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Why it matters:
By reading this post, marketers will learn how the Optimove MCP turns a promotional brief into a structured campaign calendar without manually moving between planning documents, audience tools, templates, and campaign creation screens. The workflow helps marketers move from planning to execution faster and independently while keeping final review and activation in their hands.
Key takeaways:
Campaign planning often starts with a simple document. It may contain next weeks’ promotions, the audiences each offer should reach, the products involved, send dates, and campaign owners.
But turning that brief into campaigns means repeating the same operational steps over and over again: finding the right templates, checking the eligible audience, setting up campaigns, and organizing everything into a schedule manually.
With the Optimove AI, marketers can bring those steps into a single AI-assisted workflow, making the whole process simpler.
Optimove AI is the only marketing AI suite that works in three surfaces: inside the platform with Native AI, outside the platform through the Optimove MCP, and on top of the platform through Optimove Custom Apps.
Instead of translating the promo brief into campaigns one item at a time, a marketer can give the full planning document to Claude, ChatGPT or other compatible AI tool connected with Optimove platform through the Optimove MCP.
In this workflow, the MCP brings Optimove's data and campaign capabilities into the AI environment where the marketer is already working. The AI tool will identify existing templates, work with Target Groups, prepare campaign drafts, and organize them into a weekly calendar that includes campaign owners, eligible audience sizes, templates, and send dates for review.
In other words: promo brief in, campaign out.
In a traditional weekly planning process, one plan is split into several separate tasks: reading the brief, locating creative, building audiences, setting up campaigns, and maintaining a calendar. Each step means re-entering the same information by hand, and every handoff adds more manual work.
Connecting the planning brief directly to Optimove through an AI assistant changes that. Marketers can move from planning to a review-ready calendar in one connected workflow, while keeping control over final approval and activation.
The biggest advantage isn’t just speed. It’s removing the manual steps between planning and execution, while keeping marketers’ existing customer data, templates, Target Groups, campaign infrastructure, and approval processes at the center of the work.
This supports Positionless Marketing by giving marketers greater Data Power and Creative Power to move from planning to execution on their own.
Yes, the Optimove MCP can turn a campaign brief into a campaign calendar and the workflow can be broken into five steps.
Start by attaching or pasting the weekly promotion plan into an Optimove MCP-compatible AI assistant such as ChatGPT or Claude.
The brief does not need to follow a special format. It can be a planning document, table, or notes. What matters is that it clearly communicates what the marketing team intends to run during the week.
For example, the brief might specify that Brand A will run a retention promotion on Tuesday while Brand B will send a weekend offer on Friday.
Instead of manually transferring each instruction into multiple systems, the marketer can ask the AI assistant to work through the full brief at once.
The next step is finding the appropriate creative starting point for every promotion.
Using the Optimove MCP, the assistant can search the avaiable templates in Optimove and match each promotion in the brief with the closest relevant existing template. If there is no clear match, the workflow can flag the promotion for the marketer to create a new template rather than silently selecting an unsuitable template.
This is important because AI-assisted campaign creation does not have to mean rebuilding creative assets from scratch.
Teams can start with the templates and campaign infrastructure they have already developed while using AI to reduce the repetitive work involved in finding and organizing them.
Once the promotions and templates have been matched, the assistant can determine the size of the eligible audience for each promotion as an Optimove Target Group.
That means audience planning becomes part of the same workflow rather than a separate step.
Before the campaign is finalized, the marketer can see how many customers are currently eligible for each planned promotion and use that information when reviewing the week’s schedule.
This brings Data Power directly into campaign planning: the marketing team is not only organizing what it wants to send but grounding the plan in the customer audiences available in Optimove.
With the template and Target Group established, the assistant can prepare the campaign drafts and organize them into a weekly calendar.
The calendar can bring together the campaign owner, audience size, selected template, and send date for each promotion so that marketers can review the entire week from one structured output.
For multi-brand teams, the same process can cover campaigns across different brands rather than requiring a separate planning workflow for each one.
This turns AI from a tool that simply answers questions into one that helps marketers perform the operational work required to turn a plan into executable campaigns.
The workflow does not remove marketer oversight.
The AI assistant prepares the campaign calendar and drafts, aand the marketer reviews the results, makes any necessary adjustments, and approves the campaigns before they are launched in Optimove. Campaigns created through the MCP are not automatically activated.
That distinction matters.
The Optimoev MCP does not hand campaign strategy over to an autonomous system. It removes repetitive operational work so marketers can spend more of their time reviewing the plan, making decisions, and improving the customer experience.
Marketers can start with straightforward instructions based on their own planning process.
The prompt can handle a multitude of tasks. For example, it can ask the AI assistant to take the upcoming promo brief, use the Optimove MCP to identify the appropriate existing template for each promotion, calculate the eligible Target Group, prepare the campaign drafts, and return the results in a calendar containing the campaign owner, audience size, template, and send date.
The important point is that the prompt is not a rigid script.
The workflow can be adapted to the brand’s terminology, planning structure, campaign requirements, and internal processes.
A multi-brand social casino provided its weekly promo brief to the agent and received eight campaign drafts across two brands in a single session that was approximately 90-minutes with Optimove AI.
The result was a campaign calendar ready for review rather than eight individual campaigns that still needed to be manually assembled from the original brief.
The specific time required will naturally depend on the brief, campaign structure, available templates, and complexity of the marketing operation. The example illustrates the central benefit of the workflow: a planning document can become the starting point for campaign creation, rather than merely a reference marketers repeatedly consult while building campaigns themselves.
A weekly promotional brief already contains the information marketers need to start planning the next set of campaigns. The challenge is turning that information into audiences, templates, campaign drafts, and an executable schedule faster and more independently.
With the Optimove MCP, marketers can connect that planning document directly to Optimove through the AI tools they already use. The AI tool matches promotions to templates, size eligible audiences, draft campaigns, and organizes the results into a review-ready weekly calendar, while the marketer retains control over approval and activation.
Instead of treating the promo brief and the campaign calendar as two separate pieces of work, marketers can make them part of the same workflow.
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Rony Vexelman is Optimove’s SVP of Marketing. Rony leads Optimove’s marketing strategy across regions and industries.
Previously, Rony was Optimove's Director of Product Marketing leading product releases, customer marketing efforts and analyst relations. Rony holds a BA in Business Administration and Sociology from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. With the Optimove MCP connected, an MCP-compatible AI assistant can use a promo brief to find existing templates, size eligible audiences as Target Groups, and prepare campaign drafts in Optimove.
No. The brief can be provided as a document, table, or notes. Clearer inputs will generally give the assistant more context when preparing the campaigns.
Yes. The Optimove Academy use case demonstrates the workflow across two brands, with the assistant preparing campaigns from the same weekly planning process.
No. The campaigns are prepared as drafts. The marketer reviews and approves them before activation in Optimove.
The documented workflow returns the owner, audience size, template, and send date for each campaign, giving the marketer a consolidated view of the upcoming week.
