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30-day social calendar with the visuals already made

A 30-day social calendar with post ideas, copy, and hashtags - and the image for every post already generated, linked row by row in Google Sheets.

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The problem this solves

Most social calendars are half a deliverable. The strategy session produces a spreadsheet of post ideas, everyone agrees it looks strong, and then the calendar sits there because every row still needs an image nobody has made. The writing was the easy part; thirty visuals is a production backlog. So the team posts the four ideas that happened to get artwork, the cadence collapses by week two, and next month the same planning meeting happens again.

Doing it properly by hand means holding two jobs at once: an editorial planner deciding what the brand should say across a month, and a production designer making thirty on-brand images in five formats and moods. Teams with both roles filled still lose days to the handoff. Teams without them post reactively, whenever inspiration and a spare hour coincide, and the feed shows it - long silences, then three posts in a day, with no visual through-line.

How the mission runs

  1. Ground the calendar in research. The agent uses Web Research to study your site, your positioning, and what is currently earning engagement in your space. The month gets themes and a posting rhythm before any single post is written, so the calendar reads as one editorial arc instead of thirty disconnected captions.
  2. Write all thirty posts. Each calendar day gets a post idea, full copy in your voice, and a hashtag set matched to the platform. The mix is deliberately varied - product, proof, education, opinion, moment-in-time - so followers see a brand with range rather than the same promotional beat repeated thirty times.
  3. Generate the visual for every row. Image Generation produces each post's image in the correct format for its placement, holding your palette and style across the full set. The month's visual system is iterated at draft quality until you approve the look, then all thirty images render at final quality in one consistent pass.
  4. Assemble the sheet. Everything lands in Google Sheets: one row per day with the date, the idea, the copy, the hashtags, and a link to that post's finished image. Columns for status and owner are included, so the sheet functions as your working schedule rather than a document you copy from.
  5. Hand off for scheduling. The finished sheet is a complete handoff: anyone on the team can open it, work down the rows, and schedule the month in an afternoon. Nothing publishes from the mission itself; posting stays in your hands, on your tools, at whatever cadence you confirm.

The prompt

This is the exact objective the agent receives. Swap the obvious placeholders for your own domain, segment or channel and run it as-is from the console, Slack, or the API.

⟨ THE MISSION PROMPT · PASTE AND RUN ⟩

Build me a 30-day social calendar for my brand - post ideas, copy, hashtags - and generate the image for each post in the right format, laid out in Google Sheets with a link per row.

What comes back

A Google Sheet holding a complete 30-day calendar: date, post idea, ready-to-paste copy, hashtag set, and a link to the finished image for every single row. All thirty images are generated in placement-correct formats with one consistent visual system at final quality. The sheet includes status and owner columns, so it drops straight into your workflow as the operating schedule for the month.

Make it yours

  • Split the month across two platforms with distinct voices: professional copy and landscape visuals for one, looser copy and vertical formats for the other, in one sheet.
  • Anchor the calendar to a launch: fifteen days of build-up, launch week, and follow-through, with the visual system tightening toward the announcement date.
  • Run it as a rolling mission that drafts the next month during the last week of this one, carrying forward whichever post formats earned the most engagement.

Frequently asked questions

Will thirty images really look like one brand?

Yes, because the visual system is approved before mass production. The agent iterates the look at draft quality on a few sample posts, you lock the direction, and the full set renders at final quality from that single approved system - same palette, same type treatment, same compositional rules throughout.

Can I swap out ideas I do not like?

Any row can be challenged in the thread. Tell the agent which days feel off and why, and it rewrites those posts and regenerates their images while leaving the rest of the calendar untouched. Most teams revise a handful of rows once and approve the remainder as delivered.

Does the agent post any of this for me?

No. The mission delivers a fully stocked calendar and stops there. Publishing remains a human action in your own scheduling tools, which means every post gets a final glance from your team before it reaches the feed, and the calendar stays flexible when plans change mid-month.

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Open a workspace, paste the prompt, and the Design Agent carries it end to end on your plan's monthly credits - evidence attached.

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