Forge Nitro

An AI-powered creative agency pipeline built on Claude Code. 18 specialist skills backed by 19 advertising and marketing textbooks, with automatic QA at every phase.

What It Does

Takes a project from kickoff to finished campaign:

Discovery → Strategy → Concepting → Planning → Execution → QA → Delivery

Each phase runs in its own specialist agent. Red-team QA checks every deliverable automatically. The knowledge vault gives every skill access to 18,000+ lines of synthesized textbook knowledge.

Prerequisites

• Claude Code installed
• macOS or Linux

Quick Start

# 1. Clone the repo
git clone git@github.com:your-org/forge-nitro.git
cd forge-nitro

# 2. Run setup
./setup.sh

# 3. Start Claude Code
claude

# 4. Say:
# "start a new project"

Pipeline Flow

CLIENT ONBOARDING → INTAKE → AUDIENCE → STRATEGY
                                           ↓
                              ┌── CONCEPTING LOOP ──┐
                              │ catalyst → guru →    │
                              │ red-team → revise →  │
                              │ strategy → revise    │
                              └──────────────────────┘
                                           ↓
                    COMMS PLAN → SPECS → MEDIA + COPY
                                           ↓
                              ★ RED TEAM (every phase) ★
                                           ↓
                              PERFORMANCE FRAMEWORK

Skills

Skill	What It Does
project-director	Orchestrates the full project lifecycle
client-onboarding	Researches companies, builds client profiles
intake-indexer	Converts raw files to indexed knowledge
audience-decoder	Consumer insights from How Brands Grow + Decoded
brand-strategist	Positioning from Positioning + Building Strong Brands
concepting-guru	Campaign ideas from Advertising Concept Book + Hey Whipple
creative-catalyst	Inspiration from The Creative Act
content-strategist	Comms planning from Content Strategy for the Web
media-planner	Channel strategy from This Is Marketing
copy-chief	Copywriting from Copywriter's Handbook + Ogilvy
spec-master	Always-current platform specs
red-team	Fact-checking, trademark, legal, cultural QA
performance-analyst	Measurement from Lean Analytics + Storytelling with Data

Knowledge Vault

19 textbooks synthesized into 104 files across:

• Books — Full synthesis organized by discipline
• Topic Hubs — Cross-domain connections (persuasion, measurement, storytelling, etc.)
• Tensions — Where books disagree (differentiation vs distinctiveness, loyalty vs penetration, etc.)
• Specs — Platform ad specs database (always verified current)

License

Private — The Forge Media Group internal use only.