Artists & Robots

Welcome

Artists & Robots:
‍The architecture for human creativity in an AI-shaped world.

We’re living through “The Great Inversion”, an era where tools meant to serve us are now shaping both us and our future. Brands are quickly becoming templates and we’re on a mission to stop that evolution.

Artists & Robots is a modern brand experience company delivering authentic brand strategy, visionary creative solutions, and AI-powered marketing for brands unafraid of innovation. We imagine a world where artists and robots collaborate, ensuring brands still feel like someone, not something, made them. We've built the architecture for what comes next, so creativity and intelligent systems can come together with purpose.

We exist to remind the machines who they were built to serve.

Our Mission

We are not only looking for efficiency. We're looking for an edge.

Artists & Robots is reclaiming human creativity in an AI world. Humans and machines have flipped roles; tools now shape us more than we shape them. What matters most is when human creativity, authorship, and taste merge seamlessly with intelligent tools.

We provide a new architecture of human-machine collaboration, a framework designed to protect and amplify what truly matters. We embrace the power of AI and technology as creative and strategic humans, but we will never surrender to it. We build systems where artists and robots collaborate, ensuring brands still feel like someone, not something, made them.

We are built for the era after optimization, where speed is abundant but soul is absent. Brands can now generate content at scale, but few can generate an authentic feeling above a survival strategy. For us, originality is survival. We don’t sell efficiency; we sell the edge, the rare tension where technology performs and the brand leaves its fingerprint.

Let’s Build a Future Only Humans Could Imagine >

Responsive Mixed Reality
and Virtual Worlds

Real-time, adaptive systems with purpose that immerse your clients in transformative, memorable brand experiences.

Responsive Environments

Branded physical and digital spaces designed to listen, respond, and resonate.

Immersive Marketing Orchestration

Seamless, simplified integration across every platform and touchpoint, delivering efficiency at scale without sacrificing emotional impact.

Strategic Innovation Consulting

Guiding brands from volume to a meaningful voice, turning automation into authorship by accelerating projects with a future-forward vision.

Modern Technology Production

Cutting-edge, forward-thinking technology solutions that bring your activations to life and amplify your brand’s unique voice with smart innovation.

Our Principles

We believe in authorship over automation.

We refuse to be neutral about technology serving a distinct business need. For us, it must do more than help businesses; it must serve a story with emotion. Our systems are built with the belief that technology exists to amplify humanity, not to diminish it.

Intention Before Execution

We champion the human agency. Scale should never erase originality and speed should never override the soul.

Meaning-First Innovation

Our innovations are rooted in the purpose of bringing simplicity to the chaos of technology.

Transparent Partnership

Trust is our foundation. Human relationships are critical even when automation is everywhere.

Intelligent Flexibility

Our systems adapt but always have a human fingerprint with personality and purpose by design.

Experience-Driven Wisdom

We believe humanity and machine learning don’t compete, they elevate
each other.

Let’s Build a Future Only Humans Could Imagine >

Our Leaders

Meet our rock star co-founders.

Jason Alan Snyder
Co-Founder, Chief AI Officer, Artists & Robots

Jason Alan Snyder is a technologist, futurist, and inventor exploring how intelligent systems can make creativity and humanity stronger. As co-founder of Artists & Robots, he leads innovation at the intersection of artistry, ethics, and intelligent design.

For more than two decades, Jason has examined how emerging technologies shape culture, business, and behavior. He also co-founded SuperTruth, a data infrastructure company advancing consent-based AI governance, and serves as Chair of the 4A’s AI Committee, helping guide the responsible use of AI across industries.

A former Chief AI Officer at Interpublic Group, Jason has been recognized by Adweek as a Technology All-Star and has shared his insights at the United Nations, the Milken Institute Global Conference, and the World Summit AI. He is also a Forbes contributor, where he writes about the opportunities and implications of AI as it intersects with brands, ethics, businesses, and culture.

Award-winning technologist, inventor, and futurologist
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Multi-patented, creator of breakthrough innovations in AI, data, and experiential systems

Former Global Chief AI Officer at IPG, with 25+ years building next-gen marketing platforms

Heather Salkin
Co-Founder, CEO, Artists & Robots

Throughout her career, Heather has guided global brands through transformation, expanding their capabilities across digital, experiential, and content platforms. Her work has driven innovation for leading companies across financial services, luxury, technology, and consumer brands, including Verizon, American Express, Amazon, Bentley, Ferrari, Microsoft, and Coca-Cola.

Before launching Artists & Robots, Heather was a senior vice president and executive producer at RAPP. Prior to that, she held senior production and innovation roles within IPG’s network, including at Momentum Worldwide, MRM, and FCB and at leading agencies such as BBDO, Ogilvy, Grey, and Digitas.

Heather recently co-produced an AI short film called The Hollowing, which has been featured across the short film festival circuit.
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Seasoned production, innovation, and creative technology leader for global brands in experiential marketing
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Proven track record of building high-impact activations
that drive results
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Recognized with countless industry awards for shaping premium, large-scale brand experiences with flawless execution

Let’s Build a Future Only Humans Could Imagine >

How We Help

How can we help your brand become iconic?

We’re looking for partners and visionaries who understand that the most competitive AI will be the most thoughtfully human. Leaders who refuse to accept that technological advancement requires human diminishment. You want AI that performs with taste and timing. You’re building what no one knows how to brief. You’re building a product that needs a point of view, not a playbook. You want your marketing to be less like a spreadsheet and more like a statement. You’re done chasing trends, you’re here to become iconic.

If you want a partner that moves at the speed of imagination without losing its soul, one that turns sparks into systems and ideas into experiences, you’re found us.

Let’s move at the speed of imagination—without losing what makes us unforgettable.