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Index — No. 001 / 2026 Advisory · Workshops · Build

AI for brands that care about taste

Who I work with  —  across industries, team sizes, and growth stages
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Field profile · No. 001
Whitney
Belmonte
  • Background 15 years inside beauty, CPG & DTC — including Supergoop!
  • Now Helping brands build AI into the work, quietly
  • Based Brooklyn, NY
Advisory Workshops Build
Whitney Belmonte · 2026
§ 01 — Who

Fifteen years inside category-defining brands. Now it's your turn.

Whitney spent fifteen years scaling marketing for category-defining beauty brands, including Supergoop!, where she helped scale digital from a single channel into a multi-format engine. She has shipped campaigns, hired teams, and rebuilt operations from the inside.

Now she works with founders, marketing leads, and ops teams to put AI to work in the parts of their business that actually move revenue — without the buzzwords, without the gloss, and without breaking the parts of their company that already work.

Her clients tend to be the operators noticing what's quietly broken — content cycles that take three weeks, briefs that take longer than the work itself, leads that arrive cold and stay cold. The fix is rarely the model. It's the workflow around it.

§ 02 — Services

Three ways
to work together.

Each engagement is shaped around the team — not the trade press. Start with one. Most clients add another.

01
Advisory
retainers
Six-week or quarterly engagements for founders mapping their first real AI strategy. Custom roadmaps, weekly working sessions, direct access. Best for teams who know they need this but don't know where to start.
6 — 12 weeks Remote From $9,500/mo
One-page diagnosis § DIAGNOSIS / CASE-001 WK 1 · WK 2 · WK 3 · WK 4 · WK 5 · WK 6
02
Team
workshops
Two-day intensives for marketing teams. Hands-on, role-specific, no slides about what ChatGPT is. Your team leaves with three working playbooks built around the work they actually do.
2 days In-person or remote From $14,000
Workshop playbook § DAY 1 · 09:00 — 17:00 Audit · current cycle 09:00 — 11:30 Pick the tools 11:30 — 14:00 Build · first workflow 14:00 — 16:30 Ship the handoff 16:30 — 17:00 DELIVERABLE · 3 PLAYBOOKS
03
Embedded
implementation
Three months embedded with your team. We ship the first three production AI workflows — not pilots — with real owners, real outputs, and a handoff doc your next hire could pick up tomorrow.
12 weeks Hybrid Project-based
Runbook · handoff § WORKFLOW 01 / 03 Owner Inputs Outputs Cadence CHECKPOINTS SIGNED OFF · WB · WEEK 12
§ 02b — Scenarios

Sound familiar?

Eight scenarios I hear in nearly every first call. Tap one to start that conversation directly.

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01 / Content cycles

"My content team takes three weeks to ship a launch. What would we tackle first?"

We map the cycle, find the five steps no person needs to touch, and rebuild around a single brief. Usually three workflows in six weeks.

Talk through this
02 / Tool fatigue

"We've tried four AI tools and the team quietly retired all of them. Where do we start over?"

Almost always the issue isn't the tool — it's the workflow around it. We diagnose what the team actually does and pick one tool to stick.

Talk through this
03 / Theater vs. work

"My CEO wants AI-everything. How do I show what's worth shipping vs. theater?"

A one-page diagnosis with three candidate interventions — the kind you can put in front of your board. Evidence, not buzzwords.

Talk through this
04 / Brand integrity

"We're a fashion brand. AI feels off-brand. Is there a way that doesn't?"

There's a version that quietly takes the slow parts out of every meeting, brief, and review — without ever touching the work the brand is known for.

Talk through this
05 / Solo operator

"I'm a one-person marketing team. What's the highest-leverage thing to learn first?"

The brief itself becomes the system. We rebuild it to feed three workflows from a single input — and you spend the saved hours on the work that matters.

Talk through this
06 / Stuck doc

"We hired a strategist. The doc sat in Drive unopened. How do we make this stick?"

Embedded work, with named owners and weekly checkpoints. The deliverable isn't a deck — it's three production workflows running by week six.

Talk through this
07 / Brief overhead

"Our brief takes longer than the work itself. Can we fix that?"

Almost always yes. The brief is usually the highest-leverage thing to redesign — and the easiest place to prove AI can earn its keep.

Talk through this
08 / Launch cadence

"We have 14 SKUs to launch this season. Where does AI actually move the needle?"

Product copy, lifestyle assets, and email sequences from a single brief. We've cut similar cycles from 21 days to 4 with the same team and quality bar.

Talk through this
§ 03 — Method

How a real engagement moves.

No frameworks copied from LinkedIn. Four phases, four weeks of evidence, one engine that runs after we leave.

Phase
01/04
01 — Audit

Map the work you actually do.

Two weeks of listening, watching, and shadowing. Where the friction is. Where the team is already winging it. Where AI would just add noise. We come out with a one-page diagnosis you can show your board.

02 — Calibrate

Pick tools that fit your team, not the trade press.

We narrow a long shortlist into three tools and a posture. No vendor pitches. The point is to choose well once so we can stop choosing.

03 — Build

Ship three working workflows in six weeks.

Real outputs, real owners, real metrics. We work in your stack, your docs, your channels. By week six you have evidence — not slides.

04 — Operate

Tune what works. Retire what doesn't.

Monthly review for as long as you want it. We measure what's still earning its keep, kill what isn't, and add the next workflow when the team has bandwidth — not before.

What we can make together
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§ 04 — Selected work

Quiet wins. Measurable.

Details anonymized to protect client confidentiality.

Case 24-003 · DTC apparel

DTC Apparel · rebuilt content engine

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Replaced a three-week, four-person content cycle with a hybrid workflow that ships product, lifestyle, and email assets in a single brief. Two of four team members redeployed to growth.

0% Faster content cycles
Case 25-001 · Clean skincare

Clean Beauty · funnel rebuild

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A single rebuilt acquisition funnel — same paid spend, half the manual ops, and an AI-assisted brief loop that lets one marketer ship work that previously took three. Q3 lift held into Q4.

0% Qualified leads · Q3
Case 25-004 · B2B services

B2B Services · launch cycle

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From a 21-day launch cycle to a 4-day one. Same team. Same quality bar. The AI did almost nothing on its own — but it removed the slow parts of every meeting, brief, and review.

$0M Pipeline · 18 months
§ 05 — Where this lands

Brands that show their work.

"Whitney is the rare consultant who actually does the work with you. We were shipping things by week two."
Head of Growth·DTC Apparel
"She translated AI into a language my team could actually use. No buzzwords, just outputs."
VP Marketing·Clean Beauty
"Six weeks in we'd already retired one tool, replaced two, and our cycle time was unrecognizable."
Founder·B2B Services

Client details withheld at their request.

§ 06 — Field notes

A quiet letter on AI, taste, and the work that ships.

One thoughtful note a month — never more — on what's actually working inside the teams I'm advising. No promotions. No "10x your team with AI." Cancel any time.

Sent monthly. No promotions, ever.

Let's make something considered.

Write directly whitney@whitneydoesai.com