August 27, 2025
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Powering a new operating model for marketers: What Composable AI Agents can do for you

Author
Jeff Walton
VP of Product

Personalization at scale has always been more of a promise than a reality. For years, marketers have been told that CDPs and automation tools would let them finally deliver the right message, to the right person, at the right time. But in practice, the workflow remains stubbornly slow.

Campaigns still depend on engineering support, SQL queries, and fragile ETL pipelines. Signals arrive late, audiences go stale, and campaigns launch after the moment has passed. Even with heavy investments in analytics tools and marketing clouds, most marketing teams still can’t see what data is missing or act quickly when customer behavior or the real-world around the customer shifts.

Personalization ends up generic, late, and never truly at scale.

A shift in how marketing gets done

You don’t have to work this way anymore. Instead of waiting on queries, tickets, or pipelines, imagine a system that runs inside your data cloud. It’s always on, reasoning over live data, spotting patterns, adjusting targeting, and optimizing campaigns in real time.

That’s what Composable AI Agents deliver. They’re modular, goal-driven AI agents that run in your data cloud, working like a virtual data and ops team to surface insights, transform data, automate execution, and optimize revenue:

Icon Insights Agents surface hidden signals and patterns, such as churn risk in a support chat or a seasonal spike in browsing.
Icon Data Agents transform those signals into marketer-ready attributes that you can use immediately in campaigns.
Icon Automation Agents construct campaigns across activation, orchestration, and messaging, automatically triggering and optimizing hundreds of micro-campaigns.
Icon Optimization Agents forecast business impact, score audiences, and recommend adjustments to maximize conversion and revenue.

On their own, each agent is powerful. Together, they change the operating model for marketing and for data teams. Agents handle the heavy lifting on data so you can launch faster, adapt in the moment, scale personalization without production lift, and still run with full governance intact.

What Composable AI Agents let you do

The real power of Composable AI Agents is in what they let you achieve. Here are seven ways they transform the work of marketing.

1. Cut the backlog. Work without past dependencies.

SQL queries, ETL jobs, and endless tickets for data teams and engineering slow down most marketing teams. Every new idea ends up in a backlog, and by the time it goes live, the opportunity has passed.

Composable AI Agents remove those dependencies. They give marketers direct access to governed data and workflows inside the data cloud. You can move fast on your own, while data teams keep focus on governance and model quality instead of campaign requests. The result is faster execution for marketers and fewer fire drills for data teams.

2. Start with your goal. Escape the trap of assumptions.

Most systems make you start with a predefined audience, even when it doesn’t match your real objectives. That forces marketers to work on assumptions, building static segments and twisting them into something that only approximates the outcome you want.

Composable AI Agents flip the model. You define the goal, like increasing repeat purchases, boosting subscription retention, or improving first-order conversion. Rather than building around a fixed segment, agents uncover new signals, patterns, and audiences, then align the right data, logic, and activation automatically. Because they’re not limited by segment design, they can scale this process across hundreds of audiences and journeys, far beyond what most teams could support manually.

Instead of chasing assumptions, you work toward outcomes. Every campaign optimizes directly to the metrics that matter.

3. Scale personalization, without the production lift.

Traditional personalization has always come with trade-offs. You can manage a handful of big campaigns, but delivering hundreds of smaller, tailored ones usually requires more resources, more time, and more production lift than most teams can support.

Composable AI Agents remove that barrier. They dynamically create and optimize micro-campaigns across every channel, adapting to customer context — behavior, timing, sentiment, even external triggers — in real time.

  • Run more campaigns with less effort. Even a small team can manage hundreds of journeys that stay relevant without adding headcount or manual work.
  • Stay relevant automatically. Campaigns adjust instantly as signals change, so customers see the right message in the right moment, not yesterday’s best guess.
  • Turn personalization into growth. Faster launches, higher throughput, and adaptive targeting compound into stronger conversions and measurable revenue.

With agents, personalization shifts from a production burden to a growth engine, giving every customer an experience that feels designed for them.

4. Launch 10x faster and hit the customer moment.

Traditional workflows force you into slow motion. Insights get handed off, audiences are exported, and activation depends on external systems. By the time the campaign runs, the customer moment has already passed.

Composable AI Agents collapse those steps. They surface insights, build audiences, and trigger activation directly inside your data cloud. Faster time to market ensures messages hit at important moments, directly impacting conversion by making sure your campaigns arrive when the customer is ready to act.

Early adopters of Simon AI have reported building contextually relevant campaigns ten times faster than their previous processes, turning weeks and months into a rapid cadence at greater scale.

5. Stay relevant with live customer and contextual signals.

Most campaigns run on yesterday’s data. Segments go stale, and the context has already shifted. That’s why so many messages feel out of step with what customers actually need.

Since they operate on live data in the cloud, Composable AI Agents respond to what’s happening now. They detect changes in behavior, shifts in sentiment, or external events like weather and inventory. That could mean spotting churn risk in a support chat, noticing a competitor mention, or tying browsing behavior to local weather. Your campaigns adapt in the moment to keep every message relevant, timely, and aligned with customer needs as they evolve.

6. Move fast, with enterprise-grade confidence.

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Speed means nothing if it compromises trust. Composable AI Agents, powered by Snowflake Cortex AI, execute entirely inside Snowflake. There’s no data movement, no black boxes, and no compliance risk.

Every agent inherits Snowflake’s enterprise controls: role-based access, column-level security, and audit trails. Governance and visibility stay intact while marketers move fast. You get autonomy to innovate, and the business gets the confidence that every campaign is secure and compliant. It’s the best of both worlds—agility for the marketing team, assurance for the enterprise.

What campaigns look like in practice

Composable AI Agents make the biggest difference in campaigns where timing and context matter most. For example: 

  • Win back customers before they churn. Traditional workflows flag risk too late. Agents surface churn signals in real time, score audiences, and launch winback flows while customers are still deciding.
  • Trigger contextual promotions. Calendars miss the moment. Agents combine live context — like weather, social trends, or inventory — with behavior data to deliver promotions exactly when demand spikes.
  • Create engagement with new content. Audiences won’t always search for what’s next. Agents spot patterns in what subscribers are consuming and recommend fresh content the moment it’s released, driving discovery and repeat visits.

Each of these examples shares the same pattern: act on live signals, launch fast, and adapt as the context changes. 

A new relationship between marketing and data

For years, marketing speed was limited by data team capacity. Every new request landed in a backlog, stretching teams thin and leaving marketers waiting.

Composable AI Agents fundamentally evolve the relationship and workflow between marketing and data teams. Marketers gain direct access to governed data and workflows so that they can launch and optimize on their own. Data teams keep full visibility and control, but instead of handling tickets, they focus on high-value work like modeling, governance, and improving AI performance.

The result is collaboration without friction. Marketing accelerates. Data teams enhance performance and governance. Together, they deliver personalization at a massive scale.

Is your CDP keeping up?

Most CDPs promise personalization, but few can keep pace with customers. Static segments, batch updates, and engineering dependencies mean opportunities slip away every day. Composable AI Agents raise the bar. Ask yourself:

Can you launch campaigns in days, not weeks or months?
Can you act on live customer and contextual signals?
Can you personalize at scale without a heavy production lift?
Can you start with goals, not segments?
Can you move fast while keeping governance intact?

If you answered no to any of the above, your CDP is slowing you down!

Personalization that finally works, at scale

Traditional CDPs and bolt-on AI tools promised personalization but left marketers stuck with backlogs, exports, and missed opportunities. Composable AI Agents that operate on live data in the cloud and automate the most complex data work mean that the elusive ambition of personalization at scale is now possible. 

With Simon AI, marketers gain autonomy, data teams gain confidence, and the business gains measurable growth.

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