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AI for agency new business and pitching: start with qualification
AI

AI for agency new business and pitching: start with qualification

An agency spends an average of $204,461 on a new-business pitch and two in three reviews end with the incumbent kept. The AI worth buying changes which pitches you enter, not how fast the deck comes together.

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Real Impact vs. Hype: The Replay from Our Nordic Tech Week Breakfast Seminar

300+ creative and marketing leaders signed up for Multiply's Nordic Tech Week breakfast seminar on what AI actually changes in creative work. Watch the full replay.

Minimal 3D illustration of a fixed glowing violet ring of light (a solar eclipse) held steady above a grey path that bends and breaks around it — a fixed appetite while scope bends
Engineering

Building Multiply: The Expensive Part Is Deciding What Not to Build

Founder & CTO Oskar Boëthius Lissheim on why Shape Up's fixed appetite is the only thing standing between you and a product nobody shaped, now that agents build a week's feature in a day.

From operator to creator
Creative operator

From operator to creator

Agency utilization fell to 62 percent in 2025. The third of the week nobody bills is the part AI absorbs first, and the people who carried it become something else.

How creative agencies use AI without going generic
AI

How creative agencies use AI without going generic

Two peer-reviewed studies show AI-assisted work gets individually better and collectively more alike. What that means for agencies, and the one input competitors cannot copy.

Minimal 3D illustration of a blueprint unfolding into geometric blocks assembled by a robotic arm — a creative brief an AI agent can act on
briefing

How to Write a Creative Brief an AI Agent Can Actually Act On

Marketers think their briefs are clear. Agencies disagree, and AI agents are less forgiving than any human. Here is how to write a brief that works.

Minimal 3D illustration of tangled threads passing through a purple sphere and emerging as ordered parallel lines — the creative operator role
agency operations

What Is a Creative Operator? The Agency Role Explained

Your best creatives spend their mornings coordinating, not creating. The creative operator is the role agencies are building to take that work back.

Minimal 3D illustration of an hourglass jammed with grey spheres while one purple sphere passes through — operations as the real agency bottleneck
agency operations

Your Agency's Real Bottleneck Isn't Talent. It's Operations.

Agencies rarely lose because the work is bad. They lose because the work never gets made. A look at where the hours actually go, and why operations is the real edge.

A Multiply project overview, with the Intelligence panel assembling context from the files the project already contains
product

Connected Work

Tasks in Multiply can now pull context from their org, workspace, and other projects, reference the exact section that matters, and know where they sit in the bigger picture.

Ready to put this into practice?

See how leading agencies are using Multiply to run their AI workflows.