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Marketing Lead Onboarding

Welcome to Tanka - Your comprehensive guide

Welcome to the Tanka Marketing Team!

As our new Marketing Lead, you're stepping into an exciting role at a pivotal moment. Tanka has just launched as the world's first AI-powered messenger with long-term memory, and your expertise will be crucial in driving our growth and market presence.

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Company Overview

Core Product: Tanka

Tanka is the world's first AI-powered messenger with long-term memory, designed specifically for founders and teams. It centralizes workplace conversations, learns from them, automates tasks, builds institutional knowledge, and keeps teams aligned.

Key Features

  • Centralized conversations
  • AI-powered learning
  • Task automation
  • Institutional knowledge building
  • Team alignment
  • Whiteboards and docs integration

What Makes Tanka Unique

Unlike traditional chat tools that forget everything, Tanka captures, organizes, and retrieves your team's collective intelligence—turning every conversation, document, and decision into actionable business memory.

Enterprise Culture

Our culture is innovative and collaborative, with a strong emphasis on leveraging AI to solve real-world problems. We value customer-centricity, proactive contribution, and idea generation.

Innovation

Strong focus on AI-powered solutions like Smart Reply and Tanka Morning Memory.

Collaboration

Team members actively discuss and build upon each other's ideas.

Customer-Centricity

Direct engagement with potential users to understand pain points.

Proactive & Suggestive

Team members are encouraged to propose new ideas and strategies.

Marketing Team & Current Focus

Current Priority: Targeting Lawyers

Our immediate focus is on targeting lawyers with Tanka, specifically leveraging the "Smart Reply" feature to address repetitive client questions.

Key Team Members & Collaborators

Kisson Lin

Enthusiastic about targeting lawyers, suggests landing page creation

Alexa Lawrence

Excited about targeting lawyers, suggests showcasing value and ease of use

Tammy

Actively gathering feedback from lawyers, suggests LinkedIn ads

Andrew Chen (Growth)

Involved in product requirements and user journey

Current Marketing Strategies

  • Developing a dedicated Landing Page for lawyers to showcase Tanka's benefits and ease of use
  • Exploring LinkedIn Ads to reach law firms
  • Gathering direct user feedback from legal professionals

Work Systems

We operate in a product-driven and agile environment with clear processes for product development and iteration.

Product Development Cycle

  • • PRDs (Product Requirements Documents)
  • • Kick-off meetings
  • • Wireframes
  • • Functional demos
  • • Internal dogfooding
  • • Public beta flags

Decision Making

Clear ownership for decisions (e.g., Vincent for mobile view scope, Kisson for morning send time).

Action Items

Tasks are assigned with clear owners and due dates to ensure accountability.

Daily Processes

Our daily operations involve cross-functional communication and a focus on iterative development. We leverage AI for internal communication and knowledge management.

Communication

Slack as primary communication channel
Tanka integration for conversation synthesis

Meeting Structure

  • Defined titles and dates
  • Clear durations and attendees
  • Structured overviews
  • Discussion points tracking
  • Decision documentation
  • Action items assignment

Key AI Initiatives

Tanka Morning Memory: Daily AI-powered summaries and insights
Daily Digest Podcast Bot: Automated content generation for team updates

System Tools

Our primary product is Tanka, which serves as an all-in-one collaboration hub. We also use various supporting tools for different aspects of our operations.

Communication & Collaboration

  • • Slack
  • • Notion
  • • Google Suite
  • • WhatsApp

Design & Prototyping

  • • Figma (wireframes)
  • • TestFlight (demos)

AI/ML Tools

  • • ElevenLabs (text-to-speech)
  • • Whisper-v3 (transcription)
  • • OMNE framework
  • • MemGraph

Cloud & Storage

  • • S3 (generated audio)

Marketing Channels

  • • Product Hunt
  • • LinkedIn Ads

Your Next Steps

Immediate Actions

  • Review current lawyer-targeting strategy
  • Connect with key team members
  • Analyze existing landing page approach
  • Explore LinkedIn Ads optimization

Key Contacts

  • Kisson Lin (Strategy)
  • Alexa Lawrence (Marketing)
  • Tammy (User Feedback)
  • Andrew Chen (Growth)

Remember: Your expertise will be invaluable in refining our approach and expanding our reach. We encourage you to dive into existing discussions and documentation, especially around Tanka's "Smart Reply" feature and our ongoing efforts to target lawyers.