A newsletter from just one photo: How effectively AI works at Aivie

Just a few minutes, and I’m sitting in front of my finished newsletter. All I needed for it? A single photo. I chose a picture I had taken earlier with the team at the lake. Done. No hours of tinkering with templates, no copy-pasting from old mailings. A short prompt, the image to go with it, and the AI took care of the rest for Aivie.

Sounds like a gimmick? Understandable. But behind it lies a lot of work relief. It’s a small, concrete glimpse into a much larger idea of how AI and marketing automation belong together. I’ve summarized the whole thing in a demo.

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Demo: How the AI at Aivie works

I gave the AI a short prompt and selected the photo from the “day at the lake.” After that, the following happened practically by itself:

  • Aivie accesses your instance directly and picks a suitable newsletter template from the stored templates.
  • Because it’s Aivie, the tool already knows your context: logo, address, colors, and even your writing style.
  • It also knows your segments—in other words, who the email should actually go to.
  • The selected image is automatically uploaded to the Aivie media library and placed in the layout.

After an initial run, I had the email revised one more time: logo in the right place, personalized signature at the end. Finally, I added a call-to-action from the reusable components: dynamic content that automatically shows each recipient the account manager responsible for them. In just a few minutes, a photo became a ready-to-send, personalized email.

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One detail that’s important to me: I used ChatGPT for the text generation here, but the AI model is interchangeable. The same thing works with Claude, Gemini, or another provider of your choice. Aivie is the layer on top that knows your context and keeps you in control.

Why this is more than just “AI writing texts”

Most AI functions in marketing stop at copywriting. Our vision deliberately goes further. AI shouldn’t just generate content; it should understand marketing processes and goals and provide strategic support.

In the longer term, for us, this means: analyzing and interpreting data, recognizing patterns, suggesting optimization potential, and thinking along as a marketing automation assistant. Not just executing, but advising. Not just generating content, but improving performance.

This is exactly where the connection between AI and marketing automation happens: real AI process automation that doesn’t replace marketing teams, but strengthens them strategically.

Why this isn’t a contradiction to data protection

When using AI in marketing, people often unintentionally give up control, often over marketing data: to a black box, to a single provider, to an infrastructure. Aivie deliberately pursues a sovereign approach.

  • No black box and no uncontrolled data transfer.
  • No dependency on a single AI provider – the model is selectable.
  • Full control over data and infrastructure, based on open source (Mautic) with your own instance.
  • Your personal data is stored encrypted on a Swiss server, revDSG-compliant. Upon request, we offer complete hosting on Swiss infrastructure.

This is crucial, especially for SMEs that want to use AI without giving their data away.

Swiss software with AI

Aivie carries the labels “swiss made software + AI” and “swiss digital services + AI” (more on this at swissmadesoftware.org). Another label – Swiss Hosting – will be added soon.

Testimonial Alexandra

“We need Aivie especially for our blog newsletter. And there it’s mega cool to see which person has read what.”

“Our blog newsletter is our most important touchpoint. We are mega happy that the implementation of the RSS feed in the newsletter worked so well and that we can now send our blogs automatically.”

Alexandra Scherrer, Carpathia

Currently, we are showing what is possible with large language models (LLMs). But the goal goes further: every company should be able to integrate its own LLM or use the upcoming Aivie LLM. So you don’t have to worry about your data. It’s with Aivie, and it’s safe here.

Try marketing automation with AI for yourself

We’d love to show you live how this looks with your templates, your context, and your segments. Book a tool demo or see how you can create emails directly with AI in Aivie.

And if you generally want to move away from the “newsletter for everyone”: here we explain how to get from newsletters to nurturing campaigns.

Swiss email builder in use worldwide: Insights into the open source community

Media release from September 2021

Adrian Schimpf from Aivie is part of the Open Source Community Mautic. Mautic is a marketing automation technology. Adrian Schimpf has been working intensively on a new email builder for Mautic in recent months – and has donated the code to the community so that Mautic users worldwide can benefit from it. The technology is used in 188 countries and is available in 35 languages – this now also applies to the new email builder Made in Switzerland.

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Manage email unsubscriptions and preferences professionally

With the Aivie preference center, recipients can manage their email unsubscriptions and communication preferences. The center is already integrated into Aivie/Mautic and can be adapted to your corporate design.

This gives you a clear, easy-to-understand unsubscribe process, protects important transactional messages, and reduces manual effort in contact management.

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“Email is still drastically underestimated” – Why email as a communication channel will remain indispensable for companies in 2025

In an era where new communication channels are rapidly emerging, email remains the often-overlooked backbone of business communication for SMEs. Thomas Schwetje, Head of Digital & Customer Division at Coop, succinctly stated at the MarTech Summit 2025: “The communication medium of email is still drastically underestimated.”

At Aivie, we are convinced that email is not only a proven communication channel, but also a future-proof one – especially for small and medium-sized companies that value control, scalability and independence.

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Marketing Automation in a Crisis – Why Now is the Right Time

Marketing Automation – If Not Now, When?


Marketing Automation is not a new concept – but its relevance has never been as high as it is today. While many companies in Switzerland and worldwide hesitate in the face of economic uncertainty, this very hesitation represents a missed opportunity.

Because: Crises are not only times of saving, but also of strategic reorientation.

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Several thousand francs turnover with existing hotel guests – Marketing Automation Case

Our customer Riva Rooms & Studios is an automated smart hotel in Locarno. With the help of Aivie, they are now also able to attract guests in a timely manner. By successfully setting up an automated newsletter campaign, bookings of several thousand francs have already been achieved by existing guests. This is despite 2024 being a very difficult year for Ticino. Aivie also proved its worth when the storms led to a large number of cancellations and prevented the worst from happening.

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Marketing automation with social media marketing

Would you like to successfully collect contacts via Google and social media? And then address them again when your channels are exhausted? With the integration of adhook and Aivie, this is possible – completely automatically! With adhook, you can plan, analyze, optimize and moderate posts and ads campaigns and coordinate collaboration across teams. In Aivie, you store and evaluate the data from all channels and the entire customer journey. Marketing automation with social media marketing plays out even more precise and therefore more efficient campaigns along the entire customer journey.

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Swiss marketing automation tool Aivie wants to outpace Mailchimp, HubSpot and Co.

Media release July 2021

Whether it’s a simple newsletter or a sophisticated multichannel campaign, the demands on marketing tools are high and companies are becoming more demanding, especially when it comes to handling data.

Data sovereignty becomes more important. Not only because of regulators. But also because of the realization that data is increasingly becoming the company’s real gold. At the same time, the handling of data should become easier. It is precisely this sweet spot that a Swiss company has taken advantage of and recently launched Aivie, a marketing automation tool that makes powerful technology easy and safe to use.

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Off to the golf course: Automated campaign for event

Our client KENDRIS is a successful trust company. KENDRIS relies on personal relationships and has high quality standards.

Once a year KENDRIS invites its valued customers to the golf course. The experience is important for relationship building. That’s why it’s also important that the surrounding area, i.e. the digital experience, reflects the high quality standards. Reliable, automated event communication ensures that no questions remain unanswered – from registration to directions.

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Lead Scoring with Mautic optimizing sales funnels

Sooner or later the time comes when, with the resources available, the abundance of inquiries/contacts can no longer be dealt with in a reasonable time and with the necessary attention. At the latest now is the time to think about which of your contacts you want to focus on intensively / personally. Lead scoring helps to use the available resources efficiently and to optimize marketing funnels. In this article, we look at how lead scoring can be implemented quickly and easily with Mautic – and what has changed in the new topic-based lead scoring with the Aivie upgrade.

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How your website automatically wins 30 customer projects with Aivie

Our client Falcone Specialities is an international distributor of food ingredients and chemical specialties to the processing industry. The company has been in existence for 10 years and it has made a name for itself with high-quality raw materials. The project resulted in a new website with marketing automation that reflects high-quality standards. With marketing automation, the potential is exploited digitally, leads are generated and customers are processed via the new website.

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Double Opt-In with Mautic

At the latest since the new European DSGVO came into force, every marketer has asked himself the question: “Single Opt-In vs. Double Opt-In. What is required to comply with DSGVO?”. Both have the advantages and disadvantages. However, especially for end-customer communication, Double Opt-In offers three major advantages for companies compared to Single Opt-In:

  1. Traceability of customer consent to receive marketing messages
  2. Improved reputation of the email sender
  3. Higher quality of the contact list and customer relations
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Creating a Sales Funnel

You have put a lot of heart and soul into your website, finally it is live and… nothing happens. Customers were not waiting for you. Does this seem familiar? Then you’re just like a lot of marketers who deal with the question: “How do I turn (website-)visitors into customers? Our answer: with a well thought-through Sales Funnel.

Marketing Automation Tools like Aivie are an important utility for this. Based on the open source marketing automation solution Mautic, Aivie helps you manage your Sales Funnel efficiently. You can find out how to create Sales Funnels with Mautic here.

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5 tips for successful landing pages

Does this sound familiar to you? You have a lot of visitors on your website, but they leave only after a short time. You’ve put a lot of time and effort into your landing page, yet conversions are rare. Maybe it’s time to rethink your landing page. Our 5 tips for successful landing pages should help you.

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Aivie email template based on the leaked Amazon template and best practices

With an email template we can quickly and easily create an email. But what does a good email marketing template actually look like? Should it be more of a text email? Or would you prefer a colourful HTML e-mail?

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