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Sixty days to MiCA. Your marketing function is the riskiest line item.

Jukka Blomberg — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:39:41 +0000

On May 1 there are exactly sixty days left in the MiCA transitional period. On April 17 ESMA removed the informal grace-period assumption that several legal teams were quietly hoping for. The line item inside the firm that fails first, when the deadline lands, is not legal. It is marketing.

Most of the noise about MiCA in the last twelve months has been about authorisation. Will the entity get a CASP licence in time. Which member state will be the home regulator. What happens to the white paper. The conversation has been a legal conversation, run by general counsel, with marketing waiting downstream for a copy of the licence so the website can change a footer.

Sixty days out, that ordering is wrong. The entity that has its CASP authorisation in hand on July 1 still has a marketing function that, on the same morning, becomes the part of the company most exposed to enforcement, and the part with the smallest pre-existing playbook for surviving it.

What ESMA actually said on April 17

ESMA's Statement on the end of transitional periods under MiCA, published on 17 April 2026, did three things that materially change what the marketing function has to ship before July 1.

It removed the cliff-edge optionality. The transitional period ends uniformly across the EU on 1 July 2026, regardless of national variation. The countries that previously offered longer national run-offs no longer do. From day one, providing MiCA-regulated services to EU clients without a MiCA authorisation is a breach of EU law. There is no member-state arbitrage left.

It explicitly named branding and intragroup structure as a supervisory target. ESMA expects authorities to scrutinise intragroup outsourcing arrangements, delegation models, and branding strategies that could obscure which legal entity is actually providing the service. Translation: the marketing org that has cleverly moved the EU-facing creative to the non-EU sister entity, kept the brand identical, and assumed the regulator would not look — that is the org being looked at.

It told consumers to verify the ESMA Interim MiCA Register before transferring funds. Which means every consumer-facing piece of marketing copy now sits next to a register the consumer can check. The cost of a marketing claim that does not match the register is no longer abstract; it is a one-click confirmation in the consumer's hand.

Why marketing is the line item that fails first

Inside a regulated firm, the functions exposed to a new authorisation regime fail in a predictable order. Compliance fails last because compliance is the function that wrote the answer. Legal fails second-last because legal has owned the gating conversation for twelve months. Operations fails in the middle because operations has been migrating systems on a known schedule. Customer support fails further forward because the script changed two weeks ago.

Marketing fails first. Five reasons, all structural.

Marketing assets have the longest shelf life. A campaign that shipped six months ago is still indexed, still in the ad inventory, still being served by the affiliate network, still on the partner sites. The legal team's email from yesterday telling marketing to swap out wording does not retroactively touch any of that. On July 1, the asset that violates the new regime was probably published before anyone in the firm had read the April 17 statement.

Marketing surface area is the widest in the firm. Paid-media accounts in eight countries. Influencers under contract in four. Affiliate networks with their own creative. Reseller partners that re-skin the brand. Twenty pieces of evergreen content. Three help-centre pages. A landing page per jurisdiction that nobody has audited since the second cycle of growth experiments. The legal team's audit unit is one person; the marketing surface they are auditing is twenty thousand assets.

Marketing-comms rules are scattered across three regimes. MiCA itself, the Commission Delegated Regulation on marketing communications, and country-specific overlays from each home regulator. The marketing copy that satisfies one of the three may not satisfy all three. Most marketing teams do not have a single document that maps the three regimes onto the firm's actual content inventory. Without that document, the audit before July 1 cannot run.

The risk-disclosure copy is a brand asset, not a footer. Under MiCA, the risk-disclosure language is not boilerplate; it is a defined regulatory artefact whose absence or misstatement is a breach. The brand team that has been treating the disclosure as a thing the legal team owns will find, on July 1, that the legal team has been treating the disclosure as a thing the brand team owns. Both teams are wrong about who owns it. The regulator does not care which.

The KOL contracts have not been read in this light. The influencer contract that the growth team signed in November obliged the influencer to a certain volume of content. It did not oblige the influencer to MiCA-aware risk disclosure inside the content. On July 1, the firm becomes liable for what the influencer publishes about its product — because the influencer is a marketing communication of the firm, not a third party. The contract did not solve this. The brief did not solve this. The influencer probably does not know.

What the next sixty days actually look like

Pulled out of the firms that have already done it once: a sixty-day MiCA-marketing programme has six work-streams, run in parallel, with one operator owning the schedule.

Inventory. Every live marketing asset, by jurisdiction, by channel, by language, by date last edited. Most firms discover that the actual inventory is two to three times the size of the inventory the marketing team thought it had. The discovery itself takes a week. Without it, every later step is theatre.

The MiCA-comms rules-as-code. One document, mapped to the inventory. Forty rules, give or take, depending on which member state is the home regulator and which countries are passported into. The document exists once and is referenced in every brief from now until the regime evolves. Drafting it from scratch is a two-week piece of work; there are open-source baselines that cut it to one.

The disclosure architecture. Not a copy task. An information-design task. Where in the user journey the risk disclosure appears, in what hierarchy, with what optionality, in what languages, with what audit trail. The firms that will pass scrutiny in July have already tested the architecture with the home regulator informally; the firms that will fail it have a single-line footer.

The KOL and affiliate re-papering. Every active influencer contract reopened, with a MiCA-aware addendum. Every affiliate network's creative re-issued, with a one-page brief on what the network can and cannot publish. The agencies that have been running KOL programmes on a volume basis discover, in this step, that they do not have the contractual relationship that would let them do this; the firm's lawyer ends up doing it directly. That is six weeks of legal time the legal team did not budget.

The paid-media policy review. Each platform — Google, Meta, TikTok, X, the regional networks — has its own crypto-promotion regime that interacts with MiCA in non-obvious ways. The platform may permit a piece of copy that MiCA does not. The firm's account manager at the platform is not the firm's compliance officer. The audit needs the second category, not the first.

The post-July-1 incident process. What the team does on July 2 when an indexed asset in Lithuania is reported by a consumer and the home regulator emails. The runbook for the first ten such incidents. Drafted now, kept on the shelf, used in week two of the new regime. Without it, the response to the first incident is improvised, on a Sunday, by whoever is on chat.

What the agencies are not saying

The eighteen large crypto-marketing agencies in the public set, on May 1, have collectively zero published content addressing this sixty-day window in operator-grade terms. The sample includes the US-centric performance shops, the Israeli PR distributors, the Asia/Dubai KOL networks, the AI-search-first specialists, and the agency that owns the InfoFi narrative. None of them has a live page titled "What your marketing function ships before July 1." A few of them have a generic MiCA explainer published in late 2024 that has not been refreshed since.

This is not a failure of effort. It is a structural reflection of where the agencies sit. KOL volume is not regulated marketing-comms strategy. AEO citations are not regulated disclosure architecture. PR placements are not the rules-as-code mapping. The agencies are excellent at the layer they were built for, and the layer they were built for is a layer earlier than the one the buyer needs in May 2026.

The buyer that recognises this in the next two weeks has a very specific profile. A licensed (or about-to-be-licensed) CASP entity in the EU. A marketing team between three and twenty-five people. An incumbent agency relationship that is delivering volume but not regulatory coverage. A general counsel who has noticed the gap and is asking, internally, where the marketing-side equivalent of the legal team's MiCA programme actually lives. The answer, in most firms, is that it does not yet live anywhere. That is the seat being hired.

The shorter version

Sixty days. Marketing fails first. The agencies are not writing the operator-grade content because they were not built for it. The firms that ship the audit, the rules-as-code, the disclosure architecture, the KOL re-papering, the paid-media review, and the incident runbook before July 1 will spend the second half of 2026 growing inside a regime where most of their competitors are spending it negotiating with regulators. The firms that did not will spend it the other way.

The seat that runs this work is a seat. It has a name. It is not the head of growth and it is not the legal team. It is a CMO with the gate-stack reps to recognise the work as marketing operations rather than as a legal favour. Most firms do not have one in the building. Some of them have sixty days to find one.

— Jukka Blomberg, Helsinki, 1 May 2026

Originally published at northpoint.fi/resources/writing/sixty-days-to-mica.

NorthPoint runs the seat above the gate-stack for one CASP-licensed crypto firm at a time. Fractional Crypto CMO from €15,000/mo. CMO Operating System — 90-day install from €55,000.

Hire an agency or hire a fractional crypto CMO

Jukka Blomberg — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:32:48 +0000

Every six weeks for the last three years, the same email lands in my inbox. A founder, usually post-Series A or post-token launch, sometimes a CFO acting on the founder's behalf. The body is roughly: "We're talking to Coinbound and Lunar Strategy. Also looking at MarketAcross for PR. Should we hire one of them or get a fractional CMO instead?"

The honest answer is that the question has the wrong shape. The decision is not which agency. It is not even agency or fractional. It is: what is the smallest unit of marketing competence you can buy that will not collapse the moment your context shifts? Most of the agency-vs-fractional debate in 2026 ignores the second clause.

What an agency actually is.

A crypto marketing agency is a production line attached to a relationship manager. The production line is real and it is good at what it does. Coinbound's influencer network is wider than yours will ever be. Lunar Strategy's data discipline is genuine. MarketAcross's editorial relationships at the top of the trade press were earned over a decade. NinjaPromo will deliver a stand-up paid-social function for less than the cost of a single in-house hire. None of this is wrong. Agencies, the good ones, do work that you would not match if you tried to build the same capability in-house from scratch.

The relationship manager is the bottleneck. They translate your context, which is yours and shifts weekly, into a brief the production line can execute. The production line does not know your compliance gate-stack, your jurisdictional licence reality, your treasury position, or which of your three competitors just got investigated. Whatever the relationship manager does not encode, the work does not encode. Most of what gets lost in agency engagements gets lost there.

What a fractional CMO actually is.

A fractional crypto CMO is a senior operator who works inside your org for two to four days a week, holds the strategic decisions, owns the operating model, and routes execution to whichever combination of in-house, contractor, and yes, agency, makes the unit economics work. The fractional is not the production line. The fractional is the layer that decides which production lines to commission and how to brief them so they do not cancel each other out.

This is the part the comparison articles get wrong. Almost every "Coinbound vs MarketAcross vs Lunar Strategy" piece in the last six months has stacked three agencies side by side as if the founder is picking one. In practice, the exchanges and protocols I have worked with hire two agencies and an in-house team simultaneously, and the question that actually determines the outcome is who is sitting above the three of them making the trade-off calls. If that seat is empty, it doesn't matter which agency you picked.

The decision tree.

Five questions, in order. Each one closes a branch.

1. Do you already have a senior marketing leader who has shipped at your stage? If yes, hire an agency. The leader will brief them properly. The fractional CMO is redundant, expensive, and probably political. Move on.

2. Are you running one channel at scale, or building a marketing function? One channel at scale (e.g. KOL / podcast / paid Twitter) is an agency problem. A marketing function (positioning, narrative, lifecycle, paid, PR, community, comms, jurisdictional rollout) is a CMO problem. Most founders ask themselves question 1 and then skip 2. Both questions have to clear.

3. How long does your context stay stable? If the next twelve months are roughly the same shape as the last six, an agency retainer is fine. If you are about to launch a new product, enter a new jurisdiction, list a new asset, raise a new round, or absorb a regulatory shift, the brief that worked in March will be wrong by September. The agency cannot rewrite its own brief. The fractional can.

4. What is your compliance and licensing surface area? Token project with no jurisdictional exposure: agencies are usually fine. Exchange, custodian, payment rail, regulated stablecoin, RWA platform: the agency cannot survive ten compliance gates per campaign without a senior in-house owner. The fractional is the senior in-house owner who happens not to be there full time.

5. What is your tolerance for vendor-managed proprietary tooling? Several agencies have moved toward proprietary AI platforms — TMX AI CEP at TokenMinds, Leadgram at X10, ICODA's AI-SEO stack. These are real and they work. They are also not yours. When the agency relationship ends, the platform leaves with them, the data stays in their environment, and the institutional memory you thought you were building turns out to live on someone else's roadmap. A fractional engagement leaves the stack in your hands, with your team, with your documentation. That is sometimes the dominant consideration.

What the answers actually look like.

If you answered "yes, channel, stable, low surface area, low" — you want an agency. Pick the one with the strongest relationship manager assigned to your account and the case studies closest to your stage. Coinbound, Lunar, NinjaPromo, MarketAcross all have versions of this. Do not optimise on the agency name. Optimise on who is on your account, weekly.

If you answered "no, function, shifting, high, high" — you want a fractional CMO and probably one to two agencies underneath them. The fractional sets the operating model, owns the brief, and decides which agency to commission for which channel. The agencies execute. Your in-house junior team executes the work that does not justify an agency. Three things, one operating layer.

If you answered somewhere in the middle — and most founders do — the right move is usually the one most agencies will not tell you to make: hire a fractional for ninety days, let them install the operating model and the briefs, then step them down to a lighter retainer once an in-house mid-level can hold the seat. This is what NorthPoint built the CMO Operating System product around. It is not a clever positioning angle; it is what the math actually supports for ninety percent of mid-stage crypto companies.

The unit economics nobody puts in the proposal.

The pricing math is straightforward and it embarrasses both sides of the agency-vs-fractional debate when it is shown plainly.

A typical mid-tier crypto marketing agency retainer in 2026 is €15,000–€40,000 per month for execution-only scope. A subscription model like NinjaPromo's lands lower, around €4,000 per month, in exchange for a queued execution model with no senior strategic attention per client. A fractional CMO retainer at NorthPoint scale starts at €15,000 per month for two to four days a week of senior attention, with the agency stack operating underneath.

The agency-only number looks similar to the fractional-only number. They are not similar engagements. The difference is the ceiling. Agency-only caps your marketing function at the depth of the briefs your relationship manager can write. Fractional-led caps it at the depth of the operator you hired. For most exchange and infrastructure businesses with serious compliance surface area, the second ceiling is two to three multiples higher. The CFOs who look at this carefully tend to converge on the same answer.

The shorter version.

Agencies are production lines. Fractional CMOs are operating layers. The buying decision is not "which one" — the decision is whether your context needs an operating layer at all, and if it does, the agency choice becomes an execution detail, not a strategic one.

If you can answer "yes" to question 1 and "channel" to question 2, do not hire a fractional. Hire the agency with the best account team you can get. If you cannot, you are buying yourself a brief-translation problem that will quietly compound for two quarters and surface as a CAC blowout in the next board meeting. Most of the founders who eventually call NorthPoint do so the second time, not the first.

— Jukka Blomberg, Helsinki, 26 April 2026

Originally published at northpoint.fi/resources/writing/agency-vs-fractional-cmo.

Rebuilding crypto marketing after the AI layoffs

Jukka Blomberg — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:34:49 +0000

In a six-week window in March 2026, Crypto.com cut 12 percent, Gemini cut 30 percent, Algorand cut 25 percent, and a recruiter on the record for CoinDesk called the AI rationale a cover story. If you sit on a marketing org that just got smaller, the next 90 days is a structural rebuild. It is not a tooling swap. Here is what that actually looks like.

The story Anthropic-era CEOs are telling in their layoff notes is the same story. We are integrating AI. We are getting more efficient. The team that emerges will be smaller, faster, and more strategic. The press release writes itself, and so does the Slack post, and so does the line about valuing every departing colleague.

Dan Eskow, who runs a crypto recruitment agency and is on the record in CoinDesk this month, called it directly: I see no real indication that these layoffs have anything to do with AI workforce replacement at scale. What is happening, he said, is that whole crypto sectors — restaking, DePIN, layer-twos — got over-staffed in the last cycle and have contracted. M&A activity is adding to the redundancies as acqui-hired employees displace legacy ones. AI is the cover. The thing under the cover is a normal cyclical reset.

That distinction matters, because the rebuild that fixes a cyclical reset is not the rebuild that fixes a tooling problem. If you treat the gap with another agency retainer or a Zapier flow, you will be hiring the same role at six-figure base nine months later. If you treat it as a structural rebuild, the org that emerges actually is smaller, faster, and more strategic — but for different reasons than the press release said.

Why marketing gets cut first

In every crypto cycle reset since 2018, marketing is among the earliest functions trimmed. Three reasons, all of them visible from the CFO's seat.

The output is hard to attribute when revenue compresses. A treasury team that just watched fee revenue drop 30 percent quarter-on-quarter cannot easily defend a marketing line that took two quarters to read. Even when the marketing was correct, the read-time of the work is longer than the read-time of the panic. The cut is rational, even when it is wrong.

The senior marketing seat is unusually exposed. CMOs at crypto firms in 2024-2025 were typically hired during a budget expansion. Their tenure averages well under two years. They sit above an operating layer they do not own. When the budget contracts, the seat above the function is structurally easier to remove than the function itself. The team becomes orphaned. The doctrine they were running disappears with the seat.

The work is portable until it isn't. An exchange's marketing playbook lives partly in the heads of three to five operators who have run the gate-stack — compliance, legal, treasury, country counsel, the CISO when the SDK is involved. When those operators go, the playbook goes. The organisation that lays them off rarely realises this until campaign three of the next quarter and the post-mortem nobody can write.

The combination is what turns a reasonable cost-cut into a structural problem. The CFO trims the marketing line; the senior seat is removed first because it costs the most; the operating doctrine walks out with the senior seat; and the surviving team — usually capable, usually mid-career, usually still on the books — finds itself trying to ship the next campaign without a brief that compliance will sign.

What the wrong rebuild looks like

The default rebuild path, in every cycle, is the same. Hire an agency to bridge. Wait for the recovery. Re-hire the senior seat at twelve to eighteen months out, usually at higher comp than the role you cut. The agency invoices clear; the function never quite re-coheres; the next CFO inherits a slightly worse version of the marketing org their predecessor cut.

This path fails for one structural reason. The agency cannot rebuild what it did not write. The doctrine that ran the previous campaigns — the brief format, the gate-stack routing, the country-specific risk-disclosure copy library, the post-mortem template, the KOL routing logic, the campaign-pull authority chain — was a private artefact owned by the senior seat and executed by the team. An agency on retainer ships campaigns. It does not write the doctrine for an organisation it does not run.

So the surviving team continues to ship, but without the layer that made the shipping coherent. The CMO seat re-opens at month nine. The new hire spends their first quarter rebuilding the doctrine the agency was never paid to rebuild. The org spends another two quarters absorbing the new doctrine. By month fifteen, the function is back to where the layoff caught it, minus the institutional memory of the previous cycle. This is the path most crypto organisations are about to take. It will work eventually. It is the most expensive way to get there.

What the right rebuild looks like

Five steps, in order. None of them are tooling. All of them are doctrine.

1. Write the brief format you actually use. Inside a week. Forty pages or fewer, structured around the gate-stack. Inputs from compliance, legal, treasury, country counsel, the platform team, paid-media policy review. Outputs that any campaign owner can fill in once and route through the gates without three rounds of clarifying questions. The brief format is the centre of gravity of the function. If you do not have one written down, you do not have a function — you have whoever is in the room that day.

2. Re-staff the post-mortem, not the seat. Schedule a real post-mortem on the last three campaigns the laid-off team shipped. Pull the comms, the internal Slack, the compliance routing, the metrics. Run it with whoever is left, plus a senior operator who has run post-mortems with legal in the room before. Write what worked, what got killed, what would ship differently. Put it in a doc. This is the operating doctrine in retroactive form. It is also what the next senior hire will need on day one.

3. Cut the agency stack to one external partner per layer. One PR partner. One paid-media partner. One creative partner. No sub-agency relationships. Each partner reports against the brief format from step one, in writing. The agency stack post-layoff is usually inherited and over-broad. Reset it before the next campaign ships. The cost line will drop materially. The campaign throughput will not.

4. Install the AI stack at the brief layer, not the campaign layer. The leverage AI gives a contracted marketing org is not in faster output. It is in faster brief-writing, faster compliance-routing, faster country-specific risk-copy generation, and faster post-mortem assembly. A solo operator with the right stack can do what a thirty-person team used to. But the stack lives at the brief, not the campaign. Most teams install it the wrong way around — they speed up output before they speed up the doctrine, and the gate-stack swallows the gain. The order matters.

5. Re-open the senior seat with a written job description, not a title. By month three, you should know exactly what doctrine the next CMO inherits, what the brief format looks like, what the agency stack does, what the AI stack does, and what the function still cannot do. That document — not the salary band, not the title, not the comp package — is what attracts the right hire and repels the wrong one. The hires you will be sorry you made are the ones who came in for the title and inherited a vacuum. The hires you will be glad you made are the ones who came in for the document and added to it.

Where the 90-day clock comes from

The reason the rebuild fits inside 90 days, when most CMO searches take six months, is that you are not searching for the seat in the first 90 days. You are rebuilding the doctrine the seat will eventually run. The doctrine — brief format, gate-stack routing, agency-stack reset, AI-stack at the brief layer, post-mortem on the last cycle — is roughly twelve weeks of work for an operator who has done it before.

The CMO seat then re-opens with a job description that reads like an operating manual. The candidate pool that responds to that job description is materially smaller and materially better than the pool that responds to "we are hiring a CMO." You hire fewer interviews. You hire faster. You spend less on the search. The seat sticks.

The companies that get this right in 2026 will be the ones that, two years from now, look back at the March layoff and see the start of the function that actually worked. The ones that bridge with an agency and wait will look back at it as a hole.

The shorter version

The AI-cited layoff is a cyclical reset wearing a tooling story. The right response is not another agency retainer. It is a written doctrine — brief format, gate-stack routing, AI stack at the brief, agency stack pruned to one partner per layer, post-mortem on the cycle that just ended. Twelve weeks. Then the seat re-opens with a job description that reads like an operating manual, and the next hire steps into something instead of into a vacuum.

Or you can hire an agency to bridge, wait nine months, re-open the seat at higher comp, and discover at month fifteen that the function is back where the layoff caught it. Your call.

— Jukka Blomberg, Helsinki, 27 April 2026

*Originally published at northpoint.fi/resources/writing/rebuilding-after-the-ai-layoffs.

The 40 MiCA rules every crypto marketer should know

Jukka Blomberg — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:22:02 +0000

If you ship crypto marketing into the EU, MiCA isn't a compliance team problem — it's a marketing team problem. And most marketing teams find that out the hard way, usually after a campaign goes live and gets pulled.

If your marketing team isn't reading MiCA directly, you're going to ship the wrong copy and pay for it twice — first in legal review delays, then in retracted campaigns.

Here are the rule families every crypto marketer running EU-facing campaigns needs to internalize. Not legal advice — operator-grade pattern recognition.

The "fair, clear, and not misleading" baseline (rules 1–8)

Every promotional communication must be identifiable as such, balanced in its presentation of risk and reward, and free from anything that obscures or downplays material information. In practice this kills a lot of standard crypto growth tactics: APY headlines without the underlying volatility disclosure, "guaranteed returns" framing of any kind, before-and-after price screenshots without context, and influencer testimonials that don't disclose their compensation.

The principle is simple. The execution is where most teams get caught.

Risk warnings — placement, prominence, language (rules 9–16)

Risk warnings aren't checkbox items. MiCA prescribes their location (visible without scrolling, alongside the promotional message), their prominence (font size, contrast, language register), and their content (what specific risks must be named). This applies to every channel — social ads, organic posts, landing pages, in-app banners, push notifications, email subject lines.

The most common mistake: localizing the marketing copy but leaving the risk warning in English. Every EU member state has language requirements. If you're advertising in France, the warning is in French. Romania, Romanian. No exceptions.

Marketing communications targeting retail (rules 17–24)

Retail-facing communications carry the heaviest restrictions. No incentive-based promotions that could distort decision-making (this is where "deposit bonuses" and "trade-to-earn" promotions get scrutinized). No comparison to traditional financial products without a balanced presentation. No claims about future performance, even hedged ones. Past performance disclosures are required, in a specific format.

If your growth team has a retail acquisition funnel running in the EU, this is the section that will most often catch them mid-campaign. Build the audit into the brief, not the review.

White paper consistency (rules 25–32)

Every marketing communication must be consistent with the white paper. This is the rule that breaks the "marketing operates independently from product" model that a lot of crypto teams default to. If your token utility evolves, the marketing must update. If your white paper says one thing about staking rewards and your landing page says another, that's a MiCA violation regardless of which one is closer to the actual product behavior.

The fix: marketing reads the white paper before drafting, references it directly in copy reviews, and flags any drift back to product before the campaign ships.

Cross-border distribution (rules 33–40)

A campaign that's compliant in Germany may not be compliant in Spain, Portugal, or Ireland. Each EU regulator has interpretive latitude on the application of the baseline rules. Geo-targeting, language localization, and channel-specific compliance are all in scope. "Pan-European" campaigns in their lazy form — one creative, one language, one disclosure — are now a structural risk.

The teams that handle this well treat MiCA the way they treat GDPR: not as a single compliance check, but as a per-jurisdiction marketing parameter that's baked into every brief from the start.

The full 40-rule self-audit is open-source on GitHub and installable as a Claude skill — npx skills add jukkablomberg/northpoint --skill mica-marketing-self-audit. Source and rendered checklist on the NorthPoint resources page. Forks and PRs welcome.

Questions on running this against your campaigns? I run NorthPoint — happy to chat.