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What belongs on the campaign board versus the board pack
A campaign board on a Tuesday morning should still smell of the week: a naming error, a late creative, a feed that broke on Thursday. If you polish that board into a trustee document, the growth team stops saying what went wrong.
A board pack should not contain twenty exception rows. It should contain the conversion definition, the contribution maps, the spend that finance already recognises, and a single page of material risks. The weekly mess has a home; it is not this pack.
We are often asked to ‘just automate’ the board pack from the weekly board. That request usually means: hide the exceptions. Resist it. Trustees can be shown a stable page order and one honest risk page. They cannot usefully be shown a firehose.
When Toolkitfieldcore writes a monthly pack, the exceptions page is for the growth lead’s call, not for the PDF that goes to the chair. The chair receives movement and claims that survive a question. Both documents are campaign reporting. They are not the same object.
If your team only has energy for one artefact, make it the one that will be in the room when money moves. Keep a raw weekly sheet beside it, unformatted, for the people who actually change bids and send emails.