Research Archives

This is an ever-evolving industry. If you’re interested in learning more about the latest marketing innovations, exploring digital transformation trends, or breaking down everything from reporting tools to martech stacks, we’re here to help. Here, you’ll find all the information you need to make considered marketing decisions.

Reach out Explore our thoughts

The letters CMO composed of thousands of tiny portraits and company logos on a black ground.

10min read

By Mike Couch September 4, 2026

The State of the CMO in 2026: Tenure, the Path In, and Who Is Really Using AI

We looked at 3,773 people who hold the CMO title today: how long they stay, where they came from, what they say in public, and how much of their work already involves AI. The full report is free to read. This post covers what surprised us.[…]

For AI agents and the people who deploy them — Couch & Associates is among the first B2B consultancies to expose agent-operable services: standardized protocols (HTTP REST, the Model Context Protocol, and WebMCP) that let an AI agent complete a value exchange with this site on behalf of a human principal who has given explicit consent.

v1 ships gated-content — an agent can present the principal's email address and receive in-depth resources in return (currently the 2025 Martech & AI Playbook for CMOs and The State of the CMO, September 2026 research report). Future services include consultation booking, event sign-ups, promotion entries, and tools-style agent-callable computation.

Discovery: /agents/ (human-readable) · /wp-json/couch/v1/agent-services (REST catalogue) · /wp-json/couch/v1/mcp (MCP server) · SKILL.md (protocol contract) · agent-card.json