StrategyComics Chapter 3: Deplatform Blueprint
This blueprint requires:
• StrategyComics foundations
You rent attention on social platforms.
But you own your website.
Attention is constrained by what platforms allow. Your website can do anything: your turf, your code, your system. It's an opportunity to prepare something wonderful for your customers, something they'll gladly deplatform for.
Not because they were tricked into clicking.
Not because they were pressured into a funnel.
But because the next step is personalized, enjoyable, and helps them move forward meaningfully toward the solution they have in mind.
The Deplatform Blueprint turns the deplatform strategy defined during Foundations into a complete implementation schematic for your owned buyer experience.
It shows what should exist, what pages are needed, how the opportunity should work, how visitors move through the experience, how opt-in and follow-up should connect, and how everything fits together before production begins.
What the Deplatform Blueprint is for
The Deplatform Blueprint is for crafting the owned experience layer of your buyer journey. It answers questions like:
- What should happen after someone clicks through?
- How should the experience greet them first?
- How should that experience work step-by-step?
- What pages and sections should exist on the site?
- What should each page and section contain, communicate, and look like?
- What should happen before, during, and after opt-in?
- How should personalization, recommendations, or guided next steps work?
- How should the experience connect into nurture?
- How should the site be optimized for conversions?
- How will this experience reduce uncertainty and build trust?
The Blueprint exists so that you can hand your StrategyComic to any competent web team (internal or external), say "build that", and they'll know exactly what to do.
Why this blueprint exists between Foundations and implementation
Your StrategyComic Foundations map out how your entire buyer experience works together. Each part of the customer's narrative. Each opportunity to create along that journey. All defined in one place to create a coherent, unified experience customers genuinely enjoy progressing through.
But knowing what the experience should be is different from knowing how to build it.
Without a Blueprint, you (or your production team) will quickly run into questions like:
- Where does the opportunity live — a certain page, its own page, somewhere else?
- How does the opportunity work — what are the page states, how does it all work?
- What other pages exist around it - home, about, contact… what's on those?
- What should the pages say — for each section of each page, what are we writing?
- What should the pages look like - for each section of each page, what's the design?
- What's the technology behind it - what's off the shelf vs custom, how do we do it?
Without a blueprint, teams have to "figure it out" as they go. Which is a shame, as that usually leads to slower production, inconsistent decisions, fragmented experience, unnecessary revisions, weaker overall implementation, and more production cost than necessary.
With a blueprint, teams are able to see exactly what to do, for each page required.
It doesn't write the words for them… but it tells them what to write, where, and why.
It doesn't design the site for them… but it tells them what elements go in each page, in what order, and why.
It doesn't build the site for them… but it tells them how it all works together, and why.
The result is a clear path from strategy, to production, to real customers having a great experience as planned.
Who the Deplatform Blueprint is for
The Deplatform Blueprint is useful for companies that have StrategyComics Foundations, and are ready to turn the Deplatform phase of that strategy into a detailed blueprint so it can be executed easily without interpretation.
Good fit:
- service companies
- SaaS brands
- product companies
- education/course brands
- ecommerce brands
- founders/teams with scattered ideas or marketing challenges
- companies whose marketing feels fragmented for whatever reason
- companies that know they are useful but struggle to explain why people should care
- companies about to create pages, campaigns, nurture, or customer journeys
Bad fit:
- people who want to deviate from their Foundations StrategyComic
- teams that would rather use ready-fire-aim tactics than coherent long-term strategies
- companies looking for generic marketing that doesn't stand out
- teams with stakeholders who "already know best"
- teams with disrespectful stakeholders (we refuse them service)
- companies selling products or services we're not comfortable helping promote
What happens inside the Deplatform Blueprint
Like the StrategyComics Foundations that comes before it, the Deplatform Blueprint is delivered through a mix of coaching sessions and comic page updates. The resulting pages add a "chapter" to the same StrategyComic, so everything stays neatly organized, and easy to read or distribute among your team.
Each coaching session defines a specific part of the deplatform infrastructure, while StrategyComics strategists and artists transform those discussions into implementation schematics, visual structures, and experience pages between sessions. The final output becomes a clear, visual guide showing how the deplatform stage of your buyer experience should function from beginning to end.
Session 1: Experience
We define the overall setup for the Deplatform Blueprint, based on the winning opportunities defined in StrategyComics Foundations. We clarify where the experience will live, how it connects to the existing site, which Foundations opportunity we are building around first, which page will lead into it, what additional supporting pages may be needed, what visual direction should guide the Blueprint, and what materials, constraints, or open items need to be known before the later sessions. This session gets the project properly grounded so the rest of the Blueprint can be built on solid ground.
Session 2: Opportunity
We define the main Deplatform Opportunity in detail: the interactive, guided, or consumable experience people will be invited into from the site or page. We define how the opportunity works, what the visitor sees, what happens step-by-step, what logic and actions occur, what happens after opt-in, what the first email must deliver, and how the experience hands off into nurture. The resulting pages from this session make the main owned experience clear enough that it can be written, designed, sketched, and built with confidence.
Session 3: Narrative
We define the main page of your site that leads people into the big Opportunity. It could be the homepage, a campaign page, or another page entirely. We define how that page will explain the brand, offer, problem, solution, proof, mission, and invitation to try the Opportunity, all while feeling clear, enjoyable, and desirable. The resulting pages from this session show what should go into every section of this page.
Session 4: Pages
We define any supporting pages and final structure around the main Opportunity and Narrative Page. These may include about pages, product or pricing pages, contact or FAQ pages, resources or blog sections, and more. The goal here is to ensure the blueprint is comprehensive, and the buyer experience has the right supporting structure around it, so visitors can understand the company, answer their questions, compare options, contact the team, explore related content, and continue naturally into the right next step. The resulting pages from this session detail the role, structure, key sections, and required content for each supporting page.
Session 5: Review
We review the full Deplatform Blueprint together. The goal is to gather final feedback across the whole blueprint, capture any factual issues, wording issues, missing nuances, structural concerns, or final tweaks, for us to then apply for you after the session. Once the feedback is applied, the final Deplatform Blueprint is cleaned up and prepared as the implementation-ready chapter of your StrategyComic.
What customers receive
Customers receive a blueprint "chapter" of their StrategyComic, that presents an illustrated write-up of precisely how each page and feature will function, as an implementation schematic for your deplatform experience.
It is a visual implementation blueprint showing what should exist, how it should behave, why it matters, and how all the pieces connect together. The blueprint is clear enough that internal teams, agencies, designers, developers, writers, and stakeholders can all understand exactly what should be built, how it should function, and why it matters.
Depending on the ideal buyer experience for your brand, the Blueprint may include:
- the overall experience setup
- the selected Opportunity structure
- state-by-state opportunity flow
- experience questions, results, guides, summaries, CTAs as relevant
- opt-in and confirmation states
- first-email handoff and nurture bridge
- section-by-section page plans for all pages
- blog, resource, or ecommerce flow plans where relevant
- visual direction via write-up and sketches
The entire experience is wrapped in the same comic book story as StrategyComics Foundations to help readers understand how everything fits together, while making it easy for your whole team to remember and recall in future, as a common language during execution.
What the Deplatform Blueprint is not
The Blueprint is not:
- final UI design
- polished visual design files
- frontend development
- production copywriting
- finished artwork
- live implementation
- generic wireframes
- growth hacks
It is the architectural layer of your StrategyComic's deplatform stage. The Blueprint defines the intended experience clearly enough that implementation becomes dramatically easier, more coherent, and more strategically aligned afterward.