16 disciplines · 157-page PDF · verified July 2026
Stop re-asking your chatbot the same marketing questions.
The Modern Marketing Map is the whole field in one playbook — every discipline, dated and sourced — built to be worked with your agent.
You don’t have to become the marketing expert. You don’t need to watch 200 YouTube videos. Even if your last “marketing plan” was a chat you never opened again.
Early-bird price: $59. It goes to $149 when v2 ships — buy now and every re-grounded edition through v2 is included free.
Whether you are a startup founder, local business owner, or a solo marketer/builder shipping a product, The Modern Marketing Map can bring value to you and your agent immediately.
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Most modern marketing advice is outdated and not built for an agentic world.
And a chatbot answers the same question differently every month. The map is one set of answers — dated, sourced, reconciled — that you and your agent work from all year.
How it works
After you connect the map locally to your agent or you upload it into a project folder in Cowork or Codex:
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You know your business better than anyone. The map will have your agent ask you the right questions first. It opens with strategy for a reason: who buys from you, what you can spend, what stage you’re at. Your agent runs an intake using the map like a consultant would.
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It tailors each decision framework to match your needs. Each chapter is built around the one axis that decides things in that discipline. Lower initial budget for ads? The plan will show you need diagnostics, not a growth channel, and it will also give you the parts that would change that call.
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It writes the actual documents. The brief. The copy variants. The tracking instructions. The measurement sheet. Real files you can use the same day. The full list is below.
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It builds in the honest scoreboard. Peer-reviewed studies show that ad platforms systematically overstate their own results, and industry measurements put the overstatement anywhere from 20 to 60% depending on the study. So the plan helps you decide what to believe before you spend: when your ads dashboard says 3x, your plan tells you what that number really is, and the kill/scale decision is written down in advance.
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It flags the legal stuff where it applies. Testimonial disclosures, email consent, the new AI-disclosure laws. Every chapter carries its compliance gate, so compliance is built into the plan, not discovered in a fine.
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And when you ask “why?”, it shows you. Chapter, source, date checked. You’re never left wondering whether your agent made something up. Next month you say “we did month one, adjust” and it adjusts from the same map instead of inventing a new plan.
What your agent can build immediately from the plan
Your agent drafts real strategy from the plan; you approve.
A positioning one-pager
who you're for, why you win, in words a stranger understands. Everything else hangs on this.
A quarter marketing plan
sequenced month by month, with budget logic and the reasons written down.
A campaign brief + ad copy variants
objective, one audience, budget, duration, and the kill/scale thresholds decided before a dollar moves.
Tracking setup instructions
pixel + server-side, with honest expectations (real match rates run ~85–90%, not the 99% vendors claim) and the EU consent step that silently breaks tracking if skipped.
A one-page measurement sheet
which dashboard numbers you'll believe, which you won't, and the cheap test that settles it.
A welcome + abandoned-cart email sequence
written with the consent rules already respected.
A “why don’t we show up in ChatGPT?” audit
your site scored against the 17-point AI-citation checklist that ships with the map, with a prioritized fix list.
A review-and-referral setup
the ask, the timing, the disclosure rules, ready to run.
The pattern continues across all sixteen disciplines — lifecycle, PR, partnerships, events, service. Each chapter makes the call and hands your agent the workflow, with every step marked: you do it, software does it, or your agent does it.
Included with every copy
The Agent Pack: the map, in your agent’s native language
The PDF is for you. The Agent Pack is the same map as 23 clean, machine-readable files plus an index that tells your agent what each chapter covers and what order things run in.
Load it once
Drop the files into a Claude Project, Cowork, a custom GPT, or any setup that reads documents. About two minutes. Instructions are in the pack.
Your agent stops guessing
It answers from the map’s frameworks, checked facts, and written-down verdicts instead of from fuzzy memory. Ask it to cite the chapter and it will.
The plan stops drifting
Same map today, same map in October. Your marketing stops mutating every time you open a new chat.
Three prompts to try in your first ten minutes:
Using the map, build my quarter's marketing plan. Ask me what you need to know about my business first.
Using chapter E and the agent-readiness view, audit MY-SITE.com for AI-search visibility. Give me a prioritized fix list — and if you have file access, implement the easy ones.
Our dashboard says our ads return 3.4x. Use chapter I to tell me what to actually believe, and design the cheapest test that settles it.
If your agent can touch files (Claude Code, Cowork, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes, ThinkOS, and friends), it can go further and implement parts of the map directly: the schema markup, the crawlability fixes, the AI-citation checklist items, the tracking config. Chat-only agents get copy-paste instructions instead. We say which is which.
Skeptical agent? Point it at /for-agents— this site publishes machine-readable surfaces it can read before you spend a dollar.
“Can’t I just ask ChatGPT?”
You can, and for single questions you should. Here’s what the chat can’t do, and the map does:
The questions you didn’t ask
A chatbot answers what you type. The expensive mistakes are the questions you never asked. The map is the complete question list, already answered, in working order.
The same plan tomorrow
Forty chats produce forty plans that disagree with each other. One map, reconciled once, means your agent gives the same answer in October that it gave in July.
Sources you can check
A chatbot sounds equally sure when it’s wrong. Every claim in the map carries a source, a date, and a bias rating, and a sample of the evidence is public, so you can audit us before paying.
an actual row from the evidence ledger:
ChatGPT ~900M weekly active users (Feb 2026), up from ~400M a year earlier. — multiple citing OpenAI — Feb 2026 — volatility: high
An actual answer
“It depends, here are five options” doesn’t help you on a Tuesday afternoon. The map makes the call and tells you what would flip it. You can execute that without being the expert.
a real call, from the paid-media chapter:
“Pick the buying model before the channel … no platform-reported ROAS/CPA lift is a fact until an independent holdout/geo-test corroborates it.”
What this is not
It’s not a course, and it won’t make you a marketing guru by Friday. It can’t promise you revenue — no honest guide can, because your results depend on your product and your execution. What you actually get is coverage and currency: every discipline that exists right now, dated and sourced, so you and your agent stop guessing at what you don’t know exists.
- It doesn’t connect to your ad accounts or run anything unattended. Someone still clicks the buttons: you, or your agent with you watching.
- It doesn’t know your business until your agent asks you. You know your situation better than any book ever will. The map covers the marketing side.
- Marketing facts rot. That’s why every claim is dated, the map is re-verified on a schedule, and your copy includes every re-grounded edition through v2.
Don’t buy this if
- You run a marketing team already — you live this knowledge.
- You want done-for-you campaigns — this is a map, not an agency.
- You won’t use an AI agent at all — it still works as a book, but the Agent Pack half is wasted on you.
And the free chapter is genuinely free— read it first and decide there.
Who made this
I’m Sam, and Agent Era Guides is one person — me. No team, no growth hackers, no course-guru machinery — a public changelog and a re-grounding schedule instead of a personal brand.
Questions before you buy? Email hello@themodernmarketingmap.com— a person answers. And if the map isn’t what you needed: email me within 7 days and I’ll refund you. No questions, no form.
— Sam · Agent Era Guides
One purchase. Everything in it.
Early-bird price: $59, one-time. It goes to $149 when v2 ships — buy now and every re-grounded edition through v2 is included. No-tricks pricing: no fake discounts, no countdown timers — the price simply rises when v2 ships.
- ✓ The full map — a 157-page designed PDF. Sixteen disciplines, decision logic, workflows, a verdict on every call.
- ✓ The Agent Pack — the same map as machine-readable files for your own AI agent, with the loading instructions and starter prompts.
- ✓ The AI-Citation & Agent-Readiness checklist — the 17-point audit for getting found by AI answer engines.
- ✓ Every re-grounded edition through v2 — when the facts move and we re-verify, you get the new edition. (v2 is the next major rebuild of the map; majors ship when the ground has shifted enough to warrant one.)
- ✓ 7-day refund, no questions. Email me and I’ll refund you — no forms, no hoops.
Not sure? Read the free chapter first— it’s a complete chapter at full depth, and the other fifteen are exactly like it.
Get both guides — The Complete Set. The map + The App Masterclass, $179 together (vs $208 separately).
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The AI-Citation & Agent-Readiness Checklist
A 17-point field checklist to get found, cited, and bought — by search engines, AI answer engines, and the agents that now do the shopping. Pulled straight from the map. Free.
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