What challenges did Recording Academy face before AI implementation?

Modernize the digital experience for fans and members. Turn large music datasets into interactive and personalized content. Improve CRM-driven member journeys across ticketing, renewals, and communications.

What was the impact of the AI solution?

Generated more than 2,500 trivia questions, clues, and explanations. Made ticketing 80% more efficient. Reduced the time for some maintenance tasks by as much as 70%. Translated the redesigned member portal into Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Arabic in 20% of the time previously required.

Source

Evidence: Medium50/100

Recording Academy | GRAMMY IQ and Musical Crossroads with watsonx Orchestrate

Use case typeAI agentsUpdated Apr 16, 2024

The Recording Academy used IBM watsonx Orchestrate to build GRAMMY IQ, an interactive trivia experience that turns its music data into AI-generated questions, clues, and explanations for fans on Grammy.com. It also used generative AI models built and trained on watsonx for Musical Crossroads, a digital exhibit at the Grammy Museum that creates bespoke narratives connecting artists and genres. IBM Consulting supported broader member experience work across Salesforce CRM, Experience Cloud, and Marketing Cloud, including a redesigned member portal and streamlined segmentation.

Organization: Recording Academy
Industry: Other
Location: United States
Published: April 2024

Reported outcomes

+80%

ticketing efficiencyProductivity & throughput

2,500 itemstrivia content generated−70%maintenance task time−80%portal translation time

Strategic outcomes

Customer experience & trustCreated an interactive fan trivia experienceNew product / capabilityProduced bespoke artist-connection narrativesEmployee experienceImproved approval and content management workflowsCustomer experience & trustExpanded personalization across member journeysScale & capacityExtended engagement to the Grammy app

Catalog median for productivity & throughput deployments: +40% across 108 reported metrics. Compare benchmarks →

Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks

Normalized claim

Trivia content generated: 2,500 items increase

IBM Case StudiesApr 16, 2024Case studyExplicit claimMedium evidence strength

instantly transforming Recording Academy data into more than 2,500 questions, clues, and explanations found in the GRAMMY IQ trivia game

Normalized claim

Ticketing efficiency: 80% increase

IBM Case StudiesApr 16, 2024Case studyExplicit claimMedium evidence strength

it has made ticketing 80% more efficient

Normalized claim

Maintenance task time: 70% decrease

IBM Case StudiesApr 16, 2024Case studyExplicit claimMedium evidence strength

reduced the time it takes to complete some maintenance tasks by as much as 70%

Normalized claim

Portal translation time: 80% decrease

IBM Case StudiesApr 16, 2024Case studyExplicit claimMedium evidence strength

can be translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Arabic in 20 percent of the time it previously took

Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks

Customer: Recording Academy
Provider: IBM
Maturity: Unknown
Linked source: IBM Case Studies

No explicit deployment-stage evidence found.

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity evidence evaluated

Primary read

Use case focus

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1AI agents
2Content generation
3Workflow automation

Modernize the digital experience for fans and members.
Turn large music datasets into interactive and personalized content.
Improve CRM-driven member journeys across ticketing, renewals, and communications.

Built agentic workflows and AI assistants with IBM watsonx Orchestrate to generate more than 2,500 trivia questions, clues, and explanations.
Used generative AI models built and trained on watsonx for Musical Crossroads to produce narratives and recommend related artists.
Redesigned member journeys and portal experiences through IBM Consulting work on Salesforce Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and CRM.

Technologies

IBM watsonx Orchestrate watsonx Salesforce Experience Cloud Salesforce Marketing Cloud Salesforce CRM

Generated more than 2,500 trivia questions, clues, and explanations.
Made ticketing 80% more efficient.
Reduced the time for some maintenance tasks by as much as 70%.
Translated the redesigned member portal into Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Arabic in 20% of the time previously required.

Architecture

IBM watsonx Orchestrate powers agentic workflows and AI assistants that turn Recording Academy data into trivia content. An AI assistant is used as the interface, while AI agents coordinate dynamic content creation from multiple sources. A custom-built dashboard lets the editorial team approve and manage content. Separately, generative AI models built and trained on watsonx power Musical Crossroads, and IBM Consulting helped redesign Salesforce-based member journeys, data model, site architecture, audience framework, and portal translation workflows.

Sources & evidence1

Evidence: Medium50/100Evidence strength