Building iconic brands and businesses in the age of AI.

Destreza is an AI-native marketing consultancy based in Shoreditch, London. We help businesses of every size use AI to sharpen their marketing, grow faster and build brands that last.

OUR MISSION

AI is revolutionising marketing.

Brands and businesses that use AI well are pulling ahead, compounding quality brand-building activities with sharper, faster and more measurable work. Those that use it poorly just scale mediocrity, erode customer trust and dilute brand equity.

We help brands and businesses use AI to win: building better brands and driving sustainable growth, not just cheaper marketing.

Founded in 2026 by AI marketing pioneer Andy Parton

16+
Years blue-chip brand-building
7+
Years pioneering AI marketing
£3bn+
Portfolio of brands managed · ≈$4bn+
60+
Operational markets

Brands Andy has launched or built

Guinness/Johnnie Walker/Smirnoff/Vuse/Tanqueray/Glenfiddich/Velo/Cîroc/The Balvenie/glo/Hendrick's/Talisker/Lagavulin/Ron Barceló/

Retailers & marketplaces Andy has activated

Walmart/Amazon/Costco/Tesco/Carrefour/Grab/Deliveroo/LuLu Hypermarket/

Agencies & consultancies Andy has engaged

WPP/Omnicom/VML/Landor/UNIT9/Deloitte/Accenture/EY/

Platforms Andy has worked with

Meta/Google/Shopify/X/TikTok/YouTube/Amazon/LinkedIn/

WHY DESTREZA

Access to AI tools is no longer a competitive advantage.

Almost every marketing team can now produce more research, more ideas and more content. What separates good brands from great ones is knowing how and where to apply AI, what to believe, what to reject and which decisions must stay human.

That judgement, and the method behind it, is what Destreza sells, applied to live work. In Focus, Andy leads the Destreza Operating Model, a network of specialist AI agents built in-house, to do the work of a full marketing team; in Shift, we build an AI-native way of working into your own team. Either way, the person you meet is the person who leads the work.

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Selected work.

01 / 03

Velo, Vuse and glo

Consumer Electronics / FMCG

AI-Powered Storytelling.

Rebuilding global content strategy with agentic AI.

An omnichannel content-strategy overhaul across BAT’s Vuse, Velo and glo — each rebuilt as its own connected story, with agentic AI as the engine of the method itself — the approach behind our Destreza Operating Model. Three category-leading strategies in eight weeks, against a global planning milestone.

£3bn+ (≈$4bn+) portfolio · GlobalRead the case →
Diageo whisky brands

Spirits / FMCG

What’s Your Whisky.

Integrating AI across the full marketing mix.

The AI flavour discovery platform Diageo built for whisky — later extended across gin, beer, tequila and cocktails. It reached more than a million consumers worldwide, turning a recommendation into first-party data.

1M+ consumers worldwideRead the case →
Vuse

Consumer Electronics

Vaping Done Right.

Consolidating brand architecture with AI-optimised activation.

Five operational programmes brought under one consumer-facing brand framework, with AI tuning the message to every market underneath. Now deployed globally across Vuse’s markets — the consumer never saw AI; they saw a message that landed for them.

Deployed globallyRead the case →

THE PLAYBOOKS

99% of marketers are using AI but just 14% of them are getting results.1

Learn how to use AI and make it your competitive advantage with The Playbook for AI Marketing™.

76% of new launches fail2 but just 6% fail among businesses using a structured brand-building workflow.3

Learn how to build your brand the way iconic brands are built with The Playbook for AI Brand Building™.

LATEST THINKING

Marketing × AI.

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MAKE AI WORK FOR YOUR BRAND

AI is changing how brands are built. If you want to see what it means for your brand or business, let’s talk.

From the choices you make to the way your team works, we help you apply AI with the judgement it takes to build a stronger brand.

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Sources
  1. ISBA, ‘Major survey reveals impact of Gen AI on Effective Advertising’ (22 July 2026). ISBA’s 2026 Gen AI Survey, based on 200 responses from advertisers: 99% are engaging with Gen AI and 14% report a significant impact to business results.
  2. O’Reilly, L., ‘3 in 4 FMCG launches fail within a year’, Marketing Week (2014); Victory, K., Tanusondjaja, A., Dawes, J., Nenycz-Thiel, M. and Romaniuk, J., ‘Are there generalizable patterns in line extension performance?’, Journal of Product & Brand Management, 33/6 (2024); Victory, K., Romaniuk, J., Nenycz-Thiel, M., Tanusondjaja, A. and Dawes, J., ‘How to identify line extensions that survive’, Journal of Product & Brand Management, 35/5 (2026); NielsenIQ, Launch Fast, Learn Faster (2026).
  3. Stage-Gate International, Winning at New Products (2017), presenting SGI–IFMA Research Study (2014). The 6% is the failure rate implied by the 94% success rate reported for businesses running a formal staged process. References 2 and 3 are separate studies with different populations and definitions.
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