Klaviyo introduces marketing agent to automate campaigns

Today at its flagship K:BOS event in Boston, Klaviyo introduced Marketing Agent and expanded availability of Customer Agent for its B2C CRM. The company says the agents can unify data, marketing, service and analytics, making them the foundation of Klaviyo’s ultimate goal: Creating the first autonomous B2C CRM designed for the AI era.

Marketing Agent aims to ease pressure on lean marketing teams by automating campaign planning and execution. It can generate a strategy from a single URL, produce on-brand content  and launch campaigns in minutes, with guardrails and approvals set by marketers. 

“We’re not just building the box, like a CRM with workflows, automation, and data. We’re also filling the box, creating content specific to your company with our Marketing Agent,” Jamie Domenici, Klaviyo’s CMO, told MarTech. “We showed an example today where someone could type in their URL and we’ll generate 10 articles — blog posts, thought leadership pieces, emails. We’ll write the blog, build the email, personalize it.”

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Domenici acknowledged the challenge of “average” AI-generated content and said Klaviyo is tackling it by broadening the data inputs that feed its models. The platform pulls from sources such as a brand’s own website, competitor sites and historical content, then applies guardrails including brand guidelines, bias checks and toxicity filters to keep outputs on-brand and appropriate. 

Beyond execution, the marketing agent acts as an always-on strategist, delivering new  campaign ideas, pulling from market and industry trends, and optimizing performance over time.

Customer Agent, now broadly available as part of Klaviyo Service, provides 24/7 AI-driven consumer support across chat, SMS, email and soon WhatsApp. While enterprise vendors such as Salesforce and HubSpot have made AI a central part of their CRM roadmaps, most of those capabilities are tuned to B2B use cases. 

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Klaviyo hopes its AI-first approach, built natively for consumer brands and strengthened by its partnership with Shopify, will give it an edge by tightly linking marketing and service functions to drive real-time conversions.

“Our strength is in integrating with commerce systems, helping brands move to point of sale faster, and supporting loyalty, retention, and acquisition,” Domenici told Martech. “That said, many B2B companies also use Klaviyo because they want the personalization element. So while we focus on B2C, there’s definitely crossover.”