How should you structure the first 90 days?

Use the first 90 days to establish decision rights, evidence, security, working rhythms, and a baseline before increasing output. Sequence the work as discovery and control design, controlled production, measured execution, and a commercial review. A launch, leadership transition, or live issue may compress the dates, but it should not remove fact, approval, access, or risk controls.

Days 1–30 establish ownership and evidence

The executive, payer, company sponsor, and program manager should approve one buyer brief. It should name the stakeholder decision, executive's qualified subjects, company and personal boundaries, evidence, channels, budget, and review triggers. Use the buyer brief template when the agreement lacks this detail.

The provider should then complete:

• interviews with the executive and relevant company leaders;
• an audit of current coverage, content, search results, profiles, opportunities, and audience response;
• a source file for approved facts, claims, examples, biographies, and disclosures;
• a decision-rights and escalation map;
• an inventory of accounts, owners, administrators, recovery methods, assets, and vendor access; and
• baseline measures tied to the objective.

The executive approves personal positions, attributed language, and risk tolerance. The company approves its facts, positions, disclosures, and regulated claims. The payer controls fees and renewal. The manager owns the schedule and routes each decision to its named approver. Record who owns personal and company accounts, drafts, recordings, audience data, and final assets.

Days 31–60 test every critical handoff

Begin with a small number of representative items from the purchased workstreams. The test should show whether interviews produce substantive material, evidence is traceable, the voice survives review, access is controlled, and approvals arrive within the required window.

Run at least one rapid-opportunity drill. Give the team a realistic deadline, identify the required executive input, and route factual or legal review. The purpose is to find the slow handoff before a real reporter, event organizer, or market event creates pressure.

The production gate opens only when the team can:

• trace consequential claims to approved sources;
• distinguish personal view from company position;
• obtain informed executive approval of attributed work;
• route legal, compliance, privacy, or security triggers;
• stop scheduled publication and correct errors; and
• export the current plan, files, approvals, and access record.

Pause publishing when any critical owner, source, permission, or escalation route is missing.

Days 61–90 run a controlled live program

Increase activity only after the test workflow passes. Apply the opportunity criteria consistently and show every commitment in an editorial calendar. Classify each item as independently selected, paid access, sponsored, controlled, or hybrid, with the required disclosure and approval.

Track the provider's work, outputs, qualified audience response, opportunities, corrections, executive time, approval time, security events, and outside costs. A busy calendar establishes activity only.

The day-90 review makes a commercial decision

Compare the baseline with available audience response and early outcomes. The AMEC Integrated Evaluation Framework separates activities and outputs from audience response, outcomes, and organizational impact. The review should state where evidence is too early or too weak for a causal claim.

End the review with one of four decisions: continue the tested scope, narrow it, change the workflow, or stop. Record who made the decision and why. If the company pays but the executive is the account or identity owner, neither party should treat payment as automatic ownership. Confirm rights in the contract and exit terms before the program creates more assets.

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