Free Interactive Playbook · Orcalynx
A month of content. Planned in one sitting.
Daily content planning is why creators quit. Every morning starts with the same question: what do I post today? This playbook kills that question. In about an hour, you plan every video for the next 30 days using a repeatable 6 step system. Know your stage, pick your volume, map your keywords, research proven outliers, run the ideation stack, then execute in batches. It is the same batching system we run for our clients every single month.
60 min
Planning time
30
Days of content
6
Steps
Free
Forever
Use the system yourself, or skip the hour entirely and let us plan, script, and produce your whole month for you.
Section 01
The batch planner
Two decisions shape your entire month. First, your account stage. A new account has no winners to rerun, so it runs a different content mix than an established one. Second, your volume. Three, five, or seven videos a week. The specific posting days barely matter. The schedule exists so you stay accountable, not because Tuesday at 9am is magic.
Pick both below. The planner shows you exactly how many videos of each type to plan this month.
1. Where is your account right now?
2. How much can you realistically post?
Your month, planned
20 videos · the 70/20/10 mix
14
70%
Proven adaptations
Built on outlier hooks and topics that already worked for someone else. The value is still yours.
4
20%
Double downs
Your own winners, rerun. Keep everything the same and adjust the value, or keep everything and change the filming format.
2
10%
Fresh experiments
Brand new ideas from scratch. Small bets. Some of these become the winners you double down on next month.
Section 02
Map your niche keywords
Before you research anything, you need a keyword list. It comes from three sources. Your broad niche, like fitness. Your subtopics, like protein, sleep, and abs. And your title, like personal trainer or fitness coach. Type yours below and the mapper builds the search list for you. This list is the fuel for the research step.
Your research keyword list · 12 keywords
Search every keyword on this list during your research block. Each one is a door into a different corner of your niche.
Section 03
Research proven outliers
Never guess hooks. Guessing is how creators post for six months with nothing to show for it. Instead, build your month on outliers. An outlier is a video from a small or mid sized creator that pulled at least 5X more views than their follower count. That hook already beat the algorithm once. It will likely do it again.
Big accounts do not count. Their videos get views because they are big, not because the hook is strong. Check any video below.
Quick outlier check
6.5X follower count
Outlier. Save it.
This hook already broke past the creator's audience. It has a proven track record. Into the folder it goes.
Want the full version with the visual threshold bar? Open the 5X calculator in our scripting playbook
The two research methods
Keyword search on Explore
Take the keyword list you built above. Search each one on the Explore page. Save every video that clears 5X, ideally posted in the last few months. Recent outliers beat old ones.
The Reels recommendation tab
After a keyword research session, the algorithm starts feeding you your own niche. Scroll the Reels tab and save the outliers it serves you. This surfaces hidden gems you would never find by searching.
Save everything into one folder
Every outlier you find goes into a single saved collection on Instagram. By the end of your research block you should have a big folder of proven hooks and topics. That folder is the raw material for every ideation this month.
Want this done for you?
We do the outlier research for you. Every month. In your niche.
Retainer clients get a full month of outlier backed ideations without touching the Explore page.
Section 04
The ideation stack
This is the heart of the system. Every video in your plan gets built against the 7 factors of viral content: topic, hook stack, value, structure, CTA, format, and editing style. In practice, planning one video comes down to 5 decisions made in order. Hooks first, value second, structure third, CTA fourth, format last.
Walk through the card below for each video in your plan. Five checks per video. When all five are done, that video is ready to script.
Video plan: 0 of 5 decisions made
Open your saved folder. Pull the verbal hook from one outlier, the written hook from a second, and the visual hook from a third. Never lift all three from the same video. Mixing sources means you borrow what is proven without mirroring any single creator.
Shortcut the structure and scripting steps
Our script templates library has 100 fill in the blank structures ready to copy. And the viral scripts playbook covers the full scripting system behind them: the 7 factors, the 3 hook stack, and all 8 structures.
Section 05
The content mix rules
Not every video in your month is the same kind of bet. The planner in Section 01 already did the math for you. Here is the logic behind it.
Established accounts
70 / 20 / 10
70% proven adaptations
Outlier hooks and topics from your research folder, rebuilt with your own value.
20% double downs on your winners
Your best performers deserve a second life. Two ways to rerun them:
Same everything, new value. Keep the hook, topic, and format. Swap in a fresh set of tips or a new story.
Same everything, new format. Keep the hook, topic, and value. Film it as a voiceover instead of talking to camera, or a whiteboard instead of green screen.
10% fresh experiments
Ideas from scratch. Most will be average. The ones that hit become next month's double downs.
New accounts
90 / 10
90% proven adaptations
Almost everything you post is built on outliers. You have zero data of your own, so you borrow proof from creators who already have it.
10% fresh experiments
A small slice for original ideas so you start learning what your audience responds to.
Why no double downs? You cannot double down on winners you do not have yet. Run 90/10 until a few videos clearly outperform the rest, then graduate to 70/20/10.
Section 06
Execute and repeat
The planning hour is done. Every video has a hook, a structure, a CTA, and a format. Now execution is mechanical. Four moves, all in batches.
Script
With ideation done, scripting is fast. The hook is picked, the structure is picked, the value is outlined. You are filling in blanks, not staring at a blank page. A full month of scripts takes an afternoon.
Film in batch days
Block one or two filming days. Same setup, same energy, back to back takes. Twenty videos in a day is normal once the scripts are ready. Change outfits between batches if you want variety on the feed.
Edit
Edit in a batch too, or hand it off. Keep your fonts, colors, and caption style identical across every video so the feed reads as one brand.
Schedule
Load everything into a scheduler. The month posts itself while you run your business. Your only daily job is replying to comments and DMs.
Then you repeat it next month. And this is where the system compounds. Every month adds winners to your double down pile and outliers to your research folder. Ideation gets faster. Hit rates go up. You never burn out because you never grind daily, and you never run out of ideas because the research does the ideating for you. One hour a month buys you thirty days of showing up.
Done For You
We run this entire system for you. Every month.
Research, ideation, scripting, editing, uploading. All of it. Our retainer clients get a full month of outlier backed content planned and produced without spending their own hour on it. You show up, film from ready scripts, and get back to your business. We handle everything on either side of the camera.
Available to founders and coaches at $2k+/month retainer. We work with a small number of clients per quarter. 30 minute calls. No pitch decks.
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