# marketing-org-and-stack

Helps design marketing teams and select tech stacks using insights from Lenny's Podcast. Use it when planning hires or scaling analytics infrastructure.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 316 installs · ★ 1434
- Author: RefoundAI
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/marketing-org-and-stack/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-07-16
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## What it does

This skill diagnoses marketing bottlenecks using Emily Kramer's Fuel vs. Engine framework. It helps identify whether progress is stalled by asset creation or distribution channels. It then guides first hires based on your go-to-market motion, such as PLG or enterprise sales.

For tools, the skill applies a build-and-buy strategy. Teams buy standard SaaS tools to cover 90% of requirements and reserve engineering hours for custom internal logic. Hiring a dedicated MarTech manager before reaching 100 to 150 people is usually premature, unless broken tool setups actively block work.

The skill also addresses org structure. In B2C, MarTech belongs under Growth with a CDP as the primary record. In B2B, it sits in RevOps alongside sales systems.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill marketing-org-and-stack -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/marketing-org-and-stack/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/marketing-org-and-stack/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill marketing-org-and-stack -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/marketing-org-and-stack/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill marketing-org-and-stack -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/marketing-org-and-stack/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install RefoundAI/lenny-skills marketing-org-and-stack
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/marketing-org-and-stack/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill marketing-org-and-stack -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills --path skills/marketing-org-and-stack
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/marketing-org-and-stack/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill marketing-org-and-stack -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/marketing-org-and-stack/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Diagnose marketing bottlenecks between asset creation and distribution
- Plan marketing hiring for PLG or sales-led business models
- Select a MarTech data stack using a build-and-buy approach
- Place MarTech responsibilities within Growth or RevOps

## Example prompts
- Diagnose our marketing bottleneck using the fuel vs engine framework
- Where should our MarTech team report in a B2B organization?
- How should we split build versus buy for our analytics stack?

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: marketing-org-and-stack
description: Help users design their marketing organizational structure and select the foundational technology stack needed to drive scalable growth.
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# Marketing Org and Stack

Architect high-performing marketing organizations by aligning specialized talent with scalable data infrastructure.

Help the user with marketing org and stack using insights from 11 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.

## How to Help

1. **Assess Bottlenecks** - Identify whether your growth is limited by asset creation (fuel) or distribution capabilities (engine).
2. **Design the Org** - Determine the right first hires and where MarTech should report based on your business model.
3. **Select the Stack** - Build a data foundation using a build and buy strategy for analytics and attribution.
4. **Audit Measurement** - Move from simple tracking to sophisticated probabilistic modeling as privacy constraints increase.

## Core Principles

### Hire dedicated MarTech for complexity
Austin Hay: "Usually around I would call it a hundred to 150 people is the critical mass where you can't just have a village approach to systems and tools much like in the IT org, if it was a village approach to SSO businesses would be in a lot of danger. That's where you typically start to see the question of, all right, we need a systems and tools person. We need somebody to manage these systems and manage that platform."

Wait until you reach 100 to 150 people or until team members cannot move forward because no one understands how tools were originally configured.

### Adopt a build and buy strategy
Austin Hay: "Everybody thinks that marketing technology is just the third party tools, but actually it's designing, architecting and building that stuff on top of your third party tools. That's how you actually have a lot of velocity is thinking about not just build versus buy. It's build and buy now. So, you buy the tool to get 90% of the way there and then you build the cool thing on top with the other 10%."

Purchase best in class SaaS tools for 90 percent of your standard infrastructure and reserve engineering resources for custom internal logic.

### Transition to probabilistic modeling
Austin Hay: "So, what that means is these ad networks are becoming more complex, sophisticated, and interesting, right at the same time that it's harder for marketers to really understand how they're spending money. And so I am paying a lot of attention to how marketers make decisions with probabilistic data because most of the work that I'm doing now is actually saying, well, given that we don't have determinist data about a per certain audience or where somebody came from, how can I find other information that will create a model for 30% of the population and we can use that to extrapolate to a hundred."
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