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Formerly Creatopy
The Brief
An AI marketing platform that researches, designs, launches and improves ad campaigns - through four AI agents working in one loop.
An AI marketing platform that researches, designs, launches and improves ad campaigns - through four AI agents working in one loop.
The Brief sells a simple observation to marketing teams: most of the work in advertising is not the creative spark. It is the coordination around it - researching what competitors are running, producing dozens of variants, resizing for every placement, localizing for each market, publishing to each channel, then reading the results and starting again.
The company packages that lifecycle into four AI agents. A Discover agent studies what top brands are running across Meta, Google, LinkedIn and Pinterest and turns the patterns into moodboards and insight. A Create agent generates editable ads, product photography and video from a single prompt - and can edit 100 ads at once or resize and localize an entire campaign in a click. A Launch agent pushes finished creative to ad channels with compliant specs. An Optimize agent watches live performance and recommends what to change.
Formerly the design tool Creatopy - and before that, the 2008 banner maker Bannersnack - the company rebranded to The Brief in October 2025 and describes itself as the first end-to-end "AI agency" for marketers.
Machine precision. Human brilliance.
Automate the repetitive parts of advertising - production, resizing, publishing, reporting - and leave strategy, brand and taste to people.
Each agent hands the marketer a finished draft instead of a blank page - removing the cold start at every phase of the campaign.
Analyzes competitor ads across Meta, Google, LinkedIn and Pinterest, surfacing hooks, CTAs and market signals as moodboards and insight - a strategist that never sleeps.
Produces editable ads, product shots and video from a prompt, using models like Gemini, VEO, Imagen and Flux. Edit 100 ads at once; resize and localize a whole campaign in a click.
Exports and serves creative to ad channels with compliant specs, localization and real-time control - one export instead of a dozen handoffs.
Monitors live performance across channels and generates recommendations and custom reports, using Claude to turn results into next steps.
The company reports the following results for teams that move production onto the platform. These are vendor-reported figures, not independently audited.
The Brief reports nearly 10,000 brands and more than 800 agencies and studios on the platform - a mix of in-house marketing teams doing performance work and creative shops automating production.
From raw insight to measurable impact without the friction of file transfers or platform hopping.
Most rivals generate the ad. The Brief also handles the research before it and the publishing and optimization after it - the unglamorous middle where time actually goes.
Rather than train its own image model, it wires in Gemini, VEO, Imagen, Flux and Claude, betting the durable value is the workflow around the models, not the models themselves.
Batch editing 100 ads and one-click resizing treat creative variation as production work, aimed at performance teams who need dozens of variants per channel.
It competes with AI creative tools such as AdCreative.ai, Canva, Smartly and Celtra, the design-plus-automation crowd, and the native ad tools inside Meta and Google - as well as the traditional agencies it is trying to out-automate.
The company launches in Oradea, Romania as Bannersnack, an online banner-ad design tool founded by Gabriel Ciordas.
Bannersnack becomes Creatopy, broadening into a full ad-design and creative-automation studio.
Creatopy raises a $10M Series A to accelerate product and expansion in the advertising industry.
The company deepens creative-automation tooling with Ad Studio and AI-assisted production features.
In October the company rebrands to The Brief, launches a four-agent AI platform billed as the first AI agency for marketers, and adds an Agency Package for ad shops.
The Brief is led by May Haim Kotlarsky as CEO, General Counsel and Board Director - a former associate general counsel for monetization-AI and privacy at Meta, and earlier a privacy counsel lead at GitHub. In a market where brand safety, data and compliance are the real bottlenecks in AI advertising, that background reads as strategy, not coincidence.
Engineering is anchored in Romania, tracing back to the company's Bannersnack roots, with commercial leadership in California.
| Round | Series A |
| Amount | $10M |
| Date | Oct 2023 |
| Team size | ~39 |
| Est. revenue | ~$16.7M* |
| HQ | Paleu, RO |
*Third-party estimate, unverified.
Yes. Creatopy rebranded to The Brief in October 2025, and customer logins, projects and files carried over. Creatopy itself was formerly Bannersnack, founded in 2008.
It is an AI marketing platform that runs the campaign lifecycle through four agents - Discover (research), Create (ad generation), Launch (publishing) and Optimize (performance) - so teams produce and improve ads faster.
In-house marketing teams and creative agencies. The company reports nearly 10,000 brands and 800+ agencies, including Lindt, AstraZeneca, The Economist, Ogilvy and Dentsu.
A $10M Series A in late 2023. No larger round has been publicly disclosed.
No. It orchestrates third-party models - Google's Gemini, VEO and Imagen, Black Forest Labs' Flux, and Anthropic's Claude - inside its own workflow.
Profile compiled from public sources including thebrief.ai, PR Newswire, Yahoo Finance, Crunchbase and Product Hunt. Figures marked as estimates are third-party and unverified.