The assisted model: AI as a better tool Two systems can both be called AI-powered and operate in fundamentally different ways. One waits for you. One doesn’t. In the assisted model, AI surfaces information and makes recommendations. You review. You approve. You act. The intelligence is real but the decision stays with you. In practice, this looks like: a dashboard that flags a campaign underperforming against target and suggests increasing the bid. A report that shows your budget is concentrated in one channel and recommends redistributing. An alert that tells you a creative is losing traction and proposes pausing it.…