About Allie Hartman | Creator Partnerships Lab
Hi, I'm Allie 👋

About Allie Hartman.

Founder & CEO, Creator Partnerships Lab

With 15+ years of experience in creator marketing and communications, I help brands earn attention, build trust, and scale influence through media, culture, and creator partnerships.

My career spans both PR agencies and in-house leadership roles, where I've repeatedly built and scaled creator and communications functions from the ground up — often as a company's first creator marketing hire.

That experience taught me how to design low-cost, in-house operating systems that drive early wins, prove ROI, and unlock larger growth investments.

15+ Years Experience 1,000+ Partnerships Dr Pepper · Canada Dry Founder & CEO
The work

Strategy, systems, and culture — at the intersection.

I'm known for turning what is often treated as "soft marketing" into structured, measurable growth channels. My work sits at the intersection of strategy, systems, and culture.

Across my career, I've partnered with more than 1,000 creators, giving me a rare, pattern-level understanding of what works — and what breaks — when brands attempt to scale creator partnerships.

My combined agency-side rigor and in-house operational ownership allow me to build systems that work in real organizations, not just on slides.

After years of working across brands, budgets, and industries, one pattern became clear: creator marketing doesn't fail because of creators. It fails because brands don't build systems around them.

Experience
15+
Years in creator marketing and communications — agency side and in-house
Partnerships
1K+
Creator partnerships managed across startups and global brands
The result
1
Operating system built to document every framework, decision, and model that actually works
Why CPOS exists

The system I wish every team had before spending their first dollar on creators.

CPOS was created to document the frameworks, decisions, and operating models I built behind the scenes across 15 years and more than 1,000 partnerships.

"Creator marketing doesn't fail because of creators. It fails because brands don't build systems around them."

Every chapter of CPOS exists to solve a real problem I encountered — and fixed — in the field. Not theory. Not what agencies sell. The actual operating logic of what works when you're building this inside a real company with real constraints.

This is the playbook designed to:

Reduce Risk

FTC compliance, usage rights, deal structure — the legal and operational guardrails most brands skip.

Increase ROI

Measurement frameworks that track every dollar, every asset, and every creator — so nothing is spent on faith.

Make Scaling Obvious

Repeatable workflows, creator benches, and campaign infrastructure that compounds instead of resets.

Career

Built on the ground floor — every time.

Agency

PR & Communications Agency

Began career on the agency side, developing the rigor, process discipline, and cross-brand perspective that informs every system built since.

In-House

First Creator Marketing Hire

Repeatedly entered organizations as the first creator marketing hire — building programs from scratch with limited budgets and no existing playbook.

Global

Dr Pepper & Canada Dry

Scaled creator and communications programs at iconic global brands — proving the same systems work whether you're a startup or a household name.

1,000+

Creator Partnerships Managed

Across every category, budget level, and campaign type — developing pattern-level clarity on what drives results and what quietly burns budget.

Now

Creator Partnerships Lab

Founder & CEO — building the systems, education, and live programs that help founders and small teams run creator marketing like professionals.

Ready to build the system?

Start with the Free Gifting Webinar or the CPOS Live waitlist.

Join Allie live on June 10th — or get on the waitlist for the 8-week CPOS Live cohort and lock in $500 off founding member pricing.

Save a Free Seat → Join CPOS Live Waitlist → June 10 · 11 AM EST · Free webinar · $500 off for waitlist
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