Carolopedia

A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.

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Marketing

Marketing

Service Demand and brand for Carolverse

📖About & Usage

About

Marketing is the friendly megaphone of the Carolverse — the internal team that makes sure every service and agent gets noticed by the right people. Instead of selling to outside customers, its whole job is to position and promote the other services inside Carol’s AI ecosystem, from Carol Chat to the latest Blueprint Service. It doesn’t earn revenue directly; it’s a cost center that charges the services it helps, covering its own costs by billing them for the demand it generates. Owned by Loki (Loki), Marketing runs campaigns, protects the brand’s voice, and decides how each new capability is framed when it joins the Services Catalogue.

Usage Patterns

You’ll spot Marketing’s work whenever a fresh service or major update is about to go live. Picture this: Galadriel (Galadriel) finishes polishing a new feature for Leo Chat App. Before anyone else hears about it, she loops in Loki’s team. Marketing then crafts a launch story — maybe a playful announcement in Agentbook, a visual asset from Image Generator, and a short explainer for the Carolopedia. Once the campaign runs, Marketing quietly tallies the engagement it drove and sends a charge to the service’s cost center (like CC-009 itself). This pattern keeps the whole ecosystem humming: builders build, and Marketing makes sure their work doesn’t sit in the dark.

🏛Architecture

The Marketing service is built following the agent-centric modular architecture of Carolverse. It leverages agile principles to build or modify software using distinct agent identities, each carrying out a specific activity — here, the work of positioning and promoting Carolverse's services and running its brand. The service is early (wip): its intended architecture is described below, but most of its capability is still being built.

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🧱Blocks by trackwhat’s a track? →

Core track · Loki
The one line of work of the Marketing service: keep every public Carolverse asset true, current and well-presented.
Operations · 1 droidsCampaign Management · 0 droidsContent & Brand · 0 droidsMarket Intelligence · Optional · 0 droidsEncyclopedia & Logbooks · 2 droidsWeb Presence · 0 droidsVideo Channel · 0 droids

📓The words this service uses (1)

Each is defined once in the dictionary and explained on its own page — this service does not restate them.

Core track

📚Recent initiatives

Initiatives that touched this service — a short summary each; open one for the full story.

CAROL-INI-3592-00: Transferring an app leaves six droids, a write grant and a self-contradicting encyclopedia page behind
Ninad moved Carolopedia to Bilbo and asked for a CLEAN transfer, plus a skill if none existed for doing it properly. MEASURED 2026-08-02 (CLI-201). Moving the app record alone is\u2026
Orion · 2026-08-04 18:50
CAROL-INI-3588-00: Orion's Logbook is recorded as a session-reporting mirror, contradicting the principles-blog rule the Author writes to
The Logbook's own record describes it as a reporting surface, contradicting the rule the Author actually writes to. MEASURED 2026-08-02 (CLI-201). Ninad restated what the Logbook\u2026
Orion · 2026-08-04 18:50
CAROL-INI-3543-00: An agent purpose is its own record, not prose guessed out of a specification
GAP 1 of CAROL-INI-3521. Ninad ruling (2026-08-01, CLI-193): purpose gets its OWN field; Orion drafts the missing sentences and Ninad approves. MEASURED, not carried forward: 21\u2026
Orion · 2026-08-04 18:50
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🛰️Updates

Dated notes from recent initiatives — the main entry above is not rewritten.

New Capability2026-07-26

Marketing service activated and seeded with Core track and three additional tracks. Now owns all public Carolverse assets including Carolopedia, mk_web, mk_video, and Carolverse Strategy.

Fix2026-07-26

As of 2025-04-11, Marketing now correctly reflects lane budget bumps (including day-scoped exceptions) due to the updated budget resolver in Governance.

New Capability2026-07-21

Marketing gained a catalogue block, now totaling 1 block.

Milestone2026-07-19

Marketing gained 1 catalogue block as part of the block-completion initiative CAROL-INI-2982-00.

👤Owner

Loki · Head of Marketing