Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Claude AI and Marketing

 I've said it. Claude is the better tool (by far) for marketing.


But that doesn't matter if your team is on ChatGPT.

And most teams are.

I talk to marketing leaders every week. 9 out of 10 are using ChatGPT. The other one is using it and pretending they aren't.

So I stopped arguing about which AI is best and started asking a different question.

Are you using even half of what ChatGPT can actually do?

The answer is almost always no.

Most marketing teams use ChatGPT for three things:

→ Writing blog posts
→ Drafting emails
→ Brainstorming taglines

That is like buying a Ferrari and only driving it to the mailbox.

I've spent months going deep in mapping every ChatGPT feature to a specific marketing use case.

Here are 9 features most marketers are ignoring:

→ Projects — Create a workspace for each campaign. Upload your brief, brand guide, and ICP doc. Every chat inside that Project references them automatically. No more pasting your brand voice into every prompt.

→ Custom Instructions — Two text boxes that shape every response. Put your buyer persona directly in there. "CMO at a mid-market SaaS company, $2M budget, 100-500 employees." Every output gets tailored to that person.

→ Memory — ChatGPT remembers across conversations. Tell it your brand voice, your metrics, your goals. It compounds. Every future chat starts smarter than the last.

→ Custom GPTs — Build a "LinkedIn Post Writer" GPT trained on your top 10 posts. A "Campaign Brief Generator" loaded with your templates. Share it with your team. Everyone produces consistent work.

→ Deep Research — I asked ChatGPT to research 5 competitors. Positioning. Pricing. Target audience. It delivered a structured brief with citations in 15 minutes. That used to take my team a week.

→ Canvas — Side-by-side editor for long-form content. Write a landing page. Highlight the weak sections. Adjust reading level with one click. Stop copy-pasting between ChatGPT and Google Docs.

→ Image Generation — I generated 5 ad creative concepts in 2 minutes. Picked the best direction. Sent it to design. Saved an entire round of revisions.

→ Connectors — I linked Google Drive and asked ChatGPT to find our Q3 performance deck and summarize wins and misses. No uploading. No screenshots.

→ Data Analysis — I dropped in 3 months of email data. ChatGPT found the subject line patterns driving our highest open rates and built a chart by day of week. Took 45 seconds.

The tool matters less than the system.

A marketer using ChatGPT at 100% will outperform a marketer using Claude at 5%.

I mapped everything I learned into a single cheat sheet.

Every ChatGPT feature. Every marketing use case. With prompts, pro tips, and the mistakes to avoid.

If this was useful, I share my learnings and put it into frameworks like this. Feel free to connect and I’ll send you the hi-res PDF of this cheat sheet.