📅 Day 21 of 30 · Week 3: Editorial Workflows · ⏱ 10 minutes
Week 3 Checkpoint
This week you moved from creating content to operating your editorial engine — repurposing, auditing, planning, and optimizing. Let’s review what you can now do.
The 15-Minute Editorial Sprint
You now have enough skills to run a complete editorial workflow in 15 minutes. Here’s the protocol:
Minutes 1-3: Morning Briefing
Run the daily standup prompt from Day 18: yesterday’s performance, today’s schedule, draft status, coverage gaps.
Minutes 4-7: Content Multiplication
Take yesterday’s top-performing article and generate platform versions (Day 15): Twitter thread, LinkedIn post, newsletter blurb.
Minutes 8-10: SEO Check
Run the weekly SEO audit (Day 9) on posts from the last 48 hours. Fill any missing metadata.
Minutes 11-13: Internal Linking
Run AI-powered suggestions or the MCP linking workflow (Day 20) on your 3 newest articles.
Minutes 14-15: Newsletter Draft
Generate today’s newsletter draft (Day 10) and send it to the newsletter editor for review.
Skills Gained This Week
- Content multiplication — one article to five platforms (Day 15)
- Taxonomy management — category/tag audit and cleanup (Day 16)
- Performance auditing — site-wide speed analysis (Day 17)
- Editorial planning — AI-powered calendar and daily standups (Day 18)
- Theme design — editorial themes from descriptions with Telex (Day 19)
- Internal linking at scale — bulk link analysis and insertion (Day 20)
Save These Artifacts
- Your 15-minute editorial sprint checklist
- A taxonomy cleanup plan
- A performance audit summary
- An editorial calendar prompt
- An internal linking workflow your team can repeat
What’s Coming in Week 4
The final week is about shipping and scaling:
- Day 22: Write your team’s AI editorial policy
- Day 23: Build a team playbook from your workflows
- Day 24: Pair with a teammate to teach what you’ve learned
- Day 25: Measure the impact of your new workflows
- Day 26: Advanced — custom abilities for your newsroom
- Days 27-30: Prepare and deliver your demo
✅ Key Takeaway: The 15-minute editorial sprint is your daily operating rhythm. It combines the workflows from Weeks 1-3 into a single, repeatable process. Practice it every morning this week — by Week 4, it’ll be second nature.