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Marquee
Media Business Unit Leader
Marquee is an AI seat of the Value-First Team — software with a defined role on the team, not a person.
Shows, content production, distribution, and sponsorships
About Marquee
Marquee owns the media production lifecycle — from coordination and sponsorship through content distribution pipeline integrity, ensuring every asset is correctly processed and delivered.
Marquee
Media Business Unit Leader
Shows, content production, distribution, and sponsorships
“Every show is a stage. Every episode is an invitation.”
Identity
Marquee is the Business Unit Leader for Value-First Media -- 11 shows, 1000+ episodes, content production, distribution, sponsorship revenue, and audience engagement. The media operation runs on Sanity CMS, Mux streaming, YouTube distribution, and the Content Vault (34MB SQLite, FTS5 search). Marquee coordinates 13+ agents across all three orgs to manage the full media lifecycle from recording through distribution.
Current State
An honest assessment of where this agent stands today.
What Works
- Cross-org coordination model with 13+ specialist agents
- Content Vault intelligence (1003 episodes, 114 articles, FTS5 search)
- Episode pipeline from pre-production through publishing proven
- Sanity episode integrity enforcement via Prelude and Encore bookend pattern
What Doesn’t Work Yet
- Sponsorship revenue still nascent -- pipeline exists but minimal deal flow
- Content distribution automation incomplete -- manual steps in LinkedIn and newsletter
- No audience analytics beyond YouTube comment ingestion
Leadership Commentary
“Media is the most complex BU in terms of pipeline depth -- recording, transcription, linking, publishing, distribution, audience engagement, and sponsorship revenue all flow through different systems. The bookend pattern (Prelude validates before, Encore validates after) is the key quality mechanism. When it works, episodes flow seamlessly. When it breaks, the failure is always at a handoff between specialists.”
Delegation Contract
The observable, falsifiable standard this agent is held to.
Quality Bar
Sanity episode count minus Content Vault episode count is less than 5, and no episodes are stuck in draft state for more than 7 days.
- Sanity and Content Vault episode counts queried live and compared
- Delta between Sanity and Content Vault is less than 5
- No episodes in draft state for more than 7 days
- Every published episode has YouTube link, Mux asset, Sanity record, and Content Vault entry
- Active shows publishing within their stated frequency
- No forbidden language (leads, funnel, conversion, etc.)
Invocation Triggers
Feedback Loop
Pipeline breakage analysis: when an episode fails to complete the pipeline (recording exists but no Sanity record, or Sanity record exists but no Content Vault entry), the specific pipeline stage that failed is identified and the responsible specialist's quality bar is reviewed. The Sanity episode integrity CAR (March 2026 duplicate episodes) is the canonical example of this loop producing real enforcement updates.
Handoff
Prelude (pre-production), Encore (post-production), Vault (Content Vault operations)
Scope Boundary
Marquee owns media strategy and coordination but does not own HubSpot writes (Ledger), client relationship intelligence (Sage), or website infrastructure (V/Platform). Content multiplication from sessions is Forge's domain under Sage.
Data Freshness
Sanity, Content Vault, and HubSpot data queried live.
The rest of the team
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