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name: local-reel-lab
last_updated: 2026-08-26
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# local-reel-lab Strategy

## Purpose

Before offering recurring social-video services to local businesses, James needs a credible public record of polished local reels, practical production experience, and a locally relevant audience. Businesses need to see the work and its potential distribution before they can reasonably trust the service.

## Positioning

We earn attention by celebrating Cedar Park, Leander, and nearby North Austin places we genuinely value, with firsthand confidence and documented permission for public publishing. We do not treat businesses as generic leads or make interchangeable promotional content for national chains.

## Users

**Primary:** James, the local content operator — hiring local-reel-lab to choose authentic subjects and run a dependable consent-to-learning workflow for a positive local showcase account.

## Boundaries

- Do not feature a business without firsthand research, a visit, and an angle James can authentically support.
- An internal, non-publishable prototype may be created before recorded business permission when James explicitly requests it. Label it as a prototype; do not distribute, publish, or treat it as approval evidence.
- Keep editorial control over the showcase account; a future business-owned hard-sell piece is not automatically amplified there.
- Stay Instagram-first until a repeatable, measured workflow exists; treat TikTok as later research and experimentation.
- Stagehand holds reusable customer production configuration and delivery-package records. local-reel-lab holds the local showcase account's strategy and operating records, including Customer 0; it references Stagehand packages rather than duplicating production data.
- Do not automate Instagram posting or browser/mobile actions. Publishing is manual and approved.

_Resist a change when:_ it weakens firsthand local trust, replaces the account's positive editorial voice with generic promotion, or duplicates Stagehand's production-engine role.

## Key metrics

- **Publishing consistency** — planned reels versus manually published reels for each operating period; measured in the editorial calendar.
- **Permission and approval conversion** — prospective pieces that receive explicit permission and approval to publish; measured in post records.
- **Post impressions** — people reached per reel; copied from Instagram Insights into the corresponding post record.

## Tracks

### Local content operations

Select Cedar Park, Leander, and nearby North Austin subjects; maintain outreach, consent, approvals, editorial planning, and manual publishing records.

_Why it serves the approach:_ It creates trustworthy, consistent proof rooted in real local relationships and firsthand appreciation.

### Learning loop

Record quantitative results and qualitative feedback to improve stories, visuals, narration, calls to action, and distribution choices.

_Why it serves the approach:_ It turns each published reel into evidence for making future local content more effective and authentic.

## Brand

**One-liner:** Local love and appreciation for the places that make Cedar Park, Leander, and nearby North Austin special.

**Key message:** The account can spotlight businesses, attractions, amenities, and everyday local details—not only commercial clients. The tone is positive, specific, grateful, and grounded in firsthand experience.