Most AI content experiments fail at the design stage, not the execution stage. Writers plug a model into their workflow and expect it to figure out the rest.
Writing on MarTech, Tania Brown argues the right starting point is the opposite: decide what the finished piece needs to look like first, then build the workflow and inputs that can reliably produce it. Context, specialized agents, and human review are the three levers she points to.
The Human Review Gate
Brown flags one structural difference between an AI-run content workflow and a human-run one: you need more human-review checkpoints, not fewer. The automation handles volume. The human gate handles quality control that the model cannot self-assess.
The framing is practical for any solo operator or small content team. Define the output standard first. Engineer the workflow backward from that standard. Then add review gates at the points where AI judgment is least reliable.
