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Marketing content from your sources, in your voice, with approval.

Turn merged PRs, call recordings, and competitive intelligence into release notes, case studies, and posts—drafted in your brand voice, cited, and approved before publish.

This website runs on an Athena computer. An agent maintains it.

Athena wants toPublish release notes · week of Sep 15 ·6 itemsathenaintel.com · v212staged 09:02 · promoted 09:14Each item cites merged PRWAITING FOR A PERSONPublish to CMS and report backAthena via Approver · Approval in Slack
Fig. 01Release notes staged with PR citations; one Slack button publishes to the CMS
  • 150+ connectors incl. Slack, Teams, SharePoint, your CMS
  • Brand voice as a versioned Skill
  • Citations on every claim
  • Approval before publish
  • Runs in your environment
The problem

Engineering shipped forty. Marketing heard about three.

The changelog is in GitHub. The customer stories are in call recordings. The brand voice is in someone's head. The competitive deck is six months old. Content tools generate text; none of them read your PRs, your calls, or your CMS, and none of them ask before they publish.

From shipped to said, with the sources attached.

DisconnectedConnected40 merged PRs3 heard by marketing1 blog post shippedChangelog isolated from content calendarRelease notes draftLinkedIn draftNewsletter sectionEach with citations and approval button
Fig. 02Forty merged PRs become three cited drafts, each with an approval button
How it works

Read the source. Write in voice. Ask first.

  1. Read the source. Merged PRs, call transcripts, product docs, the CMS, competitor sites, search-engine answers. With your permissions.

  2. Write in the voice. A Skill distilled from your own transcripts and copy: positioning, vocabulary, the words to avoid, the proof points you may cite. Every draft runs through it.

  3. Attach the evidence. Every claim cited: the PR, the timestamp in the call, the page on the competitor's site.

  4. Ask before publishing. The draft, the brief, and one button arrive in Slack or Teams. Approve, and the workflow publishes to the CMS and reports back on a date.

01PRs · calls· docs · CMSAthena readswith …02Brand-voiceSkillpositioning ·vocabulary03Drafts withcitationsnotes · posts ·case studiesa person approves04Approve inSlack or …The draft, thebrief05Publish toCMSWorkflow postsand confirmsEvery publish has an approver and a date, every draft ships with sources
Fig. 03Read the source, write in the voice, ask before publishing: approval gates every CMS publish
Example workflow

Example workflow: Weekly release notes with approval

SURFACES INWHAT COMES INTHE PLATFORMWHAT GOES OUTDELIVERED BACKWebMobile · voiceText (SMS)EmailChromeOffice add-inMeeting botMeetingsWordPowerPointSheetsFiles · PDFsDataAgentsAppsLibrarySessionsSpacesStudiosMeetingsLakehouseSemantic modelsDatabaseDashboardsWordPowerPointSheetsDashboardsData · APIsApps · portalsWebMobile · voiceText (SMS)EmailChromeOffice add-inMeeting botSlack · Teams1Workflows (AOPs)2Slack · Teams3Slack · Teams41 INMarketing lead asks Athenato prepare release notesfor the week of Sep 15.2 RUNWorkflow reads merged PRs fromGitHub with permissions,applies brand-voice Skilldistilled from 472 transcriptsand 2900 PRs3 REVIEWDraft arrives in Slack with thebrief, six cited items, and oneApprove and publish button.Approver reviews4 OUTApprover clicks button;workflow publishes to CMS,reports back version v212promoted at 09:14 with approvername and date recorded.
Fig. 04The route on the system map: Slack · Teams → Workflows (AOPs). Connectors: GitHub · Slack · CMS · brand-voice Skill
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Use cases

From shipped to said.

Every merged PR read weekly. Release notes, LinkedIn posts, blog drafts, and a newsletter section written in the company voice with live diagrams, each item citing its PR. This is how we run our own launches.

Release notes · week of Sep 15Sheets now supports pivot tables with customaggregation functions.Workflows can now trigger on file upload to anyconnected storage system.Brand-voice Skill editor adds never-list validationwith inline hit count.Applications can now embed interactive demos withcustom brand kits.Database connector adds support for read replicasand query timeout config.Meeting bot now records speaker attribution withtimestamp citations.merged PRSepmerged PRSep 14Ready for approval in Slack
Fig. 05Six release items drafted from merged PRs, each citing its source, ready for one-button publish

The brand voice as a Skill.

Our own voice is a Skill distilled from 472 meeting transcripts and roughly 2,900 merged PRs: the one-liner, the bets, the vocabulary, the never-list, the safe proof points, the pre-publish checklist. Build yours from your own material in a working session.

Brand-voice Skill · draft reviewTrigger · Distilled from 472 transcripts, 2900 PRsOne-liner and positioning match corpusVocabulary and never-list validatedNever-list · 0 hits in this draftProof points · 2 vetted and citedPre-publish checklist completeDraft ready for approvalwith voice checks passedSkill applied
Fig. 06Brand-voice Skill distilled from 472 transcripts and 2900 PRs checks every draft before approval

Competitive intelligence that updates itself.

Hourly pulls from market and news sources; a market map with 1,000+ cited entries at an AmLaw 100 firm, where marketing became the biggest internal user of the platform.

Market map · competitive intelVendorCategoryLatest newsSourceCitedCompetitor AEnterprise AISeries CTechCrunchlinkCompetitor BWorkflowNew SOC 2 TypeCompany bloglinkCompetitor CKnowledge mgmtPartnershipPress releaselinkCompetitor DData platformQ3 earnings beatSEC filinglinkCompetitor EContent AIProduct launchLinkedInlinkCompetitor FSearchExecutive hireNews wirelinkWHO CHANGED WHATAthenaHourly pull from marketand news sourcesAthena1,000+ cited entriesmaintainedMarketing leadBiggest internal user ofplatform
Fig. 07Competitive intelligence with 1100 cited entries updates hourly from market and news sources

Case studies from calls.

Seventy recorded customer meetings became a master inventory of value delivered and executive-ready decks. Anonymize per your policy; every quote cites its timestamp.

Customer Value InventoryReduced manual reconciliation time by shifting toautomated nightly runs with exception-only review.Consolidated reporting across three subsidiariesinto a single dashboard updated hourly from the …Eliminated duplicate data entry between CRM andbilling system through bidirectional sync workflow.Accelerated month-end close from nine days to fourby automating journal-entry preparationMeeting · early Q1timestamp citedMeeting · springtimestamp citedAnonymized · policy compliant
Fig. 08Customer calls became cited value statements with timestamped quotes

Brand-matched prospect demos.

A prospect's design system pulled from their website, an interactive demo built in their brand before the first call. Account-based animated one-pagers generated from the CRM record.

First call prepAccount-based assetsGeneric demo deckStandard slideNo brand customizationSame materials for every prospectBranded interactive demoAnimated one-pagerDesign system pulled from prospect website
Fig. 09Prospect websites become brand-matched demos before the first call

The agent-maintained website.

Hosted as an Application asset. Copy, images, and code changed by describing the change; staged, reviewed, promoted, rolled back. Ours runs this way.

v212 stagedAthena09:02 · awaitingreviewv212 promotedReviewer09:14 · liveprior versionAthenaCopy updated perrequestearlierAthenaAvailable forrollbackroll back this rangeHosted as Application asset · changed by describing the change
Fig. 10This website: staged, reviewed, promoted, and rollback-ready by agent

AI-search visibility, measured and fixed.

Where your brand is absent from AI-assistant answers, a workflow measures the gap, writes the brief, drafts the answer-first article in your voice, and puts the prompt on watch. Approve in Slack. See the companion page for the full flow.

AI-Search Share of VoiceBy engineBy promptLast 7 daysPrompts monitoredtrackedVisibility gapsflaggedGPTClaudeGeminiPerplxSearchGWin this prompt button on gaps
Fig. 11Share-of-voice measured by engine and prompt, with workflow to close gaps
What customers say
“I finally got a chance to play around with the computer asset and build out the chatbot you mentioned. It was really impressive.”
Marketing lead · An AmLaw 100 firm
“They're biggest customer now by far because they're like, we can scale this up now and get whatever we want.”
IT lead · An AmLaw 100 firm
“It's good to understand the capability of the platform. That how far, and how quickly you guys can get these things going [...] that has been impressive overall.”
VP-level AI leader · A Fortune 500 retailer
“Lets us get a lot more out of our data than [...] We can sit on top of all of the data in [our data warehouse] as opposed to just, like, our little ingested, you know, three gigabytes semantic models. I think we have a lot of power here.”
Analytics lead · A Fortune 500 retailer
“Gave Athena the spreadsheet, explained which column I was trying to figure out, and then ten secs it told me... exactly how the calculation was based on the other data.”
Analyst · A global manufacturer
“He wrote the entire stuff. By itself. And I was there, and I was thinking, alright. If I had to write all this stuff, I mean, I would've spent days, days, days.”
Manufacturing analyst · A global manufacturer
“I send that to the programmer and he said, alright. I read your file. I copied the section of the code because he has the right interface, and it works. Wow. Just like magic.”
Manufacturing analyst · A global manufacturer
“One workspace. All different, let's say, avatars of their output data. Right? Suddenly, it's dashboard. Excel is here. PowerPoint is when it's all together. It's very impressive.”
Global Sustainability lead · A global manufacturer
“Use the Athena platform probably closer to the concept and how it was designed, like, with the spaces architecture where you've got a set of primitives and capabilities, and you bring together the right set of capabilities to solve a task.”
Audit lead · A global professional services firm
“Digital worker, it gets spun up, it gets given access to the toolkits that it needs. It gets given access to the data that it needs. Just exists for the period it needs to exist to perform the task. And then it gets torn back down again afterwards.”
Audit lead · A global professional services firm

Verbatim from customer calls. Customers anonymized.

One Platform, Three Ways To Build

Build with Agents, Workflows, or Applications

Agents for the ad hoc: "what did we ship in Sheets this month." Workflows (Agent Operating Procedures) for recurring: hourly social listening pulls, daily competitive intel reports, release notes Applications for the many: the dashboard the CMO opens, the website itself.

Your stack

Integrations and governance

Slack, Teams, Gmail, Outlook, SharePoint, GitHub, your CMS, your warehouse, PitchBook and news sources, the design system on your own site. Each user's own permissions. Runs in our cloud or your VPC.

What to plan for

The agent writes the first draft and cites it. A person still owns the final version. We use the same approval step ourselves.

FAQ

What can AI agents do for marketing?

Draft content from your sources in your voice, research markets and competitors, monitor coverage, and report on campaigns.

Will content stay on brand?

Yes. Your voice, style, and messaging are captured once and applied to every draft, and a person approves before anything is published.

Where should we start?

With one recurring piece of content or one monitoring report.

Is research traceable?

Yes. Claims link to their sources.

One platform underneath

AGS · Athena Governance System

Records every change by a person or an agent, rolls back one contributor's edits without losing anyone else's, and keeps the model, instructions, and sources behind each agent action.

Palladium · deployment

How the platform is deployed: Athena's managed cloud, your cloud on AWS, GCP, or Azure, on-prem, air-gapped, or GovCloud. Same platform in every option.

How it fits together

Build, Work, and Data on top; 150+ connectors and every surface in and out; one map of the whole platform.

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