Marketing Operations · AI-Native Automation · Funnel Analytics

I build the
that take the chaos out of marketing.

Less friction. Tighter execution. Faster teams.

Aidan Leonard
13

Claude Code agents running my marketing ops in production

52days

Full CRM replatform — 40K contacts, zero data loss

8weeks

Idea to live SaaS product, built solo with Claude Code

97%

Reduction in spam complaints after governing the data

Sharp enough to build it. Human enough to make it fun.

I came up through social and content. I was fine at it — but I was bored, and boredom, for me, is a signal.

What lit me up was the infrastructure underneath the marketing: the automation, the logic, the systems. The day I watched a single well-built workflow do what an entire campaign team had been doing by hand every week, forever — I was done. I wasn't a content person anymore. I was an operations person who'd finally found her footing.

At WHY Institute I grew from Email & Social Manager into the person who owned everything that kept the marketing org running: the CRM, the tech stack, the reporting, the project infrastructure, the cross-functional glue. Nobody assigned me most of it. I saw what was broken, understood why, and fixed it.

These days the fixing is a team effort — me and the 13 Claude Code agents I built to run audits, ship pages, and write reports. Yes, they have names. Yes, the names are vaguely witchy. No, I will not be taking questions.

The thing about good ops work is that it's invisible. Clean data, automations nobody babysits, reports that used to eat a full day now landing in minutes — when it's all running right, nobody notices a thing.

Nobody except me. When the last piece clicks and the test comes back green, the team Slack hears about it immediately, celebratory gif attached. Some people do a quiet fist pump. I am not those people.

Quiet systems. Loud celebrations. That's the work I'm here to do.

Aidan with her team in matching shirts
the team. matching shirts, non-negotiable.
Aidan washing her dog
i will absolutely remember your dog's name.
Aidan snorkeling in the ocean with her fiancé, mountain in the background
terrible snorkeler, certified goofball.
Contribute

I need to see the impact. Work that moves something forward is work I'll pour myself into.

Simplify

Breaking down complexity gives me energy. If I can make something simple and repeatable, I will.

Make Sense

Problem solving is where I come alive. Give me a mess of information and I'll make it make sense.

A few things that are true about working with me.

If it happens twice, it gets automated

I'd rather spend a day building the workflow than a year doing the task by hand. And my automations still get check-ins — even the reliable ones earn a performance review.

No tribal knowledge

If only one person knows how something works, that's a liability — not job security. I document so anything I build can be handed off cold.

Fix the cause, not the symptom

A workaround is just a bug with good PR. I dig until I find why something actually broke, then fix it there — so it stays fixed.

The most unserious serious person you'll meet

I take the work dead seriously and myself far less so. I'll make you laugh in standup, remember your dog's name, and still have the attribution pipeline rebuilt before lunch.

The work that moved the needle .

The tools I actually live in.

Thinking out loud about Marketing Ops.

Lessons from building real systems.