Brain turns the planning process into a living, automated system instead of a static spreadsheet.
What it does:
Centralize campaign planning & creative workflows → Build campaign briefs, timelines, and creative asset requests in one Workspace. Everyone sees the same source of truth, whether they’re in product, marketing, or operations
💡 Pro Tip: Use ’s compliance and brand guardrail features to set up AI-powered approval gates—ensuring no campaign launches without the right disclaimers, brand voice, or legal checks.
AI-powered copy & content generation → Brain writes ad copy, headlines, email subject lines, product descriptions, and campaign retrospectives. No more blank-page syndrome
🛫 Before you ship: The AI campaign preflight checklist
Launching with AI means moving fast—but skipping the basics can cost you big. Use this 9-point checklist to ensure every campaign is ready for takeoff (and safe to fly).
✨ AI preflight essentials
🧹 Data hygiene – Are product feeds, UTMs, and consent flags accurate and up to date?
🎯 Objective clarity – Does every channel have one clear KPI?
🛡️ Guardrails – Are brand voice, disclaimers, and localization rules locked in?
🧪 Experiment design – Is each test built around a single hypothesis with rules + success criteria
💸 Budget rails – Have you set automated min/max spend thresholds?
👩✈️ Human-in-the-loop – Which steps need manual review or sign-off before launch?
📊 Measurement Plan – Are you tracking blended ROAS, incrementality, or both? How will you report results
🎨 Creative refresh cadence – When/how will AI flag fatigue or performance dips?
🔄 Rollback plan – If things go sideways, can you instantly revert to a steady-state setup?
💡 Pro Tip: Save this checklist in as a reusable campaign template so every launch starts with these essentials—no steps missed, no surprises.
AI Agents → Automate using campaign management tools. Example: an AI Agent can track creative approvals, ping stakeholders if reviews are late, and adjust deadlines based on dependencies
- AI Q&A for campaigns → Ask Brain, “Which campaign generated the highest ROI last quarter?” and get instant answers from your connected dashboards
- Cross-platform integrations → Connect Shopify (product catalogs), Klaviyo (email flows), Meta Ads (campaign reporting), or TikTok Ads—all orchestrated inside through Zapier/Make automation
👉 With , campaigns don’t just “get managed”—they evolve dynamically with AI Agents monitoring performance and ensuring nothing slips.
Canva AI & AdCreative.ai (Visual assets) 🎨
Campaigns die without fresh creatives. That’s where visual AI tools step in.
- Canva AI → Great for social-first brands. Use “Magic Design” to create on-brand campaign assets, and “Magic Resize” to instantly fit creatives across Meta, TikTok, email, and display ads
- AdCreative.ai → Purpose-built for advertising. It auto-generates ad sets with predictive scoring, ranking creatives that are most likely to perform before you spend ad dollars
Why matters here: Store Canva and AdCreative.ai outputs directly in Docs linked to campaign tasks. Brain can track asset readiness (draft, review, live) so no creative falls through the cracks.
💡 Pro Tip: Kickstart your planning with ready-made marketing campaign templates inside , then use Brain to fill in copy, captions, and reports.
Klaviyo Predictive AI (Email & SMS targeting) ✉️
Customer retention is as critical as acquisition, and Klaviyo’s AI models make retention predictive instead of reactive.
What it does:
- Predicts churn risk and flags customers likely to cancel or go inactive
- Segments high-LTV buyers and creates tailored upsell flows
- Optimizes send times and subject lines for maximum open rates
- Builds dynamic flows for first-time vs repeat buyers
tie-in: Plan, manage, and track all these Klaviyo flows inside . It can even auto-generate email drafts based on campaign briefs, while an AI Agent updates campaign timelines once flows are approved.
🎉 Fun Fact: CarMax used generative AI to summarize thousands of customer reviews in hours—a task that would have taken human writers years
Triple Whale & Northbeam (AI-powered attribution) 📊
Attribution is the hardest part of e-commerce marketing. Without it, you’re flying blind.
- Triple Whale → Provides real-time ROAS dashboards, blended CAC, and LTV tracking across Shopify, Google, Meta, and TikTok
- Northbeam → Uses advanced AI to model multi-touch attribution, showing exactly how each channel influences conversions
tie-in: Instead of bouncing between dashboards, Brain can pull attribution summaries directly into your Workspace. Ask the AI, “How did TikTok affect last month’s ROAS?” and see data visualized in your campaign doc.
is the glue – Connects your work context and eliminates AI sprawl
On their own, AI marketing tools are powerful. Together, they create AI sprawl—a mess of disconnected dashboards, reports, and notifications that leave teams scrambling to piece things together. Instead of accelerating growth, the stack slows execution.
No surprise then that 77.5% of workers said they’d be indifferent—or even relieved—if half their AI tools disappeared.
That’s where Brain steps in as the command center:
- Centralizing planning and briefs so campaigns don’t start fragmented
- Automating assignments and follow-ups to keep teams on track
- Acting as the Brain across Shopify, Klaviyo, and ad platforms—no more hopping between 5–6 tabs
- Turning siloed campaigns into a cohesive, data-driven execution flow
👉 Instead of chasing approvals, reconciling conflicting metrics, and context-switching across tools, teams stay aligned in one hub, with AI ensuring no detail is missed.
📖 Read more: For a comprehensive roundup, check out these AI tools for e-commerce that can power every stage of your campaign.
⚡ AI campaign execution for small e-commerce businesses
Why this matters
Small teams don’t have endless cash or hours. AI isn’t about shiny tools—it’s about cutting bottlenecks so founders aren’t stuck as creative, media buyer, and analyst all at once.
How to start lean
- Fix one chokepoint first (briefs, ad testing, or reporting)
- Focus spending on a single high-return campaign, not scatter ads
- Use AI to coordinate people, not just tasks—assign work at the right moment
Your starter AI stack
- Creative AI: usable variants in minutes
- Retention AI: trigger campaigns by purchase cycles
- Orchestration AI: fits into Slack/
- Tracking: spreadsheets + UTMs until scaling requires more
1-week AI sprint
- Day 1–2: Brief + creatives from AI
- Day 3–4: Launch small test
- Day 5: AI flags losers, reallocates budget
- Day 6–7: Document learnings, prep next cycle
Key metrics
- Hours saved per week
- Payback speed (<21 days)
- Creative hit rate
- New vs repeat buyers
Bottom line
For small brands, AI should feel like an extra teammate—not another tool to babysit.
Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
AI is powerful in e-commerce campaign execution, but it’s not magic. Teams often stumble because they treat AI as a “set it and forget it” tool instead of a guided partner. Here are the most common pitfalls—and how to avoid them with the right strategies and AI support.
1. AI sprawl and tool overload
Fragmentation, not innovation, is often the real cost of AI overprocurement. Multiple-point solutions—each promising value—create inefficiency, confusion, and wasted investment.
Insights from ’s resources highlight how serious this issue is:
- Disconnected AI tools multiply risk, inflate costs, and slow workflows
- A staggering 80% of organizations report no enterprise-wide EBIT impact despite ramped-up AI spending
- Worker fatigue is real: 44.8% have abandoned AI tools in the past year, and 46.5% hop across 2+ tools to complete one task
- Even security suffers—nearly 50% describe their AI policy as “The Wild West”
Imagine a team juggling five different AI apps—one for ad copy, one for analytics, and another for project tracking. Instead of speeding things up, switching between tools slows them down and leaves critical data scattered.
The fix with AI:
- Embrace a Contextual AI Super App like Brain Max, where a single, LLM‑agnostic solution unifies tasks, docs, chats, apps, and AI models—all in one platform
- Replace redundant tools with one “everything app for work” to slash licensing costs and security risks
- Leverage context-aware intelligence that understands your workflow and history to deliver genuinely usable outputs—not generic responses
👉 Instead of letting AI sprawl slow you down or expose you to risk, you streamline execution—navigating from chaos to clarity with one trusted hub.
💡 Pro Tip: Your messy voice notes can become campaign gold. Brain Max uses the talk-to-text feature and auto-structures your voice input into tasks or briefs in —like having an intern who loves deciphering your tangents.
2. Overspending due to poor budget allocation 💸
Many brands assume AI ad platforms will self-optimize, but skewed input data can lead to runaway spending—often on underperforming channels.
Suppose a DTC apparel startup leaves Meta Ads unchecked. Within weeks, 70% of its budget goes to retargeting existing buyers—driving repeat purchases but barely growing new revenue.
The fix with AI:
- Use predictive modeling (Triple Whale, Northbeam) to distribute budgets based on forecasted ROI
- Have Brain monitor attribution dashboards, flag CAC spikes, and auto-alert the team
👉 Instead of finding overspending after the fact, you prevent it in real time.
2. Misaligned campaign timelines ⏳
Even with AI generating copy or creatives, campaigns slip when workflows aren’t synced.
Imagine a beauty brand planning a “Holiday Glow” campaign. If feedback delays push launch four days past Cyber Monday, the momentum—and sales—vanish.
The fix with AI:
- Brain auto-builds campaign timelines with task dependencies
- AI Agents reschedule dynamically if delays happen (e.g., design feedback arrives late)
👉 You move from firefighting to proactive, AI-managed execution.
3. Black-box algorithms 🕳️
AI models often make decisions that are hard to interpret. Without transparency, teams can’t explain to leadership why a campaign succeeded or failed. Natural language processing (NLP) can help surface explanations from campaign data in plain English.
Suppose a cosmetics brand sees a sudden ROAS spike from AI-driven ads. Confidence crumbles when results dip if the team can’t explain which audience or channel drove it.
The fix with AI:
- Favor platforms that let you trace why a model made a decision
- Document assumptions and decision paths in Docs for accountability
👉 Transparency builds trust and makes AI results defensible in the boardroom.
🧐 Did You Know? Nike’s AI-powered search lets shoppers use natural language queries like “Find me lightweight trail shoes for narrow feet,” making products easier to discover and boosting SEO.
4. Change management gaps 🔄
Rolling out AI isn’t just a tech project—it’s a cultural shift. If analysts or copywriters feel replaced rather than empowered, adoption suffers.
Imagine a retailer introducing AI ad copy overnight. Creative teams feel sidelined, stop engaging, and quality drops.
The fix with AI:
- Start small with one campaign to show value without overwhelming teams
- Involve cross-functional leads early so they shape the rollout
- Share quick wins using real performance data to build confidence
👉 AI adoption succeeds when people see it as an ally, not a threat.
🧐 Did You Know? According to Cisco, 89% of consumers say the best support experience blends AI efficiency with human empathy. Automation should be fast and scalable—but always make it easy to reach a real person.
5. Creative fatigue 🎨
Ads lose steam when the same creative runs too long.
Suppose a furniture brand runs the same carousel ad for 90 days. CTRs nosedive and ROAS drops 45%.
The fix with AI:
- Generate fresh variations at scale with AdCreative.ai or Canva AI
- Use Brain to monitor CTRs and auto-trigger new creative tasks when performance dips
👉 Instead of reacting after results tank, AI triggers refresh cycles right on time.
🎉 Fun Fact: Nutella used AI to design 7 million unique jar labels for its “Nutella Unica” campaign. Every single jar sold out within a month—proof that personalization at scale can create collector-level excitement.
6. Data silos across teams 🔒
Insights get trapped when marketing, ops, and product rely on different tools.
For example: a sneaker brand ran a TikTok-heavy campaign that spiked demand for one SKU, but ops didn’t see it in time—leading to stockouts and late shipping.
The fix with AI:
- Centralize campaign in Docs so marketing and ops share live insights
- Use ’s AI Q&A to surface demand forecasts instantly across teams
👉 AI breaks silos and prevents expensive blind spots.
7. Over-personalization gone wrong 🎯
AI personalization can feel intrusive if it’s poorly tuned.
Imagine a sneaker brand running a TikTok-heavy campaign that spikes demand for one SKU. Ops doesn’t see the surge in time, leading to stockouts and late shipping.
The fix with AI:
- Use Klaviyo Predictive AI to tailor outreach based on lifecycle stage
- Have Brain audit campaign flows to catch duplicates or irrelevant touchpoints
👉 Personalization becomes thoughtful, not robotic.
🎉 Fun Fact: Even AIs know Heinz is king of ketchup. When asked to visualize “ketchup,” DALL-E 2 consistently generated images that looked like a Heinz bottle—no brand hints needed! 🍅
8. Treating AI as a one-time add-on 🤖
Some teams “dabble” in AI—using it for copywriting but still tracking campaigns in spreadsheets—leading to confusion and duplication.
Suppose a homeware brand recommends the same couch that a customer already purchased. Instead of delight, the result is unsubscribes.
The fix with AI:
- Use Brain as the operating layer: planning, tracking, and integrating with Shopify, Klaviyo, Meta, and more
- Keep everything in one place so AI manages campaigns end-to-end, not as a sidekick
👉 The brands winning with AI are embedding it into every execution stage.
🎉 Fun Fact: Brands that excel at AI-driven personalization generate 40% more revenue than those that don’t. Personalization isn’t just a buzzword—it’s a profit engine.c
AI Campaign Execution in E-commerce: What Top Brands Are Doing—and How Teams Are Scaling With
From loyalty programs to creative production, generative AI in e-commerce drives real, measurable wins. But this isn’t just a big-brand advantage—teams using already see it in action.
📉 STANLEY Security saved 8+ hours/week on updates and cut report time by 50%
📊 CEMEX accelerated product launches by 15%
💸 RevPartners slashed SaaS costs by 50% with as their all-in-one workspace
So what are the world’s leading e-commerce brands doing with AI e-commerce tools? Let’s take a look.
1. Panera Bread
Results: 📈 +5% retention lift · 🎁 2× loyalty redemptions · 🛒 2× abandoned-order conversions
AI-powered segmentation helped Panera identify at-risk customers and deliver personalized offers during a major menu transition—protecting loyalty while increasing conversions.
🎉 Fun Fact: Using AI-driven segmentation, Netflix discovered that horror fans also love rom-coms. This surprising crossover allowed them to craft smarter, more resonant promotions.
2) Saks Global
Results: 💰 +7% revenue per visitor · 📊 ~10% conversion lift
By dynamically curating homepage experiences for each shopper, Saks used AI to turn browsing intent into measurable revenue.
3) Zalando
Results: ⚡ 90% faster + cheaper image production · 🖼️ 70% of editorial images AI-generated in a quarter
Zalando built an AI-powered creative pipeline that drastically cut production cycles, helping them launch refreshed campaigns faster.
4) The Foschini Group (TFG)
Results: 📈 +35% conversion · 💰 +40% revenue per visit · 🚪 –28% exits
With Black Friday traffic spikes, TFG deployed conversational AI to guide shoppers, recover carts, and reduce exits in real time.
5. Wholesome Goods
Results: 🤝 Unified creative ops + 📊 analytics across multiple DTC brands after acquiring Avalanche AI
When Wholesome Goods acquired Avalanche AI, it faced the challenge of managing various DTC brands efficiently. The company scaled without duplicating effort by centralizing creative ops and analytics into one AI-driven system.
6) Brunello Cucinelli
Results: 🛍️ A bespoke AI concierge site blending philosophy with commerce
Luxury fashion house Brunello Cucinelli blended AI with its heritage-driven storytelling. Its AI concierge behaves less like a chatbot and more like a digital docent—anchoring every recommendation in craftsmanship, provenance, and philosophy.
✅ What teams are achieving with
⚡ QubicaAMF
Results: ⚡ 40% faster reporting · ⏰ 5+ hours saved weekly
Results: ⚡ 40% faster reporting · ⏰ 5+ hours saved weekly
Dashboards and Brain cut reporting time and eliminated back-and-forth, giving teams time for creative work.
⏰ STANLEY Security
Results: ⏳ 8+ hours/week saved · ⚡ 50% faster report creation
AI Notetaker and Dashboards eliminated status meetings and manual updates, boosting productivity.
🚀 CEMEX
Results: 🚀 15% faster launches · ⏱️ 24hr communication lag reduced to seconds
With tasks, chat, and automations all in one place, cross-functional delays vanished—and campaign velocity increased.
💸 RevPartners
Results: 💸 50% reduction in SaaS spend
By consolidating multiple tools into , RevPartners dramatically cut costs while improving alignment and execution.
🤝 Pigment
Results: 🤝 20% increase in communication efficiency
Streamlined planning, faster content feedback loops, and real-time updates helped Pigment’s teams stay in sync—without extra effort.
📈 Atrato
Results: 📈 30% faster development · 💪 20% reduction in overwork
Workload View and automated planning tools helped the team scale output without burning out.
🧩 Takeaway
AI is changing how campaigns are executed—but it doesn’t require a massive tech stack or big budget to see results.
With , you get the structure, automation, and intelligence to run high-performance campaigns at scale—just like the brands above.
💡 Pro Tip: Smaller teams can start with cost-effective AI solutions like generative ad tools or predictive CLV models before scaling into multi-agent orchestration. This avoids overspending on platforms you can’t fully operationalize yet.
The Future of AI Technologies in E-commerce Campaign Execution
AI in e-commerce is shifting from tactical helpers (“write me an ad”) to strategic orchestrators that can run campaigns end-to-end. The future isn’t about more tools but profitability, retention, and trust.
1. Multi-agent collaboration
AI agents will act like a cross-functional team, replacing scattered automations.
📌 Example: A Planning Agent drafts briefs from last year’s data, a Creative Agent generates ad variants, a Media Agent shifts budget by margin and stock, and a Compliance Agent blocks launches missing disclaimers.
Why it matters: Campaigns adapt in real time, cut handoffs, and reduce fire drills.
2. Privacy-first personalization
With third-party cookies fading, personalization will come from first-party data like purchase history and loyalty profiles.
📌 Example: A skincare brand triggers a refill reminder email based on churn signals, not third-party tracking.
Why it matters: Consent-based personalization builds trust and long-term loyalty.
3. Profit-driven media optimization
AI will optimize media spend by contribution margin and lifetime value, not just ROAS.
📌 Example: A footwear brand reduces ads for a viral sneaker with high return rates and invests more in core products with more substantial margins.
Why it matters: Marketing spend becomes a disciplined profit lever, not a vanity metric.
4. Generative creative with guardrails
Generative AI will create copy, visuals, and video at scale—but governance ensures control.
📌 Example: All assets are checked against brand tone, compliance rules, and inclusivity standards before approval.
Why it matters: Brands scale creative safely without risking lawsuits or inconsistent voice.
5. Conversational commerce
AI assistants will replace static bots with real-time, guided shopping experiences.
📌 Example: A shopper asks for a size out of stock; the assistant suggests an alternative, applies a loyalty discount, and saves the cart.
Why it matters: Conversational AI removes friction, lifting conversions and cart survival rates.
6. Smarter measurement
Last-click attribution is outdated; AI will unify incrementality tests and media-mix modeling.
📌 Example: A Measurement Agent shows which creative lifted revenue and recommends budget reallocations mid-quarter.
Why it matters: Marketing becomes measurable in CFO terms, turning “awareness” into defensible growth.
So, why care now?
Most brands are stuck testing AI in silos—creative here, bidding there, analytics elsewhere. The winners will treat AI as infrastructure, not apps: insights flowing into execution, built-in compliance, and every campaign smarter than the last.
connects these dots—tying planning, creative, media, and measurement into one loop—so AI stops being a side project and becomes how your business runs.
For any e-commerce business, leveraging AI technology in ad placements across social media platforms helps optimize every marketing campaign. By using real-time data to handle customer inquiries, prevent lost sales, and reduce customer churn, teams can boost customer satisfaction, improve overall marketing efforts, and drive strategies that truly increase customer engagement.
The Shift From AI Experiments to AI-Powered Engines
AI in e-commerce marketing has moved past experiments. The real question isn’t “Can AI write ads?”—it’s “Can AI run campaigns that scale profitably and consistently?”
That’s the difference between dabbling with disconnected tools and building a repeatable engine. makes that possible. Combining briefs, assets, automations, dashboards, and AI agents in one platform turns scattered tests into a unified system. Creative gets generated in context, approvals move automatically, and optimization ties directly to metrics like retention, revenue, and brand trust.
Turn launch chaos into a playbook. Run your next campaign in —briefs, budgets, and updates in one place. Try it free. ✨
Frequently Asked Questions
Start by clarifying your campaign goal—awareness, conversions, retention, or profitability. Then match the right type of AI capability to that stage. For example:
Generative AI tools (e.g., AdCreative.ai, Canva AI) for creating ad copy, images, and variations at scale
Predictive models (e.g., Klaviyo Predictive AI, Northbeam) for churn, CLV, or demand forecasting
Attribution/optimization engines (e.g., Triple Whale, Fospha) to track efficiency and reallocate spend
Execution layers (e.g., Brain + Agents) to connect outputs, assign tasks, and automate workflows
Always test tools against small datasets before scaling, and keep a human in the loop for brand alignment and compliance
Define your target audience and conversion goals
Use generative AI to produce multiple ad copies and creative variants
Use predictive modeling and predictive analytics to forecast click-through rates and conversion likelihood
Connect ad performance data to your campaign dashboard
With , set an AI Agent to reallocate budget if a campaign’s ROAS dips below target, while Brain generates weekly summaries for your team
This turns Facebook Ads into a self-optimizing system instead of a set-and-forget campaign.
For DTC, where margins are slim and customer intimacy is everything, AI delivers three big wins:
Personalization at scale (dynamic emails, product recs)
Profit-driven targeting (reducing returns, optimizing for CLV instead of clicks)
Faster creative cycles (daily ad variant testing instead of monthly)
DTC teams using Brain can centralize content, auto-generate A/B tests, and automate reporting, freeing them to focus on brand storytelling while AI handles execution.
Yes—AI can segment existing customers based on purchase behavior, frequency, and lifetime value. Then, it can generate personalized offers (like upsells, bundles, or loyalty discounts) that feel relevant without over-discounting.
Example: An AI system notices that a repeat shoe buyer typically orders every 90 days. It triggers a personalized reminder email with a new seasonal style at day 75.
In , you can document these trigger rules, let an AI Agent track purchase patterns, and automatically assign your retention marketer a task to launch campaigns right on schedule.
AI isn’t a magic lever—it still needs complex numbers. The best way to measure ROI is to blend traditional marketing metrics with AI-specific ones:
Incremental lift: Does AI boost conversions vs. a holdout group?
Blended ROAS/CAC: Are AI-optimized campaigns driving more efficient spend across channels?
Payback period: How quickly does the AI investment recover its cost?
Process savings: Time-to-launch (TTL) and reporting hours saved are part of ROI, too.
The smartest teams combine financial returns with operational efficiency to see the full impact of AI.
AI is powerful but not plug-and-play. Common hurdles include:
Data readiness: Poor tagging, inconsistent UTMs, or small datasets reduce AI accuracy
Over-automation: Too many automated rules can lead to conflicting signals or wasted spend
Compliance risks: Personalization must respect GDPR/CCPA and consent requirements
Cost creep: Subscriptions and API calls add up if you don’t track usage carefully
Tackling these challenges requires balancing automation with oversight—small guardrails prevent big mistakes
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