Build Mara
KINDAreplaces $99/mosaves $1,188/yrback to the verdict
Before step 1
you will need
- Anthropic or OpenAI API key
- email sending API (Resend, Postmark, or SES)
- your own sending subdomain with SPF/DKIM/DMARC
- an always-on host for the scheduler
- product events from your app (webhook or DB)
Delivery order
Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands.
done whenThe project starts from a documented command in a clean checkout.
Implement the primary data model and core workflow.
done whenThe main object can be created, read and changed end to end.
Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence.
done whenBad input is refused with a readable message and nothing is left corrupted.
Cover the critical path with automated tests.
done whenThe highest-risk behavior fails the suite when it breaks.
Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step.
done whenA fresh clone reaches the first successful workflow using only the README.
That is the whole plan for Mara. What it deliberately does not cover is below · check the gaps before you call it a replacement.
- deliverability: warmup, domain reputation, bounce and complaint handling
- the improvement loop: variants written, split across live sends, losers rewritten
- reply handling: inbound classified, answers drafted, suppressions applied
- outcome tracking wired back to the copy that caused it
- the maintenance nobody does, which is the actual reason lifecycle programs rot
Need the files? The project pack on the verdict page hands your agent the whole brief · more newsletters.