The blueprint for CMOs who want to lead the AI era.
AI is rewriting how customers discover, evaluate, and choose — and marketing’s traditional operating model can’t keep pace. In a world where intelligence shapes every interaction, CMOs gain advantage not by producing more, but by redesigning how the function works.
Robert Painter.
Robert Painter is the Founder and CEO of Martechture, a prominent consulting and marketing engineering firm that helps CMOs design operating models built for the AI era. A former CMO of IBM Global Business Services and Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Cognizant, he has led global organizations through brand strategy, operational transformation, and multi-billion dollar enterprise growth.
Painter has spent his career at the intersection of marketing, technology, and enterprise services, guiding teams through successive waves of transformation across the discipline. His work with Fortune 500 companies and high-growth innovators informs the core of this book.
Through Martechture, he and his team of Marketing Engineers help organizations build and operate the AI Marketing Operating System (AIM OS). He brings a practitioner’s perspective and a clear conviction that competitive advantage in the AI era is defined by how well marketing is engineered to perform.
Painter writes and speaks regularly on the future of marketing, the emergence of Marketing Engineering, and the evolving role of CMOs as system architects leading the intelligence-driven enterprise.