Four weeks to Louisville

Content calendar for @allanblockwalls. September 21 through October 17, 2026. Three grid posts and two story sets per week, in date order, alternating across five days. Motion enters in week 3.

Oct 22Estimating tool goes live
Oct 21–23HNA, Kentucky Exposition Center
24028Booth, with Reading Rock and Kronos
Estimating thread HNA Evergreen Motion
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sep 20
21
22
CarouselGuess the Count
23
Story, poll
24
CarouselWall Anatomy
25
Story, plant day
26
Carousel, readyStep Downs
27
28
29
CarouselThe Cost of Being Wrong
30
Story, question sticker
Oct 1
CarouselSpot the Problem
2
Story, answer reveal
3
Carousel, readyStairs
4
5
6
CarouselHow Long
7
Story, poll
8
CarouselAsk an AB Engineer
9
Story, countdown
10
ReelDenver, Built Twice
11
12
13
ReelMade Here, Ep. 1
14
Story, plant offcuts
15
CarouselYour HNA Game Plan
16
Story, booth build
17
CarouselThe Answer Is Coming

HNA runs Oct 21 to 23. The estimating tool goes live Thursday, Oct 22.

Templates

Week 1

Sept 21 to 27

Play. Low stakes, high comment volume. Nothing about a product.

Tuesday, September 22

Guess the Count

Guess the Count, slide 1 comp1
Guess the Count, slide 2 comp2
Guess the Count, slide 3 comp3

Template. Option 4, plain. The wall photo carries slides 1 and 2 with the question overlaid. Slide 3 is type on cream.

  1. How many blocks?
  2. Take another look.
  3. Drop your number below. We will tell you who got closest.

Images. One strong finished wall on slide 1, a tighter crop of the same wall on slide 2. The crop is what earns the swipe.

CaptionNo prize. No catch. Just want to see how close this crowd can get. Number in the comments.

Do not answer this post. The number is launch day content on October 22, and it only works if it sits for four weeks.

Wednesday, September 23  Story

Two option poll sticker, over or under 700, pointing back at Tuesday's post. A day later rather than the same day, so it gives the post a second day of life instead of competing with it.

Thursday, September 24

Wall Anatomy

Wall Anatomy, slide 1 comp1
Wall Anatomy, slide 2 comp2
Wall Anatomy, slide 3 comp3
Wall Anatomy, slide 4 comp4
Wall Anatomy, slide 5 comp5

Template. Option 3, annotated. The red outline callout is built for exactly this: naming a part of the wall on top of a photo of it.

  1. Everything you cannot see once the wall is finished.
  2. Base. Compacted aggregate, first course buried.
  3. Drainage. Wall rock behind every block, drain pipe at the bottom.
  4. Reinforcement. Geogrid layers pulling the wall back into the hill.
  5. The block is the last thing holding a wall up. It is just the only part you can see.

Images. Build in progress photography, one stage per slide. Pull from the schematic library for slide 1.

CaptionThe failures we get called about are almost never the block.
Friday, September 25  Story

Plant day. Raw phone footage from the Oregon shoot. No edit, no polish. Three or four frames of a place your audience has never seen. This one moves to whatever day the crew is actually on site.

Saturday, September 26  Already produced

Step Downs

Template. Details Matter. Already built.

Status. Finished and ready. Details Matter series, AB Classic Collection.

Why here. The most craft focused of the six. Stepping a wall down with grade is a detail installers notice and homeowners do not, which makes it the one in the series that reads to both audiences.

Check the artwork for the fi ligature on "finished" before this posts.

Week 2

Sept 28 to Oct 4

Pain. Name the problem the tool solves, without showing the tool.

Tuesday, September 29

The Cost of Being Wrong

The Cost of Being Wrong, slide 1 comp1
The Cost of Being Wrong, slide 2 comp2
The Cost of Being Wrong, slide 3 comp3
The Cost of Being Wrong, slide 4 comp4
The Cost of Being Wrong, slide 5 comp5

Template. Option 4, plain. Slides 2 and 3 want unglamorous photography, which is the whole reason this cannot run in a brand template.

  1. There are two ways to get a takeoff wrong.
  2. Short 200 block on day three.
  3. Or twelve pallets sitting in the yard until spring.
  4. One costs you a week. The other costs you the margin.
  5. Which one have you done?

Images. Slide 2 wants a job stopped mid course. Slide 3 wants pallets. Both should look real, not staged.

CaptionEverybody has done one of these. Most of us have done both. Which one was yours?
Wednesday, September 30  Story

Question sticker. What do you want to ask an AB engineer? The replies become the October 8 grid post, so you are not guessing at what to answer. Running it a week ahead gives you time to collect.

Thursday, October 1

Spot the Problem

Spot the Problem, slide 1 comp1
Spot the Problem, slide 2 comp2

Template. Option 3, annotated. Slide 1 runs clean with no callout, since the callout is the answer. Slide 2 is the same photo with the red box around the issue, held for stories.

  1. Something here is going to be a problem in five years.
  2. Found it? Comments.

Images. A real install with a visible issue. Blur anything that identifies the company.

CaptionNo names, no shaming. This is the kind of thing that walks past an inspection and shows up later.
Friday, October 2  Story

Answer reveal for Spot the Problem, circled on the photo. Keeps Thursday's comments working because the answer never lands in the feed.

Saturday, October 3  Already produced

Stairs

Template. Details Matter. Already built.

Status. Finished and ready. Details Matter series, AB Aztec and AB Classic Collections.

Why here. Strongest image set of the six. Integrated stairs are the detail that separates a wall from a landscape, and the photography carries it without a caption doing any work.

Still Standing came out of this slot and moved to the bench below. It needs a new photograph, and that shoot competes with the plant trip and two reel edits in the same three weeks. Schedule it once the photo exists.

Week 3

Oct 5 to 11

Poll, and the first reel. Ask the question whose answers become your launch copy.

Tuesday, October 6

How Long

How Long, slide 1 comp1
How Long, slide 2 comp2
How Long, slide 3 comp3
How Long, slide 4 comp4

Template. Option 4, plain, for slides 1 to 3. Slide 4 switches to Option 2 editorial for the booth, so the show information reads as the brand speaking rather than the thread.

  1. How long does a wall takeoff take you?
  2. An hour? An afternoon? Three nights after the kids go to bed?
  3. Whatever your number is, we think it is too high.
  4. Louisville. October 21 to 23. Booth 24028.

Images. Slides 1 to 3 can be type only. Slide 4 wants the booth graphic.

CaptionHonest answers only. We are asking for a reason.

Save these comments. This is your early access list.

Wednesday, October 7  Story

Poll sticker with time buckets, under an hour through more than a day, amplifying Tuesday's post. Screenshot the result. It is a slide in the launch deck.

Thursday, October 8

Ask an AB Engineer

Ask an AB Engineer, slide 1 comp1
Ask an AB Engineer, slide 2 comp2
Ask an AB Engineer, slide 3 comp3
Ask an AB Engineer, slide 4 comp4

Template. Option 2, editorial. The red panel is the only one of the four sized for a real block of text, which is what an engineer's answer will be.

  1. The question our tech line got most this month.
  2. [Question, verbatim from the tech line]
  3. [Answer, in the engineer's own words]
  4. Got one? Leave it below and we will pull the best ones.

Images. A photo of the engineer at their desk carries slide 1. Pull a schematic for slide 3 if the answer needs one.

CaptionSame question, four times this month. Figured we would answer it once, publicly.

Let the engineer write slides 2 and 3. Do not paraphrase them. A spec that is slightly wrong on this account costs more than the post is worth.

Friday, October 9  Story

Countdown sticker to October 21 with the booth number. People who tap it get notified when it hits, which is free reach on show day.

Saturday, October 10  Reel

Denver, Built Twice

Denver, Built Twice, slide 1 comp1

Template. Motion, so no template. End card follows Option 2 editorial: cream field, red rule, the wall stats set in the serif.

  1. Drone, slow push toward the finished wall. Hold long enough to read the scale.
  2. Hard cut to the 3D animation at the same angle. Wall drops to bare grade.
  3. Animation builds course by course, fast, geogrid layers visible as they go in.
  4. Final course lands. Match cut back to the drone frame from shot 1.
  5. End card. Height, square footage, location, year.

Assets. Denver 3D construction animation plus the corresponding drone footage. The whole idea is the match. If the angles do not line up, the cut carries it anyway as long as the framing is close.

Length. Twenty to thirty seconds. No voiceover.

CaptionWe modeled every course of this wall before anyone broke ground. Then we went and watched it get built.

Best asset in the library and the easiest first reel for a new team. The cut does the work, not the edit.

Week 4

Oct 12 to 17

Runway. Point everything at Louisville.

Tuesday, October 13  Reel

Made Here, Episode One

Made Here, Episode One, slide 1 comp1

Template. Motion, so no template. End card follows Option 2 editorial with the producer mark set beside the AB logo at equal weight. Equal weight is the point.

Series. First in an ongoing producer partnership series. Name the plant, show the sign, credit them in the first three seconds.

  1. Plant exterior and signage. Establish who this is.
  2. Raw material moving. Aggregate, conveyor, hopper.
  3. The press. Close on the moment the block forms.
  4. A person. Operator's hands, then their face. Someone who actually works there.
  5. Curing racks. Rows going back further than the frame.
  6. Cubed, banded, forklift, truck.
  7. Cut to a finished wall built with their block.
  8. End card. Producer name and mark. Making Allan Block since [year].

Assets. Oregon plant footage. Machine sound over a light bed. No voiceover unless the plant manager says something better than anything you would write.

Length. Thirty to forty five seconds.

Post as. Instagram collab with the producer's account. Lands on both grids, reaches both audiences, and costs nothing.

CaptionEvery Allan Block wall starts at a plant like this one. First of a series. [Producer] has been making our block in Oregon since [year].

Cut a second deliverable for the producer: a longer version for their counter screen and trade show loop, plus stills for their sales team. That is what makes this a partnership asset instead of Allan Block content that happens to feature them.

Lock the format now. Episode four will be a less photogenic plant, and if episode one is a bespoke masterpiece that producer will notice the drop. Same shot list, same end card, same length, every time.

Wednesday, October 14  Story

Offcuts from the plant shoot that did not make the reel. A good reel always leaves footage on the floor and stories are where it belongs.

Thursday, October 15

Your HNA Game Plan

Your HNA Game Plan, slide 1 comp1
Your HNA Game Plan, slide 2 comp2
Your HNA Game Plan, slide 3 comp3
Your HNA Game Plan, slide 4 comp4
Your HNA Game Plan, slide 5 comp5

Template. Option 3, annotated. A list of things worth your time at a show is a labeled list, which is what this template does.

  1. Going to HNA? Here is what is actually worth your time.
  2. Installer courses and certification exams run Tuesday and Wednesday at the Hyatt Regency.
  3. HNA Awards ceremony is Thursday.
  4. Your badge gets you into Equip Exposition too. Over a thousand exhibits between the two shows.
  5. And us, at booth 24028, with Reading Rock and Kronos.

Images. Show floor photography from last year. Tag both partner accounts in the post and the caption.

CaptionSave this one. Three days goes fast.

Highest save rate of the four weeks. Service content is what makes an account worth following between launches.

Friday, October 16  Story

Booth build and packing. Crates, graphics, whatever is going in the truck. Countdown sticker on every frame.

Saturday, October 17

The Answer Is Coming

The Answer Is Coming, slide 1 comp1
The Answer Is Coming, slide 2 comp2

Template. Option 4, plain. Match September 22 exactly, same photo and same treatment, or the callback does not land.

  1. Four weeks ago we asked you to count a wall.
  2. You get the answer on October 22.

Images. The exact same wall photo from September 22. Reuse the file, do not reshoot.

CaptionClosest guess still stands. We have not forgotten.

On the bench

Finished work not scheduled in these four weeks. Saturday is the natural home for the Details Matter series going forward, which carries the remaining four into November.

Before this goes into production