Commercially deployed since 2021 · Best AdTech Startup 2026 — M&A Tech Connect

The 100-year era of
one-way marketing
is over.

Intentful provides the infrastructure that enables brands to become interactive, intelligent entities — across ads, commerce, and content.

Interactive Ad Client: Visit Visalia

What you're seeing

A standard 300×250 display ad unit, but the consumer is having a real conversation with the brand. AI responds in real time, on behalf of the brand, and stays on-brand — all within the ad space. In the moment of intent.

Pre-1994
Static
Brands spoke at people. Broadcast TV, print, radio. One message, mass audience. No response possible.
1994 – 2024
Digital
Targeting improved. Architecture didn't. Programmatic, social, search — brands got better at finding people. They were still just speaking at them.
2025 and Beyond
Interactive
The era Intentful is building. Brands become always-on, intelligent entities. Consumers interact with them anywhere, in the moment of intent.
The Shift in Communications

Two things changed.
Everything else is noise.

1.

AI is now answering your customers' questions — with or without you.

When a consumer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or any AI assistant about your brand, your products, or your category — what do they get back? If you haven't shaped what AI knows about you, those gaps get filled from across the open internet. Not by you.

2.

Customers expect instant answers, wherever intent strikes.

The channel doesn't matter to them. Being there, with an accurate on-brand answer in the moment, does. They're asking in the moment that matters to them. Your brand can now meet your customers in that very moment, across every touchpoint like ads and commerce, not just in obvious conversational channels like AI search.

A new operating model for brands in the AI era
AI is defining your brand. Treating this just as new Search is dangerously simplistic.
AI SPEAKS FOR BRANDS: NOW, EVEN AN AD CAN RESPOND: AI systems bring together unrelated, disconnected pieces of information and adjust to user intent DISTRIBUTED Your brand, defined by AI, can appear anywhere even if you never put it there ChatGPT OpenAI Google AI Overview Perplexity AI Search Copilot Microsoft Gemini Google Meta AI Meta Claude Anthropic Voice Assistants Siri Maps AI results Alexa Amazon Grok DeepSeek AI app AI app AI agent new AI agent new new new new new …and every AI on the web 1000s of sources scanned per query New AI apps launching daily Your brand can start responding in real time in every marketing touchpoint you control INTERACTIVE Ads, commerce, content can respond live, on behalf of the brand, in the moment of intent Advertising Ads respond in real-time within ad space Display · TV/CTV · OOH · Print Commerce Real-time product answers eCommerce · Retail · Marketplaces Websites & Apps Conversational brand presence Messaging Brand-consumer dialogue Chat · SMS · Social DMs Search AI-generated responses Social Brand interaction is coming next Your Brand in the Age of AI Intentful
Intentful

The infrastructure to represent your brand
to AI and make your brand interactive

BRAND BECOMES A LIVING INTELLIGENCE SHAPED BY YOU Your Brand Truth Everything that defines who you are Identity & Messaging Purpose, values, positioning, audiences Business Goals Priorities, KPIs, growth objectives Guidelines & Assets Brand books, tone-of-voice, approved language Products & Offers Product info, pricing, promotions Digital Content Websites, articles, blogs, press releases Rules & Compliance Policies, guardrails, approval logic + Anything else you want AI to know In: Brand Information Intentful Structured Brand Intelligence Engine 1 Data Collection & Normalization Your scattered brand information — ingested, organized, and kept current 2 Faceted Intelligence Layer Multi-dimensional brand understanding that mirrors how AI systems reason 3 Adaptive Response Architecture Context-aware brand reasoning tailored to each brand-related query The Brand as an API Real-time responses across ads, commerce, and content Out: Real-time Responses Brand Representation to AI ENGAGEMENT Real-time responses on behalf of the brand, on-brand Advertising Display · TV/CTV · OOH · Print Commerce eCommerce · Retail · Marketplaces Websites & Apps Conversational presence Messaging Chat · SMS · Social DMs Search Social DISCOVERABILITY Structured for AI to read and represent your brand AI-readable brand structure Consistent representation across AI systems Anonymized Interaction Insights

Interactive Brand

What Makes a Brand Interactive?

An Interactive Brand is a brand that doesn't just broadcast, but responds. It is an always-on, intelligent presence that meets customers wherever they have a question, with on-brand answers in real time across touchpoints. An Interactive Brand brings together two capabilities working together.

Discoverability

Have the right structure to be available to AI systems

AI assistants, search engines, and ambient intelligence are already forming opinions about your brand, using thousands of sources from across the internet. Discoverability means having the right structure and actively shaping what AI knows about you, so when any system speaks about your brand, it gets your brand right.

Every AI that reads the web
Living Intelligence
Shaped By You
Engagement

Respond on behalf of your brand, across ads, commerce, and content

It is now possible for a consumer to ask a question inside an ad, on your site, or anywhere your brand appears, and the brand answers in real time. Not a chatbot. A brand intelligence that travels with you across marketing channels.

Advertising Commerce Content
Most enterprise brands are still set up for the one-way era. The Interactive Brand is the operating model for what comes next.
Intentful provides the infrastructure that enables brands to operate as interactive, intelligent entities — across advertising, commerce, and content.
  • Own the narrative across every touchpoint — even AI channels your brand has never directly addressed
  • Shorten the path to growth by being present in the exact moment of customer intent
  • End one-way communication at customers — start two-way communication with them
Products & Advisory

Your brand, interactive.
Everywhere it matters.

We help brands step into the future, with the tools and knowledge for the age of AI.

Generative Response Ads©
Ads That Respond in Real Time

A consumer sees your ad and asks a question — the brand answers live, right within the ad space. Any industry. Global Patent Pending.

  • Activates through your existing media buy — no new workflow
  • Live, on-brand responses generated in the moment
  • Captures intent at the exact point it strikes
  • New metric: Conversational intent
◆ Global Patent Pending — Generative Response Ads©
Interactive AdClient: Visit Lodi
Explore Generative Response Ads →
As Seen by AI©
Get the Structure to Shape What AI Says About Your Brand

A framework to being in control of how AI reads your brand across owned, external, and earned channels.

  • Analysis across owned, external & earned sources
  • Surfaces gaps between how you see your brand vs. how AI does
  • Brand AI Profile© — a living document designed for AI
  • Quarterly tracking as AI models evolve
What AI reads about your brand
Owned Your website, content & brand documents ✓ Structured
External Partner content & third-party sources ⚠ Gaps identified
Earned Press, reviews & mentions → In review
⚡ This is not about measuring how many times your brand comes up in LLMs. AI is stochastic — ask us why that matters.
Explore As Seen by AI →
Interactive Brand Enablement
Enterprise-Scale Activation of the Interactive Brand

A comprehensive framework for building an interactive brand at enterprise scale — aligning governance, technology, and operating model.

  • Engagement — two-way brand communication at every touchpoint
  • Discoverability — shape how AI reads your brand across the internet
  • Intent Intelligence — proprietary data that compounds over time
  • Full alignment of governance, technology & team
For organizations ready to lead the architectural shift.
Explore Interactive Brand Enablement →
DMO Connect Suite
DMO Connect Suite · Custom for Tourism Vertical

Become an Interactive Destination

A vertical-specific suite built for Destination Marketing Organizations and travel brands — the fastest path to always-on, AI-powered engagement.

AI Assistant live on your website Generative Response Ads Content Space Quarterly AI Visibility report + training
Explore DMO Connect Suite →
Advisory · Separate Track
Advisory & Learning

AI Readiness Advisory

Separate from our interactive brand products — and popular. For leadership teams navigating the AI transition. Tailored to your organization's operating model and constraints.

AI Capability Roadmapping AI Brand Equity Marketing Partner Alignment
Explore Advisory & Learning →
Deployments

Commercially live since 2021 — before "brand agents" entered the mainstream.

Where we started. Where we're going. We chose travel & tourism as our proving ground — a vertical where consumer intent is immediate. These brands move at the speed their visitors do: fast. While larger enterprises were still scoping AI pilots, tourism organizations were already deploying. The platform was built to be category-agnostic from day one; many of our engagements beyond travel are not publicly referenceable due to contractual terms.
Broadway Inbound / Shubert HotelPlanner Hilton Travel Oregon Florida Keys & Key West Visit Sacramento St. Augustine Ponte Vedra Eugene Cascades & Coast Visit Pasadena The Outer Banks Skagit Valley Love Catalina Island Visit Lodi Westopolis Visit Tuolumne County Visit Corpus Christi + Many More
Travel Oregon Deployment
98%
engagement rate
2:45
extra minutes on-site per session
52%
more pages viewed per session
Source: eTourism Summit 2025. vs. 51% site-average engagement.
What Our Partners Say

Real clients. Real results. Real words.

The benefits – understanding what customers actually need to grow, responding 24/7, freeing up team capacity – apply across every B2C category.

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The biggest benefit we got was being able to get into the mind of our visitors to see their processes and concerns when planning a trip. This allowed us to add, modify, and update information quickly on our website to ensure we were providing the best resources for them and for other search engines/AI that pull information from our website.
Jessica Yeh
Senior Creative Marketing Manager
Visit Pasadena
"
Working with Intentful has been a real pleasure; their customer service has far exceeded our expectations. You can get AI services from various companies, but I doubt you can get the level of service we have received.
Laurie Baker
Chief Executive Officer
Choose Redding
"
Using Intentful's AI conversation tool on our website has been a game-changer for our organization. We are able to answer so many visitor questions and have a better idea of their content needs. The Intentful team has been incredibly responsive and thoughtful. We're thrilled with this partnership and recommend the product to others interested in real-time support for website visitors.
Jessie Kirk
Products and Platforms Manager
Travel Oregon
Who It's For

Built for those navigating
a new category.

AI is reshaping how customers discover and choose brands. It's a big shift that is already underway. Meanwhile, you have results to deliver. We've been building for exactly this moment since 2021.

You spend millions generating interest. Then lose the customer because you can't answer their question in the moment.

Enterprise brands and organizations run a model that generates interest it can't always convert. Becoming an interactive brand helps shorten the path to action.

  • Capture intent at the exact moment it happens — in ads, on-site, anywhere
  • Drastically shorten the path to purchase
  • Bridge the gap so that AI speaks for your brand with your narrative
  • Always-on engagement without adding headcount
  • Proprietary intent intelligence that compounds over time
Request a Demo →
Relevant products

Interactive Brand Enablement Program · Generative Response Ads · As Seen by AI · DMO Connect Suite

Entry point depends on where you are. Enterprise brands often start with the full Interactive Brand Enablement Program, Generative Response Ads or an As Seen by AI program. DMOs start with the Connect Suite — bundled, fast, vertical-specific.

Core value drivers: Selling more, faster. Capturing in-moment intent. Understanding and shaping how AI represents your brand.

Performing ArtsTelcoConsumer BrandsRetailTravelDMOsHospitalityFinance & InsuranceAny Category

Traditional advertising is becoming commoditized. The next major revenue driver is interactive engagement.

The advertising ecosystem is looking for what comes after the impression. Generative Response Ads are it — a new inventory type and a new service category. Whether you're an agency, publisher, retailer, DSP or SSP, there's a clear commercial case we'd love to discuss with you.

  • Agencies: Build interactive-first campaign concepts that add genuine new value — differentiate beyond media buying and static creative
  • Publishers: New "ask the brand" inventory — drives time-on-page with no new content required
  • Retailers: Product pages and ads that respond to shopper questions in real time
  • DSPs / SSPs: Pioneer high-value buying models built around interactive engagement, not passive impressions
Ecosystem Partnership Inquiry
The opportunity

A new premium inventory class. A new agency offer. A new buying model.

Brands pay a premium because engagement is real. Agencies own a category. Publishers earn without creating content. DSPs/SSPs build new revenue models. Intentful is the infrastructure that makes all of it possible.

Ad AgenciesPublishersRetailersDSPs / SSPsMedia BuyersMartech
Activate Your Interactive Brand

From kickoff to live in weeks.

Intentful's team handles the complexity. You get a live, intelligent brand presence without months of engineering or a large internal team requirement.

1

Align

We map your brand — voice, governance, foundational data, audiences, and goals. Everything AI needs to represent you correctly.

Week 1–2
2

Build

We create the structured intelligence layer — calibrated to your brand, tested for accuracy, and ready to respond at the touchpoints that matter.

Week 2–3
3

Deploy

Your interactive brand goes live across the identified touchpoints — ads, commerce, content, or brand environments.

Week 3–4
4

Evolve

Ongoing learnings and refinement — so every interaction sharpens your brand and deepens the connection with your customers.

Ongoing
The Team

Operators and builders at the intersection of AI and brand.

Intentful brings together hands-on experience across AI systems, enterprise technology, and marketing communications. We build brand-aware AI in-market — not in theory — since 2021.

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Marina Petrova
CEO & Co-Founder
Technology strategist with 30 years across technology and marketing communications, including 15 years in agency environments (Publicis, WPP). Has partnered with organizations across 50+ countries. Speaker at the World Federation of Advertisers, Oxford University, Singularity University, Columbia University Startup Lab, and Mobile World Congress. Led creation of Intentful's patent-pending Generative Response Ads and Interactive Brand Infrastructure.
AI StrategyBrand CommunicationAgency NetworksGlobal Markets
BA
Bruce Amick
COO & Co-Founder
Career spanning media, technology, and finance. Named the company "Intentful" — years before the market focused on intent-driven AI — because he recognised early that understanding customer intent would be fundamental to the future of brand communication. Prior leadership roles at Broadway.com, The Shubert Organization, and BBVA, focused on introducing innovation through technology, scaling platforms, and managing complex operational ecosystems.
OperationsMedia & EntertainmentFinanceScale
AS
Alex Scherban
CTO & Co-Founder
30+ years in software development and technical leadership. Has built solutions for GM, HP, LG, Disney, Coca-Cola, Air France-KLM, Sanofi, ING, Unilever, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Architect of the Intentful Knowledge Engine — the core system powering interactive brand infrastructure with real-time, brand-aware interaction across all of Intentful's products.
AI EngineeringLLMsEnterprise SoftwareScale Architecture
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Stefan Merkl
DMO & Tourism Industry Advisor
20 years of experience working with DMOs, attractions, museums, and sightseeing companies across the U.S. and international markets. Often the first point of contact for destinations exploring Intentful's AI-powered solutions. Works closely with DMOs, agencies, and DSPs to introduce the platform, guide the sales process, and support onboarding in a practical and straightforward way. MBA. Originally from Germany, based in Sonoma County, California.
Travel TradeDMO RelationshipsSalesGlobal Markets
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Wanda Kalbach
EVP, Operations & Delivery
Leads operational strategy, client delivery, and cross-functional execution. Specialises in translating complex technical capabilities into practical, sustainable operations that clients can trust. Experience spanning technology services, enterprise implementations, and global partnerships across travel & tourism, financial services, higher education, retail, and government. At Intentful, she builds the structures that turn strategy into measurable outcomes.
OperationsClient DeliveryEnterprise ImplementationsCross-Industry
Intentional and lean. A team of strategic thinkers, developers, and operators who use AI to eliminate unnecessary complexity, move with clarity and speed, focused on customer success and growth. Proudly global — with team members across the United States, Europe, and Ukraine.
How to Work with Us

Find your starting point.

These are multiple independent entry points — not sequential steps. Pick the one that fits where your organization is today. Every engagement begins with a conversation.

Option A — Understand

AI Brand Audit
As Seen by AI©

We don't believe in measuring how many times your brand shows up in AI systems. Our goal is to make sure you have everything in place for AI to read your brand correctly.

⏱ Delivered in 2–3 weeks
  • Analysis across owned, external & earned sources
  • Brand AI Profile© — a living brand document designed for AI
  • Quarterly tracking as AI models evolve
  • Implementation support from our team
Explore As Seen by AI →
Option B — Activate

Launch Generative Response Ads©
Ads That Respond in Real Time

Add interactive AI to your next campaign. Activates through your existing media buy — no new ad tech stack, no engineering team required on your end.

⏱ Live in approximately one month
  • Works within your existing media placements
  • Real-time, on-brand responses — no pre-scripted copy
  • Brand guardrails defined by your team
  • New engagement metric: Conversational intent
Explore Generative Response Ads →
Option C — Scale

Interactive Brand Enablement Program
Enterprise Interactive Brand

A comprehensive framework for building an interactive brand at enterprise scale — aligning governance, technology, and operating model.

⏱ Enterprise engagement, scoped to your organization
  • Engagement — two-way brand communication at every touchpoint
  • Discoverability — shape how AI reads your brand across the internet
  • Intent Intelligence — proprietary data that compounds over time
  • Full alignment of governance, technology & team
Launch Interactive Brand →
Option D — DMOs & Travel Brands

DMO Connect Suite
Custom for Tourism Vertical

A vertical-specific suite built for Destination Marketing Organizations and travel brands — the fastest path to always-on, AI-powered engagement.

⏱ Live in approximately one month
  • AI Assistant on your website — answering visitors 24/7
  • Generative Response Ads for your campaigns
  • Content Space based on AI that knows your facts and style
  • Quarterly AI Visibility report + team training session
Explore DMO Connect Suite →
Option E — Advise & Learn

Advisory & Learning
Multiple tracks for leadership teams

For leadership teams navigating the AI transition. We offer several advisory tracks — pick the one that fits where your organization is today, from AI readiness to brand equity in the age of AI.

⏱ Scoped to your organization
  • AI Readiness Advisory — capability & roadmap
  • AI Brand Equity — how your brand holds up in AI
  • Marketing Partner Alignment — agency & martech stack
  • AI 101 & executive learning programs
Explore Advisory & Learning →

Not sure where to start? Start a conversation with our team — we'll help you find the option that fits your organization. No commitment required.

Get Started

Don't leave your brand
in the static era.

The shift to interactive is happening now. Start a conversation with our team — no commitment, no engineering required on your end.

Live in ~1 month No engineering required On-brand from day one Enterprise-grade

About Intentful: Infrastructure for Interactive Brands

Intentful is defining a new category — Interactive Brand — and provides the infrastructure that lets brands become living, intelligent entities. Instead of speaking at customers the way the static and digital eras required, an Interactive Brand speaks with them — in real time, on-brand, wherever a customer has interest or intent.

An Interactive Brand is not a chatbot. It is the operating model that turns your brand voice, products, facts, and guardrails into a single intelligence layer that can respond across ads, commerce, and content. You stay in control of what it knows, what it says, and where it shows up.

Intentful's thesis has two pillars. Discoverability — shaping how AI systems read, interpret, and represent your brand across the entire internet (not measuring number of mentions in LLMs — ask us why). Engagement — enabling your brand to respond in the moment of intent, across every touchpoint. Intentful provides clients with a private Workspace, where Interactive Brand is managed day-to-day.

Intentful has been commercially deployed since 2021 — before "brand agents" entered the mainstream conversation — across travel & tourism, performing arts, retail, hospitality, and enterprise brands. The company was recognized as Best AdTech Startup at M&A Tech Connect. Beyond commercial deployments, Intentful has built bold, innovative projects that explored what was possible with AI-driven interaction ahead of mainstream adoption. Back in 2022, Intentful developed a project for Oxford's Saïd Business School to impersonate William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, and Oscar Wilde for a debate at the Oxford Union — an execution of a brilliant idea by Dr. Alex Connock, launched months ahead of the public release of ChatGPT. For the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), Intentful powered Ritbot — the AI alter ego of Marketing Professor Mark Ritson — based on the original concept developed by the WFA team and featured in a panel alongside CMOs from L'Oréal, PepsiCo, and Adweek at Global Marketer Week 2024 (800 global marketing leaders in attendance).

Intentful Products and Programs include:

  • Generative Response Ads© — ads that respond in real time, inside the ad unit, on behalf of the brand. Global patent pending.
  • As Seen by AI© — a structured framework for shaping how AI reads your brand across owned, external, and earned channels.
  • Interactive Brand Enablement Program — an enterprise-scale program aligning governance, technology, and operating model around the interactive brand.
  • DMO Connect Suite — a vertical-specific suite built for destination marketing organizations and travel brands.
  • Advisory & Learning — AI Readiness Advisory, AI Brand Equity, Marketing Partner Alignment, and executive learning programs including AI 101.

To learn more about Intentful and see client case studies, please contact us.