FABLS

Overview

Five jobs,one place to do them.

Every channel needs five jobs done, and a small business usually does one and a half of them. Set up the profile. Plan what to say. Create it. Run the conversation that follows. Learn what worked, and plan the next month from there. FABLS does each of the five, drafts and publishes and answers, and waits for a person wherever waiting matters.

Home in FABLS
Demo: Home: what waits for you, what goes out next, and how the month is going. Malina Bakery is a made-up bakery; every screen here is the real app.

Set up

A finished profile on every platform, with the texts and the pictures already cut to fit.

Plan

A strategy, then three to six months of dated slots, paid ones included.

Create

From scratch, from content, from a plan or all at once, with pictures, video, ads and boosts.

Run

Every comment, message and review in one queue, drafted for a person to send.

Learn

Every action recorded, every result explained, and what it taught carried into the next plan.

Most tools in this area sell you one of the five. They will write a post, and they will write it quickly, and that turns out to be the part of the job that was never really the problem. The problem is the other four: a profile nobody finished, a plan nobody made, a comment nobody answered, a quarter nobody measured. A business needs to appear on a Tuesday in February with something worth saying, to still be doing it in June, and to tell at the end of the quarter whether any of it was worth the money.

So FABLS is built around the decisions rather than the sentences. Who is speaking. About what. How often, and where. Whether it went out. What people said back. Whether it did anything. The writing is a consequence of having answered those, which is why every draft is briefed with its campaign, your brand facts and what the brand has already learned, rather than with the last prompt somebody typed.

Where it stops and waits

Every channel begins on approve. A draft is written about a week ahead, an owner or a manager reads it and approves it, and it publishes at the time its slot says. Nothing goes out in your name that a person has not approved, unless a manager put that channel on autopilot.

That gate is per channel, in each campaign, not per account. A manager can put Instagram on autopilot after a few weeks — short posts, low stakes, a writer you have corrected enough times — while the blog stays on approval because a blog post is a longer commitment and reads as an official statement.

Turning autopilot on is a manager's deliberate choice, and it can be turned off again. There is no state where FABLS quietly decides to start posting on its own.

Replies wait the same way. The post's writer drafts each comment, message and review, and an owner or a manager sends it. A channel can let a reply to a plain question or a thank-you go out by itself; a complaint, a lead, a private message or a review of three stars or fewer always waits for a person.

Ads wait the same way. A Google Ads campaign, a Meta ad or a boost starts paused and spends nothing until an owner or a manager approves it; ads never go on autopilot.

How execution works

One slot, end to endWed 10:00 · Blog
  • 1DraftedBy "The editor" — the writer this slot belongs to.
  • 2CaveatsTwo things for a person to check: a date and a price.
  • ?WaitingApproval gate. Nothing moves until a person reads it.
  • 3ApprovedTwo sentences edited by hand.
  • 4PublishedTo your WordPress site, with its featured picture.
  • 5CommentsThe ones the site approved come back to the inbox, each with a reply drafted.
  • 6In the reportPublished on time, with its page views counted by the plugin on your own site.

Counted after publishingNothing published twice

Somebody has to write it.
That was always the whole problem.

What this is not

  • It is not a scheduler. A scheduler holds things you have already written and posts them at a time you chose; the writing and the thinking remain yours. FABLS is the other way round — the plan and the drafting are its job, and what stays yours is the judgment about whether a given draft should go out.
  • It is not an agent that decides on its own what your business should say. A writer drafts against a slot that exists because you planned it, or answers a comment, a message or a review somebody left you, in a voice you defined, and stops. Nothing invents a campaign overnight and starts running it.
  • It is also not a substitute for having something to say. If your business genuinely has nothing to tell anyone, a plan will make that visible faster than it will fix it — which is arguably useful, but it is not what people expect to buy.

The honest bit: the first two weeks are corrections. A writer that has never been edited writes like a writer that has never been edited, and you will find phrases you would not use and claims you would not make. You rewrite with a note, edit by hand and sharpen the writer, and the fortnight is the price of everything after it.

What it costs

Free with one channel connected, Pro at €15 a month for all three together, Business at €49 for several businesses on one account.

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