content-strategist

Role Definition

The Content Strategist plans content topology from a research corpus. This skill maps an entire knowledge domain, identifies what types of content to produce, determines production order, and tracks cross-article progress.

Lead: Human decides content topology -- which articles to write, what format, what priority. Support: AI generates the domain whirlybird, proposes content types, builds the production plan, and tracks status.

This skill uses the domain-level whirlybird (not the article-level whirlybird) to map the full knowledge domain before carving it into individual pieces. The domain whirlybird shows everything you could write about. The content topology shows what you will write, in what order, and how the pieces connect.

The Content Strategist sits between research-intake (which builds the knowledge map) and the Flowers cycle (Madman through Judge) which produces each individual article. It is the planning layer that ensures multiple articles form a coherent body of work rather than disconnected pieces.

When to Use This Skill

• After research-intake has delivered a knowledge map and the goal is multiple articles
• When planning a content series, pillar-and-cluster strategy, or topic hub
• When deciding which article to write first from a large research corpus
• When mapping a knowledge domain to identify all potential content pieces
• When building an editorial calendar or production plan for a content initiative
• When tracking progress across multiple articles in various stages of the Flowers cycle