Cannes Lions 2026 · Partnership Pitch

AI that creates more. Connects deeper. Knows more.

Two transformational themes for brands and agencies ready to lead — built where AI infrastructure, brand strategy, and deep cultural trust meet.

On the ground · Cannes Lions through June 26 Built for · Brands · Agencies · Holding companies The question · Does AI make you more human — or less?
The moment we're in

Cannes 2026 has one question: does AI make you more human — or less?

This year's festival is a referendum on creativity in the age of artificial intelligence. Google DeepMind, OpenAI, AWS, Publicis, WPP, and every major holding company arrived with the same agenda: prove that AI drives real business outcomes without killing the soul of the work.

Cannes Lions even added new AI Craft categories — recognizing work that "neither human nor AI could achieve alone."

The industry has moved past whether to use AI. The debate now is how — and who owns the customer relationship when agents do the talking.

Who we are

WealthBuild AI builds agentic workflows for financial services — the most regulated, highest-stakes AI deployments possible. Capital for the Culture brings that same intelligence to multicultural audiences and cultural brand moments.

Together, we sit at the intersection of AI infrastructure, brand strategy, and deep community trust. We're at Cannes because the work happening in financial-services AI — agentic workflows, real-time personalization, data-driven engagement — is exactly what's about to reshape brand marketing.

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Theme One

Augment your creativity.

AI as a force multiplier for creative teams — not a replacement.

The problem

Agencies are asked to do more — more campaigns, channels, personalization — with the same headcount. The pressure to produce at scale compresses time for what actually matters: the idea, the insight, the instinct.

Our perspective

The answer isn't less AI or more AI — it's smarter AI. AI handles the iteration. Humans own the instinct.

  • Agentic creative workflows that accelerate ideation-to-execution
  • Brand-safe AI systems that lock voice consistency across outputs
  • Creative intelligence layers that learn what resonates over time
  • Automation that frees senior creatives for strategy and direction
54%

of marketing leaders worry AI will erode the human creativity that makes ads resonate. The teams winning right now use AI to eliminate the grind so their best people can focus on craft.

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Theme Two

Deeper, data-driven engagement.

Brand agents that don't just answer — they engage, learn, and deliver real value.

Brands have spent a decade collecting customer data they can barely use, while the relationship flattened into a transaction, a support ticket, a retargeted ad. The most valuable thing a brand knows about its customers stays buried in a warehouse.

What a Brand Agent actually is

Not a chatbot. Not an FAQ. A persistent, personalized, intelligent touchpoint that creates experiences, delivers value, and learns from every interaction.

  • Custom Brand Agents trained on your voice, products, and audience
  • Engagement architectures that deliver value-first, not sales-first
  • Data pipelines that turn conversations into actionable brand insight
  • Cultural intelligence layers for authentic multicultural engagement
  • Integration with your existing CRM, content, and media stacks
The business case

Most brands are one agent away from a competitive moat.

A single Brand Agent deployment can teach a brand more about its customers in 90 days than five years of analytics ever did.

The agent creates the engagement. The engagement creates the data — not just clicks and impressions, but intent, preference, and emotional context. That data feeds smarter creative, smarter targeting, smarter product decisions. It's a flywheel that starts with the customer relationship and compounds into a moat.

Why WealthBuild AI

We've already built the hard part.

Agentic workflows in financial services are among the most regulated, highest-stakes AI deployments possible. We've built systems that are precise, compliant, and trust-earning. Brand agents for consumer engagement are easier — we bring the infrastructure, the rigor, and the track record.

Production-grade architecture

Proven agentic workflow systems built for production, not demo. Precise, compliant, trust-earning by design.

Data-to-decision depth

Deep expertise turning complex, regulated data into action — the same pipelines that power smarter brand engagement.

Cultural intelligence

Via Capital for the Culture — trust and relationships that land with Black, Latino, and Gen-Z audiences. Not just reach. Resonance.

Founder-led, mission-aligned

We build AI that expands access, not just efficiency — and we help you take the credit.

Partnership opportunities

Three ways to engage.

01

Creative AI Audit

A 30-day diagnostic of your current creative workflow — where AI can accelerate output, protect quality, and free your team for higher-value work.

Deliverable: a prioritized roadmap with projected ROI.
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02

Brand Agent Pilot

Design, build, and deploy a Brand Agent for one audience segment or product line. A 90-day pilot with defined success metrics and full data-intelligence reporting.

Includes: cultural versioning for multicultural audiences.
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Strategic AI Partnership

For agencies and brands building a long-term AI capability. We embed our team, architect the systems, train your people — and help you take the credit.

Think of us as: the AI infrastructure layer behind your work.
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Turn the touchpoint into a partnership

Let's talk this week.

We're on the ground at Cannes Lions through June 26. Tell us where you want AI to take your work — we'll bring the roadmap.

We typically reply within a day — faster during festival week.

Thank you — we've got it.

Your details are in. We'll be in touch this week — let's make work that neither human nor AI could achieve alone.