This year at AWS re:Invent, Gradial had a breakout moment. Anup was featured at the keynote stage by Matt Garman, to show how enterprise marketing teams can finally move at the speed of ideas—not tickets—by running agentic AI directly on AWS. Early deployments have already helped large enterprises cut content cycle times from weeks to hours.
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For most large enterprises, the slowdown in marketing isn’t a lack of creative ideas. It’s the manual content supply chain wrapped around every brief—turning what should be simple updates into multi-day slogs and new experiences into multi-week projects.
In many organizations, a simple content update can take 3–4 days. New pages can take 4–6 weeks and up to 20 distinct steps, while multi-channel campaigns consume hundreds or even thousands of hours. Marketing teams end up spending most of their time on execution logistics instead of strategy and creativity.
In the Startup Stories video and keynote mention, Anup walked through how Gradial tackles this problem with an agentic AI platform built on AWS:
The core point: the biggest slowdown in marketing isn’t creativity, it’s the manual supply chain wrapped around every piece of content. Gradial’s goal is to remove that friction so marketers can spend their time on higher-value work.
A major theme of the re:Invent story is that we live in a multi-model world. There isn’t one model that fits all use cases, especially in complex enterprise environments. Gradial’s platform is built to take advantage of that:
This model flexibility lets Gradial use efficient models for routine execution and more powerful, reasoning-heavy models when a task requires deeper analysis or complex decision-making. AWS’s investment in startup success and enterprise-grade security has been crucial in making this viable at Fortune 500 scale.
The AWS case study published alongside re:Invent puts concrete numbers behind the story:
For AWS and T-Mobile, this translated into dramatic reductions in time-to-market while maintaining strict quality and compliance standards. The case study reinforces that Gradial isn’t just automating individual tasks; it is reshaping the entire content supply chain.
For VPs and Directors of Marketing who run on AWS, the re:Invent moment underscored a few key takeaways:
Gradial’s vision is simple: marketing teams should spend their time on the work humans do best—strategy, storytelling, and creativity—while agents handle the repetitive execution required to ship experiences at scale.
For marketing leaders who want to explore this on their own AWS environment, the next step is simple: run a 60–90 day pilot on one high-friction workflow—such as AEM or Sitecore page updates or SFMC/Marketo email creation—and measure how agentic content operations compress cycle times from weeks to hours.
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