Resources
Guides.
Step-by-step walkthroughs for running a video-first agency, from approval workflows to production pipelines. Written from a working agency, not theory.
Roles & access
Who can do what — the seven roles, explained
From the owner who sees everything to the freelancer who only sees their own clients — every role, what it does and why it exists.
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Guide · 9 min
Content approval workflow: the complete guide for agencies
How to build a content approval workflow that actually holds: the five stages, the three failure points, what a recorded sign-off contains, and the honest tooling ladder from spreadsheet to system.
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Guide · 8 min
Creative approval software: what it is, who it's for, and what it costs in 2026
What creative approval software actually does — annotated review, versions, recorded sign-off on the asset itself — and an honest map of the category, from Ziflow and PageProof to Frame.io and Cadenus.
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Guide · 7 min
Social media client reporting: what to send, when, and how to stop dreading it
A working system for agency client reports: the five numbers clients actually read, the cadence that prevents churn, and how to get reporting from a lost day to twenty minutes.
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Guide · 9 min
Video production workflow software: what it is and how to choose one in 2026
What video production workflow software actually covers — production stages, client review and approval, publishing — how it differs from Frame.io and project tools, and what it costs at agency scale.
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Guide · 5 min
The agency CRM in Cadenus: your sales pipeline, from lead to won
How the sales side of the Cadenus CRM works: capture every lead with its source, manage it with tasks, multiple contacts and a full history, track conversion rate and CAC, and convert a won lead into a client in one click.
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Guide · 8 min
Client management in Cadenus: run every account from one hub
How to manage active clients in Cadenus: see your whole book ranked by health, open one client to a full workspace (boards, brand voice, time, history) with clear ownership, run a per-client content engine from Radar to script to pipeline, and send a white-label report.
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Guide · 9 min
How to use Cadenus: from sign-up to your first published post
A walkthrough of the whole workflow: set up your workspace, connect your channels, run production, get client approval, publish natively and see the money, with a screenshot at every step.
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Guide · 6 min
Client approvals in Cadenus: from review link to signed off
How to run a clean approval loop: send one secure review link, let the client approve or comment from their phone, batch revisions into one round, and keep every decision on the record.
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Guide · 6 min
Publishing in Cadenus: one composer, one calendar, every channel
How to publish natively across Instagram, Facebook and TikTok from one screen: connect each brand once, compose with a live preview, and schedule a whole week per brand from a single calendar.
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Guide · 6 min
Finance and client reports in Cadenus: see the margin, send the proof
How to keep the money next to the work: see each retainer's value, read true per-client margin instead of headline revenue, and send a white-label monthly report in one click.
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Guide · 6 min
Radar in Cadenus: turn what's trending into briefs in your voice
How to start every week knowing what to make: Radar watches your niche, surfaces real outliers, drafts a brief in your brand voice, and drops it on the board as a work item.
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Guide · 6 min
The Cadenus ops board: run production where nothing rots silently
How to run agency production on a board built for your stages: every deliverable a card, full context inside each work item, and a clean one-click handoff to client review.
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Guide · 7 min
The client approval workflow that ends revision chaos
Why agency approvals drag for weeks, and the four-rule workflow — one channel, one deadline, one decision, on the record — that gets them down to days.
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Guide · 8 min
Running a video pipeline: from brief to published
The stage model that keeps agency video production legible — what each stage means, who owns it, and how to spot stuck work before deadlines do.
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