The marketing engineer is the new $250K to $1M growth hire: someone who builds AI agents that find customers, write outbound, test angles and get smarter every week. Finding the right one takes months. ProductClank puts those systems in your org tomorrow. Your agent triggers them, real people who already hold your audience’s trust do the work, and you only pay for actions we can verify.
12,000+ builders and creators in the network. 1,000+ campaigns run. 84% completion rate.
Greg Isenberg laid out the job in six systems on The Startup Ideas Podcast. Here is each one, and the campaign that runs it on ProductClank. The difference from doing it with agents alone: the last mile is done by a real person, so the reply lands and the content is not slop.
A living file of what the market is telling you: the exact words customers use, ranked by how often they show up, with receipts.
Structured collection campaign. Real people in your audience answer a fixed set of questions or interview a customer for you. You get quotes and counts, not survey summaries.
Record the founder, extract the strongest ideas, watch which hooks hold attention, feed the winners back.
Content campaign. You post once. Creators and builders in the network clip, quote and repost it in their own words. Each post is verified on the platform it went out on before it is paid.
Timing beats copy. Watch for people who just posted about the pain you solve and reply while it is fresh.
Communiply. Discovery finds the posts on X, LinkedIn, Reddit and YouTube, drafts the reply, and a real community member posts it from their own account. No bot, no spam folder.
One offer, many angles, kill anything that does not earn attention, keep spending on the winners.
Content campaign with an objective. Give three angles. Creators each post one. The platform scores what landed, and you keep both the winning hook and the creator who found it.
Show up when someone asks ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity for a tool in your category.
AI visibility panel. Real people ask the models about your category and submit structured answers. You see where you appear, where you do not, and what the models say instead. Skill-Leads corpus campaigns handle the offensive side.
Grade every output against replies, pipeline and conversion. Adjust the job spec. Rerun.
Verify, then settle. Every action is read off the platform it happened on before a reward is released. What got claimed, what got approved and what drew engagement feeds the next run.
The same cycle every time, whichever system you start.
Connect ProductClank over MCP and describe the loop in plain language. Or start it from the web app.
Builders and creators from the network claim the task and execute it from their own accounts.
The platform checks the result on the network where it happened. Self-reporting is not enough.
Verified work is paid. Unverified work is not. You never fund a claim.
Same loops. The difference is who designs them, how long until the first one is running, and whose audience it reaches.
Option 1 · Hire
Option 2 · Done with you
Option 3 · Self serve
Greg Isenberg defined the role and the systems. Listen to the episode or read his thread, then come back and start one.
The “marketing engineer” is the NEW forward deployed engineer, and I think the BEST ones will make $1M a year!
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) August 31, 2026
A growth person who builds AI agents and automated systems that find customers, write outbound, test creative and improve every week from results. Greg Isenberg calls it the forward deployed engineer of growth and expects the best ones to earn $250K to over $1M a year.
Growth engineer is the older name from the growth hacking era and usually sits inside product: funnels, experiments, retention. Marketing engineer is the newer name for the same instinct applied across the whole marketing stack with agents. Most teams use them interchangeably, and this page answers both.
Yes. That is the middle option above. We sit with your team, pick the one or two loops that actually move your number, write the briefs, and run the first cycles with you on the platform. You keep the campaigns and the network access when the engagement ends. Book a call and tell us what you are trying to move, or email sales@productclank.com.
No. Agents do the planning and drafting. The posting, replying and researching is done by real people from their own accounts, and each action is verified on the platform where it happened before anyone is paid.
No. If you use Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or any agent that speaks MCP, connect ProductClank and describe what you want. Everything is also available in the web app.
Outbound signal, through Communiply. It is the fastest to show a result you can measure: warm replies from people who were already talking about your problem this week.
Add the MCP endpoint to your agent: productclank.com/mcp