Operator AI with Zachary King Marketing at the Speed of AI: Luke Marshall's One-Man Growth Machine
Recorded as CEO, GradEngage
About Luke Marshall
Luke Marshall is a growth marketer who specialises in marketing automation and AI-assisted growth systems. In September 2026 he was introduced as CEO of GradEngage, an early-careers engagement tool that helps employers keep graduate hires engaged between offer and start date.
He has also been head of growth at UseVerb, a hiring platform for frontline roles where job seekers apply with a short video or voice introduction rather than a cover letter.
He has appeared on Pick My Brain with Alan Jones (2025), discussing video-first recruitment at UseVerb, and on Operator AI with Zachary King (2026), explaining how he runs growth marketing from a single Claude Code instance on a cloud server.
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- AI, Growth & Scaling, Hiring & Team, Product
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2 episodes
Start hereMarketing at the Speed of AI: Luke Marshall's One-Man Growth MachineThe more detailed of his two episodes: he walks through the AI set-up he uses to run growth marketing, from lead generation to a running knowledge archive.
Operator AI with Zachary King 
Pick My Brain with Alan Jones Hiring in 27 Seconds: Luke Marshall on Growth, Gen Z & Video-First Recruitment with UseVerb
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Key moments from Marketing at the Speed of AI: Luke Marshall's One-Man Growth Machine.
- 0:00Cold open: a look at Luke's AI stack
- 0:55Meet Luke Marshall and GradEngage
- 2:34Rebuilding a landing page and demo video with Claude Code
- 7:29Running Claude Code from a cloud VM for lead gen
- 13:00A standalone database for the entire target market
- 17:25Voice versus typing: planning out loud
- 19:29Planning mode and a clarifying-questions skill
- 22:47Personal builds: a workout generator and an AI assistant for his wife
- 27:41When automated outreach went wrong
- 31:07Rapid-fire round
In their own words.
“Sometimes you've just gotta listen to your gut and follow the intuition and then the data will follow.”
The path so far.
- Now
Head of Growth · UseVerb
- Earlier · Scale-up
Growth · 90 Seconds
Sources: youtube.com
UseVerb on Day One
UseVerb is a Perth job board and hiring app where candidates apply with a short video or voice pitch rather than relying on a CV alone.
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