Element Group · AI implementation

Put AI where
the money is.

Element Group builds and runs AI systems for sales, marketing and operations. Each project starts with a business metric, such as revenue, cost or time, and a plan to measure the result.

  • 20+ years in digital marketing
  • 300+ marketing case studies
  • 7 countries our team works in
  • 4 weeks target length of a first pilot

Marketing track record: brands we have run search and paid media for

  • Polaroid
  • Sony
  • Alibaba
  • Xiaomi
  • Yves Rocher
  • GE Money Bank
  • Cisco
  • Subaru
  • Nespresso
  • River Island

Problem

You have AI tools. Are they improving the business?

Pilots stall. Data stays fragmented. Routine work takes as long as it did. These are the gaps we look for before proposing a build.

  1. Pilots that never reach production.

    No clear owner, integration plan or success metric.

  2. Tools that don’t share data.

    Sales, advertising and finance data sit in separate systems.

  3. Your team doing a machine’s job.

    Call notes and reports are still written by hand.

  4. Results nobody can measure.

    No reliable before and after for cost, time or business outcomes.

AI projects

AI in production. Here’s what we measured.

Three systems we built and still run inside our own group’s businesses: an ad audit finding, a cut in call write-up time and content output. Every figure is our own measurement.

Internal project · Consumer electronics · Three marketplaces

29%

of audited ad spend went to campaigns with no sales recorded in the audited data.

Data lived in three marketplace accounts, accounting, the bank and spreadsheets. Leadership saw revenue but not which product was losing money. Now daily syncs feed unit economics per product, and a morning ad audit flags campaigns for review. Changes to live ad accounts wait for human approval.

Internal project · B2B sales

Call write-up time went from about 60 minutes to 5

to write up a sales call, before and after. Every call is now analysed, not a sample.

Every call is transcribed and summarised straight into the deal history, with coaching notes for the manager and a team digest of objections: the reasons buyers give for saying no, and how often each comes up. Script changes now start from that digest.

Internal project · B2B services website

250

articles produced by two AI content pipelines: 58 for a commercial blog, 192 for a reference wiki.

Topics come from live search demand. Agents draft, facts are checked against primary sources, and nothing is published until it passes a multi-layer quality gate. Experts review every draft.

Have a similar process? Discuss a pilot.

If it can’t tell a revenue story, we don’t ship it.

What we build

Six ways we put AI to work.

Each system plugs into a workflow you already run, and we agree up front how its impact will be measured.

  • Sales

    Sales call intelligence

    Sales calls turned into CRM notes, coaching points and a running count of the objections buyers raise.

  • Advertising

    Ad spend monitoring

    Campaign spend and sales data in one place. Campaigns are flagged for review before any budget changes.

  • Content

    AI content workflows

    From topic research to reviewed drafts, with facts checked against primary sources before publication.

  • Leadership

    Business performance dashboards

    Unit economics and channel performance in one view, with data updated automatically.

  • Customer service

    Customer response drafts

    Replies to reviews and questions drafted in your brand’s voice. A person approves each one before it is sent.

  • Team

    AI tools your team can run

    Agents and playbooks your own people use in their own workflows. You get the method as well as the system.

Start with one process and a clear success metric.

We begin with an audit and a scoped pilot. The target for a first pilot is four weeks; the actual timing depends on the scope and the systems involved.

  1. Define the business case

    Choose one workflow, record the baseline, and agree the success metric and acceptance criteria.

  2. Build and test

    Build the agreed workflow, test the integrations and review the result with your team.

  3. Measure and decide

    Compare the result with the baseline, then decide whether to expand, revise or stop.

Discuss a pilot

How we work

Built like software. Governed like finance.

We start with an audit and a clear business case. If automation is a poor fit, we’ll say so.

  • Phased delivery

    A written scope with acceptance criteria. You sign off before development starts.

  • Code and security reviews

    Code is reviewed at every phase. Work that touches financial actions, account access or personal data also gets a security review.

  • Result checks

    Each automation checks its result, not just that it ran. Empty output counts as a failure.

  • Approval before money moves

    Actions with financial impact need explicit approval, and every one is logged.

  • Data protection

    In the systems we build, personal data is anonymised in-house before it reaches a third-party model.

The people on your project

A strategist, a marketer, an AI engineer and an analyst. Together they define the business case, build the workflow and check the numbers before and after.

Marketing track record

Two decades of marketing results for brands you know.

Before AI, our work was search, performance and product marketing, including for the brands below. It predates our AI practice and shapes which sales and marketing problems we choose to solve first.

Selected marketing work and results
Brand Sector Work Result
Polaroid Cameras Paid search and content 4.2× revenue from paid search
Sony Online store Search, paid and display mix 1.9× sales from paid traffic
Alibaba E-commerce SEO strategy and technical requirements for 1M+ pages +386% organic traffic
Xiaomi Consumer electronics Search visibility for the US site, Google and Yahoo +378% organic traffic
Yves Rocher Beauty Organic search +193% organic traffic
GE Money Bank Banking Organic search +345% site visits
Cisco Web conferencing software Search marketing programme on Baidu +87% site traffic
Subaru Automotive New model launch campaign 3.5× average CTR
Nespresso Coffee Organic search for the online store 31% increase in queries ranking no. 1
River Island Fashion SEO across 3,000 pages 4,108 keywords ranking in the top 10

Selected marketing engagements completed before our AI practice. Results are drawn from our own case studies. All trademarks belong to their owners; no endorsement is implied.

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Team · Local time

A team across seven countries.

  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • Türkiye
  • China
  • Indonesia
  • Spain
  • Kazakhstan

Where our teams are based, with the local time in each country.

Tell us where the money leaks.

Tell us which process you want to improve, which systems it uses and what you want to measure. We’ll tell you whether AI is a good fit and what a pilot could involve. If it isn’t, we’ll say so.