- Who is Jess Tang?
- Jess Tang is the founder and CEO of mavic.ai, an AI-first marketing platform headquartered in Singapore, and founder of Mavic X. She was twice named one of Asia-Pacific's Innovator 25 by PRovoke Media, in 2019 and 2024. She was a CMO before thirty and previously led marketing innovation at Johnson & Johnson.
- What is AI enablement for marketing teams?
- AI enablement is deciding what your team should stop doing by hand, building the systems that do it instead, and training the people who run them. It's not buying a tool. The measure of success is where the saved hours go — into thinking and judgement, not into more output.
- Where is Jess Tang based?
- Singapore. Born and based there, working with brands across Asia-Pacific and globally.
- What's the difference between mavic.ai and Mavic X?
- mavic.ai is the platform you use yourself — AI that learns your brand and produces on-brand work at scale. Mavic X is the team that does the work for you, running on that platform. Same company, two ways in.
- How do I book Jess Tang to speak?
- Email jess@mavic.ai or connect on LinkedIn. Jess speaks on AI, brand and human creativity — mainstages, masterclasses and cohort programmes — across Asia-Pacific and remotely.
- Do I need to replace my marketing team to use AI?
- No. The opposite. AI should absorb the repeatable work — foundations, production, scheduling, reporting — so your people spend their hours on insight, ideas and judgement. If AI is replacing your marketers, you've automated the wrong half.
- How do you keep brand consistency when using AI?
- By digitising the brand first — vision, values, voice, visuals — into a system the AI works from, then enforcing it as a governance layer rather than trusting each prompt. Brand consistency is binary and mandatory. Craft and creativity are judged on top of it.
- Can AI marketing work for small businesses in Asia?
- Yes, and it's where the leverage is greatest. A small team with the right systems can produce at a level that previously needed an agency retainer. The constraint isn't budget any more — it's knowing which parts to systemise and which to protect.
- What does Jess Tang believe about AI and creativity?
- That technology buys the space for creativity rather than replacing it. Every brand can now produce more than ever before, so what's scarce isn't the making — it's the reason for someone to look, and the reason for them to tell someone else. That reason comes from a person who noticed something true.