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Case study · 2 October 2026

# SMEs and marketing: AI helps without replacing strategy

Original title, in French: “SMEs and Marketing: AI Assists Without Replacing Strategy”

**Publication**

Brief IA (France)

**Author**

[Tom Levy](https://www.briefia.fr/auteur/tom-levy)

**Published on**

2 October 2026 · read in the page structured data

## Summary

Three small business owners, Andrea Garcia Fry (Arquia), Catalina Parker (Relatable Nonprofit) and Bonnie Gurry (GreenPortfolio), explain how they use ChatGPT, Claude or Meta's tools to save time on analysis and marketing content creation, while keeping control of key decisions. They discuss the learning cost of advertising algorithms, the importance of tracking the whole conversion funnel rather than focusing on the cost of leads, and their distrust of platforms' automated recommendations, in particular those of Meta Ads Manager, which they sometimes consider poorly suited to their business. The article also mentions that in August, Meta announced new AI features for small businesses, to audit their posts and ads and compare their performance with that of similar brands.

Summary based on the full text of the article.

[Read the article on Brief IA →](https://www.briefia.fr/en/article/smes-and-marketing-ai-assists-without-replacing-strategy)

## Classification

**Country**

Worldwide scope

**Company size**

Micro-businesses

**Industries**

All industries, or industry not specified

**Companies**

GreenPortfolio (deploys AI), Meta (supplier), Relatable Nonprofit (deploys AI), OpenAI (supplier), Anthropic (supplier), Arquia (deploys AI)

**Keywords**

marketing, online advertising, smes, chatgpt, meta ai, conversion funnel

Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Brief IA and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.