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The Reputation Intelligence Toolkit

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Nine interactive tools to implement the frameworks in this book. Open any tool in your browser, fill it in, and print or export your results. No software required.

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Work through the tools in order the first time

Discover

Tools 1–4

Who needs what
intelligence, and why?

Measure

Tools 5 & 9

Score, aggregate,
and track over time.

Communicate

Tool 6

Brief the executive.
Act on it in hours.

Prove

Tools 7 & 8

Document decisions.
Build the career case.


● Discover

Tools 1–4: Build the Foundation

Who needs what intelligence, and why? Without this foundation, everything downstream is guesswork.

1
Discover

Persona-Based Insights™ Builder

Chapter 4: Persona-Based Insights

Walk through four structured steps — Business Priority, Persona Canvas, Signal Definition, and Agile Statement — to capture everything you need before building your intelligence program.

2
Discover

Priority Markets Map

Chapter 4: Persona-Based Insights

Score and tier your markets based on strategic value, narrative priority, risk level, and media ecosystem quality — producing a clear, defensible resource allocation.

3
Discover

Media Weighting Matrix

Chapter 4: Persona-Based Insights

Translate your PBI conversation into a ranked, tiered outlet list that feeds directly into your MRS Source Authority scores. Build one matrix per persona.

4
Discover

Competitor Influence Scorecard

Chapter 4: Persona-Based Insights

Identify which competitors most strongly shape the conversation in your space and calibrate monitoring intensity — so you're watching the right battles.

● Measure

Tools 5 & 9: Quantify the Reputation

Score, aggregate, and track over time. These two tools work together — one scores articles, the other rolls up the numbers.

5
Measure

MRS Scoring Guide

Chapter 5: Media Reputation Score

The operational manual for scoring articles and calculating your MRS. Covers all six scoring dimensions with rubrics, a live article scorer, pillar definitions, and the tagging workflow that keeps the system running.

9
Measure

MRS Roll-up Calculator

Chapter 5: Media Reputation Score

Aggregate article scores into a weighted overall MRS, pillar-by-pillar breakdowns, month-over-month trends, and competitive benchmarks — the core numbers that go into every SIGNAL Brief.

● Communicate

Tool 6: Brief the Executive

Intelligence that doesn't reach the executive in a format they can act on is just data with better packaging.

6
Communicate

SIGNAL Brief Template

Chapter 6: The SIGNAL Framework

Walk through all six SIGNAL components, generate a live preview of your completed brief, and produce a print-ready document for delivery. Write the Executive Summary last — place it first.

Launch Tool →
S

Signal Detected — What changed, specific and quantified

I

Implications for Business — Why it matters to the executive

G

Gap Analysis — Where you stand vs. competitors

N

Narrative Recommendation — What story to tell

A

Action Required — Who does what by when

L

Lift Expected — Anticipated ROI, quantified where possible

● Prove

Tools 7 & 8: Show the ROI

Proof is what separates a strategic advisor from a service provider. Document decisions. Build the career case.

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Prove

Proof Chain Builder

Chapter 6: The SIGNAL Framework

Capture the complete signal-to-outcome sequence — what you detected, what you recommended, what decision was made, and what happened. One documented Proof Chain is worth more than a year of dashboards.

8
Prove

90-Day Implementation Roadmap

All Chapters

Translates the full methodology into a week-by-week plan with Go/No-Go checkpoints at the end of each month — Foundation, Build, and Deliver — so you build the right things in the right order.

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