StackAdapt spent a decade turning the demand-side platform into something closer to a marketing control room. Its bet is that the next advantage in advertising will come from connecting the channels marketers already use - and making the machinery easier to operate.
The Brief is an AI marketing platform that runs the full advertising campaign lifecycle - discovering competitor and market signals, creating ads at scale, launching them across channels, and optimizing performance - through a system of four AI agents. Formerly the ad-design tool Creatopy, the company rebranded to The Brief in October 2025 to position itself as an 'AI agency' for in-house marketing teams and agencies, and reports nearly 10,000 brands using the platform.
Birdeye is a Palo Alto-based customer experience and reputation marketing platform used by more than 150,000 businesses to manage reviews, listings, surveys, messaging, and social presence. In 2025 the company repositioned itself as the first 'Agentic Marketing Platform,' launching a suite of autonomous AI agents (BirdAI) that handle reviews, social, listings, and search visibility for multi-location brands.