Capstone, The Complete 90-Day Content Strategy

Assemble a single, complete 90-day content strategy document for your chosen subject combining the audience definition, promise, pillars, format-channel map, a 90-day calendar, one full repurposing map, a distribution plan, and a scorecard.

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Objective

BehaviorAssemble a single, complete 90-day content strategy document for your chosen subject combining the audience definition, promise, pillars, format-channel map, a 90-day calendar, one full repurposing map, a distribution plan, and a scorecard.

ConditionBuilt on the real artifacts produced in Lessons 1 through 8 for the same subject chosen in Lesson 1, extending the calendar to a genuine 90-day span at the same weekly time budget audited in Lesson 5, written as a document someone else could pick up and run.

CriterionAll 8 components present in one document, each internally consistent with the others (pillars trace to the audience definition, the calendar reflects the format-channel map and respects the Lesson 5 time budget, scorecard metrics match Lesson 8), every pillar appears at least once in the 90-day calendar, and a specific 30-day checkpoint date and review scope is named.

Why This Matters

This is the actual test, and it mirrors the real job: shipping a quarter of content operations the way a strategist would ship it, not a stack of disconnected exercises. This is exactly what separates a course that produced homework from one that produced a document you could hand to a collaborator on Monday morning and walk away from. If the pieces don’t fit together here, that gap existed the whole time, this lesson just forces you to see it before a real quarter runs on a broken plan.

The Technique

Compile the finished artifacts in order: the audience definition (Lesson 1), the content promise (Lesson 2), the pillar list (Lesson 3), and the format-channel fit map (Lesson 4). Don’t rewrite them, pull them forward as-is, that’s the point of having done the work already.

Extend the calendar. Take the 4-week rhythm from Lesson 5 and stretch it out to roughly 13 weeks, holding the same weekly time budget you audited there. Don’t inflate ambition just because the horizon got longer, the math that made the 4-week version sustainable is the same math that has to hold for 90 days.

Attach one full repurposing map (Lesson 6) for at least one planned pillar piece somewhere in the 90 days, showing exactly how that piece multiplies into derivatives. Attach the distribution plan (Lesson 7) as the default playbook applied to every major piece in the calendar, not a one-off example. Attach the scorecard (Lesson 8) as the measurement system that runs across the full 90 days.

Set a 30-day checkpoint. Define exactly what gets reviewed at day 30: early scorecard trends, cadence adherence so far, and any pillar already showing a clear signal. Don’t wait for the full quarterly review pattern from Lesson 9 to catch a broken cadence, thirty days is enough time to catch drift before it costs you the whole quarter.

Assemble everything into one document with clear section headers matching the 8 components, so it reads as a single coherent operating plan, not eight separate homework assignments stapled together.

Watch For This

Good

Every component traces consistently forward and backward: a pillar named early shows up correctly in the calendar later, the distribution plan actually targets the audience named in section one.
The document reads like something a real operator could pick up and run without you in the room.
The 30-day checkpoint is specific and dated, not a vague “check in periodically.”

Classic Failure

Sections contradict each other: the calendar references a pillar that doesn’t exist in the pillar list, or exceeds the stated time budget.
The document is really the Lesson 5 4-week calendar copy-pasted three times with no real 90-day thinking behind it.
No checkpoint before day 90, meaning a broken cadence could run unnoticed for a full quarter.

Your Drill

Produce the complete 90-day content strategy document with 8 labeled sections: Audience Definition, Content Promise, Content Pillars, Format-Channel Map, 90-Day Calendar, Repurposing Map (one pillar), Distribution Plan, and Scorecard, plus a named 30-day checkpoint date and review scope.

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Pass Checklist

Lesson complete

Criterion met: All 8 components present in one document, each internally consistent with the others (pillars trace to the audience definition, the calendar reflects the format-channel map and respects the Lesson 5 time budget, scorecard metrics match Lesson 8), every pillar appears at least once in the 90-day calendar, and a specific 30-day checkpoint date and review scope is named.

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All 8 components present and internally consistent with each other. 90-day calendar respects the same weekly time budget audited in Lesson 5, no ambition inflation. Every pillar from the pillar list appears at least once in the 90-day calendar. Repurposing map and distribution plan attached for at least one real planned piece. A specific 30-day checkpoint date and review scope is named in the document.

Coach Note

A plan that only survives contact with day one isn’t a plan, it’s a wish with a calendar attached. The 30-day checkpoint is what makes this one real. If you skip it, you’ve built a nicer-looking version of the same thing that fails in week three, just with better formatting.

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This is the terminal lesson. Its own output is what Lesson 9’s quarterly review and Lesson 10’s kill/double-down decisions get run against once the 90 days are actually underway.