INSIGHTS

Where AI, communications and sustainability converge.

Where AI, communications and sustainability converge.

I’m always trying to keep up with what’s happening in sustainability, marketing and communications, and AI. That means a lot of reading, research and conversations.

Each week, I share the ideas, patterns and practical lessons I think are worth carrying forward.

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Digital

Stop Making Bots Download the Brochure

AI is changing the website audience. More brand, product and sustainability information will be read by agents, crawlers and answer engines rather than people scrolling through pages. The practical sustainability move is to separate rich human storytelling from lean, structured machine-readable information that reduces wasted traffic, compute and page weight.

3 min read

An automated machine producing identical green advertising posters while a hand reaches for the off switch.

Communications

More Green Content. Less Credibility.

AI is making green advertising easier to produce just as audiences become more sceptical of synthetic content and vague sustainability claims. The smarter move is not more content, but more durable formats, better proof and stricter choices about what deserves to be made at all.

5 min read

A green marketing claim hovering above a fragile stack of evidence sources, symbolising AI search compressing sustainability information.

Communications

Your Green Claim Is Borrowing Someone Else's Evidence

AI search is compressing sustainability information into answer snippets just as publishers and specialist evidence providers are losing traffic. The strategic issue is not only whether brands appear in AI answers, but whether the sources that make their claims credible can still afford to exist.

5 min read

A stylised dashboard showing high AI adoption but incomplete measures for judgement, evidence and trust.

Communications

Your Comms Team Uses AI. That Doesn't Mean It's Ready for AI.

Everyone's experimenting. Not everyone knows where they're going.

8 min read

A mirror showing a synthetic customer admiring a green product, with a real shopping receipt outside the reflection.

Digital

Your Customers Are Very Sustainable. Until They Reach the Checkout.

Synthetic customers can imitate opinions, but sustainable products still need real evidence of purchasing behaviour, willingness to pay and repeat use.

3 min read

An AI-labelled laptop next to repair tools and a reused device, symbolising the tension between AI upgrades and product longevity.

Sustainability

Your Laptop Works. Apparently That's a Problem.

AI-ready hardware promises a smarter future. Before replacing a working laptop, ask whether the benefits justify the financial and material costs.

3 min read

A robot scanner struggling with a large glossy brochure while a small structured data card sits beside it.

Digital

Stop Making Bots Download the Brochure

AI is changing the website audience. More brand, product and sustainability information will be read by agents, crawlers and answer engines rather than people scrolling through pages. The practical sustainability move is to separate rich human storytelling from lean, structured machine-readable information that reduces wasted traffic, compute and page weight.

3 min read

An automated machine producing identical green advertising posters while a hand reaches for the off switch.

Communications

More Green Content. Less Credibility.

AI is making green advertising easier to produce just as audiences become more sceptical of synthetic content and vague sustainability claims. The smarter move is not more content, but more durable formats, better proof and stricter choices about what deserves to be made at all.

5 min read

A green marketing claim hovering above a fragile stack of evidence sources, symbolising AI search compressing sustainability information.

Communications

Your Green Claim Is Borrowing Someone Else's Evidence

AI search is compressing sustainability information into answer snippets just as publishers and specialist evidence providers are losing traffic. The strategic issue is not only whether brands appear in AI answers, but whether the sources that make their claims credible can still afford to exist.

5 min read

A stylised dashboard showing high AI adoption but incomplete measures for judgement, evidence and trust.

Communications

Your Comms Team Uses AI. That Doesn't Mean It's Ready for AI.

Everyone's experimenting. Not everyone knows where they're going.

8 min read

A mirror showing a synthetic customer admiring a green product, with a real shopping receipt outside the reflection.

Digital

Your Customers Are Very Sustainable. Until They Reach the Checkout.

Synthetic customers can imitate opinions, but sustainable products still need real evidence of purchasing behaviour, willingness to pay and repeat use.

3 min read

An AI-labelled laptop next to repair tools and a reused device, symbolising the tension between AI upgrades and product longevity.

Sustainability

Your Laptop Works. Apparently That's a Problem.

AI-ready hardware promises a smarter future. Before replacing a working laptop, ask whether the benefits justify the financial and material costs.

3 min read

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© 2026 Pablo Retamal. Geneva, Switzerland. All rights reserved.

© 2026 Pablo Retamal. Geneva, Switzerland. All rights reserved.

© 2026 Pablo Retamal. Geneva, Switzerland. All rights reserved.