01 · The Journey
02 · The System
03 · The Content
04 · Paid Framework
05 · How We Learn
06 · Parked
ONE CONTENT ENGINE

TINKR CONTENT APPROACH

A content engine meant to move her from “I never thought I could” to “look what I did,” and a learning loop to prove what works before we scale.

TINKR × GOSSAMER01 / 27
RECAP · WHAT THE STRATEGY ALREADY ESTABLISHED

WHERE PART 1 LANDED

01 THE FORCES
The economy made DIY necessary. Culture made it desirable. YouTube made it possible. Nobody made it feel doable: that’s our gap to fill.
02 · THE AUDIENCE
The Upgrader is our bullseye, and she’s in market today. The First-Timer is our long-term win. Functional Aesthetic is her why; “make it work” and “make it mine” run through both.
03 · THE INSIGHT
She doesn’t need another pretty tool. She needs the belief that she can handle it, and the education to actually get it done.
TINKR × GOSSAMER02 / 27
THE BELIEF · BRAND PLATFORM
YOU’VE GOT THIS.
No really, you do.
Core tenets
Tinkr sells identity, not tools
The belief about who she is: someone who handles it.
Driven by aesthetic functionality: Make it work + make it mine
More than just repairs, “make it mine” expands the world to interior design, creativity and self-expression and encompasses Tate’s world.
The brand is the community
Tate & Tyler are ambassadors and hosts, Tate is the encouraging “big sister” further along her Tinker journey but the existing Tinkerers are the proof that the first timer can too.
TINKR × GOSSAMER03 / 27
THE COMPETITION

Everyone is selling tools, no brand is focused on her emotional journey.

We pulled and scored every Meta ad the four biggest competitors in the category are running. The pattern was unanimous — and it is an opportunity.

49%

open on a bold product claim — “Most Powerful.” “Fastest.” “Longest-Lasting.”

47%

lead with specs and features — without a single human being in the frame.

0

speak to the intimidated first-timer, or sell how it feels to do it yourself.

175 ads scored · 4 competitors · Milwaukee · Ryobi · HOTO · Black+Decker
TINKR × GOSSAMER04 / 27
THE JOURNEY AND THE JOB OF CONTENT

FROM FIRST TIMER TO TINKRER

A · THE FIRST-TIMER
“I never thought I could do this.”
Needs inspiration, education, permission and an easy on-ramp
B · THE UPGRADER (TINKRER)
“I can and I do”
Needs elevation, harder projects, community
TINKR × GOSSAMER05 / 27
THE ROLE OF CONTENT

EVERY PIECE OF CONTENT MOVES SOMEONE A STEP

Organic and paid both run this journey — they just enter through different doors.

01 INSPIRE
spark the desire
“I wish I could do that”
First-timer → wishes she could
02 · EDUCATE
grant permission
“This doesn’t seem that hard — someone like me did this, I can try too.”
wishes she could → believes she can
03 · JOIN
prove the identity
“Look what I did.”
I did it → I’m a tinkerer now
TINKR × GOSSAMER06 / 27
THE SYSTEM, ONE ENGINE

One destination: “I’m a tinkerer.” Two different doors.

Both doors open day one, into the same journey, and the data sharpens both.

ORGANIC · LEADS WITH IDENTITY

Story first, product secondary. We have her attention for free — we spend it earning belief: “someone like me can do this.”

Carried by: Look for Less · Handled in 5 · Tinkrer of the Week
TINKR × GOSSAMER07 / 27
THE CONTENT

CONTENT TYPES BY FUNNEL STAGE

Organic sells who she’s becoming.

INSPIRATION
spark the want — “I wish I could do that”
  • Dupes: Look for less
  • Marketplace Flips
  • Renter Upgrades (fixing “landlord specials”)
Signal: watch-through, saves — she wants it
EDUCATION
permission + how to — “someone like me did this”
  • Don’t Call Someone Carousel How-tos
  • Homeowner 101
  • Academy long-form
  • “The Scary Part”
Signal: saves, shares — she believes she can
IDENTITY · JOIN
the identity of someone who can — “look what I did”
  • Community challenges: Tinkr Tries
  • Reaction videos: Saw It, Tried It
  • Tinkrer of the Week
Signal: comments, submissions, tags — she’s one of us
TINKR × GOSSAMER08 / 27
EVERYTHING IS A HYPOTHESIS

Paid framework

Product-led ads can launch day one; identity lives in the hooks. Organic learnings feed precision as they come.

First Time Confidence
Hero productPastel drill · Full Kit
PersonaFirst Timer
Fed by (organic)Tinkr Tries testimonials · Don’t Call Someone
Hooks to test
“I never imagined I could do this.”
This is the first tool that didn’t make me feel like I was doing it wrong.
Money + time
Hero productWall Patch Kit · home kits
PersonaUpgrader
Fed by (organic)Handled in 5, Deposit Back
Hooks to test
My landlord said ‘submit a maintenance request.’ I fixed it in 11 minutes instead.
Nobody’s coming to hang your gallery wall for you. Turns out you don’t need them to.
The painters were booked weeks out, but my walls weren’t willing to wait.
Made for me (aesthetic)
Hero productPrecision Screwdriver ($9.99)
PersonaUpgrader
Fed by (organic)Look for Less reveals — “projects are more fun when tools are cute”
Hooks to test
This $10 screwdriver did what a drawer of hand-me-downs never could.
It’s like they knew I never had the right size screwdriver — so I just replaced my entire toolbox with this.
Use case, direct
Hero productJSI-2000 Jump Starter · Wall Patch Kit
PersonaFirst-timer
Fed by (organic)DCS concepts, re-cut
Hooks to test
45 mins for roadside, or 45 seconds and this.
That tire pressure light would ruin my whole morning, until…
TINKR × GOSSAMER09 / 27
HOW WE LEARN

Learning loop

Organic owns the angle. Paid owns the hook. One content engine — sharing what each side is learning, every month. The loop tells you exactly what to run across a campaign.

1
Hypothesis
Organic: the angle to prove
2
Run
Organic: concepts post
3
Read
Organic: saves · “where / how”
4
Decide
Organic: double down or drop the angle
5
Cross-pollinate
Winning hook data → sharper concepts
TINKR × GOSSAMER10 / 27
A NOTE ON CHANNELS

Tiktok + Instagram: Both Channels, One Test Plan

Instagram carries the audience today; TikTok is nearly a fresh start. Content will be posted on both — the test log will tell us where each one should live.

TikTok
Typically founder-led and personality content performs best here; reaction and duet mechanics are native, TikTok Shop converts here.
Instagram
The more aesthetic, save-for-later layer. Reveals, carousels, and how-tos as saved content to come back to later; the grid as the catalog of who we are as a brand.
TINKR × GOSSAMER11 / 27
THE PLAN

The test plan — prove the want first

WaveWhat we testChannelSignal = “it worked”Graduate →
1 · Prove the wantLook for Less + Deposit Back; lean on proven receiptsOrganicSaves & shares over median; “where/how” intent→ shared read, month end
2 · Prove permissionHandled in 5 carousels + Don’t Call Someone conceptsOrganicSaves, watch-through / completes + link taps to PDP→ shared read, month end
Paid · Track AProduct-first — jump starter, kits, entry SKUs, running independent of organic timingPaidCAC / ROAS vs. baseline→ scale winning SKUs
Paid · Track BOrganic-fed — the four angles (Competence, Money+time, Made for me, Use case), fed by organic winnersPaidCTR / CPP by angle→ scale best blended angle
3 · Prove identityTinkrer of the Week + Tinkr Tries (needs the line live)Organic + UGCInbound submissions / week; reposts→ shared read, month end
Phase 2 · ReachEntertainment + Bigger Brand PlaysOrganic + partnersReach / new-follower efficiency — only after 1–3→ back to top of funnel
Paid runs both tracks with Joe, on the same monthly cadence as organic — both feed the same read.
TINKR × GOSSAMER12 / 27
INSPIRE · EDUCATE · JOIN

Content concepts

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STAGE 1 · INSPIRE · PROVE THE WANT

Inspire

Beautiful results first, the tool second.

Ballin on a Budget (NAME?)
The expensive thing, done cheaper: every video starts from a real price tag on a thing she wants and ends with her version of it. Think dupes and marketplace flips: the $40 listing, flipped, styled in the room, revealed.
The Landlord Special / Deposit Back
The rental lane. Each concept kills one landlord special with a reversible move, and closes on the same beat: the deposit, safe. The classic boob light is the first one to test.
TINKR × GOSSAMER14 / 27
INSPIRE

Concepts

Look for Less · The Fake Built-In.
“CB2 wants $2,300 for this feeling. One sheet of plywood.” Finished library wall, two full seconds, the confession, the fast build. Cordless Drill + Full Kit.
Look for Less · The $200 Vase.
“West Elm wanted $200 for this vase. We made it ourselves.” Listing price, the make, the side-by-side. Painting Kit + Precision Screwdriver.
Look for Less · The $40 Flip.
“Sourced on Facebook Marketplace for $40, everyone who visits asks where it’s from.” Furniture Assembly Kit + Electric Screwdriver.
Deposit Back · The Boob Light.
“Every rental has one. Yours doesn’t have to.” The first one to test; reversible, the fixture goes back in a box. Electric Screwdriver.
TINKR × GOSSAMER15 / 27
INSPIRE: WHY?

The internet is already watching this

We are not inventing a behavior: we are giving a proven genre a brand, a face, and a tool.

@farmhouseish · look for less
“Love the look of Pottery Barn but not the price.” Opens on the exact tension our audience lives in: taste versus budget.
the flip
$50 nightstands, minimized and modernized. The seed reference for the Marketplace Flip concept.
the rental hack
“Done!!!!” The reversible fix, proven — near-universal renter recognition, and the exact energy our first concept borrows.
TINKR × GOSSAMER16 / 27
STAGE 2 · EDUCATE · GRANT PERMISSION

Educate

The authority job: turning want into a cart and a finished project. Our how-tos are differentiated by one move, they open on the pain, not the project or the tool. Every concept holds a Tinkr tool.

Don’t Call Someone: tinkr yourself
Focus on the pain point, and what it would cost to fix it. Show a real person fixing the real thing: one continuous take, no studio, no script voice. The DIY couple can continue to do these.
Handled in 5
A five-frame photo carousel, agency-batched. The how-to repurposed as handled: finished thing up front, the tool named as it appears.
Homeowner 101
For the just-moved-in and house-poor: “I spent everything on the house, now I need to not spend on the pros” or things you didn’t know that could cost you. Batched by agency.
Academy long-form
YouTube; runs as a demand lab. Short-form proves which topics deserve it; winners made into long-form.
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EDUCATION DIFFERENTIATION

How we film a how-to

01
The pain
Water under the sink. The dead battery.
02
The reflex
The phone comes out. The quote lands on screen: “$250, earliest Thursday.”
03
The turn
The phone goes down. The kit comes out. The tool is named as it appears.
04
The fix, real time
Competence you can follow.
05
The silent flex
On screen: the cost of the call you didn’t make. Close: “Handled.”
Beats 1 and 2 are the differentiator. Every other brand starts at beat 3, which is why every other how-to is boring.
TINKR × GOSSAMER18 / 27
THE CONCEPTS

Handled in 5

Five still photos, posted as one Instagram carousel

01
The cover
The finished wall. “Deposit: safe.” Not a single tool in frame yet.
02
The damage
The nail hole, the anchor tear, the doorknob dent. Shot like a crime scene.
03
The fix
Patch and knife, mid-stroke. “60 seconds.” The tool gets its name here: Wall Patch Kit.
04
The pro tip
Test the paint match on a hidden corner first.
05
The reveal
CTA: save this for move-out week.
Also in batch one: the heavy mirror that stays up (Hanging Kit) · flat-pack in half the time (Electric Screwdriver) · the wobbly chair (Furniture Assembly + Precision) · cabinet hardware swap (Cordless Drill).
TINKR × GOSSAMER19 / 27
BUCKET 04 · EMPOWER · YES YOU CAN

Join

The feeling this bucket sells: “I didn’t think I could.” Proof by people like her.

Tinkr Tries
Influencer, the testimonial engine. Faces our audience already trust, zero DIY history, get the kit and a challenge card. “I used to be the call-someone kind of person.”
Saw It, Tried It
A viral build plays picture-in-picture while T&T watches. Then T&T builds it in their own place, the result next to video, rated on the hardness scale: could you?
Tinkrer of the Week
Highlight community members on different stages of their journey, to show you can too.
TINKR × GOSSAMER20 / 27
TINKRER OF THE WEEK, STEP BY STEP

Leveraging UGC, celebrating competence

A weekly spotlight built from the community’s own phone footage.

01
She sends it in
Phone footage of the thing she fixed, submitted by DM. (A dedicated line is a later idea — see Bigger Brand Plays.)
02
One winner
The team picks the week’s fix. Criteria: real home, real hands, a before and an after.
03
The glow-up edit
Our editor re-cuts her clips with the brand grade, type, and music.
04
Her name, up top
The title card credits her, not us. Tate can voice a one-line intro, and Tinkr merch goes in the mail.
TINKR × GOSSAMER21 / 27
PART TWO · PARKED

Bigger brand plays

Entertainment, founder-led reach, partnerships, and the hotline all unlock at the Month-3 readout, once the loop shows what’s actually converting and the content engine is working.

TINKR × GOSSAMER22 / 27
BIGGER BRAND PLAYS · FAMOUS FRIENDS · QUARTERLY · PARKED

Fixing with Friends

Tyler and Tate help their famous friends fix the thing people hate: the series brings in more faces, real homes, and a casting funnel nobody else has.

The concept.
Think the renter’s boob light, or the new owner who overspent and the upgrade they keep putting off. Each one carries real stakes on screen — one day, one kit — and plays out in three beats: the before, the build, the reveal.
The cast.
Tyler’s real friends give us a casting shortcut — names like Matt James, Hannah Brown, and Olivia Faria, plus an open-submissions bench nobody else has.
Details.
Shot simply, on iPhone with lav mics, so one editor can turn it around in post.
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THE HOTLINE · THE MERCH CAMPAIGN · PARKED

1-800-HANDLED, the mini campaign

The number as a brand object. It never needs to ring; it needs to be worn, printed, and quoted.

The launch post
A screen-recorded film that opens on the search everyone’s made: “handyman near me” — where one sponsored result reads differently: 1-800-HANDLED, you don’t need us.
The merch
The number in the brand type, “don’t call us.” Worn by Tate and Tyler on camera first, then dropped in small runs.
UGC
Tinkrer of the Week winners get the merch pack in the mail. The number becomes the badge of the people who didn’t call.
Community
How we bring these people together (the WhatsApp circle with Tate and Tyler, the inner list) is its own decision, scoped after the submission engine proves demand.
TINKR × GOSSAMER24 / 27
THE HOTLINE · BUILD B · BLUE-SKY · PARKED

What if the hotline was real?

The number as the front door of the community. Two prompts, always on: “text us the thing you fixed” and “text us the thing you’re scared to fix.”

Why text
Community texts to be featured to the whole audience, to get Tate and Tyler reacting to THEIR fix, to land a courage score, and to win the merch.
What it feeds
Tinkrer of the Week winners.
Day one mechanics
Launch with a DM keyword and link-in-bio while the real SMS line gets set up: the audience texts “the number” either way. Phase two is a real receiving line with auto-reply.
The cold start
Hagar’s affiliate creators submit the first wave.
TINKR × GOSSAMER25 / 27
BIGGER BRAND PLAYS · BRAND PARTNERSHIPS · PARKED

Tinkr × Tinder

The concept.
Tinkr × Tinder: “red flags you can fix.” Competence meets culture.
What a partner gets.
Our founders’ faces and a pov their audience shares. What we get: their reach, on-platform, without a media buy.
Filter.
A partnership works only when the joke writes itself; don’t bend to fit the partner.
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Handled.

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