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It is Monday morning. What is already late?
How does the quiz work?
Each answer adds points to one or more of four stacks, and the highest total wins. There is no email gate and nothing is stored about you: the result is worked out in your browser.
The four stacks come from one idea in our guide to the AI marketing stack for 2026: buy for your bottleneck, not for the category list. A solo founder and an agency lead can both be "doing paid social" and need almost nothing in common.
What are the four stacks?
| Stack | Bottleneck | Core tools |
|---|---|---|
| The Lean Operator | Time and budget | Assistant, design, scheduler, simple analytics |
| The Creative Machine | Volume of ad creative | Swipe file, avatar video, editor, voice |
| The Automator | Manual data work | Workflow tool, assistant, web data API, database |
| The Agency Desk | Reporting across clients | Reporting connector, creative analytics, social and paid dashboard, CRM |
What if I got a result that feels wrong?
Then you probably answered for the business you plan to have. Take it again for the one you have this month. Stacks change as spend and headcount change, and the cheapest mistake in marketing software is buying next year's tools early.
Every tool in a result links to our directory entry, which lists the current price and, more usefully, who the tool is wrong for.