Creative Intelligence Studio

ARTISTS
& ROBOTS

We are reinventing how business is done today.

Taking the fear out of the future with data, speed, innovation, and mind-blowing, business-changing technology.

Challenge the ROBOTS →Artist and robot, Bauhaus-inspired

The world has completely changed

We're living through a profound shift.

Technology that was built to serve us is now shaping how we think, create, and build brands.

AI can generate almost anything.

Content is infinite.

Speed is abundant.

Optimization is everywhere.

Brands are becoming templates.

But something very important is disappearing: soul.

We understand how CMOs are feeling

They are overwhelmed with too much data.

  • What's real and what's hype?
  • Worrying about making the wrong call — not knowing who or what to hire.
  • A data agency? A creative agency?
  • Investing in the wrong direction.
  • Missing the opportunity everyone else saw too late.

In a world moving this fast, decisions have never been riskier.

Here's what we think

We believe there is never too much data — as long as you know what to do with it.

It can power an amazing growth platform. It just takes clarity and organization. Exactly what we deliver.

We illuminate all the opportunity, the humanity, and the impact behind the data.

Why Artists & Robots was born

Technology is not the point. What humans do with it is.

The most powerful technology in the world should not produce more noise, more content, or more automation.

It should produce: Stronger thinking. Smarter ideas. Better questions. It should amplify humanity. And innovate at the speed of business.

We build intelligent systems that think quietly in the background. So humans stay at the center of every experience.

Our work creates experiences people can feel. Moments where brands show up with authenticity and presence.

Brands we've helped transform

VerizonAmerican ExpressAmazonBentleyFerrariMicrosoftCoca-ColaIPG
Artist and robot working together

Where ARTISTS meet ROBOTS

When human imagination meets machine intelligence, something powerful happens. Decisions stop being guesses. They become informed acts of confidence.

Why we built the ROBOTS

Not to replace human thinking.

But to analyze faster. Simulate possibilities. Surface hidden patterns. And reveal insights that would otherwise remain invisible.

We customize and personalize these systems to your unique needs. We will also help you figure out what those needs are and what is possible.

The most advanced technology in the world should do something extraordinarily simple: turn doubt into confidence.

And take the fear out of the future.

The humans that we are

Heather Salkin

Heather Salkin

Co-Founder & CEO

Throughout her career, Heather has guided global brands through transformation, expanding their capabilities across digital, experiential, and content platforms. Her work has driven innovation for leading companies across financial services, luxury, technology, and consumer brands — including Verizon, American Express, Amazon, Bentley, Ferrari, Microsoft, and Coca-Cola.

Heather brings years of production and operational expertise, leading the conversation in the innovation space with speaking engagements at Chief, multiple podcasts and panels. Recognized with countless industry awards for shaping premium, large-scale brand experiences with flawless execution.

BBDO · Ogilvy · Grey · Digitas
J

Jason Alan Snyder

Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer

Jason is a technologist and futurist exploring how AI can strengthen creativity and human agency. As co-founder and Chief AI Officer of Artists & Robots, he builds creative intelligence systems for brands navigating AI-native operations. He co-founded SuperTruth, focused on trust and verification in AI, and serves on the board of The Famous Group, creators of stadium-scale experiences for 20+ Super Bowls.

Named to Adweek's AI Power 50 and formerly Global Chief AI Officer at IPG (now Omnicom), Jason has spoken at the United Nations, Milken Institute, and World Summit AI. He is a Forbes contributor and author of Human After Friction — on how friction in AI protects originality and human intent.

Adweek AI Power 50 · IPG CAIO · Forbes · UN Speaker

We are the kind of company this moment demands

Artists & Robots is a Creative Intelligence Studio where:

ArtistsTechnologistsData ScientistsFuturistsDesignersEngineersStrategistsCreatives

Work together in real time. Not sequentially. But simultaneously. NOW, NEW and NEXT can happen all at once.

Our model is fluid by design. No static teams — we pull in the right specialists, assembled for the challenge at hand.

We have collapsed the old process

Traditional marketing follows a slow sequence.

And by the time the campaign ships, the market has already moved.

The old way

  • Research
  • Strategy
  • Creative
  • Development
  • Testing
  • Launch
  • Months of work.

Our way

  • Questions → simulations
  • Ideas testable immediately
  • Signals visible in real time
  • ARTISTS shape possibilities
  • ROBOTS analyze intelligence
  • All in the same moment
  • Not after the meeting. During it.

We have collapsed that process and reinvented it.

No black box

Full transparency.

Instead of asking leaders to believe in a recommendation, we show them the intelligence behind it right in front of them.

  • We test possibilities in real time.
  • Simulate audiences in minutes.
  • Reveal risks.
  • Surface opportunities.
  • Encourage smarter investments.

How our data makes all the difference

Sometimes the information you need doesn't exist.

New products. New audiences. New markets. Artists & Robots builds sophisticated synthetic audience intelligence using signals from:

  • Census data
  • Search behavior
  • Social communities
  • Purchase intent
  • Cultural conversation

In real time you can see what drives subscriptions, what moves retail shelves, what creators convert, where your most efficient growth lives.

And because intelligence is only valuable if it's trusted, every model is continuously validated against real-world performance — and valued based on its impact on growth.

The system is constantly learning

Every signal sharpens the model.

Every campaign reveals insight. Every customer improves the system.

By the time you reach major growth moments, you don't just have performance.

You have intelligence infrastructure.

And proof you understand your customer better than anyone in the category.

Experience the Intelligence

Don't take our word for it.
Give the ROBOTS a challenge.

Ask about launching a product, understanding an audience, responding to a crisis, or predicting a cultural shift. Within seconds the system reveals insights, risks, opportunities, and strategic direction.

Real World

Let's build a future only humans can imagine — with real world activations & experiences.

Immersive Brand Worlds — Soho Experiential

Together, let's build a future
only humans can imagine.

Challenge the ROBOTS

heather@artistsandrobots.com
205 Hudson St, New York, NY 10013