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Turning 125+ AI use cases into a book for commerce leaders.

AI Best Practices for Commerce is McFadyen Digital’s book on AI in ecommerce, following the Amazon best-seller Marketplace Best Practices. I led the visual direction, the editorial system for print and Kindle, and the launch campaign around it.

ClientMcFadyen Digital
When2025
ContextIn-house
My roleVisual direction, editorial & campaign design
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AI Best Practices for Commerce lying on a glass side table in warm light
The brief
01

A thought-leadership book, built to work for sales.

McFadyen’s books are a core resource for its enterprise sales: they support educational marketing, events, webinars and executive outreach.

For AI Best Practices, I led the visual direction, the editorial design and the launch campaign, translating complex AI concepts and commerce case studies into a usable guide for CEOs and enterprise decision makers.

125+ use cases, one system
The book open on a spread with a use-case diagram
Inside: frameworks, diagrams and case-study layouts from one modular editorial system.
The book next to a Kindle showing the same layout
Designed for both print and Kindle.
The object
02

Turn the book.

The editorial system covers the whole object, down to a back cover that previews how the book is organised.

Drag it around, or jump to a side.

Front cover of AI Best Practices for Commerce
Back cover with the commerce value stream and use-case matrix
Spine
drag me ↔

Built from the print-ready cover wrap.
The campaign
03

From book to campaign.

The book supports every stage of the customer journey, from lead generation to executive sales conversations. Working with leadership, I designed the launch assets: landing pages, blog posts, social campaigns and NRF Big Show materials, with messaging built on real business pain points and AI case studies.

The content kept working after launch: long-form chapters became blog posts, press releases and bite-sized case studies for a 50k+ social audience.

The book’s landing page on a laptop against McFadyen red
The book’s landing page.
A chapter turned into a blog post on mcfadyen.com
Chapters turned into blog posts.
Blog post with a chapter excerpt
Each post points back to the book.
Outcome
04

Part of a series.

AI Best Practices is the latest in McFadyen’s book series, after Marketplace Best Practices, an Amazon best-seller launched at NRF Big Show 2021, and Marketplace Monetization, launched at NRF 2024.

Together the books are a core resource for McFadyen’s enterprise sales, events and executive outreach.

Marketplace Best Practices, AI Best Practices and Marketplace Monetization side by side
The series: Marketplace Best Practices, AI Best Practices and Marketplace Monetization.
Book series timeline from the McFadyen website
The series timeline on mcfadyen.com.
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