Indie Hacker Playbooks

Building a Marketing Agent Workspace

Separate shared context, vertical knowledge, active work, outputs and reusable campaign learnings

Definition

A marketing agent workspace gives each campaign stable places for shared business context, vertical knowledge, active work, reusable workflows, outputs and reviewed results, with a short routing file that tells agents what belongs where.

Perspectives

Shann³ (2026-09-10, X)

Start with one marketing vertical you already understand instead of prebuilding every possible area. Keep audience, offer, positioning and brand guidance in shared knowledge; keep vertical research and examples beside active work, workflows, skills, agents, scripts, outputs and results. Add a short Markdown routing file because folder names alone do not tell an agent which sources to read or where to save work.

Keep campaign-specific research with the campaign. Promote only reviewed findings that remain useful beyond the project into shared or vertical knowledge, preserving source, date and whether a claim is verified. Save the reasoning behind human feedback so the next run can check the same failure mode.

How to apply

Limits

  • The structure is one practitioner's operating model, not a measured comparison with simpler project folders or a database.
  • Access control, concurrent edits, retention and backup behavior depend on the chosen agent environment and storage.

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