Playbooks & explainers templates
Frameworks, routes, rules and guides people save: the post's lesson drawn as an object the reader already trusts. MarketiQ’s Creative Director picks from these 18 templates whenever a post’s message fits one of them, then fills it with your brand, facts and copy.
All Playbooks & explainers templates
Framework wheel
A named framework drawn as a segmented wheel: one ring segment per part in a pale-to-brand ramp, numbered, around a hub that can hold the framework's core
Trade-off triangle
The classic 'pick two' triangle: three things the reader wants at the corners as big filled circles, a dashed triangle between them, numbered markers on each side and a…
Compass framework
A four-part framework set on a compass rose: the four ideas the post names sit at north, east, south and west with direction badges, north in the brand colour, around a…
Periodic table
'The periodic table of …': the post's building blocks as element tiles
Transit line
The steps of a process as stations on a transit map: a thick brand-colour line with one 45-degree bend, white station rings, a terminus capsule for the goal and a line…
Flat-pack instructions
The process as flat-pack assembly instructions: a strip of the numbered parts you will need, then bordered panels with huge step numerals, a dashed-ring icon for each…
Swimlane SOP
A standard operating procedure as a swimlane chart: one tinted lane per role the post names, numbered step boxes placed in the lane of whoever does them, joined by a…
Field guide
'A field guide to …' set like a naturalist's handbook: an aged paper page, a serif title over a double rule, and one entry per kind the post describes
House rules
The post's rules as an enamel 'house rules' sign screwed to the wall: a deep brand plate with a double rim, four screws, the title in big condensed capitals and numbered…
Worked example
A worked example on graph paper, written by hand: the situation the post describes, the steps circled and numbered, and the answer in a hand-drawn box.
Bookmark card
A reference card made to be bookmarked: a white card with a brand bookmark ribbon on its edge, a 'save this' pill, the card's title, a numbered list of what to remember…
Reading shelf
A reading list or curriculum as book spines on a shelf: one spine per title the post recommends, in palette colours and staggered heights with the title set vertically…
Mistakes and fixes ledger
The mistakes, and 'how to fix them', as a two-column ledger: every mistake struck through in a grey column, an arrow across the gutter, and its fix in bold in a…
Decision guide
A 'decision guide': the question in a dark banner, a stem down to one card per option
Annotated rewrite
A before-and-after rewrite, marked up like an editor would: the original line struck through on a white card, numbered handwritten notes on what was wrong, and the…
Tri-fold one-pager
The post's guide as an open tri-fold leaflet on a dark desk: a brand-coloured cover panel with the logo, the guide's name and its promise, then two paper panels
Weekly planner
'Steal my week': the post's routine or plan written into a spiral-bound planner page on the brand's colour
A–Z glossary
'Explain like I'm new' as an A–Z: a strip of the alphabet where only the letters the post's terms start with are lit in the brand colour, then the terms in alphabetical…
Samples use fictional brands; MarketiQ fills each template with your brand, facts and copy.
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Gated Repair Route
An acid-riso glass-chip close-up occupies the larger side of a poster, beside a qualified benefit and a descending route interrupted by an approval gate; a separate strip carries the replacement caveat.
Checklist Gets Vented
A notes-style checklist meets a flash-lit rooftop model: settled planning sits above a roof invaded by vents, with an oversized site-surprise number beside the equipment.
Drawings Versus Monday
A huge client quote introduces one split-scene rooftop reaction picture: tidy drawings face a vent-filled roof, with aligned status captions and a deadpan revision payoff beneath.
Frosted Release Rail
An oversized editorial hook crowns a contained frosted-glass reveal, with a prominent tilted release seal and a separate paper-ground footer for development copy and the audience question.
Clock Out Pickup Strip
A grocery-bag collage on an after-work route leads the cover. Numbered stops, contextual icons and alternating paper tabs explain each benefit, ending at a prominent profile action.
Your Fridge Your Plan
A huge puffy fridge introduces household-first grocery planning. Dimensional compartments and changing icons turn the inside pages into a feature-spotlight series, ending with a bold action card.
Outtake Contact Sheet
An oversized lesson hook introduces a clean-take strip, then a flash-lit four-frame contact sheet and matching two-column take ledger turn recording mistakes into a scrapbook storyboard.
The Blooper Reel
An oversized four-frame film strip makes the recording fails the main event. Each flash-photo cell has its own clapperboard-style take tag and consistently aligned caption, beneath a compact expectation strip.
Clean Take / Outtake Storyboard
An oversized flash-photo contact sheet leads three horizontal storyboard strips that turn a tidy recording plan into four clapper-tagged mishaps, using editorial type and tactile paper surfaces.
Vending machine swap
An objection in a grey DM bubble hangs over a dark, tilted vending-machine block. Its glass window is a painted scene of the sad fallback snacks, and amber slots along its base carry giant answer numerals under coil rules. The brand-coloured reply drops into the dispense tray beside a slapped-on
Field guide planner collage
A tag-someone carousel built as a zine field guide. The cover is a flash-photo cut-out on a tilted card with overhanging rainbow tabs and a 'tag 'em' burst. Each inside page is a punched, laminated revision timetable: icon-labelled colour-coded cells, ring holes and overhanging tabs, with a giant
Colour-keyed roast
A brutalist revision page, not slides. The cover is a riso flash-photo of the friend caught in the habit, bleeding over a huge hook on a tilted highlighter block, with a stamp sticker. A nested swatch legend (three swatches, a hairline, then a half-size copy) repeats on every page. Inside pages
Samples use fictional brands; MarketiQ fills each template with your brand, facts and copy.
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