Automate digital marketing with Claude Code. Ship in 6 hours.
Forge 1 is the foundation track. You wield Claude Code as a solo agent and point it at a real digital-marketing workflow, running entirely on free local models through Ollama. No paid subscription, no cloud bill, no excuses.
This is a TYPE, not a one-off. Forge 1 repeats as weekly editions. Every edition runs the same gated challenge, so the playing field is identical and the leaderboard is honest.
01 Editions
Forge 1 runs as weekly editions of the same challenge. Pick the edition you want. Completed editions link to their full results, open editions link straight to registration.
02 What You Build
An agentic digital-marketing automation, built with Claude Code on free local models.
You will use Claude Code as your single coding agent and put it to work on a real digital-marketing problem: the kind of repetitive, judgement-heavy workflow that marketing teams burn hours on every week. Think research, drafting, structuring, validation and export, wired into one agent that does the loop end to end.
The whole thing runs on free local models through Ollama, so cost is never the bottleneck. What separates the top of the leaderboard is how well you architect the agent, how cleanly it handles edge cases, and how reliable the output is when it meets real data.
The exact challenge brief and dataset are revealed on Sprint morning, only to verified builders through the on-site check-in flow. You bring the setup, the skills and the agent configuration you built before Sprint day. Everyone gets the same challenge, so the leaderboard stays fair.
Claude Code, solo
One coding agent, driven well. Plan, generate, test and iterate inside a single tight loop.
Free + local via Ollama
Run the whole build on free local models. No paid subscription required to compete or to win.
A working automation
A marketing workflow that actually runs against real data and produces a correct, useful result.
03 Leaderboard
Scores only, the way Forge runs. Toggle between the all-time best across every published edition of Forge 1, or the standard ranking for a single edition.
See the full leaderboard → · every edition, ranked across all Forges.
04 Forge 1 in Photos
A few moments from the floor. Builders mid-sprint, the roundtable, the certificate handout.
05 The Build Playlist
The sound of the sprint floor. Press play and build.
Lock your seat for the next Forge 1 edition.
Forge 1 is an individual competition. Registration for the next open edition is below. Registering for a later edition? It will be selected automatically, and we will notify you.