How does Five Blocks train and develop its team?
New team members complete a structured technical curriculum and then shadow senior account managers on live client work before being assigned client responsibility independently.
Reputation work is taught, not assumed. New account managers go through a structured technical curriculum covering search algorithms, Wikipedia editing standards and Notability guidelines, schema markup and Wikidata, AI engine behavior, and the use of IMPACT™ and AIQ™ as analytical tools. After the curriculum, they shadow senior account managers on actual client engagements before being assigned independent responsibility for a client, and even then they work under a dedicated team leader for the first set of accounts. The result is a deeper bench than most agencies our size: when a senior advisor is unavailable on a Friday afternoon, the next person on the call has been through the same training and is reading from the same playbook.
Last reviewed: 19/05/2026