# Agent of Growth > AI, growth, and real life from a marketer in scale-ups. Practical notes on using AI for growth work, with the numbers sourced and the messy parts left in. Written by Michael, Marketer in scale-ups. Posts are drafted with AI assistance and reviewed, edited and approved by the author before publication. Every statistic cites its source on the page. ## Pillars - [AI in practice](https://agentofgrowth.ai/pillar/ai): What AI actually does for a marketing team once the demo is over: the tools, the workflows, the bits that break. - [Growth](https://agentofgrowth.ai/pillar/growth): Acquisition, activation, retention and the numbers behind them, from someone doing it inside scale-ups rather than writing about it from outside. - [Real life](https://agentofgrowth.ai/pillar/real-life): The parts that don't fit in a quarterly review: careers, energy, family, and the trade-offs behind the work. ## Posts - [Placeholder: what an AI agent actually does in a marketing team](https://agentofgrowth.ai/blog/placeholder-ai-agents-in-marketing): A scaffold post. It shows the article layout, a sources block and MDX. Replace before launch. - [Placeholder: why this site exists](https://agentofgrowth.ai/blog/placeholder-why-this-site-exists): A scaffold post for the real-life pillar. It will be replaced by Michael's own first post. ## Site - [About the author](https://agentofgrowth.ai/about) - [Newsletter](https://agentofgrowth.ai/newsletter) - [RSS feed](https://agentofgrowth.ai/rss.xml) - [Sitemap](https://agentofgrowth.ai/sitemap-index.xml)