Z. Ahmed Z. Ahmed Dallas, TX

Ten years running growth marketing.Then I built an AI team to run it with me.

I am a growth marketing director in Dallas, ten years in. Over the past year I built an AI marketing team: 14+ agents organized around research, writing, design, review and publishing workflows across three brands. This page shows six documented systems and marks where public proof clips are still being prepared.

Now: Director of Growth Marketing at Veritas Automata. Before: Chartis.io, Bailey Brand Consulting, BeMo.

14+Agents in production
210+Build sessions logged
6Systems running live
3Brands on the platform
10yrsGrowth foundation
ZARIF FINAL APPROVAL · SPEND ADVISORY CEO Twin grills every decision ROUTING Chief of Staff voice OS GTM & RESEARCH Mark market intel Reva pricing CONTENT Sage · Blake blogs · reels · email · SEO DESIGN Iris brand & UI taste gates · diagrams · motion QUALITY · VETO POWER Vera blocks fake-looking work Gus claims & copy ENGINEERING Build · test · ship security gates · handoffs SHARED MEMORY They remember everything every lesson carries over · 210+ sessions ZARIF FINAL APPROVAL ADVISORY CEO Twin grills every decision ROUTING Chief of Staff voice OS GTM & RESEARCH Mark · Reva market intel · pricing CONTENT Sage · Blake blogs · reels · email · SEO DESIGN Iris taste gates · diagrams · motion QUALITY · VETO POWER Vera · Gus quality inspector · claims & copy ENGINEERING Build · test · ship SHARED MEMORY Every lesson carries over
The agent org, live Specialists · adversarial reviewers · one human on judgment calls
14+Agents in production
210+Build sessions logged
6Systems running live
3Brands on the platform
10yrsGrowth foundation

A department chart where every seat is an agent.

Operating model

Structured like a real org: specialists with narrow jobs, adversarial reviewers with veto power, and a human at the top making the calls that matter.

ZARIF FINAL APPROVAL · VISION · SPEND CEO Twin GRILLS EVERY DECISION Chief of Staff VOICE OS · ROUTING GTM & RESEARCH Mark, market intel Reva, pricing ICP · offers · funnels CONTENT Sage · Blake blogs · reels · email hooks · scripts · SEO DESIGN Iris, brand & UI taste & polish gates diagrams · motion QUALITY / VETO Vera, quality inspector Gus, claims & copy she can block anything ENGINEERING Build · ship · test security checks clean handovers SHARED MEMORY LAYER They remember everything: every lesson carries into the next session, across 210+ working sessions. Lessons carry into the next session. ZARIF FINAL APPROVAL · VISION · SPEND CEO Twin GRILLS EVERY DECISION Chief of Staff VOICE OS · ROUTING GTM & RESEARCH Mark, market intel · Reva, pricing ICP · offers · funnels CONTENT Sage · Blake blogs · reels · email · hooks · scripts · SEO DESIGN Iris, brand & UI taste & polish gates · diagrams · motion QUALITY / VETO Vera, quality inspector · Gus, claims she can block anything ENGINEERING Build · ship · test security checks · clean handovers SHARED MEMORY LAYER They remember everything: every lesson carries into the next session, across 210+ working sessions.
The agent org: specialists, adversarial reviewers, one human on judgment calls

Six documented systems. Built around real growth work.

System walkthroughs

Built to carry repeat work across a growth department.

Each one is designed around a job a growth team needs done.

Blog Autopilot

Does the work of: a content writer, an editor and an SEO specialist

Researches what the audience is asking, writes the post, puts it through the quality gates, optimizes it so search engines actually rank it, and publishes on schedule, automatically. Vera, the quality inspector, blocks anything that reads fake or generic. Nothing publishes without her pass.

Research Draft Review gates SEO pass Publish VETO RETURNS THE DRAFT Research Draft Review gates SEO pass Publish VETO RETURNS THE DRAFT

Viral Reel Engine

Does the work of: a scriptwriter, an editor and a motion designer

Short videos, daily: founder-filmed and AI-avatar clips scripted, voiced and edited by the pipeline, drawing on a library of 100+ hook patterns. The cost of every reel is tracked, the way a media buyer tracks ad spend.

The detail that mattersA watch-and-learn loop. Feed it any viral reel and it extracts the format, banks the learning, and folds it back into the engine. Each new format learned is banked and reused, so the hook library grows with every pass.

Watch a reel Extract format Bank learning Hook library100+ patterns Produce reel Voice · B-rollmotion · stitch LEARNINGS COMPOUND Watch a reel Extract format Bank learning Hook library100+ patterns Voice · B-rollmotion · stitch Produce reel LEARNINGS COMPOUND

Market Intelligence Loop

Does the work of: a research analyst on retainer

Every Monday, before I wake up, the system has already scanned five industries: what people are searching for, what questions they are asking, what competitors did that week. Three more times a week it finds which content formats are winning attention, and it files everything into one shared record. The strategy agents read the newest findings before any planning session, so research reaches the work with no human courier in the middle.

YouTube demand what people ask Google Social chatter Competitor moves Cloud sweep5 verticals · 4×/wk Shared recordstructured findings Strategy agentsread before planning NO HUMAN COURIER IN THE MIDDLE YouTube demand What people ask Social chatter Competitor moves Cloud sweep5 industries · 4 times a week Shared recordstructured findings Strategy agentsread before planning NO HUMAN COURIER IN THE MIDDLE

Async Agent Worker

Does the work of: the follow-through that usually waits until next week

My AI team members hand work to each other through a shared to-do list. One asks for research, a draft or an analysis; another picks it up in the cloud a few hours later, does it, and files the result back with its status. I have a night shift.

Local agentsadd a job to the list Shared to-do listwaiting to done The night shiftpicks it up in the cloud RESULTS RETURN WITH STATUS TRACKING Local agentsadd a job to the list Shared to-do listwaiting to done The night shiftpicks it up in the cloud RESULTS RETURN WITH STATUS

Client Onboarding Intake

Does the work of: three discovery meetings and a shared doc graveyard

Branded, interactive intake experiences with voice recording, file upload and agent-adaptive questioning, designed so a non-technical client can brain-dump raw and the agents structure it into GTM-ready data. The client talks; the agents write it down.

Voice recording File upload Raw brain-dump Adaptive questionsagent asks the next one Agents structureraw into fields GTM-readydata CAPTURED LIVE Voice recording File upload Raw brain-dump Adaptive questionsthe agent asks the next one Agents structure itraw talk into fields GTM-ready dataready for the team CAPTURED LIVE

Command Centers & CEO Playbooks

Does the work of: the onboarding binder nobody reads

Living operating manuals for executives, holding pitch, product, proof and library in one navigable place, plus visual working-session pages and system maps documented well enough that a new CTO or CEO can take over a system they didn't build. Those are the playbooks I have been writing since my first marketing job.

Command Centerliving HTML manual Pitch Product Proof Library Architecture maps Who does what TAKE OVER A SYSTEM YOU DIDN'T BUILD Command Center a living manual, always current Pitch Product Proof Library Architecture maps Who does what TAKE OVER A SYSTEM YOU DIDN'T BUILD

What a week looks like when the org runs itself.

One week

The schedule is the product. Research lands on Monday, signals land three times a week, performance lands on Friday, and the agents work off whatever is in the database between those points.

MONTUEWED THUFRISATSUN Market radar5 verticals Signalssweep Signalssweep Signalssweep Performancewhat worked, what flopped PRODUCTION AGENTS, IN BETWEEN Blog autopilot · reel engine · site · email, each reading the latest row before it starts work MONTUEWED THUFRISATSUN Market radar5 industries scanned Signals sweepwhat formats are winning nothing scheduled Signals sweepwhat formats are winning Performancewhat worked, what flopped Signals sweepwhat formats are winning nothing scheduled PRODUCTION AGENTS, IN BETWEEN Blog autopilot · reel engine · site · email, each reading the newest findings before it starts work.
Monday research · midweek signals · Friday performance · agents consuming throughout

The loop most teams leave open, closed.

Architecture

Research feeds strategy. Strategy feeds production. Performance feeds back into strategy. It runs on a schedule, every week, automatically, not on somebody remembering.

Scheduled agents Market radar, Monday Signals ×3/wk · Brand watch ×2/mo Shared record structured findings nothing overwritten Strategy agents GTM · pricing · CEO twin Production agents blog · reels · site · email Measured analytics · search · ad data Friday report, filed PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK Scheduled agents Market radar, Monday Signals ×3/wk · Brand watch ×2/mo Shared record structured findings nothing overwritten Strategy agents GTM · pricing · CEO twin Production agents blog · reels · site · email Measured analytics · search · ad data Friday report, filed PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK RETURNS TO STRATEGY
Research → storage → strategy → production → measurement → back into strategy

The systems, on screen: clips landing now.

Proof

Planned short recordings of the systems working. Each slot below shows what will be added after capture and review.

Coming: the team, mid-sessionAgents researching, writing and handing work to each other.
Coming: a post clearing the gatesVera and the reviewers passing, blocking and re-checking a draft.
Coming: reports filing themselvesThe Monday sweep landing in the shared record, on schedule.

Ten years of classical growth. Then I taught it to run without me in the room.

The path here

Before the agents, the same job with people: multi-client budgets across Google, Meta, LinkedIn and programmatic, KPI frameworks, CRM architecture, and being the escalation point between clients and leadership. The systems work because that discipline is real.

2025 · Present

Founder, YGS & the Agent OS

AI marketing platform (5 verticals) and the Agent OS for agencies. Full stack built with agents as the engineering team. Everything on this page was built here. I built these to prove the systems work under real conditions. I am looking for a team to run them at scale. Also live: Growth Academy OS, a role-based training platform where learning is proven by real work and manager sign-off. Three free YouTube course chapters are built. The public ZAGrowth recuts are still being prepared. The paid Skool course is waitlist-only and has not been built.

2025 · Present

Director-level growth work

I moved from associate-level work into director-level growth work, with a focus on growth strategy, demand generation, CRM architecture, and AI-assisted research and reporting.

2023 · 2025

Sr. Consultant to Digital Marketing Lead, Chartis.io

Multi-client digital strategy across Google, Meta, LinkedIn and programmatic. Client spend management, KPI frameworks, and the escalation point between clients and leadership.

2021 · 2023

Digital Marketing Manager, Bailey Brand Consulting

Brand-side digital: paid budgets and A/B roadmaps across eight platforms for the firm and its clients.

2020 · 2021

Digital Marketing Associate, BeMo

PPC, funnel testing, attribution (Hyros), demand-gen automation, and the first SOPs I ever wrote. I've been turning workflows into systems since my first marketing job. Now the systems run themselves.

Tools change. Architecture is the skill.

Stack
AI / Agentic
  • Claude Code: agents, skills, MCP, hooks
  • Multi-agent orchestration & memory design
  • Model routing & evaluation
  • OpenAI / ChatGPT
  • Higgsfield · ElevenLabs · Remotion
Growth
  • Strategy: demand gen, ABM, pricing
  • SEO / AEO / GEO
  • Paid: Google, Meta, LinkedIn, programmatic
  • CRO & funnel architecture
  • Lifecycle & email
Data / Infra
  • Supabase (Postgres) · Vercel · Next.js
  • GitHub Actions CI
  • HubSpot · GA4 · Search Console
  • Supermetrics · VidIQ · Ubersuggest
  • Stripe · Square · Twilio · Zapier

I have already built and run this system end to end. I have already built the system that does that.

Open to Director+ roles leading AI-driven growth, marketing or GTM systems, and to walking your team through a live demo of everything on this page. Ten minutes, real systems, no slides.