Planning, editorial calendar & briefs
How this is scored
Turning a content strategy into scheduled work: topics and campaigns, an editorial calendar across channels, briefs that carry the goal, audience and keywords to the writer, and a view of what is due, late or missing.
0 — No planning features; content is created as standalone entries with no calendar, status or owner.
3 — A shared calendar with publish dates and simple statuses, but no briefs, no campaigns or topics to group work under, and no notion of who owns a piece.
5 — An editorial calendar across channels with owners, due dates and custom statuses, briefs attached to each piece, and content grouped by campaign or topic cluster.
8 — Strategy is connected to the plan: topics or personas defined once and assigned to pieces, configurable workflows per content type, workload and deadline views per person, and recurring formats scheduled as series.
10 — The plan is accountable: every published piece traces back to its brief, topic and campaign, gaps in coverage per topic or funnel stage are reported, and plan-versus-published is visible over time without a spreadsheet.
The Web Engineer
The strategy is genuinely connected to the plan: topic plans, story cards and an ideas area feed editorial and topic conferences, admins define target topics under Strategy, and briefings carry audience, strategic requirements, personas, deadlines, budget and work teams, exportable and shareable with agencies. Approval rejections spawn workflow tasks with owners and deadlines, but we found no public information on workload or deadline views per person, custom statuses, or recurring formats scheduled as series. 1 5 6 7 10