The future of advertising is collaborative

We believe AI's greatest strength is its ability to amplify human creativity and strategy. It’s about building a future where technology handles the toil, so you can deliver brilliance.

Curious about where this is all going? Read the full vision from our CTO

Plan

Build smarter media plans, instantly

Eliminate spreadsheets and guesswork. Our Sidekick AI Agent builds optimized, data-driven media plans based on your specific objectives.

Automatically create a full media plan with AI

Instantly add all channels, ad sets, and placements

Get optimal campaign setup suggestions

Media plan generated in Cape.io from an uploaded spreadsheet

Plan

Build smarter media plans, instantly

Eliminate spreadsheets and guesswork. Our Sidekick AI Agent builds optimized, data-driven media plans based on your specific objectives.

Automatically create a full media plan with AI

Instantly add all channels, ad sets, and placements

Get optimal campaign setup suggestions

Media plan generated in Cape.io from an uploaded spreadsheet

Create

Generate high-performing creative in minutes

Bring your ideas to life instantly. Our AI Studio is your central hub for generating and adapting assets at scale, integrated directly into your workflow.

Generate images and videos from text prompts

Place products into any background for your DPA

Produce multi-language voice-overs

Campaign creatives generated with Cape Ads from a single master design

Create

Generate high-performing creative in minutes

Bring your ideas to life instantly. Our AI Studio is your central hub for generating and adapting assets at scale, integrated directly into your workflow.

Generate images and videos from text prompts

Place products into any background for your DPA

Produce multi-language voice-overs

Campaign creatives generated with Cape Ads from a single master design

Validate

De-risk your creative before you spend

Launch with confidence. Test your creative against platform best practices, compliance rules, and even AI-simulated audiences to ensure maximum impact.

Test concepts with AI-simulated audiences

Check for compliance with local regulations

Assess design quality against creative benchmarks

Handbag creative reviewed in Cape.io with audience insights

Validate

De-risk your creative before you spend

Launch with confidence. Test your creative against platform best practices, compliance rules, and even AI-simulated audiences to ensure maximum impact.

Test concepts with AI-simulated audiences

Check for compliance with local regulations

Assess design quality against creative benchmarks

Handbag creative reviewed in Cape.io with audience insights

Activate

Optimize your campaigns in real-time

Turn data into action, automatically. Our AI analyzes live performance to suggest and apply optimizations, ensuring your campaigns are always running at peak efficiency.

Get cross-channel optimization suggestions

Instantly apply improvements for faster results

Continuously adapt campaigns to maximize ROI

Cape.io creative optimisation table scoring each ad and suggesting improvements

Activate

Optimize your campaigns in real-time

Turn data into action, automatically. Our AI analyzes live performance to suggest and apply optimizations, ensuring your campaigns are always running at peak efficiency.

Get cross-channel optimization suggestions

Instantly apply improvements for faster results

Continuously adapt campaigns to maximize ROI

Cape.io creative optimisation table scoring each ad and suggesting improvements

Powerful, practical, and principled AI

Powerful, practical, and principled AI

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Powered by experts

Our AI is trained on decades of advertising data and creative best practices, not just the generic internet.

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You're in control

Think of it as a co-pilot, not an autopilot. AI provides suggestions, but you always have the final say on strategy and creative.

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Solving real problems

We aren't chasing trends. Every feature is designed to solve a specific, long-standing frustration in the advertising workflow.

FAQs

How is AI being used in advertising?

AI in advertising is evolving beyond basic image and text generation into connected operational infrastructure that unifies creative planning, pre-flight validation, cross-channel budget allocation and real-time performance optimisation.

Leading enterprise brands use AI as an intelligent layer that automates complex technical checks, predicts creative quality and accelerates campaign activation across diverse media landscapes.

How can AI automate advertising campaigns?

AI automates advertising campaigns by analysing assets, dynamic data feeds, and historical campaign data to automate technical formatting, pre-flight quality scoring, and cross-channel optimization.

Within Cape.io, AI powers pre-flight creative evaluations (the AI Score) that analyse creative assets against brand guidelines and platform specs before launch, while rule-based engines automatically adjust creative delivery and budget allocation across active media channels.


How can brands safely use AI-generated advertising?

Brands safely deploy AI-generated creatives by surrounding AI outputs with strict pre-flight governance, human-in-the-loop validation, and brand-safety guardrails.

Rather than pushing unvetted AI content directly to media channels, brands run AI assets through automated compliance engines like Cape.io - which cross-references creative against legal regulations, platform specs and brand rules - ensuring AI innovation doesn’t expose the brand to regulatory penalties or reputational risk.

What is agentic AI in advertising?

Agentic AI refers to autonomous or semi-autonomous AI systems capable of executing multi-step marketing workflows - such as analysing campaign performance signals, identifying creative fatigue, proposing cross-channel optimisations, and executing automated rule adjustments under human oversight.

In Cape.io's roadmap, agentic workflows assist operators by suggesting data-driven decision logic and automating routine campaign management tasks.

How can brands maintain control over AI-generated creatives?

Brands maintain control over AI creative by enforcing locked template frameworks, pre-flight scoring, and mandatory audit trails.

By embedding AI capabilities directly into brand-locked workflows, creative and legal teams retain full veto power over final assets while benefiting from AI-assisted production velocity.

Platform

Cross-channel campaign automation

Discover Cape.io’s solutions to streamline, automate, and scale your cross‑channel campaigns with ease.

Cross-channel campaign automation

Discover Cape.io’s solutions to streamline, automate, and scale your cross‑channel campaigns with ease.

Nov 4, 2026

3 min read
The Creative Burden Index 2026: the creative workload is growing faster than your team

The inaugural Creative Burden Index draws on more than 700,000 creative files produced through the Cape.io platform between September 2022 and August 2026 to understand how the demands placed on creative teams have changed.

Oct 29, 2026

12 min read
Automated ad QA for publishers and streamers: stop broken ads before they go live

Stop broken ads before they go live. See how automated ad QA protects ad quality for broadcasters, streamers and CTV platforms at ingestion.

Oct 27, 2026

2 min read
Michiel Blonk in LBB: Can you trust AI campaign automation?

In a new piece for LBB, Cape.io CMO and co-founder Michiel Blonk asks whether AI campaign automation can be trusted at scale. His answer: only when trust is built in, through compliance checks before launch and a system that learns from every campaign. Read the full article on LBB.

Oct 21, 2026

9 min read
Global TV advertising compliance: how to clear ads across 20+ markets

Global TV advertising compliance requires more than approving one master creative. It requires validating each version against the requirements of the market where it will run.

Oct 20, 2026

5 min read
Sora 2 shutdown: what it means for AI-powered creative when the model goes dark

What happens to your campaigns when the tool underneath them simply disappears?

Oct 19, 2026

2 min read
Compliance: eliminate creative risk across 20+ global markets

We are excited to announce major updates to Cape.io Compliance.

closed caption ITV

Oct 15, 2026

4 min read
Navigating ITV's 2027 closed caption mandate

This is the moment captions go mainstream. Here is everything you need to know about the ITV mandate and how to get your workflow ready before it lands.

Cape.io graphic of a gradient sphere rolling along an orange track

Oct 9, 2026

9 min read
Global CTV advertising at scale: why ad compliance must go beyond the master file

Ad compliance can no longer be treated as a final check on a single master file. It needs to be built into the process of creating, adapting and delivering every ad variant.

Cape.io G2 Fall 2026 High Performer badges for EMEA, Europe and overall

Sep 25, 2026

2 min read
Cape.io named a G2 High Performer in Fall 2026: What clients say

Cape.io was named a High Performer in G2's Fall 2026 reports

Cape.io Reporting Intelligence dashboard showing campaign metrics at a glance

Sep 24, 2026

3 min read
Reporting Intelligence: campaign clarity in one click

We are excited to announce that Reporting Intelligence is officially live in Cape Creative Automation.

Nov 4, 2026

3 min read
The Creative Burden Index 2026: the creative workload is growing faster than your team

The inaugural Creative Burden Index draws on more than 700,000 creative files produced through the Cape.io platform between September 2022 and August 2026 to understand how the demands placed on creative teams have changed.

Oct 29, 2026

12 min read
Automated ad QA for publishers and streamers: stop broken ads before they go live

Stop broken ads before they go live. See how automated ad QA protects ad quality for broadcasters, streamers and CTV platforms at ingestion.

Oct 27, 2026

2 min read
Michiel Blonk in LBB: Can you trust AI campaign automation?

In a new piece for LBB, Cape.io CMO and co-founder Michiel Blonk asks whether AI campaign automation can be trusted at scale. His answer: only when trust is built in, through compliance checks before launch and a system that learns from every campaign. Read the full article on LBB.

Oct 21, 2026

9 min read
Global TV advertising compliance: how to clear ads across 20+ markets

Global TV advertising compliance requires more than approving one master creative. It requires validating each version against the requirements of the market where it will run.

Oct 20, 2026

5 min read
Sora 2 shutdown: what it means for AI-powered creative when the model goes dark

What happens to your campaigns when the tool underneath them simply disappears?

Oct 19, 2026

2 min read
Compliance: eliminate creative risk across 20+ global markets

We are excited to announce major updates to Cape.io Compliance.

closed caption ITV

Oct 15, 2026

4 min read
Navigating ITV's 2027 closed caption mandate

This is the moment captions go mainstream. Here is everything you need to know about the ITV mandate and how to get your workflow ready before it lands.

Cape.io graphic of a gradient sphere rolling along an orange track

Oct 9, 2026

9 min read
Global CTV advertising at scale: why ad compliance must go beyond the master file

Ad compliance can no longer be treated as a final check on a single master file. It needs to be built into the process of creating, adapting and delivering every ad variant.

Cape.io G2 Fall 2026 High Performer badges for EMEA, Europe and overall

Sep 25, 2026

2 min read
Cape.io named a G2 High Performer in Fall 2026: What clients say

Cape.io was named a High Performer in G2's Fall 2026 reports

Cape.io Reporting Intelligence dashboard showing campaign metrics at a glance

Sep 24, 2026

3 min read
Reporting Intelligence: campaign clarity in one click

We are excited to announce that Reporting Intelligence is officially live in Cape Creative Automation.