Nobody Knows How to Rate a Marketer Anymore: Calibration Season Meets AI-Produced Work
H2 review cycles open in the next few weeks, and most marketing rubrics still measure the thing AI made abundant: output. The result is calibration meetings where managers cannot explain why one marketer outperformed another, and promotion cases built on deliverable counts that no longer signal anything. Here is what to evaluate instead, how to rewrite one level band before the cycle closes, and why the shrinking junior rung is the harder problem underneath.