Install guide
How an install works.
A fixed scope, installed in phases, with a sign-off at every gate. Here’s what happens week by week, what we need from you, and what you approve before anything moves on.
Week 0
It starts with ten terms.
A 30-minute call. We look at your site together and sketch the first ten terms of your vocabulary before we hang up.
Within a week you get a written plan: the scope, the phases and a beta price. Nothing is booked until you’ve read it and said yes.
Week by week
Content leads. Structure follows.
- Week 1A baseline, an audit and a strawman vocabulary
Before anything changes, we record where you stand today: search clicks and impressions, top entry pages and enquiries. Then we read the whole site and draft 30 to 60 terms, in your words where we can find them.
- Gate 1You sign off the vocabulary
About half an hour: keep, cut or rename. Nothing is built before this.
- Week 2Collections and tagging
Topics, Insights and FAQs as native CMS collections; every project and service tied to your vocabulary.
- Week 3Templates that build themselves
Styled from your site’s own variables, with a walkthrough for your editors. Foundation is complete here.
- Weeks 4–6The library
You fill the Voice Kit and we draft 8 to 10 launch pieces. You keep your written voice profile.
- Gate 2You approve every piece
Nothing goes live until you approve it. Library is complete here.
- Months 2–4Topic pages, the hub and the rest
One topic page at a time, the hub last, with check-ins around day 60 and day 120.
What you sign off
Three gates. Every one is yours.
The vocabulary
Before anything is built. Every term is yours to keep, cut or rename.
Every piece of writing
Before it publishes. Drafts arrive in your voice; the final say is yours.
Every topic definition
Before its page ships. The definition is the page, so it has to sound like you.
What we need from you
Less than you’d think.
- Access
- Editor access to your CMS
- Half an hour
- To read the vocabulary and mark it up
- About 15 minutes
- For the Voice Kit, mostly talking, if your package has the library
- Review time
- For each draft and definition, on your schedule
We don’t need a brief, a content calendar or anything written in advance. If your voice already exists in proposals, talks or emails, we start there. Busy month? Tell us and we pause: the timeline moves with your reviews, and your written plan says how a pause works.
After the handoff
Everything stays.
It’s your content in your CMS, built with native collections and fields, with no plugin or subscription to cancel. Your editors publish the way they learned in the walkthrough: one entry, tagged once, and every related list and schema updates on publish.
With the Library, you also keep your written voice profile, to use with any writer or AI tool. If you want to keep growing it, add an optional monthly plan: reports by topic, capture from your phone and drafts in your voice that keep learning from your edits. If not, nothing changes. What we won’t promise is a ranking or a citation; nobody controls those.