European OEMs are facing an uncomfortable reality.
Budgets are shrinking while content demand is exploding
Smaller, faster players are outpacing established brands — not through spend, but through speed and automation
Customer discovery is shifting from search and websites to AI-mediated journeys
Customer discovery is shifting from search and sites to AI-mediated journeys.
Smaller, faster players are outpacing established brands—not through spend, but through speed and automation.
Most marketing organizations are still built for a pre-AI world: fragmented structures, slow campaign cycles, manual production, and limited visibility into how AI systems perceive their brand. The result: OEMs risk losing relevance and efficiency at the same time.
The critical requirements across relevance, efficiency, and organizational enablement
— How marketing evolves into a self-optimizing system, not a campaign factory
— What changes in roles, governance, sourcing, and measurement are unavoidable.
This white paper is grounded in real OEM constraints—not theory. It combines strategy consulting depth with AI-native implementation expertise, bridging the gap between ambition and execution.

Michaela Wallner,
Partner, Berylls by AlixPartners

Henry Lundt,
Partner, Berylls by AlixPartners

Axel Averdung,
Managing Director, OH-SO Digital

Philipp Kafkoulas,
Managing Director, OH-SO Digital

More to come