kyntralabs.Est. 2019
01Start here
KC Wright — marketing technologist & architect

I own the architecture, not just the campaign.

I'm KC Wright. I run enterprise marketing operations for a Fortune 1000 program, about 35 million messages a day. Most of my work sits upstream of that: customer data, identity, and segmentation. I can build the systems behind it, which mostly means I know what to buy, and I'm hard to oversell.

Based in
Kansas City, MO
Platforms
Salesforce Marketing Cloud · Braze · Marketo · Data 360
Also builds
TypeScript · Next.js · Postgres
02MarTech

The send is the easy part.

Everyone sees the email. Nobody sees the dozen systems that decided who got it, whether they'd consented, and whether it counted for anything.

35M+
messages a day
12B+
emails a year
$100M+
attributed revenue
03The lab

Kyntra Labs is a playground and a portfolio.

It isn't a startup, nothing's for sale, and there's no pitch deck. It exists because every MarTech leader makes the same call on repeat: buy the platform and live with the gaps, or build the thing and own it forever. Most people answer that in a spreadsheet. I'd rather answer it in code, on my own time, and find out what building actually costs before I recommend it to somebody spending real money.

Two projects, two different answers.

A straightforward build
01

Daedalus

Live monitoring and AI recovery for Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Salesforce doesn't ship a live operational view of Marketing Cloud. The gap was specific, the cost of it was a missed send window, and one person could own the whole surface. That's a build, and it wasn't a close call.

4 business units · 3,500+ automations · 900+ data extensions and queries

daedalus.kyntralabs.io/clients
Daedalus dashboard
The call I wasn't sure about
02

Agora

A workflow runtime for the cross-functional work behind every campaign.

A dozen vendors sell project management. None of them model the process itself. Building it was how I found out whether that difference is worth paying for.

Modules · Blueprints · Initiatives

agora.kyntralabs.io/initiatives/novacore-pro
Agora workflow
04Architecture

Five decisions, and the roads not taken.

How the two projects are actually built, what each call cost in marketing terms, and the alternative I turned down every time. It also stays honest about what's designed but deliberately not running.

Multi-tenancy & secretsDurable queuesAI cost control
05About

Ten years, one accidental start.

A reorg two months into my first job handed me Salesforce Marketing Cloud and I never gave it back. Also: a Bernese Mountain Dog who has never once barked at the door.