John Chase Fort

Marketing AI & Operations Lead

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Marketing AI & Operations Lead who builds the AI systems marketing teams actually adopt. Combines enterprise marketing operations experience, including a 350+ advisor program and compliance review cycles cut from 60+ days to 2, with hands-on work across governed content, AI workflows, enablement, and go-to-market systems.

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Tracer Labs

Advisory

AI Strategy Advisor

  • Shaped Tracer's investor and buyer story for agentic commerce by translating its digital trust layer for identity, consent, authorization, and auditability into clear go-to-market language.
  • Built a private, GitHub-backed knowledge library for company facts, investor materials, approved claims, and instructions used by the team's AI tools.
  • Added sources, claim labels, owners, and review states so the team could see what was approved, what needed review, and where each statement came from.
  • Built an outreach workflow that combines Sales Navigator research, public profile data, target-audience checks, confidence scoring, and human-reviewed drafts.

Independent

Product + systems work

Marketing AI & Systems Builder

  • Help teams choose where AI fits into daily marketing work, organize the information it can use, and set clear human review steps.
  • Shipped CompliPost for compliance-aware mortgage content workflows and Kosmos for inspecting AI-agent files, prompts, tools, traces, and runtime changes.
  • Built GTM OS, Flowcraft, and SignalScope for source-grounded GTM knowledge, human-reviewed campaign planning, and cited market intelligence.
  • Made AI output easier to inspect by using source citations, structured outputs, review states, policy checks, and clear handoffs.

First Horizon Bank

Enterprise

Social Selling & Field Enablement Lead

  • Scaled regulated social selling to 350+ advisors across Mortgage, Wealth, Commercial, and Private Client by aligning content, approvals, publishing, reporting, and enablement.
  • Reduced Legal and Compliance review cycles from 60+ days to 2 days by rebuilding procedures, approval standards, content structures, and reviewer handoffs.
  • Managed 11,000+ advisor posts and a library of 500+ compliance-approved posts across several lines of business.
  • Generated 116,000+ post views, 11,000+ clicks, and about 4,000 engagements, with performance tracked and reported each month.
  • Owned 243 curated assets that drove about 2,000 direct clicks at an average of 7.3 clicks per article.
  • Tripled adoption by rebuilding onboarding, campaign plans, automation rules, monthly reporting, and field enablement.
  • Helped recruiting teams use the program when speaking with loan officers; First Horizon Bank recognized the work with Meaningful Impact and Distinctive Impact awards.

Community & Sponsorship Marketing Manager

  • Expanded collegiate sponsorship execution from one university partner to six concurrent programs using existing campaign resources.
  • Generated 2,000+ leads in two weeks through a geo-targeted sponsorship giveaway built around an existing university partnership.
  • Managed 1,200+ Google listings for branches, ATMs, and advisors, keeping information accurate and improving local discoverability.
  • Created partnership plans, campaign ideas, local events, and performance reports for business leaders.
  • Coordinated digital execution across sponsorship representatives, local teams, and central marketing leaders.

AEXLAB

Startup

Digital Marketing Manager, Growth & Community

  • Turned founder, product, engineering, and community input into clear launch campaigns for VAIL VR.
  • Generated 43,000 organic giveaway entries in 10 days with no ad spend by building a campaign around an AEXLAB-branded VR headset.
  • Grew the community to 40,000+ members while generating about 500,000 organic impressions per month.
  • Managed the CEO's social presence and turned technical product updates into posts that customers and community members could understand.
  • Planned product announcements, creator partnerships, video, campaign tests, and community events with a small marketing team.

Studio Mint

Independent

Principal, Growth Marketing Consultant

  • Built organic content systems for creators and digital-first brands that reached 10M+ views across competitive niches without paid media.
  • Turned strong posts into reusable patterns for hooks, story structure, publishing schedules, and platform-specific formats.
  • Managed client relationships and handled work from audience positioning and content strategy through publishing and performance review.
  • Built Webflow sites and updated website content so each client's social and web presence told the same story.

Blade

Operations

Customer Experience Manager

  • Resolved time-sensitive customer issues across operations and frontline teams without compromising the standards of a premium travel service.
  • Tracked repeat problems and standardized responses so teams could resolve common issues faster.
  • Escalated operational problems, kept customers informed when plans changed, and helped improve the process after each incident.

[/>] Education

Syracuse University

B.A., Political Science and History & Culture of Music

Dean's List

[/>] Skills

Marketing AI & Strategy
AI enablement, adoption programs, marketing AI strategy, GTM strategy, buyer research
Operations & Enablement
Marketing operations, campaign operations, workflow automation, change management, content operations, governance
AI Workflow Systems
RAG, knowledge graphs, agent workflows, structured outputs, MCP, Claude Code, human review
Content & Brand Systems
AI content workflows, prompt libraries, brand systems, visual direction, lead magnets, rendering QA
Certifications
Claude API, Agent Skills, MCP Advanced Topics, Google Analytics, Google Ads Search
Languages
English (native), French (C1)