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Taming Brand Chaos with Bespoke AI Agent Solutions

AI AI, AI & Emerging Technology Consulting, Digital transformation, Technology Consulting, Technology Services 4 min read
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Iran Reyes
VP, Global Head of Engineering, Experience

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It’s 4:00 PM on a Thursday. Your agency partner in France needs final approval on a simple in-store digital display. The creative looks great, but they’ve used a secondary brand color as the main background, and the product shot feels a bit small.

Your gut tells you this is wrong.

So, you go to your Global Brand Hub, where you find several 100+ PDF documents full of various guidelines. You search for “colour” and find a matrix that says “Use Pantone 299C for print, #00A3E0 for digital.” The agency used #00A4E0. Is that a typo? Or a holdover from another guideline deck, “Digital-First Brand Refresh_v3_FINAL.pptx,” from last quarter?

You Slack a senior director, but they're in back-to-back meetings. You email the brand compliance alias and get an auto-reply: “We will respond within 48 business hours.” But the agency is pinging. The media slot is booked. It’s a simple, 10-second question that has blocked a time-sensitive asset.

This seemingly small frustration is actually a symptom of brand governance chaos—a massive, hidden tax on your speed, budget, and morale. Fixing this chaos requires more than just a clearer guide or a better folder structure; the real solution is to evolve from static repositories to dynamic, intelligent agents capable of delivering a single, correct answer instantly.

Agentic architectures help solve for relevant retrieval.

For the last decade, improving access to information largely meant adding a better search box to static, file-based brand hubs. However, a search box only fetches documents; it still forces the user to do the work of finding the answer within those documents. This is the critical failure point in the 4:00 PM panic scenario described above. A better solution is to move from a static repository to a system powered by orchestrated agents that retrieve data.

Unlike a search box, an agentic solution can perform tasks on behalf of the users. It can understand context, like knowing who you are (for example, a brand manager) and what you're working on (in our example above, a digital display). From there, it can reason, retrieve information across multimodal sources (PDFs, databases, websites), verify accuracy, resolve data conflicts, and compose an answer. 

It doesn't give you ten blue links to sift through; instead, it offers a single, definitive, reference-backed response. If conflicting data appears—for example, Marketing_v1.pdf says #000000 but Poster_v1.pdf says #000011—the agents use context, role and logic to determine the most accurate answer. If a clear resolution isn't possible, it flags the conflict so the user can make an informed decision: “The correct hex code for digital-first applications is #00A3E0. The #00A4E0 value is an outdated code from the Q1 refresh.” 

This shift is a powerful new driver of enterprise efficiency today. In fact, agentic assistants like this move beyond being passive tools for answering questions, evolving into Brand Intelligence Systems that retrieve accurate brand data, enforce multi-modal compliance, and generate on-brand, multi-modal content at scale.

Proving a measurable lift in efficiency for over 1,800 users. 

We recently partnered with a global technology leader facing this exact challenge. With thousands of employees and partners across the globe, they needed to provide instant, reliable and source-attributed answers to brand questions, at scale, as their MVP. We designed and deployed a bespoke, enterprise-grade AI assistant powered by orchestrated agentic workflows using a tailored Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture.

This orchestration ensures two things. First, the agents don’t hallucinate. Second, the system understands context (who you are, your role and your task) to deliver the right answer, often by combining multiple verified sources. 

The impact of our solution was immediate. Within four months of its rollout, over 1,800 unique users were interacting with the assistant per month, with engagement trending positively. More importantly, we proved we were solving the slow bleed of inefficiency. User sessions became measurably more efficient, dropping from an average of 1.64 messages to just 1.41, because they were getting the right answer, faster, on the first try.

Crafting solutions that integrate into real workflows. 

There are plenty of off-the-shelf and decent tools already available for building a chatbot. The real challenge lies in building bespoke systems that integrate seamlessly into daily workflows, also known as complex enterprise integrations, that are also secure, reliable, highly accurate and personalized.

This is essential not just for performance, but also for compliance, data protection and user adoption. When the experience feels like a natural extension of how teams already work, that’s when transformation sticks.

However, connecting every piece of the puzzle requires a holistic approach. The development of our solution for this specific client was rooted in a single, unified team that covered everything from initial strategy and user pain point understanding to UX and design. This was made possible by engineering teams who orchestrated models to deliver secure answers at scale, all while our QA and delivery teams ensured everyone remained focused on achieving enterprise-grade outcomes.

In practice, this meant that our strategy team mapped pain points, the AI Core team built datasets and evaluation frameworks, the UX team distilled complexity into intuitive experiences, and engineering ensured scalability, resilience and security.

The hardest part? Balancing accuracy, latency and cost across deep enterprise-grade system integrations. It took many iterations over the past three years to achieve team maturity. Key project members had already worked on five similar conversational AI deployments across industries, and that collective experience was crucial. The learning curve has been steep but transformative.

A unified system built by a holistic team frees creativity.

The 4:00 PM panic is just the surface symptom of deeper inefficiencies that off-the-shelf tools can’t fix when accuracy, latency and cost all matter. 

True success comes from integrating bespoke AI systems seamlessly into the creative process—not as add-ons, but as enablers. This is what a holistic approach delivers in practice: a unified system where strategic insights, intuitive design and enterprise-grade engineering work as one. It is this system that ultimately solves the hidden tax of brand friction, giving your most valuable creative people back their time, budget and energy to focus on the work that actually moves your brand forward.

At the heart of it all is the user. We are driven every day by the goal of building next-generation AI interfaces that are not only intuitive and meaningful but also truly smart. For brands and enterprises seeking to achieve this same level of clarity and efficiency, our bespoke agentic AI architecture can be fully tailored. It adapts to your unique workflows and data environments while respecting all governance requirements, empowering your teams with intelligent systems designed precisely around your needs.

 

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