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Salesforce Connections 2026 Gradial recap

Events

Jun 10, 2026

What We Heard (and Shared) at Salesforce Connections 2026

Gradial led two sessions at Salesforce Connections 2026. Here’s what resonated on stage, at the booth, and across the show floor: orchestration, AI search, and systems of work.

Shoptalk Europe 2026 Gradial recap

Events

May 29, 2026

What Retail Leaders Are Actually Saying About AI, Trust, and the Digital Shelf at Shoptalk Europe 2026

We spent last week in Barcelona at Shoptalk Europe. Here's what we heard from Douglas, Mondelez, Boots, Arc'teryx, Vuori, and others about where retail is headed.

Agentic Content Infrastructure

Technology

May 22, 2026

Agentic Content Infrastructure: The Agent-Native Stack for Enterprise Marketing

Marketing has never mattered more. At its core, marketing is the most human-centric work in the enterprise — the discipline that takes a company's beliefs, products, and promises and translates them into something a customer actually feels.

Bots just passed humans online

AI

May 15, 2026

Bots Just Passed Humans Online. Your Content Operation Wasn't Built for That.

Bots have passed humans as the majority audience online. Here’s why the headless web demands agentic content infrastructure built for governance, velocity, and trust.

Zero clicks, new rules: healthcare AI search

Healthcare

May 12, 2026

Zero clicks, new rules: the healthcare marketer's guide to AI search

A healthcare marketer's guide to AI search, zero-click journeys, GEO metrics, citations, mentions, and Gradial's execution loop.

Airline AI Search Visibility Study

Research

May 8, 2026

We Analyzed AI Visibility for 20+ of the World's Largest Airlines. Here's What We Found.

Gradial analyzed AI visibility across 20+ of the world's largest airlines and found a major mention-to-citation gap: AI models name airline brands often, but rarely cite their owned websites.

Higher education AI search visibility study

Insights

Jun 2026

We Researched AI Search Results for Over 50 Colleges and Universities. Here's What the Data Shows.

Gradial analyzed AI search visibility across 51 colleges and universities and found a clear gap between brand mentions and owned-domain citations in AI-generated answers.

From Hours to Minutes: agentic AI for marketing teams

Technology

Apr 29, 2026

From Hours to Minutes: How Agentic AI Gives Marketing Teams Their Time Back

When one of the world’s largest cloud providers needed to fix how its marketing team publishes content, they chose Gradial. Working with AWS Marketing’s Technology, AI, and Analyti

Retail AI Search Visibility Study

Research

Apr 24, 2026

We Analyzed AI Search Visibility Across 28 Major Retail Brands. Here's What We Found.

Gradial analyzed AI search visibility across 28 major retail and consumer brands and found a defining mention-to-citation gap: brands are recognized by AI models, but rarely linked to.

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