StrategyComics Production Support
Purpose
This document will give you an idea of how website production works once strategy is complete.
Now, every strategic blueprint is different.
Because every audience is different. And every business is different.
So planning the best website experience for customers is unique.
But while projects don't repeat themselves, they do rhyme.
So let's look at typical production scopes, timelines, and pricing, so you can see what usually happens next, to get a sense of what the roadmap might look like for your project.
What this gives you:
- A high-level view of how production engagements typically run, end-to-end
- Clear inputs needed from you, and outputs you receive from us at each stage
- Clarity on what skillsets are covered by our production team
- Clarity over the difference between strategy, production, and optimization
Phase 1: Strategy Foundations
A scope of work has been defined for your Strategy Foundations process.
Typical Duration
~1–3 weeks (depending on scheduling)
Your Inputs
- Attend six guided strategy sessions (60–90 minutes)
- Participate in decisions and direction-setting
- Provide feedback on drafts when requested (asynchronous, via email)
Outputs You Receive
You will have a shared, tangible understanding of:
What your audience wants to learn Insight into the questions, problems, curiosities, and motivations your audience brings with them, at each stage of their buyer experience — and what they're hoping to understand or resolve when they engage with your brand.
How your audience likes to consume An understanding of the formats, tone, pacing, and channels your audience naturally gravitates toward, allowing every stage of our marketing system to feel familiar and enjoyable (however they define the word) rather than forced or interruptive.
Our opportunities to combine the two across their whole buyer experience A clear view of how learning, immersion, enjoyment, trust-building, and marketing progression fit together across the buyer journey — from first contact through to confident decision-making and post-sale activation.
Phase 2: Experience Blueprint
A scope of work has been defined for your Blueprint process.
Typical Duration
~1 week
Your Inputs
- Email correspondence regarding blueprint decisions
- Appetite calibration in response to our questions (what you want or don't want to build)
Outputs You Receive
At the end of the Blueprint phase, you receive:
- An illustrated blueprint of the full buyer experience
- Written and sketched definitions for each major journey stage
- A page-by-page schematic of the website, including section breakdowns
- Clear documentation of what we recommend should be built and why
This documentation is intended to be sufficiently clear that no additional strategic clarification should be required prior to execution.
Phase 3: Production Proposal
Turns the blueprint into a production plan: what is being built by us, in what order, at what price.
Typical Duration
A few days to 1 week (depending on complexity and decision speed)
Your Inputs
Confirm what you want to build now vs later (phasing) Confirm ownership:
- Build with us end-to-end, OR
- Use other partners, OR
- Split responsibilities
- Confirm constraints (CMS, hosting, integrations, internal IT requirements)
What We Do
Create a proposal that covers the website parts of the blueprint:
- A phased build plan
- Scope definition per deliverable category (copy/design/dev/etc.)
- Timeline assumptions and dependencies
Outputs You Receive
A production-ready proposal, with the ability to click and tweak live in the browser to quickly right-size per your appetite, so we can get moving quickly
Production costs are entirely dependent on:
- Number of pages and interactive flows
- Our involvement with each stage (configurable)
- Style and complexity of each page (configurable)
Phase 4: Copywriting
Purpose
Write conversion-oriented copy for pages and flows defined in the blueprint, so every page does its job in the system. You can read about how we write copy here.
Typical Duration
~1–4 weeks (varies by scope and approval turn-around)
Your Inputs
- Provide access to any reference materials (optional, not required for our process)
- Confirm any compliance constraints (regulated language, claims, etc.)
- Review and approve copy drafts we send to you
What We Do
Page-by-page copy, aligned with:
- The page’s job (per blueprint)
- The page's structure (per blueprint)
- The stage it supports (per blueprint; attention / de-platform / nurture, etc.)
- Your preferred tone boundaries
- Includes section hierarchy, headlines, subheads, CTAs, microcopy for forms / interactive states where relevant, and keeps any defined on-site SEO conventions in mind.
Outputs You Receive
- Approved copy documents for each page/flow
- Copy-ready handoff for design and development
Where partners may be required:
If you need specialized legal/regulatory review, claims substantiation, deep keyword analysis, or industry compliance sign-off.
Phase 5: Design
Purpose
Design the visual system and page layouts that support clarity, personality, and conversion, while maintaining the brand’s personality. You can read about how we design here.
Typical Duration
~2–4 weeks (varies by scope and approval turn-around)
Your Inputs
- Provide access to any brand guideline materials (optional, not required for our process)
- Provide access to any supporting site materials such as photography or preferred icons (optional, not required for our process)
- Review and approve design mocks we send to you
What We Do
Design each page based on:
- The page’s job (per blueprint)
- The page's structure (per blueprint)
- The stage it supports (per blueprint; attention / de-platform / nurture, etc.)
- Your design feedback
- Includes typography, photography, graphics, sidecar pages (such as 'thank you' pages), micro-interactions.
- Component-driven design system
- Interactive UX design for experiences (quizzes/demos/configurators)
- Accessibility-aware design decisions (contrast, hierarchy, focus states, readability)
Outputs You Receive
- Completed page designs
- Associated design system
- Specs ready for development handover
Where partners may be required:
If you have strict internal brand governance requiring a separate brand agency to approve visual identity changes.
Phase 6: Illustration, Artwork & Motion (Two contexts)
Render any illustrations, artworks or animations needed to complete the scope of the design, while maintaining the brand’s personality. You can read about how we create site artwork here.
Typical Duration
Parallel to design and/or development phases, varies by quantity
Your Inputs
- Review and approve mocks we send to you
What We Do
- Spot illustrations that clarify concepts and guide attention
- Icons, spots, features and other UI elements that go beyond design
- Looping motion, micro-interactions where beneficial to the project
- Reusable asset libraries for ongoing future production
Outputs You Receive
- Production-ready assets, integrated into the design.
Where partners may be required:
If you have very specific art styles by very specific artists you'd like to commission.
Phase 7: Development & Implementation
Purpose
Build the designed system reliably, with accessibility and speed in mind—so it performs well and is easy to maintain and optimize over time. You can read about how we develop here.
Typical Duration
~2–4 weeks (varies by scope and approval turn-around)
Your Inputs
- Confirm hosting / domain / environment access (we will recommend)
- Confirm any tech constraints (e.g. CMS preferences or internal IT policies)
- Provide access to any integrations (e.g. ESP/CRM, analytics, middleware tools)
What We Do
- Front-end + back-end build per the proposal
- CMS configuration (as selected)
- Accessibility implementation (e.g. semantic markup, keyboard support, ARIA)
- Performance optimization: efficient assets, compression, fast-loading pages)
- Analytics plumbing (e.g. GA/other analytics, GTM, custom events as needed)
- Cookie consent tooling integrated where required
- Forms & conversion plumbing (e.g. newsletter signup, lead routing, CRM/ESP integration)
- QA (per our Quality Assurance document)
Outputs You Receive
- Built site/experiences in production environment
- Documented tracking/events setup
- Launch checklist completion
Phase 8: Email Systems & Automations
Purpose
Make nurture, onboarding, post-sale, and reactivation emails as defined by the blueprint and scoped by the proposal.
Typical Duration
Parallel to design and/or development phases, varies by quantity
Your Inputs
- Confirm ESP/CRM tooling
- Approve sequence content and brand tone
What We Do
- Email strategy + signup plumbing
- Sequence writing (e.g. welcome, nurture, onboarding, post-sale, reactivation)
- Email template design + graphics
- Automation logic (e.g. tags / segments / conditionals / triggers)
- Integrations with forms / quizzes / site events where needed
Outputs You Receive
- Working automations + templates
- Approved email copy set
Where partners may be required:
If you have consultants and partners for specific tech stacks you have standing relationships with, such as Salesforce consultants, for deeper operational integration with business functions.
At this stage, the website is live, and the proposed scope of work will be complete.
From here, we have two more phases to consider as future scopes of work, which both exist as part of a shared ongoing subscription model with our studio:
Phase 9: Audience Calibration
Purpose
Improve the system long-term using both qualitative feedback (why assets resonate) and quantitative testing (how assets perform at scale).
9.1 Qualitative: Audience Inner Circle
Your Inputs
- Help identify candidates (customers/prospects), if available
- Approve outreach messaging and cadence
We Do
- Set up lightweight feedback loops
- Present change pitches
- Capture insights and implications
Outputs
- Clear “what we learned” notes tied to roadmap decisions
- Refactored StrategyComic document based on the insights we've learned
- Refactored website assets based on the insights we've learned and its appropriation into the StrategyComic document.
9.2 Quantitative: CRO
Your Inputs
- Access to analytics and goals
- Agreement on what success metrics matter
- Approve synopses and proposed tests
We Do
- Review analytics + behavior data
- Identify friction/drop-offs
- Produce hypotheses
- Implement changes (copy / design / dev)
- Run tests where appropriate
- Read results and iterate
Outputs
- CRO backlog + test results
- Refactored StrategyComic document based on the insights we've learned
- Refactored website assets based on the insights we've learned and its appropriation into the StrategyComic document.
Phase 10: Ongoing Production & Support
Purpose
Once the core website and buyer experience are live, there is often a steady stream of additional production needs that fall outside of audience calibration above, but still benefit from being handled by a team deeply familiar with the strategy, blueprint, and system.
That's what this is for.
Rather than treating these needs as disconnected one-off projects, they can be handled within an ongoing production relationship, keeping everything aligned with the original strategy and experience design.
Typical Requests Supported
This may include (but is not limited to):
- Additional pages or page variants not originally scoped
- Iterative improvements or refinements requested by the business
- New sections, features, or experiments informed by internal priorities
- Illustration, artwork, or graphic production for website updates, sales enablement assets, and presentations or internal materials
- Social graphics and episodic content creation
- Animated or live-action video production, including explainers, campaign assets, content-hub or social media video.
- Paid media creative production
How This Work Is Handled
- All work is executed by the same team that produced the original system
- Requests are assessed against the existing blueprint for consistency
- Scope and effort are agreed before work begins
- Work is prioritized collaboratively to keep production prioritized with business goals
This model allows teams to move quickly without repeatedly re-onboarding new partners or re-explaining strategic context.