On June 6, 2026, I spent the day at Profound HQ in New York City as a selected participant and solo builder at the Marketing Engineering Hackathon.
I wrote the canonical field note here:
Profound Marketing Engineering Hackathon field note
This DEV.to version is the builder-facing essay. The Medium version is more reflective. This one is about the operating lesson I took from the room:
Marketing agents do not become useful because they produce better paragraphs.







