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Intelligent Artifice: become a 10X performance marketer
Welcome to Intelligent Artifice, the podcast that helps you become a 10x performance marketer.
Intelligent Artifice explores the cutting edge of the intersection of AI, creatives and performance marketing.
Every week, we deconstruct the ad systems behind high-performing advertisers using our in-house semantic analysis system, BruteForce AI , or we sit down with top operators redefining how advertising gets done in a Gen AI world.
Whether you’re scaling user acquisition, leading a creative team, or building a creative engine with AI, this podcast is your unfair advantage.
Intelligent Artifice is hosted by me, Shamanth Rao, the founder and CEO of the boutique growth marketing agency Rocketship HQ.
Find out more:
Work with us: rocketshiphq.com (ideal for advertisers spending $50k+/month on paid social)
Website: IntelligentArtifice.net
Intelligent Artifice newsletter: https://intelligentartifice.kit.com/
Intelligent Artifice: become a 10X performance marketer
Latest Episodes
I Roasted Headway's $400mm Ad Creative Strategy. 730 Ads, 3 Blind Spots.
Headway is one of the leading subscription apps in the world: and they run a LOT of ads. I pulled 730 of their display ads and broke them down by angle, format, and messaging to find the patterns behind their scale. Three things stood out: form...
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3 Ad Tricks from Apple’s App of the Year Finalist(Steal These)
Ladder was a finalist for Apple's App of the Year in 2025: and they run a LOT of ads. I pulled 60+ of their video ads and ran them through our AI analysis tool, BruteForce, to find the patterns that actually drive conversions. Three things stoo...
This AI video startup founder scaled to 7 figures with more agents than employees: with Romain Torres, Co-founder at ArcAds
🎙 In this episode: We sit down with Romain Torres, co-founder of Arcads, to explore how they scaled a hypergrowth startup using AI agents, automated workflows, and a data-driven creative engine that produces winning ads at ...
I studied 70 ads to deconstruct Duolingo’s 500M-download ad engine
In this episode, we break down the ad strategy behind Duolingo, the world’s most downloaded language-learning app with over 500 million downloads.Using BruteForce AI, our proprietary ad intelligence system, we analyz...
He wrote the book on AI growth 5 years ago. Here is his 2026 playbook: with Lomit Patel, Chief Growth & Marketing Officer at TYB
🚀 In this episode, I’m joined by Lomit Patel, a growth executive and the bestselling author of Lean AI. Lomit was pioneering AI automation strategies for user acquisition years before ChatGPT made headlines. In this conversation...