3 core sessions + 1 add-on · 4 weeks

Find your content-market fit.

A structured programme for brands that have decided organic content matters - and want an in-house engine that reliably reaches their exact customer, then reaches far more of them. This section outlines what each session covers, what your team leaves with, and who should be in the room.

Format3 + 1 sessions
Duration4 weeks
Cadence1 full day / week
Built forYouTube and Instagram
Roadmap

Four weeks, one full day at a time

Each session builds on the last, so the order is fixed. A week between sessions gives your team time to apply the work before the next layer goes on. Three weeks is the minimum.

Week 1 · 1 day

Session 1 - Who Gets What

Audience mapping and the content-market fit foundation.

Week 2 · 1 day

Session 2 - Formats & Team

Repeatable formats, platform setup, team structure and culture.

Week 3 · 2 days

Session 3 + 4

Metrics, expectations and moonshots - plus the visual hooks deep dive (if opted in).

Week 4

Check-in & alignment

Review of early work and the execution plan, against everything agreed.

The curriculum

Session by session

Week 1 · Foundation

Who Gets What: audience mapping & content-market fit

Most content fails upstream of any single post: targeting is spread across several personas and no one has written down what the content must deliver, to whom. This session produces the one statement every future piece of content will be checked against.

1 full dayStrategy
What we cover
  • Content-market fit, definedWhat is content-market fit, what it looks like once you’ve found it, and how it sets the “who gets what” for every piece of content you produce from here on.
  • Setting the “what” from the business outcomeAwareness and reach versus education and activation are different games with different scoreboards. We decide which one your content plays, and why - tied to your actual revenue model.
  • Product and marketing complexityHow hard your value proposition is to communicate directly impacts the choice of content buckets, formats and even the social media platform that you want to prioritise. This exercise helps us arrive at the right match based on your value prop complexity.
  • Matching zone and tonalityPlatform, tone and treatment all inherit from the “who gets what.” An audience seeking depth and clarity will be averse to flashy, top-of-funnel, trend-based content. This exercise helps us nail the tonality for all your future posts.
  • Playing the algorithm’s tailwindWe deep-dive into how consistently hitting the same “who gets what” across every post naturally helps the algorithm find and grow an audience for your content.
  • Mapping how your audience consumesA practical research method: what your real audience saves, sends to a peer, and returns to - and the tonality and value signals behind it.
  • Creating differentiationThis is where we look at the final layer: what avenues we have to create a differentiated manifestation style for all your content pieces, one that stays true to the “who gets what” and the tonality we have already locked.
  • Why clarity and discipline matter so muchThe first 20-50 posts determine the training set for the algorithm’s “who gets what” label for your page. Mess this up and you pay a penalty for the lifetime of this page.
Week 2 · Execution system

Formats, platform setup & team structure

Turn the Session 1 strategy into something a team can produce, week after week.

1 full dayPart A: FormatsPart B: Team & culture
Part A · Formats

Lock 3-5 repeatable formats

  • The format as a containerWe help you arrive at fixed manifestations for your content that are repeatable across posts while still adhering to your “who gets what” and tonality.
  • What repeatability buys youRecognition that compounds on the feed; every downstream creative decision settled (who’s on camera, whether anyone is, edit style); and predictable quality and volume.
  • Routing around constraintsChoosing formats that work within your production, budget and talent limits - with AI built in from the start to reach scale without extra headcount or shoots.
  • Scaling through paid mediaWe look into how these repeatable formats can become rock-solid briefs for creator partners and your performance team, scaling it to 100x distribution.
  • Platform configurationWhere your content hub sits - YouTube or Instagram - and how the secondary channel supports it. Where X (Twitter) and LinkedIn fit, and where they don’t.
  • Decoded case studiesWorking formats taken apart layer by layer: the insight, the structure, the constraints they solved.
Part B · Team & culture

Build the team the formats call for

  • Team structure that follows the formatsThe formats decide the talent. Defining exact roles, hiring profiles and test assignments - instead of hiring broadly and hoping.
  • Strategy versus executionWhy strategic clarity has to be owned at leadership level, and why the answer is focused, well-priced specialists rather than a team of senior generalists.
  • Clear KRAsWhat each person owns, what great looks like, and why ideation and creative execution are separate jobs.
  • Coaching and specialisationBuilding learning time into the working week, and narrowing roles - for example, a dedicated editor for the first three seconds - so skills sharpen measurably.
  • Retention by designGrowth paths that make good people stay: clarity, low stress, and real progress in their craft.
  • Operating cultureMoving leadership from firefighting to teaching; a decision bar of “best for the context,” not “good enough”; and taking every shot like a high-conviction bet rather than volume for its own sake.
Week 3 · Growth

Virality, analytics, expectations & moonshots

Replace “go viral” with a metric you can measure and move, set honest expectations for the growth curve, then build a repeatable way to find outlier ideas without leaving your audience behind.

1 full dayPart A: MetricsPart B: Moonshots
Part A · Metrics & expectations

Measure what you can move

  • Why “virality” misleadsComparing your views with another page’s tells you nothing: different averages, audiences, depth and product complexity. What a view is worth varies wildly by category.
  • How “virality” gets measuredViews as a multiple of your own baseline, without ever straying from your “who gets what.” 1.5-2× is a real win and compounds into business results.
  • The input metricsSkip rate, click-through rate, average watch time, shares and saves - and on YouTube, CTR and watch time across Browse and Suggested. What good looks like for each.
  • Reading analytics for your goalWhich numbers matter for the goals you chose in Session 1, and how to filter out the rest.
  • Setting expectationsGrowth follows a hockey stick curve. We align your team on what to expect across each part of this curve, so you don’t jeopardise the plan right before it’s about to take off.
Part B · Moonshots

Find outlier ideas that fit your brand

  • Brands aren’t in the business of original artThe job is to find what already works exceptionally well and make it undeniably yours. Original formats emerge later, through many small iterations.
  • Borrowing versus copyingWe deep dive into the trap of copying a viral format or trend superficially, versus finding formats that are a glove-fit for your content strategy and that you can make your own.
  • Joining the moment without breaking formatHow to use trends and cultural moments inside your own formats instead of chasing them.
  • The art of referencingUsing a single brief as the filter for references, so that every team member knows how to look for gold.
  • Niche arbitrageWith your audience locked, you can pull formats from categories that have nothing to do with yours - a source almost no one uses.
  • Making it a practiceGiving your creative lead dedicated time for moonshots, and systematically aligning the team in a way where aiming for moonshots is a part of the daily routine.
Week 3 · Add-on module

The art & science of visual hooks

A hands-on craft session inside the formats you’ve already locked: how to earn the first 3 seconds, reduce skip rate and lift click-through rate, frame by frame.

1 full dayOptionalFor execution teams
Visual technique

We deep-dive into how you can use techniques like visual salience, colour psychology, unexpected framing and perspective, composition, camera movements, and text and visual pairing, to drastically improve skip rates while still staying true to your tonality.

Psychology of the opening frame
  • The highest-leverage words in the videoWriting the opening text and spoken line.
  • Loss aversionWhy potential losses move people more than equal gains, and how to use it in hooks.
  • Spiky point of viewLeading with a defensible, debatable stance - conviction, not cheap contrarianism.
  • Null state hypothesisAssuming the viewer is in the worst state possible to pay any attention whatsoever to your content, and building the opening frame for exactly that state.
  • An emotional hierarchy for hooksOrdering emotional triggers from the most primal to the most considered.
After the sessions

Check-in, then ongoing support

Week 4

Check-in & alignment

A working review against everything agreed in Sessions 1-3.

  • If your team is in place: we review mood boards, mock-ups and early content drafts.
  • If you’re still hiring: we pressure-test the execution plan and hiring roadmap.
Ongoing

Consultation days

After the programme, additional access is booked by the full day. Detailed, specific feedback needs preparation and time with your work, so sessions are always full days rather than calls.

The first session is best held in person, with key stakeholders and some of the execution team in the room.

Scope

What this programme is - and isn’t

A strong fit if you

  • Have decided organic content is a priority
  • Want to build in-house content teams and channels
  • Are focused on YouTube and/or Instagram
  • Know your ideal customer and want content to reach many more of them

Not what this covers

  • Influencer marketing as the primary strategy
  • Paid media buying
  • Defining your customer persona from scratch
  • LinkedIn or X as primary brand channels - these suit enterprise and founder-led brands; I’ll be upfront where they matter for you
Why this is different

Most content consulting hands you advice. This hands you an engine.

The difference is not the quality of the advice. It is that this programme is built by an operator who ran these channels in-house for nine years, and every session ends in a decision your team can execute on Monday.

Parameter
Typical content consulting
This programme
Where it starts
A content calendar and a list of trends worth trying.
A written “who gets what”, set by the business outcome your content is accountable to. Nothing gets made before that is locked.
How tailored it is
A best-practice deck that would fit any brand in any category, because it was written before they met you.
Built around your value prop complexity, your audience and your production, budget and talent constraints.
Formats
Post more, test more, see what sticks.
3-5 repeatable formats locked with reference examples, each one briefable to creator partners and your performance team.
The team
Hire a good creator or agency and hand them the undefined problem.
A role map with hiring profiles, test assignments and KRAs, derived from the formats you just locked.
Who is in the room
Marketing leadership only. The people who actually make the content never hear any of it.
Leadership for the strategy calls, and your creators, editors and designers for the craft module.
How success is measured
Views, benchmarked against whichever page went viral that week.
A multiple of your own baseline, plus the input metrics you can actually move: skip rate, CTR, watch time, shares and saves.
Finding outlier ideas
Chase whatever is trending and hope it fits the brand.
Niche arbitrage and a moonshot routine where every idea is filtered through your “who gets what” before it ships.
Depth of craft
Stops at strategy. Nobody ever looks at the first 3 seconds.
Goes to frame level: visual salience, colour, framing, composition and the opening line.
What happens after
A deck lands in your inbox and you are on your own to execute it.
A week 4 check-in on real work in progress, then full-day access whenever you need it.