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They support marketing work such as content creation, campaign execution, AEO-optimized FAQs, AI trend monitoring, PR, and reporting. Teams can create agents by describing a job to the AI Marketer and giving it the tools it needs. Agents can run on schedules or triggers, show their reasoning for each run, and keep users in control of what is sent or published. 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