Yannick Khayati

Founder / Validation Lead

Say ‘hi’ to Cosmos Collective, where experimentation meets innovation. We help innovation teams tackling all their assumptions via rapid experimentation. 

We developed an approach that allows us to test any business idea or concept within a period of 3 months. 

The 🔑 is finding the right sequence of experiments in order to test (read: tackle) all your riskiest assumptions asap. 

In our track, the user / customer is centralized. We take your idea outside of the corporate walls & turn it into real-market data asap. 

Are you ready to jump on the validation train? 🚄

AI in marketing is growing up. 
So is AI for Marketers Day. 

In less than 67 hours, we open early bird tickets for AI for Marketers Day 2026.

Last year was a first edition. Strong talks, a great location, a packed room.
But let’s be honest. AI has matured. And so have we.

We learned a lot from the first edition. What worked. What didn’t. What deserved more depth.

That’s why this year we’re going bigger where it matters.
32+ talks instead of 14.
Across 4 stages.
More perspectives. 

We’re still curating a few final stories for this edition, specifically around:
- AI & marketing in heavily regulated industries
- The marketing org chart of the future. Humans, teams, agents
- AI-powered GTM that actually drives pipeline
- Fully autonomous marketing engines. What’s real, what breaks, what’s next
- ...

If you’re building in one of these areas. Or know someone who is a great speaker on one of these topics. My DMs are open.

Early birds go live Thursday at 9 in the morning.

Yannick  Khayati

Organizing the biggest AI conference for marketers in Belgium.

Average-skilled marketers are about to get stuck in the dead-zone.

Here’s the cold reality:

If you can only do what everyone else does (but slightly better), AI is coming for your paycheck.

The top 1% are leveraging AI to become  growth generating machines.
The bottom 35% are only using ChatGPT to write generic emails.

The middle? That’s the danger zone.

To survive, you need to extend your skillset vertically. You need to become an AI marketer.

I’ve made a list of 18 ways to escape the dead-zone and build your own AI stack.

Most marketers look at this list and see "too much tech."
Smart marketers see 18 ways to increase their value.

Stop waiting for permission to upgrade your marketing activities.

If you want the shortcut, I’m teaching exactly how to build these workflows.

Next week I’ll be hosting a free webinar, let’s see if I can win over your trust. 

We skip the theory. We build systems.

Sign up via this link: https://lnkd.in/evPnyPni

I tested 100+ AI tools in 2025. 

The marketing playbook has changed. In 2026, I’m using tools to help me build, automate, and scale.

I’m currently going all-in on these 8 tools to run my own business.

The gap between "using AI" and "building an AI-native business" is widening. This stack is how we bridge it. 

PS: hosting a webinar on the 10 most asked questions during my AI trainings. You can join via this link ➡️ https://lnkd.in/evPnyPni

One of my 2026 resolutions:

Share more short, practical marketing thoughts I actually believe in.

Starting with these 12.

PS: I've built a webinar around the 10 FAQs marketers ask me all the time during my AI masterclasses. You can sign up for free via this link: https://lnkd.in/evPnyPni

Questions, struggles, confusions, misconceptions, ... 

Nailing AI in marketing can be pretty hard. 

I've helped 1,000+ marketers to extend their skillset with AI tools / skills. 

In my first 12 months as an AI trainer, the same questions kept coming back. 

1️⃣ Where do I start? 
2️⃣ What's your favorite workflow?
3️⃣ Why are there so many tools, how do you pick the right ones? 
....

I decided to build a webinar around the 10 most asked questions during my masterclasses.

If AI still feels confusing, let me change that in an hour. 

Save your seat => https://lnkd.in/evPnyPni

I just mapped out my 2026 plan and let's be honest ...

The current tool stack is broken... It's too much.

Most marketers are drowning in "AI slop." They are subscribing to 25 different tools to do 3 things. It’s inefficient & expensive.

I’m obsessed with high-margin, calm businesses. To get there, the tech needs to grow up.

Here is my "AI Wishlist for 2026", the 14 specific things I need to see exist to make marketing human-scale again. 

The future of marketing isn't about working harder. It's about building systems that let you be creative while the AI do the repetitive work.

I’m teaching exactly how to leverage these shifts in my AI Masterclass for Marketers.

Tickets for February 12 online & new dates coming soon: https://aiformarketers.eu/ 

P.S. Which tool on this list would save you the most time? Let me know below.

My 2026 AI wishlist as a marketer

Stop trying to outsource your creativity to a machine.

It’s lazy. And frankly, it shows.

I see it every day: marketers treating ChatGPT like a magic vending machine. Insert prompt, get strategy, copy-paste, publish. 

The result? 

A tsunami of average. 

Here is the hard truth I tell everyone in my trainings:

AI is an incredible thought partner. It is a terrible taste-maker.

It can give you 50 variations of a headline in 10 seconds. It can summarize a 30-page report in a blink. It can structure your messy thoughts into a cohesive outline.

But it cannot tell you which idea will actually make a human being feel something.

That is your job.

In a world where content is commoditized, "taste" is the only moat you have left. 

Taste is knowing when the AI is hallucinating a "best practice" that is actually a cliche.
Taste is deleting the three paragraphs that sound "professional" but mean nothing.
Taste is injecting the personal story that a model trained on 2021 data simply doesn’t have.

Use AI to do the heavy lifting. Use your brain to do the heavy thinking.

If you treat AI as a replacement for your own intellect, you are racing to the bottom.

If you treat it as a sparring partner to sharpen your own point of view? That is where the leverage lives.

I’ve spent the last year training 1000+ marketers on exactly this nuance. And I noticed the same roadblocks coming up over and over again.

So I decided to compile them.

Next week, I’m hosting a webinar covering the 10 most asked questions from my AI trainings.

You can grab a free spot here => https://lnkd.in/evPnyPni

AI skills are becoming a baseline expectation in every marketing role.

Generalist does not mean average by default. 

That's what I told 144 marketers during my webinar about the 10 most asked questions during my AI trainings. 

Next week, I'm hosting another free session where we build 3 workflows together. 

Not signed up yet? Here's the link. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eJuMHyuc

A CMO & CEO. Dedicated to driving growth and promoting innovative marketing for businesses with bold goals

With over 20 years of experience in digital marketing, I excel at crafting high-impact strategies that drive growth and success for well-known brands. My unique blend of technical expertise, extensive management experience, and real-world business acumen make me an invaluable asset to any project.

Having served as the CEO of Blue Thirst, I led my team to achieve prestigious industry certifications, and I've masterminded innovative marketing strategies for renowned brands.

🔸 Proven success in delivering multi-million-pound revenue streams
🔸 Extensive experience in managing and developing high-performing teams
🔸 Demonstrated ability to drive growth and innovation in various sectors

Martin McAndrew

ChatGPT ads are coming, and they won’t work like Google or Meta. Here’s how they work.

OpenAI is preparing to introduce native ads inside ChatGPT.
 This matters because it changes how people will discover, compare, and choose businesses online.

Traditionally, the sequence looks like this:
Search → Browse → Compare → Click → Convert

With ChatGPT, the sequence becomes much shorter:
Ask → Recommendation → Action

And the questions users ask are far more explicit than keyword searches:
“Who should I hire for…?”
 “Which service is best for…?”
 “What’s the most reliable option for…?”

This is higher-quality intent than “best X near me” … and that’s what makes this interesting.

How It Works
Instead of bidding on keywords, ads will be matched to natural-language intent inside conversations.

OpenAI has hinted at three structural differences vs Google/Meta:

1. Intent from context
Recommendations are driven by conversations, not just queries or interests.

2. Relevance over pure budget
Early documentation suggests the “best answer” matters as much as the highest bid.

3. In-line conversion
The answer itself can act as the landing page, reducing the need for funnels or retargeting.

If implemented well, this compression should reduce friction and improve efficiency - especially for businesses with clear offers.

What to Expect First
Like every new ad surface, three things typically happen:

1. Low competition
Early advertisers face minimal auction pressure.

2. Favourable economics
CPC/CPA tends to be lowest before the market saturates (Google ~2007, 

3. Meta ~2012, TikTok ~2020).
Fast learning curves

The platform iterates quickly once real spend enters.
The learning advantage compounds for brands who move early - not because they’re smarter, but because they have real data before everyone else.

Who Benefits

This format naturally suits:
Leadgen categories that rely on expertise or trust (legal, finance, trades, healthcare, insurance)

eCommerce with clear positioning and strong product-market fit
B2B service providers where recommendations matter

Local businesses that rely on “who should I use?” word-of-mouth economics
In short: if you benefit from being recommended, you benefit from this shift.

If You Want to Explore This Early
We’re quietly preparing the first wave of ChatGPT ad campaigns for clients who want to test and learn before the market gets crowded.

If you’d like to:
- understand how this applies to your category
- explore early pilots
- or get placed on the launch list

send me a message or contact Blue Thirst.
Early channels rarely stay early for long.

#performanceads
 #digitalads
 #paidmedia

ChatGPT ads are coming, and here is how they work

Your Google Ads problem isn’t bidding. It’s structure. And it’s costing you money every day. 

Most Google Ads accounts do not struggle because of bidding. They struggle because of structure. When structure is unclear, reporting becomes noisy and optimisation slows down. Search terms drift. 

Budgets leak. Performance looks inconsistent even when demand is stable. A strong structure does three things well. 

It separates brand from non brand clearly. It groups keywords by intent, not volume. It makes it obvious where profit is coming from. 

If you cannot answer where your next pound of spend should go within five minutes, the structure is not doing its job. 

Good structure does not make accounts complicated. It makes decisions faster. https://lnkd.in/dEg93Pj 

#googleads #ppc #paidmedia #digitalmarketing #growth

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