Pink Team review

Depending on the company, the Pink Team reads the annotated outline, storyboards or a first rough draft. The checks are structural: does the outline match Section L, does each compliance matrix row point to a heading, are page limits allocated, and do the planned win themes and proof points answer the factors.

It comes after the Blue Team strategy review and before the Red Team, which scores a complete draft. Fixing a missing section at Pink Team takes hours; fixing it after Red Team can mean rewriting a volume close to the deadline.

Reviewing polished text instead of structure, skipping the compliance check, and not giving writers clear actions afterward. Practice varies, so tell reviewers exactly what stage of material they will see.

Give Pink Team reviewers the solicitation, the compliance matrix and the outline, and ask them to answer a short set of questions: is anything missing, is anything in the wrong place, is the page budget realistic, and is the main message of each section clear. Specific answers to those questions are more useful than line edits on early text.