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Turn customer notes into a campaign worth testing

A campaign brief, three message hypotheses, and one small experiment.

By Ashley Kays · Published October 6, 2026 · Illustrative example

What to bring

Remove personal or confidential information that is not needed. Check whether you are allowed to share the remaining material with your chosen tool.

Where AI fits, step by step

  1. Human

    1. Collect evidence

    Choose useful customer notes and remove private details. Mark exact quotes, paraphrases, and assumptions so they cannot be confused.

  2. AI

    2. Find themes and draft angles

    Ask for recurring problems with a source note for each, then three distinct ways to explain the offer.

  3. Human

    3. Check the promise

    Reject claims the business cannot support. Choose one angle and ensure the landing page answers the same question as the campaign.

  4. AI + human

    4. Prepare a small test

    Draft one asset and a matching follow-up. A person approves publishing and records the hypothesis, baseline, and review date.

A worked example

An illustrative bookkeeping service hears, “I dread finding the receipts” more often than “I need advanced reporting.” Its campaign hypothesis is that reducing monthly admin is more relevant than promising better dashboards.

AI drafts three angles: a simpler monthly handoff, more confidence before deadlines, and fewer missing documents. The owner selects the handoff angle and removes a claim that the service saves ten hours, because no measurement supports it.

One landing page explains what clients send, what the bookkeeper does, and what happens next. The experiment tracks qualified inquiries, not just impressions. A weak result might reflect the audience, offer, page, or channel; changing everything at once would hide the cause.

A prompt to adapt

Using only the supplied customer evidence, identify recurring needs with references to the notes. Draft three distinct campaign hypotheses, a matching landing-page outline for the selected hypothesis, and one follow-up. Flag unsupported claims. Define a small test and the result that would change the next decision.

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The human review

Use the AI output review worksheet to record these checks and build a revision brief.

Choose the tool after the task

Use a general assistant for synthesis and drafting, then your current design, publishing, and analytics tools. Make can help repeat a proven handoff after the manual process works.

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What to measure

Compare qualified inquiries and downstream fit. Note the sample size and avoid treating a handful of clicks as a reliable conversion trend.

For repeated work, use the workflow value calculator to include review time and setup effort. Its result is an estimate, not a promise of savings.

Go deeper

Read the full marketing field guide.

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