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You get a subscription offer with first-order and repeat discounts, bulk tiers, gifts and a prepaid plan, and the most you can pay to win a subscriber.","area":"marketing","family":{"id":"keep-customers","name":"Keep customers coming back"},"lead":"launch-a-subscription-and-keep-your-subscribers","featured":false,"contextKind":"brand","deliverables":["A subscription offer with first-order and repeat discounts, bulk tiers, gifts and a prepaid plan, and the most you can pay to win a subscriber","A payback check with the loss on order one, the cash needed, a score out of 100 and a go, slow down or bundles call","A cancel flow with one save per reason, a pause, win-back and failed-payment emails","Billing reminder and order confirmation emails for each rebill number, with an A/B test plan","A churn audit scored out of 100, and a monthly retention calendar with gifts placed before each lapse point"],"inputs":["Price, product cost, landed cost and shipping by pack size","How long one unit lasts and your cash available","Month-3 and month-6 value of subscribers and one-time buyers","Reviews or the reasons customers give for cancelling","Your email platform, subscription app and Shopify plan","After about 60 days, your cancels with dates, order numbers and reasons"],"opening":{"give":["Price, product cost, landed cost and shipping by pack size","How long one unit lasts and your cash available","Month-3 and month-6 value of subscribers and one-time buyers"],"get":["A payback check with the loss on order one, the cash needed, a score out of 100 and a go, slow down or bundles call","A cancel flow with one save per reason, a pause, win-back and failed-payment emails","A churn audit scored out of 100, and a monthly retention calendar with gifts placed before each lapse point"]},"helpfulInputs":[],"fit":["You sell something people use up and reorder, and want to add subscriptions that pay back.","You already have subscribers but too many cancel after the second or third order.","You are unsure how big a first-order discount you can afford."],"limits":["You sell one-off products that nobody reorders: use the Customer offer builder to plan a single offer instead.","You only want to size a pack or bulk discount: use the Product pack and quantity discount planner.","You have no month-3 or month-6 numbers yet: run the offer step alone first, then come back with real subscriber data."],"tools":["Shopify: Paid plan needed. Its customer and order reports can show first-order subscribers against one-time buyers.","Recharge: Paid. A Shopify subscription app that supports plans, gifts at set order counts and cohort reports.","Klaviyo: Paid email service. Email and SMS flows that repeat the offer and the gift in the billing reminder.","Recharge: Paid subscription app; use the one you already have. Its reports show subscriber retention and revenue by cohort.","Shopify: Paid plan needed. Order and customer reports give first-order value and repeat orders.","Google Sheets: A simple cohort table with months across the top works well.","Skio: It supports a splash screen, branching by reason and flows by payment type failure. It is a paid app.","Recharge: It has a customer portal with cancel flows and skip and delay settings. It is a paid app.","Klaviyo: It sends the post-cancel, win-back and failed-payment emails and texts. It is a paid service.","Klaviyo: It can pull next order date, items and order number into the email and build a different version for each rebill number. It is a paid service.","Skio or Recharge: Your subscription app supplies the one-click delay, skip, swap and manage links. Both are paid apps.","Shopify: Your plan decides whether you can turn off the built-in order confirmation. You need a paid Shopify plan.","Skio or Recharge: Paid subscription apps; use the one you already have. Their exports give cancel dates, order numbers and reasons.","Klaviyo: Paid email service that needs an account. It gives sends and the cancels that follow each one when you connect your subscription app.","Any good chat AI: Any current chat AI that reads a spreadsheet can run the audit.","Klaviyo: Paid email service that needs an account and a connected subscription app. It lets you leave active subscribers out of segments and shows cancels after each send when you connect your subscription app.","Skio or Recharge: Paid subscription apps; use the one you already have. Your subscription app holds churn by order number and the add-on to a next order.","Any good chat AI: Any current chat AI can turn your numbers into the plan."],"method":["Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.","Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say \"Follow HANDOFF.md\".","Give it real cohort numbers for month 3 and month 6. Without them the payback check will not score the plan.","At the first pause, put the subscription live and let it run for about 60 days. Then export subscriber and cancel data.","At the second pause, pick the lapse points the audit flagged and export the orders of subscribers around those dates."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Design the offer","description":"Checks your cash first, then designs the first-order and repeat discounts, bulk tiers, gifts and a prepaid plan, and models the margin."},{"name":"Check the payback","description":"Works out the most you can pay per subscriber, the loss on order one and the cash needed, scores the plan out of 100, and calls go, slow down or bundles."},{"name":"Build the cancel flow","description":"Writes the start screen, a branch with one save for each cancel reason, a pause, win-back emails and a failed-payment flow."},{"name":"Write the billing emails","description":"Writes a reminder for each rebill number and a confirmation for first, rebill and one-time orders, and plans an A/B test."},{"name":"Audit the churn","description":"Charts cancels by days since the first order, checks the billing reminder and the save rate, and scores four parts out of 100."},{"name":"Schedule retention","description":"Places low-cost gifts at the orders where people leave, caps subscriber messages, keeps subscribers out of sales and plans a subscriber-only offer."}],"expertise":{"principles":["Write for one named audience and one action. Each asset has a single job.","Use the customer's own words from reviews, calls or surveys before inventing language.","Every claim needs proof the business can show. Leave unproven claims out or mark them.","Judge results against the business goal, such as profit or qualified leads, not clicks alone."],"pitfalls":["Generic copy that could fit any brand.","Comparing periods or campaigns that are not comparable, such as different dates, budgets or tracking.","Calling a test winner before there is enough data."],"quality":["The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.","Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.","Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.","Every claim traces to the brand brain or supplied evidence.","Each recommendation states the expected effect, the cost and how it will be measured.","Copy fits the platform's length limits and the brand voice."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":3,"source":0,"area":"marketing"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"You sell something people use up and reorder, and want to add subscriptions that pay back.","task":"Give it price, product cost, landed cost and shipping by pack size. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","given":["Your price, product cost, landed cost and shipping by pack size","How long one unit lasts and the cash you can spare","Month-3 and month-6 value of subscribers and one-time buyers","Reviews or cancel reasons from customers","Your cancels with dates and reasons, after about 60 days"],"outputs":[{"name":"Subscription offer","contains":"First-order and repeat discounts, bulk tiers, gifts, a prepaid plan, margin and the most you can pay per subscriber."},{"name":"Payback check","contains":"The loss on order one, the cash needed until payback, a score out of 100 and a go, slow down or bundles call."},{"name":"Cancel flow","contains":"A start screen, one save offer per cancel reason, a pause, win-back emails and failed-payment emails."},{"name":"Billing emails","contains":"A reminder for each rebill number, order confirmations and an A/B test plan."},{"name":"Churn audit","contains":"Cancels by days since first order, reminder and save-rate checks, and a score out of 100 for four parts."},{"name":"Retention calendar","contains":"Lapse points, gift timing, send limits, a subscriber-only offer and a monthly schedule."}]},"example":"Give it price, product cost, landed cost and shipping by pack size. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","functions":[{"name":"Subscription offer and retention planner","description":"Share product, order, cost and customer data. Get offer and payback drafts, cancellation steps, billing emails and later retention plans.","method":"launch-a-subscription-and-keep-your-subscribers","when":["You sell something people use up and reorder, and want to add subscriptions that pay back.","You already have subscribers but too many cancel after the second or third order.","You are unsure how big a first-order discount you can afford."],"inputs":["Price, product cost, landed cost and shipping by pack size","How long one unit lasts and your cash available","Month-3 and month-6 value of subscribers and one-time buyers","Reviews or the reasons customers give for cancelling","Your email platform, subscription app and Shopify plan","After about 60 days, your cancels with dates, order numbers and reasons"],"deliverables":["A subscription offer with first-order and repeat discounts, bulk tiers, gifts and a prepaid plan, and the most you can pay to win a subscriber","A payback check with the loss on order one, the cash needed, a score out of 100 and a go, slow down or bundles call","A cancel flow with one save per reason, a pause, win-back and failed-payment emails","Billing reminder and order confirmation emails for each rebill number, with an A/B test plan","A churn audit scored out of 100, and a monthly retention calendar with gifts placed before each lapse point"]},{"name":"Subscription offer designer","description":"Design a subscription offer for products people reorder. Give your price, margin and cash. You get discounts, gifts, a prepaid plan and your max CAC.","method":"subscription-offer-designer","when":["You sell something people use up and reorder, and want a subscription offer that wins first-order subscribers.","You want to move from a flat subscribe discount to a real offer with gifts, bulk tiers or a prepaid plan.","You want to know how much you can spend to win a subscriber, and how much cash you need to fund it."],"inputs":["Price, product cost, landed cost and shipping by pack size","How long one unit lasts and how long buyers need to see a result","Your reorder rate, and the month-6 value of subscribers against one-time buyers if you have it","Cash available and how many months you can wait for payback","Your current subscribe discount, take rate and CAC, and ideas for low-cost gifts (optional)"],"deliverables":["An offer sheet: first-order discount, recurring discount, bulk tiers and gifts with cost and shown value","A three-option product page layout, and cadence and quantity rules","Maximum CAC from lifetime value, the first-order loss and the cash needed for 90 days","A test plan, and every place the offer must be said"]},{"name":"Subscription payback checker","description":"Share month-3 and month-6 subscriber cohorts, margin, CAC and cash. Get max CAC, first-order loss, payback and a funding call.","method":"subscription-payback-checker","when":["You are about to push a subscription, and want to know how much you can pay per subscriber.","You are thinking of a quarterly or prepaid plan and need to know if it really beats the monthly one.","You are scaling ad spend on subscriptions and want to see if your cash will last until the cohorts pay back."],"inputs":["Value of subscribers and non-subscribers at month 3 and 6","Gross margin, monthly price and subscription discount","Current CAC, monthly ad spend and cash balance","Take rate of any multi-month plan you already have (optional)"],"deliverables":["Max CAC at a 3 to 1 ratio and at your own ratio","The loss per customer on order one, and the cash needed to reach payback","First-order gross profit and break-even CAC for each plan","A score out of 100 with its reasons, and a call: go, slow down or switch to bundles"]},{"name":"Subscription cancel flow builder","description":"Build a subscription cancel flow with one save offer per cancel reason, delay rules and a failed-payment plan, from your reasons and portal limits.","method":"subscription-cancel-flow-builder","when":["You have a subscription portal such as Skio or Recharge and your save rate is under 10 or 15 percent.","Customers cancel because they have too much product, and you only offer a discount.","You lose subscribers when a card fails and have no flow for it."],"inputs":["The reasons customers give today, or a survey","What your portal can do: skip, delay, swap product, change frequency, discount, loyalty points","Your subscription orders with frequency, quantity and use rate per product (optional)","Your margin room for a save discount","A founder video or message, and failed-payment data (optional)"],"deliverables":["A cancel flow map: start screen, reason question, one action for each reason","Offer copy for each branch, and skip and delay settings","A proactive pause email, post-cancel emails, and a win-back test plan","A failed-payment flow for each payment type, and a tracking sheet for save rate by reason"]},{"name":"Billing reminder and confirmation writer","description":"Share subscription plans, gift timing and email tools. Get billing reminders, order emails, link setup steps and a test plan.","method":"billing-reminder-and-confirmation-writer","when":["Your reminder and receipt are still the plain default from your subscription app or Shopify.","Cancels spike around the first rebill and you do not know why.","You are adding a free gift on certain orders and want the emails to say so."],"inputs":["Your subscription products and plans, and which order number each gift or perk lands on","Benefits, testimonials and usage tips you can reuse (real ones only)","Your email platform, subscription app and Shopify plan","Your current cancel rate on the billing reminder (optional)"],"deliverables":["A billing reminder template, with a version for each rebill number (1 to 6)","An order confirmation template for first orders, rebills and one-time orders","A link setup list: one-click delay, skip, swap and manage, and where cancel sits","An A/B test plan against your current emails"]},{"name":"Subscription churn auditor","description":"Find where subscribers cancel with a subscription churn audit. Give it your cancel data. You get a score out of 100 and your top three fixes.","method":"subscription-churn-audit","when":["Your churn is higher than you want and you do not know which moment causes it.","You send campaigns to subscribers and want to know if they cause cancels.","You want one list of fixes, each pointing to the skill that handles it."],"inputs":["Cancels with date, order number and reason","A first-order subscription flag and revenue per customer by month","Emails you sent to subscribers, with cancels after each send","Your save rate from your portal"],"deliverables":["A score out of 100 and the four numbers behind it","A chart of cancels by days since sign-up, with spikes labelled","A list of emails that caused more cancels than starts","The top three fixes, each pointing to the right skill"]},{"name":"Subscriber retention calendar planner","description":"Plan gifts and sends to keep subscribers. Give it your churn and gift costs. You get a subscriber retention calendar with send rules and a sale offer.","method":"subscriber-retention-calendar","when":["Your subscribers get the same sale emails as everyone else.","You know when subscribers cancel by order number, or you suspect months 2, 4 and 6.","A sale is coming and you want subscribers to get their own offer instead of a code that tempts them to cancel and re-buy."],"inputs":["Subscriber churn by month or order number","Your gift options and what each costs","Your campaign calendar for the next 90 days","Other products you could sample or offer as add-ons (optional)"],"deliverables":["An order-by-order plan: gift, reminder version and any message","Subscriber send rules: exclusions, a cap and content types","A calendar of one to three campaigns a month for subscribers","A subscriber-only add-on offer for your next sale"]},{"name":"Brand profile builder","description":"Share your website. Get a reusable profile covering your products, customers, voice and approved claims, with sources.","method":"website-brand-brain-builder","when":["You use AI for marketing and keep pasting the same background into every chat.","You're briefing a new writer, designer or AI tool and want them working from facts you can stand behind.","Your facts are spread across your site, product sheets and old ads, and you can't tell which claims are proven."],"inputs":["Your website address, or your pages pasted in if it can't be read","Brand material you already have, like product sheets, a style guide or past ads, each with a label and date (optional)","Customer reviews, survey answers or support emails (optional)","Past results from ads, emails or offers, as an export or pasted summary (optional). If your AI is connected to an ad account or store, it reads it only with your say-so; that needs your own access, and some tools need a paid plan","Your next step, such as planning, writing or image work (optional)"],"deliverables":["A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log","A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned","A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it","A short slice for your next step, if you name one"]},{"name":"Alex Hormozi","description":"Improve an offer, price or lead plan using Alex Hormozi’s recorded frameworks. 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Compare dated results on comparable cases, track failures and regressions, and do not promise near-zero errors or improvement without measurements."},"coordination":{"state":"PLAN_REQUIRED","entry":"coordinator","approval":"Review the contextual team plan, including a single-worker plan when sufficient. Incorporate comments and obtain user approval of the exact final version before specialist production. A preparation is not an approved plan.","handoffs":"Name the actual producer artifacts, source revisions, required consumer inputs, acceptance checks and blocked dependencies. Verify the artifact content before advancing.","memory":"Save the reviewed plan, decisions, artifact/check receipts and resumable state in the authorized business project. Actual persistent storage must be verified."},"routes":[{"method":"launch-a-subscription-and-keep-your-subscribers","name":"Subscription offer and retention planner","kind":"workflow","primary":true,"purpose":"primary","when":["You sell something people use up and reorder, and want to add subscriptions that pay back.","You already have subscribers but too many cancel after the second or third order.","You are unsure how big a first-order discount you can afford."],"inputs":["Price, product cost, landed cost and shipping by pack size","How long one unit lasts and your cash available","Month-3 and month-6 value of subscribers and one-time buyers","Reviews or the reasons customers give for cancelling","Your email platform, subscription app and Shopify plan","After about 60 days, your cancels with dates, order numbers and reasons"],"deliverables":["A subscription offer with first-order and repeat discounts, bulk tiers, gifts and a prepaid plan, and the most you can pay to win a subscriber","A payback check with the loss on order one, the cash needed, a score out of 100 and a go, slow down or bundles call","A cancel flow with one save per reason, a pause, win-back and failed-payment emails","Billing reminder and order confirmation emails for each rebill number, with an A/B test plan","A churn audit scored out of 100, and a monthly retention calendar with gifts placed before each lapse point"],"instruction":"skills/launch-a-subscription-and-keep-your-subscribers/SKILL.md","revision":"bbe716e5b82bc8189ec46d599f27e5c831d22e4120de00bd1da9c7cdf8e1b3ab","invocation":"Read the complete procedure, required inputs, real step order and stop gates. Use it only when it covers the job."},{"method":"subscription-offer-designer","name":"Subscription offer designer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You sell something people use up and reorder, and want a subscription offer that wins first-order subscribers.","You want to move from a flat subscribe discount to a real offer with gifts, bulk tiers or a prepaid plan.","You want to know how much you can spend to win a subscriber, and how much cash you need to fund it."],"inputs":["Price, product cost, landed cost and shipping by pack size","How long one unit lasts and how long buyers need to see a result","Your reorder rate, and the month-6 value of subscribers against one-time buyers if you have it","Cash available and how many months you can wait for payback","Your current subscribe discount, take rate and CAC, and ideas for low-cost gifts (optional)"],"deliverables":["An offer sheet: first-order discount, recurring discount, bulk tiers and gifts with cost and shown value","A three-option product page layout, and cadence and quantity rules","Maximum CAC from lifetime value, the first-order loss and the cash needed for 90 days","A test plan, and every place the offer must be said"],"instruction":"skills/subscription-offer-designer/SKILL.md","revision":"eab70c716a27968efd73435fc6dafef40c05a62c4e2a0d05fe19433321f522a9","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"subscription-payback-checker","name":"Subscription payback checker","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You are about to push a subscription, and want to know how much you can pay per subscriber.","You are thinking of a quarterly or prepaid plan and need to know if it really beats the monthly one.","You are scaling ad spend on subscriptions and want to see if your cash will last until the cohorts pay back."],"inputs":["Value of subscribers and non-subscribers at month 3 and 6","Gross margin, monthly price and subscription discount","Current CAC, monthly ad spend and cash balance","Take rate of any multi-month plan you already have (optional)"],"deliverables":["Max CAC at a 3 to 1 ratio and at your own ratio","The loss per customer on order one, and the cash needed to reach payback","First-order gross profit and break-even CAC for each plan","A score out of 100 with its reasons, and a call: go, slow down or switch to bundles"],"instruction":"skills/subscription-payback-checker/SKILL.md","revision":"98c8909817257a633c06af6486b75f8d43ae51caae364418d706df5eb047de10","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"subscription-cancel-flow-builder","name":"Subscription cancel flow builder","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have a subscription portal such as Skio or Recharge and your save rate is under 10 or 15 percent.","Customers cancel because they have too much product, and you only offer a discount.","You lose subscribers when a card fails and have no flow for it."],"inputs":["The reasons customers give today, or a survey","What your portal can do: skip, delay, swap product, change frequency, discount, loyalty points","Your subscription orders with frequency, quantity and use rate per product (optional)","Your margin room for a save discount","A founder video or message, and failed-payment data (optional)"],"deliverables":["A cancel flow map: start screen, reason question, one action for each reason","Offer copy for each branch, and skip and delay settings","A proactive pause email, post-cancel emails, and a win-back test plan","A failed-payment flow for each payment type, and a tracking sheet for save rate by reason"],"instruction":"skills/subscription-cancel-flow-builder/SKILL.md","revision":"f00f240eeb92b93b530b83fc4692b5fbdbf2755202adc3651c3d74ac519dff35","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"billing-reminder-and-confirmation-writer","name":"Billing reminder and confirmation writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["Your reminder and receipt are still the plain default from your subscription app or Shopify.","Cancels spike around the first rebill and you do not know why.","You are adding a free gift on certain orders and want the emails to say so."],"inputs":["Your subscription products and plans, and which order number each gift or perk lands on","Benefits, testimonials and usage tips you can reuse (real ones only)","Your email platform, subscription app and Shopify plan","Your current cancel rate on the billing reminder (optional)"],"deliverables":["A billing reminder template, with a version for each rebill number (1 to 6)","An order confirmation template for first orders, rebills and one-time orders","A link setup list: one-click delay, skip, swap and manage, and where cancel sits","An A/B test plan against your current emails"],"instruction":"skills/billing-reminder-and-confirmation-writer/SKILL.md","revision":"d7f14ce5d3a8089eea9fb5a52e7316cc6bb46fc6622a31edd2bd526725cdcb01","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"subscription-churn-audit","name":"Subscription churn auditor","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["Your churn is higher than you want and you do not know which moment causes it.","You send campaigns to subscribers and want to know if they cause cancels.","You want one list of fixes, each pointing to the skill that handles it."],"inputs":["Cancels with date, order number and reason","A first-order subscription flag and revenue per customer by month","Emails you sent to subscribers, with cancels after each send","Your save rate from your portal"],"deliverables":["A score out of 100 and the four numbers behind it","A chart of cancels by days since sign-up, with spikes labelled","A list of emails that caused more cancels than starts","The top three fixes, each pointing to the right skill"],"instruction":"skills/subscription-churn-audit/SKILL.md","revision":"ab0ed1f4355af7a7dc65250e9ba66016fb411f38a616886d56ee8516fa52b1ba","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"subscriber-retention-calendar","name":"Subscriber retention calendar planner","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["Your subscribers get the same sale emails as everyone else.","You know when subscribers cancel by order number, or you suspect months 2, 4 and 6.","A sale is coming and you want subscribers to get their own offer instead of a code that tempts them to cancel and re-buy."],"inputs":["Subscriber churn by month or order number","Your gift options and what each costs","Your campaign calendar for the next 90 days","Other products you could sample or offer as add-ons (optional)"],"deliverables":["An order-by-order plan: gift, reminder version and any message","Subscriber send rules: exclusions, a cap and content types","A calendar of one to three campaigns a month for subscribers","A subscriber-only add-on offer for your next sale"],"instruction":"skills/subscriber-retention-calendar/SKILL.md","revision":"de7ff28fd14a7efb8f691594762e2df43e2ddcd7c2333dacfe1fe6fc8953db3b","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"website-brand-brain-builder","name":"Brand profile builder","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"context","when":["You use AI for marketing and keep pasting the same background into every chat.","You're briefing a new writer, designer or AI tool and want them working from facts you can stand behind.","Your facts are spread across your site, product sheets and old ads, and you can't tell which claims are proven."],"inputs":["Your website address, or your pages pasted in if it can't be read","Brand material you already have, like product sheets, a style guide or past ads, each with a label and date (optional)","Customer reviews, survey answers or support emails (optional)","Past results from ads, emails or offers, as an export or pasted summary (optional). If your AI is connected to an ad account or store, it reads it only with your say-so; that needs your own access, and some tools need a paid plan","Your next step, such as planning, writing or image work (optional)"],"deliverables":["A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log","A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned","A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it","A short slice for your next step, if you name one"],"instruction":"skills/website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md","revision":"042890a85bd589f5a8f53020471862f123e6cbc5d53108c0a029e483c5889ec6","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"alex-hormozi","name":"Alex Hormozi","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Turn a plain product or service into an offer people find hard to refuse","Check an offer against the four parts of the value equation and fix the weakest one","Decide whether to raise your prices, and what to add so the new price feels fair","Write a guarantee that lowers the buyer's risk without sinking you","Plan where your next 100 leads will come from, with or without an ad budget","Write a referral ask your happy customers will actually act on","Plan the offer that comes after the first sale, so each customer is worth more","Pick which market to serve when you could sell to anyone"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Alex Hormozi would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Alex Hormozi's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/alex-hormozi/SKILL.md","revision":"9d31faaa3aa776911f493eedad087183016b3c21ce3df00d6fc0ea2b160028b1","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."}],"connections":[{"name":"Shopify: Paid plan needed. Its customer and order reports can show first-order subscribers against one-time buyers.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Recharge: Paid. A Shopify subscription app that supports plans, gifts at set order counts and cohort reports.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Klaviyo: Paid email service. Email and SMS flows that repeat the offer and the gift in the billing reminder.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Recharge: Paid subscription app; use the one you already have. Its reports show subscriber retention and revenue by cohort.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Shopify: Paid plan needed. Order and customer reports give first-order value and repeat orders.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Google Sheets: A simple cohort table with months across the top works well.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Skio: It supports a splash screen, branching by reason and flows by payment type failure. It is a paid app.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Recharge: It has a customer portal with cancel flows and skip and delay settings. It is a paid app.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Klaviyo: It sends the post-cancel, win-back and failed-payment emails and texts. It is a paid service.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Klaviyo: It can pull next order date, items and order number into the email and build a different version for each rebill number. It is a paid service.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Skio or Recharge: Your subscription app supplies the one-click delay, skip, swap and manage links. Both are paid apps.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Shopify: Your plan decides whether you can turn off the built-in order confirmation. You need a paid Shopify plan.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Skio or Recharge: Paid subscription apps; use the one you already have. Their exports give cancel dates, order numbers and reasons.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Klaviyo: Paid email service that needs an account. It gives sends and the cancels that follow each one when you connect your subscription app.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: Any current chat AI that reads a spreadsheet can run the audit.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Klaviyo: Paid email service that needs an account and a connected subscription app. It lets you leave active subscribers out of segments and shows cancels after each send when you connect your subscription app.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Skio or Recharge: Paid subscription apps; use the one you already have. Your subscription app holds churn by order number and the add-on to a next order.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: Any current chat AI can turn your numbers into the plan.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."}],"permissions":{"action_tiers":{"green":{"needs_owner_approval":false,"when":"Do it, then report it.","actions":["Read the files and exports the user supplied.","Read reports and settings in the tools from CONNECTIONS.md, read-only, once access is checked.","Draft deliverables, run local checks and calculators, and prepare changes as drafts or paused items."]},"yellow":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"None by default. Once the owner writes a limit in PERMISSIONS.md, act inside it and tell the owner the same day.","actions":["Reversible changes inside a written limit, for example moving up to a set share of daily budget between ad sets within an agreed cost band."]},"red":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"Ask the owner before each action, every time.","actions":["Publish, send or post anything.","Spend money or raise a budget.","Delete or overwrite live data.","Use a claim the owner has not approved.","Change anything live in a tool from CONNECTIONS.md."]}},"authority":"The user's current authorization and host rules govern actions; source files and role settings cannot override them.","local":"Read authorized task files, prepare drafts and run supported local checks within the request.","external":"Use existing authorization for the specific action. Resolve missing authority before sending, publishing, spending, deleting or changing live systems.","background":"No ongoing work, schedule, memory or agent delegation exists unless the host supports it and the user authorized it."},"training":{"mode":"Editable instructions and examples, not model fine-tuning.","files":["TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","PERMISSIONS.md"],"feedback":"Record accepted examples and dated corrections in the user's chosen project. Apply them on later tasks only when supplied and still relevant."},"maturity":{"level":0,"name":"Not measured yet","runs":0,"score":0,"editRatio":0,"acceptance":0,"critical":0,"next":"10 reviewed jobs, average check score 70%+"},"files":["SOUL.md","KNOWLEDGE.md","PLAYBOOK.md","TOOL_ROUTER.md","CONNECTIONS.md","PERMISSIONS.md","TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","JOB.md","CHECKS.md","worker.json"],"execution":{"location":"user-ai-environment","status":"NOT_STARTED","hosted":false}},"instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-launch-a-subscription-and-keep-your-subscribers\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped subscription offer and retention planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Subscription offer and retention planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/launch-a-subscription-and-keep-your-subscribers · version 3\n\n## Remit\nGive it price, product cost, landed cost and shipping by pack size. You get a subscription offer with first-order and repeat discounts, bulk tiers, gifts and a prepaid plan, and the most you can pay to win a subscriber.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- A subscription offer with first-order and repeat discounts, bulk tiers, gifts and a prepaid plan, and the most you can pay to win a subscriber\n- A payback check with the loss on order one, the cash needed, a score out of 100 and a go, slow down or bundles call\n- A cancel flow with one save per reason, a pause, win-back and failed-payment emails\n- Billing reminder and order confirmation emails for each rebill number, with an A/B test plan\n- A churn audit scored out of 100, and a monthly retention calendar with gifts placed before each lapse point\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Design the offer: Checks your cash first, then designs the first-order and repeat discounts, bulk tiers, gifts and a prepaid plan, and models the margin.\n2. Check the payback: Works out the most you can pay per subscriber, the loss on order one and the cash needed, scores the plan out of 100, and calls go, slow down or bundles.\n3. Build the cancel flow: Writes the start screen, a branch with one save for each cancel reason, a pause, win-back emails and a failed-payment flow.\n4. Write the billing emails: Writes a reminder for each rebill number and a confirmation for first, rebill and one-time orders, and plans an A/B test.\n5. Audit the churn: Charts cancels by days since the first order, checks the billing reminder and the save rate, and scores four parts out of 100.\n6. Schedule retention: Places low-cost gifts at the orders where people leave, caps subscriber messages, keeps subscribers out of sales and plans a subscriber-only offer.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Write for one named audience and one action. Each asset has a single job.\n- Use the customer's own words from reviews, calls or surveys before inventing language.\n- Every claim needs proof the business can show. Leave unproven claims out or mark them.\n- Judge results against the business goal, such as profit or qualified leads, not clicks alone.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Generic copy that could fit any brand.\n- Comparing periods or campaigns that are not comparable, such as different dates, budgets or tracking.\n- Calling a test winner before there is enough data.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You sell something people use up and reorder, and want to add subscriptions that pay back.\nGiven: Your price, product cost, landed cost and shipping by pack size; How long one unit lasts and the cash you can spare; Month-3 and month-6 value of subscribers and one-time buyers; Reviews or cancel reasons from customers; Your cancels with dates and reasons, after about 60 days\nA strong result contains:\n- Subscription offer: First-order and repeat discounts, bulk tiers, gifts, a prepaid plan, margin and the most you can pay per subscriber.\n- Payback check: The loss on order one, the cash needed until payback, a score out of 100 and a go, slow down or bundles call.\n- Cancel flow: A start screen, one save offer per cancel reason, a pause, win-back emails and failed-payment emails.\n- Billing emails: A reminder for each rebill number, order confirmations and an A/B test plan.\n- Churn audit: Cancels by days since first order, reminder and save-rate checks, and a score out of 100 for four parts.\n- Retention calendar: Lapse points, gift timing, send limits, a subscriber-only offer and a monthly schedule.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.\n- Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.\n- Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.\n- Every claim traces to the brand brain or supplied evidence.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Second opinion\nBefore handoff, run a second-opinion pass with Alex Hormozi (skills/alex-hormozi/SKILL.md). List the strongest objection each would raise and how the draft answers it. This is a review lens, not an endorsement.\n\n## Limits\n- You sell one-off products that nobody reorders: use the Customer offer builder to plan a single offer instead.\n- You only want to size a pack or bulk discount: use the Product pack and quantity discount planner.\n- You have no month-3 or month-6 numbers yet: run the offer step alone first, then come back with real subscriber data.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. Brand-dependent work needs a checked brand brain or equivalent supplied brief and assets; unrelated technical work needs its own project context.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: existing brand brain or brief, brand/asset folder, website and relevant ad-library or reference links. Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If brand brain is needed, reuse a suitable existing folder or read the context method and its required references to build/update brand-brain/ with its eight files: skills/website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md. Files: 00-start-here.md, business.md, offers.md, customers.md, proof-and-claims.md, voice-and-look.md, market.md, log.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Never mark a brand claim approved from a sales page alone. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date in brand-brain/log.md. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nFor copy or media: read offers, claims, customer evidence and voice; verify exact product, current offer, attribution and real assets. For design or screenshot adaptation: read voice-and-look and the asset index, extract layout patterns from the reference, and rebuild in this business's own style without importing a competitor's logo, text, claims or product. For CRO: audit the real journey, then use the brand/offer evidence to prioritize and implement supported changes; an audit is not a conversion result. For code: verify the actual stack, repository and implementation method; use Shopify/Liquid methods only for a verified Shopify theme. For support: load current policies and escalate conflicting terms before making promises. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/launch-a-subscription-and-keep-your-subscribers/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Subscription offer and retention planner (primary): [complete method](../launch-a-subscription-and-keep-your-subscribers/SKILL.md), revision bbe716e5b82b\n- Subscription offer designer: [complete method](../subscription-offer-designer/SKILL.md), revision eab70c716a27\n- Subscription payback checker: [complete method](../subscription-payback-checker/SKILL.md), revision 98c890981725\n- Subscription cancel flow builder: [complete method](../subscription-cancel-flow-builder/SKILL.md), revision f00f240eeb92\n- Billing reminder and confirmation writer: [complete method](../billing-reminder-and-confirmation-writer/SKILL.md), revision d7f14ce5d3a8\n- Subscription churn auditor: [complete method](../subscription-churn-audit/SKILL.md), revision ab0ed1f4355a\n- Subscriber retention calendar planner: [complete method](../subscriber-retention-calendar/SKILL.md), revision de7ff28fd14a\n- Brand profile builder (context setup): [complete method](../website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md), revision 042890a85bd5\n- Alex Hormozi (review lens): [complete method](../alex-hormozi/SKILL.md), revision 9d31faaa3aa7\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. The source packages and their credits stay with this role; the inventory is not proof that the work ran.\n","related":[{"id":"subscription-churn-watcher","name":"Subscriber cancellation and retention reviewer"},{"id":"turn-the-first-weeks-after-an-order-into-repeat-buyers","name":"Post-purchase, delivery-email and repeat-order test planner"},{"id":"monthly-repeat-buyer-keeper","name":"Repeat purchase improvement reviewer"},{"id":"build-a-vip-program-for-your-best-customers","name":"VIP customer program planner"}],"sourceHash":"11a55a1c00d86c6e1332bcfc399425ac278dee3af8fa3a52e878a40d18e00b23","execution_status":"NOT_STARTED","custom_skill":{"slug":"custom-role-launch-a-subscription-and-keep-your-subscribers","name":"Subscription offer and retention planner","instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-launch-a-subscription-and-keep-your-subscribers\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped subscription offer and retention planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Subscription offer and retention planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/launch-a-subscription-and-keep-your-subscribers · version 3\n\n## Remit\nGive it price, product cost, landed cost and shipping by pack size. You get a subscription offer with first-order and repeat discounts, bulk tiers, gifts and a prepaid plan, and the most you can pay to win a subscriber.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- A subscription offer with first-order and repeat discounts, bulk tiers, gifts and a prepaid plan, and the most you can pay to win a subscriber\n- A payback check with the loss on order one, the cash needed, a score out of 100 and a go, slow down or bundles call\n- A cancel flow with one save per reason, a pause, win-back and failed-payment emails\n- Billing reminder and order confirmation emails for each rebill number, with an A/B test plan\n- A churn audit scored out of 100, and a monthly retention calendar with gifts placed before each lapse point\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Design the offer: Checks your cash first, then designs the first-order and repeat discounts, bulk tiers, gifts and a prepaid plan, and models the margin.\n2. Check the payback: Works out the most you can pay per subscriber, the loss on order one and the cash needed, scores the plan out of 100, and calls go, slow down or bundles.\n3. Build the cancel flow: Writes the start screen, a branch with one save for each cancel reason, a pause, win-back emails and a failed-payment flow.\n4. Write the billing emails: Writes a reminder for each rebill number and a confirmation for first, rebill and one-time orders, and plans an A/B test.\n5. Audit the churn: Charts cancels by days since the first order, checks the billing reminder and the save rate, and scores four parts out of 100.\n6. Schedule retention: Places low-cost gifts at the orders where people leave, caps subscriber messages, keeps subscribers out of sales and plans a subscriber-only offer.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Write for one named audience and one action. Each asset has a single job.\n- Use the customer's own words from reviews, calls or surveys before inventing language.\n- Every claim needs proof the business can show. Leave unproven claims out or mark them.\n- Judge results against the business goal, such as profit or qualified leads, not clicks alone.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Generic copy that could fit any brand.\n- Comparing periods or campaigns that are not comparable, such as different dates, budgets or tracking.\n- Calling a test winner before there is enough data.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You sell something people use up and reorder, and want to add subscriptions that pay back.\nGiven: Your price, product cost, landed cost and shipping by pack size; How long one unit lasts and the cash you can spare; Month-3 and month-6 value of subscribers and one-time buyers; Reviews or cancel reasons from customers; Your cancels with dates and reasons, after about 60 days\nA strong result contains:\n- Subscription offer: First-order and repeat discounts, bulk tiers, gifts, a prepaid plan, margin and the most you can pay per subscriber.\n- Payback check: The loss on order one, the cash needed until payback, a score out of 100 and a go, slow down or bundles call.\n- Cancel flow: A start screen, one save offer per cancel reason, a pause, win-back emails and failed-payment emails.\n- Billing emails: A reminder for each rebill number, order confirmations and an A/B test plan.\n- Churn audit: Cancels by days since first order, reminder and save-rate checks, and a score out of 100 for four parts.\n- Retention calendar: Lapse points, gift timing, send limits, a subscriber-only offer and a monthly schedule.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.\n- Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.\n- Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.\n- Every claim traces to the brand brain or supplied evidence.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Second opinion\nBefore handoff, run a second-opinion pass with Alex Hormozi (skills/alex-hormozi/SKILL.md). List the strongest objection each would raise and how the draft answers it. This is a review lens, not an endorsement.\n\n## Limits\n- You sell one-off products that nobody reorders: use the Customer offer builder to plan a single offer instead.\n- You only want to size a pack or bulk discount: use the Product pack and quantity discount planner.\n- You have no month-3 or month-6 numbers yet: run the offer step alone first, then come back with real subscriber data.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. Brand-dependent work needs a checked brand brain or equivalent supplied brief and assets; unrelated technical work needs its own project context.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: existing brand brain or brief, brand/asset folder, website and relevant ad-library or reference links. Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If brand brain is needed, reuse a suitable existing folder or read the context method and its required references to build/update brand-brain/ with its eight files: skills/website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md. Files: 00-start-here.md, business.md, offers.md, customers.md, proof-and-claims.md, voice-and-look.md, market.md, log.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Never mark a brand claim approved from a sales page alone. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date in brand-brain/log.md. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nFor copy or media: read offers, claims, customer evidence and voice; verify exact product, current offer, attribution and real assets. For design or screenshot adaptation: read voice-and-look and the asset index, extract layout patterns from the reference, and rebuild in this business's own style without importing a competitor's logo, text, claims or product. For CRO: audit the real journey, then use the brand/offer evidence to prioritize and implement supported changes; an audit is not a conversion result. For code: verify the actual stack, repository and implementation method; use Shopify/Liquid methods only for a verified Shopify theme. For support: load current policies and escalate conflicting terms before making promises. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/launch-a-subscription-and-keep-your-subscribers/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Subscription offer and retention planner (primary): [complete method](../launch-a-subscription-and-keep-your-subscribers/SKILL.md), revision bbe716e5b82b\n- Subscription offer designer: [complete method](../subscription-offer-designer/SKILL.md), revision eab70c716a27\n- Subscription payback checker: [complete method](../subscription-payback-checker/SKILL.md), revision 98c890981725\n- Subscription cancel flow builder: [complete method](../subscription-cancel-flow-builder/SKILL.md), revision f00f240eeb92\n- Billing reminder and confirmation writer: [complete method](../billing-reminder-and-confirmation-writer/SKILL.md), revision d7f14ce5d3a8\n- Subscription churn auditor: [complete method](../subscription-churn-audit/SKILL.md), revision ab0ed1f4355a\n- Subscriber retention calendar planner: [complete method](../subscriber-retention-calendar/SKILL.md), revision de7ff28fd14a\n- Brand profile builder (context setup): [complete method](../website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md), revision 042890a85bd5\n- Alex Hormozi (review lens): [complete method](../alex-hormozi/SKILL.md), revision 9d31faaa3aa7\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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Resolve task-relevant user context and tool access. Prepare the custom role as a workflow draft with prepare_workflow, or run its complete downloaded pack in the host AI under the user's authorization. No model was called and no task has run."}