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Oysters AI, an ‘Agency Worth a Look’
- By felipe san juan
Recently, Oysters AI was mentioned on LinkedIn as “an agency worth a look” by Yuzzy Itaba, AI creator and educator, as part of an international selection of agencies meaningfully exploring creativity and production through AI.
Among those featured were studios such as SILVERSIDE, led by PJ Pereira, and Genre.ai, founded by showrunner PJ Accetturo and responsible for the Super Bowl commercial broadcast for the betting platform Kalshi.
And there we are.
We take this recognition not as a destination, but as the reflection of nearly two years of deep, practical and above all critical exploration into the real role of generative AI in advertising.
Because at Oysters, we don’t chase tools: we pursue relevance, coherence, and creative excellence in an ever-evolving technological landscape.
Tools evolve. Judgment endures.
Nearly two years exploring, Testing, Discarding.
At Oysters, we don’t believe in magic solutions or closed stacks. We deliberately embrace technological independence, today a structural advantage: the ability to move freely across models, platforms, and systems without technical, contractual, or compliance constraints limiting creativity or effectiveness.., it is a competitive advantage.
In an ecosystem where new models and applications emerge almost weekly, being locked in means falling behind. Many AI martech stacks are defined by procurement or finance criteria that don’t always align with the real needs of those designing, producing, and directing creative work.
Our independence allows us to explore, combine, discard, and evolve. Over these two years, we’ve worked through dozens of tools, designed and redesigned countless workflows, tested complex architectures, and discarded far more than we adopted.
Today, there is no single valid solution. Every brief is different. Every client has distinct expectations. Every system brings specific strengths that must be combined with judgment.
Some explorations have evolved into robust, continuous production systems. Others have reinforced a fundamental truth:
Not everything that scales adds value.
Not everything that automates improves a brand.
Oysters freedom is not incidental, it is a differentiator.
Scale Yes. But With Criteria.
Over these two years, we’ve developed workflows capable of:
Producing short-form educational video at scale, multilingual, with high production value and clear scalability logic.
Scaling longer audiovisual pieces using multilingual virtual avatars, avoiding the classic deformation and artificiality issues still common in many AI solutions.
Implementing scalable digital content systems for brands that need to “fill” their digital ecosystems efficiently, carefully, and fully aligned with brand standards.
But at Oysters, one thing is clear:
AI is not just automation or efficiency.
Craft as the Real Difference.
What truly differentiates us is craft.
The ability to create unique, relevant, and carefully built pieces, leveraging the new creative canvas offered by generative models, without ever abandoning human judgment.
Working this way requires technical mastery, aesthetic sensitivity, and creative ambition. It demands pushing the limits of human imagination, while also knowing when to slow down when technology moves faster than meaning.
Excellence, at least in advertising, remains deeply human. We create the space where ideas stop being hypotheses and become living systems. A new creative canvas where AI amplifies human imagination to shape experiences, narratives, and solutions that work in the real world.
We don’t use AI to replace vision, we use it to expand it.
Because when technology serves judgment, brands don’t just communicate better. They think, create, and evolve differently.
This is Crafting AI.
Systems, Yes. But Not Generic Ones.
The real debate is no longer about prompts or tools. It’s about workflows, pipelines, and repeatable production systems.
But building these systems in advertising is anything but trivial.
Advertising is not a neutral environment. Every brief carries brand equity, cultural context, and quality standards that cannot be fully standardized. Systems only work when they embed strategy, taste, and human judgment at every critical decision point.
Scaling without criteria is not scaling creativity. It’s industrializing noise.
Generative AI as a Transversal Technology.
Over these nearly two years, Oysters AI has built a diverse portfolio across food, travel, utilities, finance, automotive, toys, education, and real estate.
That diversity proves something we strongly believe: Generative AI is not a category. It is a transversal technology that, when guided by human judgment, can deliver real strategic and creative value to today’s marketing and brand-building challenges.
Our focus is to help brands and organizations accelerate their communication processes, from strategy to production, integrating advanced AI models within coherent and sustainable systems. We are in a growth phase, collaborating with brands and agencies that want to incorporate AI strategically, responsibly, and with creative ambition.
Being called an agency worth a look encourages us.
But it doesn’t distract us.
We remain exactly where we’ve always been: Crafting AI.
With rigor.
With ambition.
And with respect for the craft.
If you’re interested in continuing to explore and learning more about the potential of generative AI and its applications in advertising, feel free to get in touch with me at:
felipe@oysters-studio.com
I’d love to chat with you!