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7 May 2026Chapter 01
Manifesto

Marketing belongs in the repo.

Seven things we believe, that the rest of marketing software disagrees with.

The seven, glanced

Marketing is downstream of code, or it's wrong.

Every marketing claim is a claim about the product. If the source of that claim isn't the code (the actual function signature, the actual behavior, the actual diff), it's a guess. Marketing built from guesses scales linearly with the number of guesses. Marketing built from the code scales with the team's ability to review.

Pull requests are the unit of marketing work.

Not Trello cards. Not Notion docs. Not Slack threads. PRs. A pull request is the smallest reviewable, mergeable, revertible unit your engineering team has agreed on. Marketing should use the same unit, not invent a parallel one.

The release is the trigger.

No release should ship without its release note. No release note should ship without a draft blog, social, and changelog entry alongside it. The release is the moment marketing has the most leverage. Most teams use it the least. Origin makes the release the moment marketing happens automatically.

Marketing built from guesses scales linearly with the number of guesses. Marketing built from the code scales with the team's ability to review.

Marketers are contributors, not consumers.

Marketing tools today treat marketers like consumers of engineering's output: "wait until they tell you what shipped." Origin treats marketers like contributors with a different specialty. They commit. They review. They own files in /marketing. They get GitHub badges.

Marketing artifacts are versioned.

A blog post is a file. A campaign is a folder. A change to a tagline is a diff. You can git blame a marketing claim. You can revert a launch. You can branch a campaign. The same primitives that work for code work for marketing.

Generated, then reviewed.

Machines draft from the repo. Humans review like a code review. Nothing autopublishes. Origin is not "AI marketing." Origin is a workflow tool with AI inside it. The workflow is the product. The AI is the engine.

Boring formats win.

Markdown. Frontmatter. Plain text files in folders. No proprietary editor. No lock-in. If you can write a README.md, you can use Origin. If you can review a PR, you can review a campaign. Boring formats are a feature, not a limitation: they are why this works inside the workflow your team already trusts.

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