ATL — Above the Line
Mass reach. One message, many people. Brand-led rather than response-led.
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What this vertical means here
On page 1 of the roadmap, ATL OS is one of five spokes off Mktg OS. Page 4
scopes it concretely:
1) ATL → Creative → 15000 → Static | GIF | Video ... f/HO
→ Social → Creative + Analytics + Planning + Scan – Planning
Trend spotting — Paid + Infl. spotting
→ ORM → own
→ LFC → Scan + Planning + Blog + Execution
So ATL covers four things: creative production at volume, social, ORM, and long-form content. The 15 000 figure is the creative volume the system is meant to absorb — which is why "creative factory" appears on page 4 rather than "creative brief".
Workflows
| Workflow | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Studio — fetch fresh pieces → pick → generate scripts → approve → schedule | ✅ Live | Make Content → main-daily |
| Custom Lab — custom sources, search, import, refine | ✅ Live | Make Content → custom |
| Hook production — formulas, hook bank, generation with cooldown | ✅ Live | Hooks |
| Script versioning — regenerate, scene patching, history, restore | ✅ Live | Drafts → script studio |
| Calendar scheduling | ✅ Live | Calendar |
| Social media E2E | 🟡 Partial | Generates + schedules; nothing posts |
| Static creative generation | ⬜ Planned | Deliverable ① — tagged I |
| GIF creative | ⬜ Planned | Deliverable ① — tagged I |
| Video creative | ⬜ Planned | Deliverable ① — tagged E (end state) |
| Creative Repository | ⬜ Planned | Deliverable ⑦ |
| ORM — Meltwater / LocoBuzz | ⬜ Planned | Deliverable ⑥ |
| Branding media buying — DV360, Meta, Publishers, OTT, Audio, LinkedIn | ⬜ Planned | Page 3, vendor-led |
| Trend spotting + influencer spotting | ⬜ Planned | Page 4 |
What's live, in detail
Daily Studio and Custom Lab
The only two workflows that exist as a first-class abstraction in code
(lib/content-workflows.ts). Both are templated, so their behaviour is
configuration rather than bespoke code:
| Daily Studio | Custom Lab | |
|---|---|---|
| Sources | blog · news site · RSS | blog · news site · RSS · competitors |
| Auto-select | 3 items | 1 item |
| Default platform | ||
| Generate | ✅ | ✅ |
| Approve | ✅ | ⬜ |
| Schedule | ✅ | ⬜ |
| Open studio | ✅ | ✅ |
Daily Studio is the production line; Custom Lab is the bench for one-off work.
Script generation
Driven by the Creative Agent. Runs as a background job — MongoDB is the queue, concurrency capped at 2, stale jobs reclaimed after 60 s.
Hook formulas are enforced, not suggested. The creator's formula is applied and checked, and a cooldown steers successive scripts away from opening the same way — so a week of output doesn't read as one template.
Competitor intelligence feeding ATL
Competitor reel topics surface in the Competitors tab of both Discovery and Daily Studio. They stay read-only by design: reels never pass the compliance scan every news item gets, so they inform what you write without being selectable as a generation source.
What's missing
The whole creative asset layer. This is the headline gap. Page 4 calls for a creative factory producing static, GIF and video at 15 000 volume, under templates and guard rails, with localisation. Today the system writes text. There is no image generation, no video generation, and no asset pipeline.
Specifically unbuilt:
- Template + UGC system — page 4 wants templates under guidelines; today the brand prompt is free text
- "Diff approaches → diff themes" — one prompt yields one angle
- Localization + topicality — no vernacular pass anywhere
- The FACTORY loop — page 4 draws
Discovery → Content → RBI → Creation → RBI → Approval, with RBI checkpoints at three stages. Today there is one compliance gate, at the end, on blogs only - Creative Repository — nothing indexes reusable assets across drafts
- Nothing publishes. Scripts reach the calendar and stop
ORM is entirely unbuilt. Meltwater and LocoBuzz are named on page 3;
neither is integrated. Page 4's ORM → own and page 5's deliverable ⑥ both
point at a workflow that does not exist.
Dependencies
| Needs | For |
|---|---|
| Discovery Agent | Topic supply into Daily Studio |
| Creative Agent | Script, hook generation |
| Learning profile (Analytics) | Hook formulas, creator voice |
| Competitor analysis (Analytics) | Reel topics, trend context |
| Compliance Agent | Not wired for scripts — only the keyword scan runs |
That last row is worth flagging: scripts do not get AI compliance review. Blogs do. A script is reviewed by keyword scan alone.
Workflow specs in this folder
Roadmap source
Pages 1 (ATL OS spoke), 4 (channel scope + creative architecture),
5 (deliverables ①, ⑥, ⑦), 6 (SM MVP vs end state, NO AGENCY).
Page 6's social split is the clearest statement of intended sequencing:
MVP = YT | Meta | FB | Insta | WA
ES = LinkedIn · Infl. + Avatar · Agency Automation · ORM