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    Thirteen Degrees AcademyEnterprise programme

    The leadership programme for
    enterprise marketing tech.

    The Academy is the learning layer of Thirteen Degrees, a structured environment for brands, agencies and brand teams adopting agency-grade AI and marketing infrastructure. Six core tracks, bespoke industry programmes, and a faculty of operators running these systems live across global brands.

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    6
    Core tracks
    12wks
    Cohort length
    30+
    Operator faculty
    100%
    Project-based
    What it is

    An operating system for marketing leaders.

    The Academy isn't a course library. It's an embedded learning environment that lives inside the same platform our agency runs production on. Strategists, designers, producers and growth leads learn to brief AI as craft, and to operate brand-safe, measurable systems at enterprise scale.

    Six tracks form the spine. Every brand or agency partner also receives a bespoke programme shaped to their industry, market and operating model, because the GTM realities of a telco, a luxury house and an industrial B2B are not the same.

    Built for

    Marketing leaders shaping the next decade.

    Brand leaders

    CMOs and brand directors installing AI and marketing tech as core capability, not a pilot.

    Agency teams

    Agency leadership and craft teams adopting platform-native AI to extend creative and performance output.

    Brand teams

    In-house marketing, content and growth teams operating the next generation of marketing infrastructure.

    How it works

    Live tools. Real briefs. Operator faculty.

    The Academy is built on a single belief: capability is built by doing, not watching. Every track combines structured frameworks with live deployments inside the Thirteen Degrees platform.

    01

    Live, inside the platform

    All learning happens inside the Thirteen Degrees workspace, no tab-switching, no theory dumps. You learn by operating real tools against real briefs.

    02

    Operator-led, not theorist-led

    Every track is taught by practitioners actively running these systems for global brands. Frameworks come from deployments, not white papers.

    03

    Project-based assessments

    You ship outputs, campaigns, brand brains, attribution models, that get graded by senior operators. Certification on completion.

    04

    Capability, not credentials

    We measure success by what your team can deploy in the next quarter, not what they remembered for an exam.

    Core programme tracks

    Six tracks. The full operating model.

    Each track is taught by operators running these systems live across global brands - theory, frameworks and hands-on workshops inside the platform itself.

    01

    AI-native creative direction

    Brief, direct and quality-control AI creative the way a senior creative director runs a studio. Prompting as craft.

    02

    Brand intelligence operations

    Set up living brand brains, signal pipelines and competitive radar that compound every campaign.

    03

    Creator economy fundamentals

    Build and operate an integrated creator stack across real influencers, creators and UGC, with attribution baked in.

    04

    Platform-native performance

    Run AI-orchestrated paid and organic across Meta, TikTok, Google, YouTube, Snap, Pinterest and X, natively, not adapted.

    05

    Enterprise marketing systems

    Architect the operating model: agents, humans, governance, attribution. The blueprint for the modern marketing org.

    06

    Content at industrial scale

    Run Forge° and equivalent pipelines to ship thousands of brand-safe assets a quarter, on-brand, on-tone.

    Bespoke programmes

    AI courses,
    built around your industry.

    Beyond the six core tracks, we build bespoke AI course tracks shaped to the industry, market context and regulatory environment of each client. The frameworks are constant; the briefs, the data models, the disclosure rules and the channel playbooks are custom-engineered.

    • Industry deep-dive: category dynamics, competitive set, cultural context.
    • Market-specific playbooks across SA, the rest of Africa, UK, EU and US.
    • Regulatory & disclosure modules (ARB, ASA, FTC, GDPR, POPIA).
    • Tailored brand-brain and creator-pool integrations for your portfolio.
    • Certification mapped to roles inside your operating model.
    Design a bespoke programme
    Industries we've shaped programmes for
    Retail & FMCG
    Banking & Financial Services
    Telco & Tech
    Industrial & B2B
    Professional Services
    Media & Entertainment

    Don't see your category? Bespoke programmes are scoped to your business, these are simply the verticals we've shipped most often.

    Formats

    Four ways to engage.

    Flagship

    Cohort programme

    12 weeks, live workshops, 6 tracks, peer cohort of 20–30 marketing leaders.

    Most popular

    Team intensives

    2–4 week sprints for in-house brand or agency teams. On-site or remote.

    C-suite

    Executive sessions

    Half-day briefings for boards, leadership teams and exec committees.

    Inside platform

    Self-paced library

    Always-on access to recordings, prompts, playbooks and templates.

    Leading the future of
    marketing intelligence.

    Marketing's next decade belongs to teams who treat AI and intelligence as core infrastructure, not bolt-ons. The Academy exists to make that transition real for the brand leaders, agencies and in-house teams building it.

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