AI Captain — Your Marketing Agent

Overview

AI Captain is SmartlyQ's autonomous marketing agent. Unlike the Assistant (which responds to single prompts), AI Captain can plan and execute complex multi-step marketing missions — from research to strategy to content creation.

Key Capabilities

  • Mission planning — Describe a goal and AI Captain breaks it into actionable steps
  • Autonomous execution — The agent researches, analyses, and creates deliverables on its own
  • Tool integration — AI Captain can search the web, analyse data, generate images, write copy, and more
  • Real-time streaming — Watch the agent work in real time with live progress updates
  • Multiple specialised skills — Research, SEO analysis, ad strategy, content creation, data analysis, and image generation

How to Access

Navigate to Create > AI Captain from the sidebar.

Running a Mission

  1. Open AI Captain
  2. Type your marketing goal (e.g., "Create a full social media strategy for a fitness brand targeting millennials")
  3. AI Captain will plan the mission, showing you the steps it intends to take
  4. Watch as it executes each step — researching competitors, drafting content, suggesting hashtags, and more
  5. Review the final deliverables and export or refine them

What AI Captain Can Do

  • Market research — Analyse competitors, trends, and audience demographics
  • Content strategy — Build editorial calendars and content plans
  • SEO analysis — Research keywords and optimise content
  • Ad strategy — Suggest campaign structures, targeting, and budgets
  • Copy creation — Write articles, social posts, email sequences, and more
  • Image generation — Create visuals to accompany your content
  • Data analysis — Crunch numbers and generate insights from your data

Captain Boards

AI Captain includes a Boards feature — a research and knowledge hub where you can:

  • Save and organise research sources
  • Talk to your sources (ask questions about saved articles/documents)
  • Build a knowledge base that AI Captain references in future missions

Tip: The more context you give AI Captain, the better the output. Include details about your brand, audience, and goals in your mission brief.