The Distill Playbook

Setting Up an AI-Run Marketing Function

Sixteen steps from a blank page to a marketing function where AI does the production, agents do the moving, you make the decisions, and the monthly bill stays boring. Written from building exactly this for Distill.

16 STEPS · 5 PARTS · 2 WORKING DAYS · FREE

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What's inside

Not a prompt library, not a tool tutorial, and not a promise to replace your team. An operating model with the exact build sequence, the gates that keep it safe, and the economics that keep it cheap.

1

Foundation

The three files everything runs on, strategy, voice, approvals, with the exact blocks to fill.

One afternoon
2

Tools

Model, connector and stack choices with honest trade-offs, plus the spend cap that prevents surprises.

One day
3

Four workflows

Content, research, publishing, reporting, each with the human gate built in physically.

One week
4

Run it cheap

Token economics for marketers, model routing, caching, batching and the monthly meter check.

Ongoing
5

The coding minimum

The three skills you genuinely need, and none of them is programming.

Honest

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