Brands didn't need another AI tool. They needed a team.

PhotoG gives a full marketing team, research, strategy, creative, and ops, to businesses that could never staff one. These four AI agents don't just advise; they run the whole campaign and publish it, with a person signing off at every step. On a four-person design team with no PM, I owned the flow the product runs on.

Client
Oran.AI
Timeline
Jan – Jul 2025
I owned
Agent flow & design system
Team
4 designers, no PM
PhotoG four agents
01The problem

The tools were fine. The hand-offs between them weren't.

Marketing wastes 30 to 40% of a $700B spend, not on bad ideas, on fragmentation. Every hand-off, research to strategy to content to execution, drops context, and the team turns into a human data-transfer system.

Research
01
Research & Insight

Insights stay trapped in silos, exported by hand.

Strategy
02
Strategy

By the time strategy is set, the first insights are stale.

Content
03
Content Creation

Insights never reach the creators; 60% of time goes to tool-switching.

Execution
04
Execution & Ops

Manual updates push response time to weeks, not minutes.

60%

of team time is wasted switching between tools.

40%

of ad budgets are wasted on poorly targeted, disconnected campaigns.

The problem was never the AI. It was the gap between the tools and how marketing actually works.
02The brief

The client asked for a full marketing team, as AI.

So we gave brands a team, not another tool.

The ask came with a shape: four AI roles a brand already hires, a research analyst, brand strategist, creative director, and ops manager. My bet was on the form, mirror the team a brand already runs instead of teaching them a new AI workflow.

Four memoji roles
03My call

The client wanted a human agency. I argued for an efficient one.

With no PM, the product calls fell to design, and this was the biggest. The brief wanted four agents debating like a real team, but that proved hard to make reliable, and it pulled against what a B2B tool is for: efficiency and a focused, repeatable flow. My call: keep the team of specialists, but move work down one clear line, a person signing off at every hand-off.

One line, a person at every seam
One line, a person at every seamOne brief moves down a single line through four agents, and a human checkpoint sits at each hand-off.
04One source of truth

All four roles share one workspace.

In a real agency, work degrades at the hand-offs, where context slips and someone rebuilds it by hand. So the insight report, strategy, content, and schedule live in one place, one brand voice, one report the whole team works from.

Workspace bento
One report the whole team works fromResearch, strategy, content, and schedule in one place, one brand voice, one source of truth.
A team you don't trust isn't a team. It's just software with personality.
05Control

Nothing ships until a person signs off.

In B2B, a wrong call isn't a bad photo, it's spend and a brand's reputation. So a human checkpoint sits at every stage, each costing a little speed, and I kept every one. The AI carries the intelligence; the team keeps the final say.

Control checkpoints
You decide at every gateContinue to Strategy, then Content, then Posting, each behind a human sign-off.
06The relay

The pipeline is the navigation.

Four specialists, one shared workspace. Pick one and the whole thing re-tools for their job: a market report, an editable strategy, a post composer, a phone-ready preview.

/ 01
Research Analyst
Reads your niche and the trends, and hands back a market report.
/ 02
Brand Strategist
/ 03
Creative Director
/ 04
Operations Manager
Research Analyst screen
Same relay, four purpose-built toolsPick a specialist: the shell holds, the workspace becomes their tool.
07Impact

It shipped, and the numbers held.

Tight window, no PM. I worked end to end, research, architecture, UX, visuals, design system, eng handoff, to one rule: every decision had to survive a 60-second demo. Verified with the 1MORE partnership.

Efficiency
Content planning and publishing
Faster
90%
Shorter content-creation cycles
Less waste
75%
Production and photoshoot waste cut
08Scale

Built in weeks, scaled in months.

Phase 1 / 2.5 wks
Ship to fund
Research, architecture, UX, visuals, and a system, handed off developer-ready for the raise.
Phase 2 / 3 mo
Scale
Shipped to 40+ enterprise brands across beauty, FMCG, and electronics, within six months of launch.
Cadence
Operate
A decision in the morning became a task by the afternoon, and shipped that week.
09What I'd carry forward

Three things I'd carry into the next agentic system.

/ 01

The more an AI acts on its own, the less transparency alone buys you. Everyone shows the model's reasoning now, so trust moves to something harder: a clear place for a person to say no at every hand-off.

/ 02

A multi-agent product lives or dies on one question: who is holding the work right now. Keep that legible and the pipeline itself becomes the navigation, not a black box you hope is doing its job.

/ 03

Adoption follows a familiar shape long before it follows capability. Map the system onto a model people already run in their heads, and they trust the form before they trust any single feature.

Red Dot Award 2026 winner
Recognition / Red Dot Award 2026

The best AI products don't ask people to change. They show up already speaking the language you work in.

PhotoG product walkthrough
See it in motionPhotoG at work: the four agents, the hand-offs, and the shared workspace.
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