Content strategy / Architecture / AI

Content and systems built for the AI search era.

Rank. Get cited. Earn trust.

After 7+ years working with complex B2B audiences, I take genuinely difficult subject matter and turn it into content built to perform.

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The Future of Rehab Therapy: an original research report

Partnered with our research lead on a 500+ clinician survey, then wrote and shipped the interactive report. My strongest single piece of work.

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Student debt is reshaping who becomes a therapist

Brand-building thought leadership grounded in primary data (APTA, BLS), not opinion, on why practices are losing new graduates to hospitals.

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EHR vs. EMR for rehab therapy

A heavily contested, broadly searched query. Structured to win the featured snippet and AI citation away from entrenched competitors, not just rank.

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Nadésia
Douté
Senior Content Strategist

"Content strategy isn't about what you publish. It's about what you've built that makes every future piece more effective than the last."

At Ensora Health, I own the systems that make content work at scale: the brand governance that keeps a multi-product company sounding like one coherent voice, the content architecture that tells search engines (and AI systems) what we're an authority on, and the editorial infrastructure that means every piece published makes the next one more effective.

I also write. Compellingly. Because strategy without craft is just theory, and the best way to prove a content framework works is to produce content that proves it.

Highlights

Systems I've built

Brand

Corporate rebrand: brand governance & website copy

Co-led content strategy and copy across Ensora Health's full corporate rebrand, and built the governance system that keeps the brand consistent post-launch.

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Strategy

Building the content program I wish existed

A five-layer content strategy framework, competitive gap analysis, and the editorial infrastructure to run it, built from brief-execution into a strategy-led operation.

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Stack

Martech I've used

AI tools
Claude, Jasper, Copilot
SEO
Semrush, Google Analytics
CMS
WordPress, HubSpot
Project mgmt
Asana, Monday.com
Design collab
Figma, Canva
Heatmaps
Microsoft Clarity
Social
Sprout Social
CRM
Salesforce, HubSpot CRM

Systems I've built

The systems behind the writing

Three deep dives into strategy, governance, and the tradeoffs behind projects that don't have a byline of their own. Looking for the writing itself? Start with Writing →

Corporate rebrand: brand governance & website copy

Brand governance / Content strategy / Cross-functional coordination

Co-led content strategy and copy across Ensora Health's full corporate rebrand. Built the governance system that keeps the brand consistent org-wide post-launch.

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From fragmented blogs to a content architecture

Blog consolidation / Pillar-and-cluster architecture / Competitive gap analysis

Partnered on a legacy blog consolidation, then developed a pillar-and-cluster content architecture (nicknamed TBL, tree, branch, leaf, internally) and a four-competitor gap analysis now driving the active content build.

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Building the content program I wish existed

Strategy framework / AI tools / Editorial operations

Transitioned the content function from brief-execution to a strategy-led operation: five-layer framework, deployed tools, and the editorial infrastructure to run it consistently.

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Writing

Published work, annotated

Linked to the original, live pages, organized by what each piece was actually built to do: brand and thought leadership, AI and search visibility, or conversion. Not just what it covers.

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Systems I've built / Brand

Rebuilding a brand
from the inside out

Corporate rebrand / Brand governance / Website copy / Cross-functional leadership

Company
Ensora Health
Industry
Healthcare IT SaaS
Scope
Full corporate rebrand
My role
Content & brand lead

The situation

Rebrands are exciting for about three weeks. Then reality sets in: the new logo is live, the announcement email went out, and nobody has any idea how to actually talk about the company in the new way. Language drifts. Product teams write their own copy. Sales decks revert to old terminology. The brand becomes a document that lives on a shared drive nobody opens.

By the time Ensora Health rebranded, consolidating TheraNest (behavioral health), Fusion (rehab therapy), and a broader product portfolio under one unified identity, I'd been at the company long enough to understand both the brand and the operational stakes of getting this wrong.

"A rebrand without governance isn't a rebrand. It's a before-and-after photo."

What I owned

The brand guidelines. I co-led the construction of the brand guidelines document, alongside another writer. This was a team effort; my role was owning the architecture and driving it to completion:

  • Scoped what sections needed to exist
  • Coordinated DRIs across the project
  • Managed the review process end to end
  • Delivered the document that became the org's source of truth

The website copy. Working alongside an external SEO agency that shaped the site architecture, I co-led the content strategy and wrote significant portions of the website copy, translating the new brand positioning into on-site language. The real challenge wasn't writing well, it was writing one coherent brand voice across two very different clinical audiences, behavioral health practices and rehab therapy clinics, who think differently, search differently, and need to hear different things to trust a piece of software with their practice.

Brand governance. After launch, I became the internal authority on whether something was on-brand, catching things like a product team about to call clients "patients" (they're not), or a sales deck six months out of date on messaging:

  • My project request board fields brand questions from across the org
  • I shadow the communications director when she's unavailable
  • Turned "can someone just review this real quick" into a structured process that actually protects the brand

Honest scope: I co-led the rebrand's content workstream alongside another writer, not solo. The SEO agency shaped site architecture; design owned visual identity. My lane was content and messaging: the guidelines, the copy, and the system that keeps it coherent when I'm not in the room.

Full
Website copy produced in-house
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Unified brand system across multi-product portfolio
Ongoing
Brand governance function, established and maintained
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Systems I've built / SEO & architecture

From fragmented blogs
to a content architecture

Blog consolidation / Pillar-and-cluster architecture / Competitive gap analysis

Company
Ensora Health
Collaborators
SEO specialist, external SEO agency
Scope
Multi-site consolidation + architecture
Status
Executed + ongoing build

The situation

Ensora Health's content library had grown the way most do: organically, reactively, across multiple legacy sites with no structural logic connecting any of it. Duplicate topics. Competing URLs. Content that ranked for nothing because it was competing against itself. And no clear answer to the question every content team eventually has to face: what do we actually own?

The consolidation

I partnered with an SEO specialist (who owned the analytical audit and redirect mapping) on executing a blog consolidation across legacy properties. My role was editorial execution:

  • Rationalized what stayed, what merged, and what got retired
  • Applied consistent quality standards to everything that survived

The goal wasn't fewer pieces of content. It was a content library that told a coherent story about what Ensora knows.

The architecture

Consolidation buys you a cleaner starting point. Architecture is what makes it compound. In parallel, I developed a pillar-and-cluster content architecture: pillars (the thematic territories Ensora should own), with clusters of topic pages underneath each one. Internally, the team nicknamed it TBL, tree, branch, leaf, since each pillar branches into clusters, which branch into the hyper-specific leaf pages that answer exact questions.

The insight that changed how leadership thought about the roadmap: by our own content classification criteria, the majority of content we'd planned as blog posts should actually be pillar or cluster pages. Which meant the architecture had to come first, not as a nice-to-have, but as the prerequisite for everything else on the calendar.

"Most content strategies fail not because the content is bad, but because there's nowhere for it to live."

The competitive gap analysis

I audited four major competitors (SimplePractice, WebPT, TherapyNotes, and Jane App), mapping what they'd built that we hadn't: pillar pages, comparison pages, feature pages, glossary pages. That analysis is what's currently driving the active build, in collaboration with our external SEO agency and an incoming SEO manager.

What I can speak to in an interview: the strategic rationale behind the architecture, the competitive gap analysis, and the phased execution plan. Keyword-level data and technical SEO validation live with the SEO specialist and agency. I'll say that clearly: it's more credible than claiming to own work I didn't.

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Competitors analyzed in gap study
Multi-site
Blog consolidation across legacy properties
Active
Pillar, glossary & feature page build underway
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Systems I've built / Strategy / In progress

Building the content program
I wish existed

Five-layer strategy framework / Tools development / Editorial operations / AI/LLM visibility

Company
Ensora Health
Scope
Org-wide content program
Status
Active build
My role
Sole owner

The opportunity

Brief-execution content gets published, deadlines get met, but it produces work that stands alone, doesn't reinforce anything, and requires the same effort every time because nothing compounds. I wanted to build something structurally different: a content program with architecture underneath it, not just a calendar on top of it.

The strategy framework

I authored a formal five-layer content strategy document that now guides how the team operates:

  • Content pillars and topic clusters: thematic territories mapped to product portfolio, audience segments, and competitive positioning
  • Internal linking architecture: rules for how every new piece connects to the pillar hierarchy and related cluster content
  • E-E-A-T and SME integration: a tiered model for building expert credibility into content, from contributed quotes to recurring bylines
  • AI-powered discovery optimization: structuring content to appear in AI-generated answers, not just search results
  • Content quality standards: a minimum unique value requirement for every piece published

The tools

AI-assisted content is only as trustworthy as the standards behind it. Here's the evaluation layer I built to enforce those standards, two tools currently in active use across the marketing org:

  • Blog optimization skill: deployed in the team's primary AI workspace, encoding quality standards, linking rules, and an AI/SEO checklist that applies consistently without requiring manual review every time
  • SME discovery engine: an artifact that generates expert contributor candidates with credibility signals and drafted outreach, making E-E-A-T content development repeatable rather than ad hoc

"The gap nobody owned was the editorial layer between site architecture and individual content: the narrative logic that connects pages and builds authority over time."

This case study is in progress. Happy to walk through any of the strategy documents or tools in detail, it's the clearest picture of how I think about content strategy.

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Tools built and deployed
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Strategy framework layers
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Content pillars defined
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About

Senior content strategist.
7+ years in, still building.

Content strategy has to do two things at once: get found by the right person, and make sense once they're there, then hold up as the ground underneath it keeps shifting. I've spent 7+ years doing that for healthcare technology, where the audience can tell in the first paragraph whether you actually understand their world.

What actually sets my work apart isn't the writing, it's what's underneath it: a pillar-and-cluster content architecture and taxonomy that let every new page compound instead of starting from zero, and the governance standards that let a team use AI without losing accuracy or brand voice. That same instinct is what drove an original research report: I partnered with our research lead on a 500+ clinician survey, then turned the data into a published, interactive story that's become the clearest proof of how I think about this work.

I work at Ensora Health, where my scope has quietly expanded well beyond the original job description: content architecture, brand governance, AI standards, original research, and covering for our communications director when she's out.

What I do day-to-day

→Content strategy and architecture: pillar-and-cluster frameworks, taxonomy and content classification, internal linking standards
→Brand governance: cross-functional review, project request board, terminology enforcement across the org
→Editorial operations: calendar ownership, competitive-informed roadmap, product launch coordination
→Tool development: blog optimization skill and SME discovery engine (both in active use)
→Agency collaboration: SEO briefs and content architecture review with external partners
→Communications coverage: fill for communications director when unavailable
→Intern mentorship: interview, hire, onboard, and guide marketing interns
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Contact

Let's talk.

I'm actively exploring roles. If you're building a content program that needs someone who can own the strategy and execute the craft, I'd love to hear about it.

Email
nadesiad@gmail.com
Location
Remote, open to US