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Prompt: the final check on a caption

Seven checks before publishing. None of them is about grammar.

By Redação Swonkie

Equipa editorial

2026-10-27

Check this caption before I publish. Go through these in order and answer each with "ok" or with
the concrete problem:

1. Does the first line work on its own, before "see more"?
2. Is the promise in the first line kept by the rest?
3. Is there any claim I could not back up if someone asked?
4. Can you tell what this is about without seeing the image or video?
5. Is there a clear ask at the end, and is it something you can do on this network?
6. Does any sentence need context only someone who works here has?
7. Is there anything an outsider could read as offensive?

Do not rewrite the caption. Point and explain. If everything is fine, say everything is fine
instead of inventing a suggestion.

A review that always returns suggestions ends up ignored, because the writer learns the outcome is the same for a good caption and a bad one. Hence the last instruction.

Point 3 catches the most real problems: numbers with no source, superlatives, and comparisons with competitors nobody will be able to defend if asked.

How to use it

After writing, before scheduling. With the image described or attached, otherwise point 4 cannot be assessed.

A variation for teams

Add: "also check whether this contradicts anything we published in the last month". That is the check one person cannot do from memory.

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AI & Andie

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Prompt: review a month of content before scheduling it

Do not rewrite anything. The review that works is the one that points, not the one that replaces.

A review that catches repetition, unbacked promises and pieces with no purpose, before the whole thing goes into the queue.

Look at the pieces I have planned for next month and answer four questions, in this order:

1. Which subjects repeat less than two weeks apart? Name them and suggest which one to change or
   push back.
2. Which pieces make a promise the body does not keep? Quote the sentence.
3. Which pieces have no clear goal (reach, conversation, conversion)? List them without inventing
   one for them.
4. Where is the format mix out of balance against what usually works in my data?

Do not rewrite anything. Point, with the reference of the piece, and end with the three changes
that make the most difference. If there is not enough data for question 4, say so.

Redação Swonkie

Equipa editorial

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Strategy

2026-10-20

Prompt: the questions for a kick-off meeting with a client

No question whose answer is on the website. A kick-off is for what is written down nowhere.

The answers missing in month one are always the same. Asking them on day one saves weeks.

I am about to start managing a brand's social media. I will give you the industry, what it sells
and to whom.

Write the kick-off meeting questions, grouped into five blocks:
- business (what actually makes money, what is seasonal, what is changing)
- audience (who buys, who influences the purchase, who will never buy)
- voice (what the brand would never say, who signs off, which subjects are off limits)
- operations (who approves, on what deadline, who answers messages, who holds the access)
- success (what has to happen in three months for this to count as working)

Six questions per block maximum. Open questions, one thing at a time. No question whose answer is
on the brand's website.

At the end, name the three questions that, left unanswered, make the work impossible to do well.

Redação Swonkie

Equipa editorial

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Creation

2026-10-13

Prompt: ten questions for a recorded session

No questions about the company's history. It is the one everybody asks first and the one that never yields a good cut.

Good questions are the difference between a usable hour and an hour of pleasant conversation.

I am recording an hour-long session with someone from this company. I will give you their role and
what the company does.

Write ten questions under these conditions:
- each answerable in two to three minutes
- each answer has to make sense on its own, outside the rest of the conversation
- at least three must ask for a concrete case, with numbers or a before and after
- at least two must touch something that went wrong
- none can be answered yes or no
- none about the company's history

Order them from easiest to most demanding, so the person warms up.

Redação Swonkie

Equipa editorial

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