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Paste your costs as a table and check one row by hand.","Shopify: Its order exports give you cohorts by month and the repeat orders that follow.","Google Sheets: Keep the table in a sheet so you can change the discount and watch the ROAS move.","Any good chat AI: It builds the ladder and the preload list from the numbers you paste.","Shopify: Discounts, bundles and gift rules can be set up ahead and switched on when a trigger hits.","Klaviyo: Email flows and segments can send the subscriber-only offer.","Google Sheets: A shared sheet lets the buyer and owner read the same rules at the same time.","Meta Ads Manager: Free to use. Its export gives daily spend and 1-day and 7-day click results for the lag gap.","Triple Whale: Paid subscription, optional. Shows blended results and several attribution windows next to your store orders.","Shopify: Reports give sales, discounts and large orders by day or week. You need a paid Shopify plan.","Klaviyo: Shows emails and texts sent, sign-ups captured and revenue from flows. It is a paid service.","Triple Whale: A store dashboard that shows blended ROAS and new-customer numbers in one place. It is a paid tool."],"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 the real landed cost per order, not a guess. The whole plan depends on it.","When it pauses, agree the discount depth and the sale cost-per-sale limit with whoever signs off the budget.","After the first days of the sale, export spend, sales, emails and discounts and run the weekly check."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Set the cost limit","description":"Recomputes margin after the discount, sets break-even return and a separate sale cost-per-sale limit, and checks if sale customers repeat less."},{"name":"Plan the offer ladder","description":"Pauses for your sign-off. Then writes the main offer, ordered backups, switch triggers and stock limits, with a plan for subscribers."},{"name":"Build the pacing sheet","description":"Measures the lag between spend and sales in last year's data and sets daily spend with scale, hold and cut rules and a budget ceiling."},{"name":"Check the weekly pulse","description":"Pauses while the sale runs. 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Without your daily revenue targets, every trigger is marked \"owner to set\" and stays incomplete until you add them.","The pages and ads to build in advance, and the stock each offer may burn","A subscriber-only offer and a headline that stacks site and subscribe discounts, worked out from the real checkout total"]},{"name":"Sale season ad spend planner","description":"Build a sale season pacing sheet from last year's ad data. Get scale, hold and cut rules, base and stretch plans, and a Sept to Dec calendar.","method":"sale-season-pacing-sheet-builder","when":["A big sale is two to four months away and you want rules written down before it starts.","Last year's sale looked weak early and strong late, and you want to know how to read that.","You have a media buyer and 100K or more a month in ad spend, and want pre-agreed rules for pushes and cuts."],"inputs":["Last year's daily ad spend, revenue and orders, by hour if you have it","1-day click and 7-day click (or 30-day click) revenue for the 30 days before last year's sale","Gross margin and discount depth","Your CAC limit for the sale","A budget ceiling and a stretch target"],"deliverables":["A sheet with a 3-day rolling marginal contribution margin","A lag multiplier for the days before the sale","Scale, hold and cut rules","Base and stretch spend plans","A calendar from September to late December"]},{"name":"Weekly store ad performance reviewer","description":"Check your store's weekly ad and email numbers in one pass. Get a health score out of 100 and which lever to pull first, emails before discounts.","method":"weekly-store-ad-pulse-checker","when":["You want one weekly check of your store's marketing instead of checking numbers all day.","Blended ROAS dropped and you're tempted to run a discount.","Your sales are up but you suspect discounts are doing the work."],"inputs":["This week's and last week's blended ROAS, new-customer ROAS, CAC, CPM and spend by channel","Emails and texts sent, product drops launched and sign-ups captured","Discount as a percent of sales and large orders per day","Your goals for ROAS and CAC (optional)","Whether the numbers were pulled mid-day (optional)"],"deliverables":["A pulse table with last week, this week, the change and a flag for each number","A health score out of 100 with the sum shown","Levers to pull, in order, each with the number that supports it","A bull case, bear case and daily pace"]},{"name":"Brand profile builder","description":"Share your website. 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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":"John Caples","description":"Write headlines and plan a fair ad test through John Caples’s recorded approach. Lead with the reader’s gain and count replies by version.","method":"john-caples","when":["Write 20 headlines for one offer, sorted into self-interest, news and curiosity, ready to test","Find out why an ad, email or landing page gets seen but not answered","Plan a small, measured test of two appeals before you spend real money","Rewrite a clever headline so the reader sees what is in it for them","Turn a product benefit into a short before-and-after story a reader can picture","Pick the one appeal (save money, look good, feel safe) to lead with, and say why","Add a clear offer and a reason to reply now to any sales message","Read a set of test results and decide what to keep, drop and test next"],"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 John Caples would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in John Caples's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]}],"resources":[{"slug":"plan-a-big-sales-budget-and-daily-pacing","name":"Sale profit limit and daily budget planner","summary":"Share margins, discounts and past sale data. 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Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"sale-season-pacing-sheet-builder","name":"Sale season ad spend planner","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["A big sale is two to four months away and you want rules written down before it starts.","Last year's sale looked weak early and strong late, and you want to know how to read that.","You have a media buyer and 100K or more a month in ad spend, and want pre-agreed rules for pushes and cuts."],"inputs":["Last year's daily ad spend, revenue and orders, by hour if you have it","1-day click and 7-day click (or 30-day click) revenue for the 30 days before last year's sale","Gross margin and discount depth","Your CAC limit for the sale","A budget ceiling and a stretch target"],"deliverables":["A sheet with a 3-day rolling marginal contribution margin","A lag multiplier for the days before the sale","Scale, hold and cut rules","Base and stretch spend plans","A calendar from September to late December"],"instruction":"skills/sale-season-pacing-sheet-builder/SKILL.md","revision":"17425cb671ff6df13e823d0a43841aa1ac13115d127b19ffb1fe3c6d74abad0e","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"weekly-store-ad-pulse-checker","name":"Weekly store ad performance reviewer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You want one weekly check of your store's marketing instead of checking numbers all day.","Blended ROAS dropped and you're tempted to run a discount.","Your sales are up but you suspect discounts are doing the work."],"inputs":["This week's and last week's blended ROAS, new-customer ROAS, CAC, CPM and spend by channel","Emails and texts sent, product drops launched and sign-ups captured","Discount as a percent of sales and large orders per day","Your goals for ROAS and CAC (optional)","Whether the numbers were pulled mid-day (optional)"],"deliverables":["A pulse table with last week, this week, the change and a flag for each number","A health score out of 100 with the sum shown","Levers to pull, in order, each with the number that supports it","A bull case, bear case and daily pace"],"instruction":"skills/weekly-store-ad-pulse-checker/SKILL.md","revision":"20ba1034b1e610d960c1602675bbb7b79b4201b7eb59c4c481b2496b0beb1998","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":"john-caples","name":"John Caples","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Write 20 headlines for one offer, sorted into self-interest, news and curiosity, ready to test","Find out why an ad, email or landing page gets seen but not answered","Plan a small, measured test of two appeals before you spend real money","Rewrite a clever headline so the reader sees what is in it for them","Turn a product benefit into a short before-and-after story a reader can picture","Pick the one appeal (save money, look good, feel safe) to lead with, and say why","Add a clear offer and a reason to reply now to any sales message","Read a set of test results and decide what to keep, drop and test next"],"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 John Caples would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in John Caples's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/john-caples/SKILL.md","revision":"c3fdc7cebca760758560cc23980361d4fd096621cfff8c29d74102fed4895285","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":"Any good chat AI: The maths is simple. Paste your costs as a table and check one row by hand.","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: Its order exports give you cohorts by month and the repeat orders that follow.","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: Keep the table in a sheet so you can change the discount and watch the ROAS move.","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: It builds the ladder and the preload list from the numbers you paste.","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: Discounts, bundles and gift rules can be set up ahead and switched on when a trigger hits.","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: Email flows and segments can send the subscriber-only offer.","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 shared sheet lets the buyer and owner read the same rules at the same time.","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":"Meta Ads Manager: Free to use. Its export gives daily spend and 1-day and 7-day click results for the lag gap.","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":"Triple Whale: Paid subscription, optional. Shows blended results and several attribution windows next to your store 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":"Shopify: Reports give sales, discounts and large orders by day or week. 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":"Klaviyo: Shows emails and texts sent, sign-ups captured and revenue from flows. 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":"Triple Whale: A store dashboard that shows blended ROAS and new-customer numbers in one place. It is a paid tool.","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-plan-a-big-sales-budget-and-daily-pacing\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped sale profit limit and daily budget planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Sale profit limit and daily budget planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/plan-a-big-sales-budget-and-daily-pacing · version 2\n\n## Remit\nShare margins, discounts and past sale data. Get a limit on cost per customer, an offer schedule and a daily budget plan.\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 table of margin and cost-per-sale limit at each discount, with a go or skip call and a readiness score out of 100\n- A main offer with ordered backups, a trigger to switch and a stock limit for each\n- A pacing sheet with daily spend, base and stretch plans, and scale, hold and cut rules\n- A weekly ad pulse with a health score out of 100 and the next levers to pull\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Set the cost limit: Recomputes margin after the discount, sets break-even return and a separate sale cost-per-sale limit, and checks if sale customers repeat less.\n2. Plan the offer ladder: Pauses for your sign-off. Then writes the main offer, ordered backups, switch triggers and stock limits, with a plan for subscribers.\n3. Build the pacing sheet: Measures the lag between spend and sales in last year's data and sets daily spend with scale, hold and cut rules and a budget ceiling.\n4. Check the weekly pulse: Pauses while the sale runs. Then reads blended return, new-customer cost, email capture and discount share, and scores health.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Research the buyer and their company before writing. One specific, true detail beats ten generic lines.\n- Lead with the buyer's problem and outcome, not your features.\n- Give every message one clear, low-effort next step.\n- Qualify honestly. Record budget, authority, need and timing as known, unknown or assumed.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Making claims about results, prices or terms that are not approved.\n- Long first messages that ask for too much.\n- Updating pipeline numbers on hope rather than evidence.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You are planning Black Friday, Cyber Monday or another big sale and want it to make profit, not just revenue.\nGiven: Price, product cost, shipping and fees per order; Your discount options and your sale goal and dates; Products graded A, B or C by margin and stock depth; Last year's daily spend, revenue and orders; Your budget ceiling (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- Step 1: Cost limit: Margin after each discount, break-even return, the sale cost-per-sale limit, a go or skip call and a readiness score.\n- Step 2: Offer ladder: Your goal, the main offer, backups in order, a switch trigger and stock limit for each, and a subscriber plan.\n- Step 3: Pacing sheet: The lag between spend and sales, daily spend, base and stretch plans, and scale, hold and cut rules.\n- Step 4: Weekly pulse: This week against last week, what moved, the next levers to pull and a health score out of 100.\n- Hand-back summary: Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.\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- 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 John Caples (skills/john-caples/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 run an evergreen offer, not a big sale: use the Weekly store ad performance reviewer on its own.\n- You do not know your landed cost per order: work it out first with your accountant or a simple sheet, then come back.\n- Cash is tight before the sale: sort that first with a simple cash forecast, then run this plan.\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/plan-a-big-sales-budget-and-daily-pacing/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- Sale profit limit and daily budget planner (primary): [complete method](../plan-a-big-sales-budget-and-daily-pacing/SKILL.md), revision 9acac8d0a64f\n- Sale profit and ad cost planner: [complete method](../sale-break-even-and-cac-allowance-modeler/SKILL.md), revision fc2c02b4dcce\n- Sale offer ladder planner: [complete method](../sale-offer-ladder-planner/SKILL.md), revision 85d92b518aac\n- Sale season ad spend planner: [complete method](../sale-season-pacing-sheet-builder/SKILL.md), revision 17425cb671ff\n- Weekly store ad performance reviewer: [complete method](../weekly-store-ad-pulse-checker/SKILL.md), revision 20ba1034b1e6\n- Brand profile builder (context setup): [complete method](../website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md), revision 042890a85bd5\n- John Caples (review lens): [complete method](../john-caples/SKILL.md), revision c3fdc7cebca7\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":"media-buyer","name":"Media buyer"},{"id":"headline-test","name":"Headline comparison test planner"},{"id":"plan-a-month-of-meta-ads-with-the-right-number-of-new-a-a86add14","name":"Meta ad workload and budget planner"},{"id":"image-ad-test-learnings","name":"Image ad production and test planner"}],"sourceHash":"cfb61e2896c725746d4ec5f7b2185eb5b0c0beaf331ebb68279aa4b586135b26","execution_status":"NOT_STARTED","custom_skill":{"slug":"custom-role-plan-a-big-sales-budget-and-daily-pacing","name":"Sale profit limit and daily budget planner","instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-plan-a-big-sales-budget-and-daily-pacing\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped sale profit limit and daily budget planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Sale profit limit and daily budget planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/plan-a-big-sales-budget-and-daily-pacing · version 2\n\n## Remit\nShare margins, discounts and past sale data. Get a limit on cost per customer, an offer schedule and a daily budget plan.\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 table of margin and cost-per-sale limit at each discount, with a go or skip call and a readiness score out of 100\n- A main offer with ordered backups, a trigger to switch and a stock limit for each\n- A pacing sheet with daily spend, base and stretch plans, and scale, hold and cut rules\n- A weekly ad pulse with a health score out of 100 and the next levers to pull\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Set the cost limit: Recomputes margin after the discount, sets break-even return and a separate sale cost-per-sale limit, and checks if sale customers repeat less.\n2. Plan the offer ladder: Pauses for your sign-off. Then writes the main offer, ordered backups, switch triggers and stock limits, with a plan for subscribers.\n3. Build the pacing sheet: Measures the lag between spend and sales in last year's data and sets daily spend with scale, hold and cut rules and a budget ceiling.\n4. Check the weekly pulse: Pauses while the sale runs. Then reads blended return, new-customer cost, email capture and discount share, and scores health.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Research the buyer and their company before writing. One specific, true detail beats ten generic lines.\n- Lead with the buyer's problem and outcome, not your features.\n- Give every message one clear, low-effort next step.\n- Qualify honestly. Record budget, authority, need and timing as known, unknown or assumed.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Making claims about results, prices or terms that are not approved.\n- Long first messages that ask for too much.\n- Updating pipeline numbers on hope rather than evidence.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You are planning Black Friday, Cyber Monday or another big sale and want it to make profit, not just revenue.\nGiven: Price, product cost, shipping and fees per order; Your discount options and your sale goal and dates; Products graded A, B or C by margin and stock depth; Last year's daily spend, revenue and orders; Your budget ceiling (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- Step 1: Cost limit: Margin after each discount, break-even return, the sale cost-per-sale limit, a go or skip call and a readiness score.\n- Step 2: Offer ladder: Your goal, the main offer, backups in order, a switch trigger and stock limit for each, and a subscriber plan.\n- Step 3: Pacing sheet: The lag between spend and sales, daily spend, base and stretch plans, and scale, hold and cut rules.\n- Step 4: Weekly pulse: This week against last week, what moved, the next levers to pull and a health score out of 100.\n- Hand-back summary: Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.\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- 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 John Caples (skills/john-caples/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 run an evergreen offer, not a big sale: use the Weekly store ad performance reviewer on its own.\n- You do not know your landed cost per order: work it out first with your accountant or a simple sheet, then come back.\n- Cash is tight before the sale: sort that first with a simple cash forecast, then run this plan.\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/plan-a-big-sales-budget-and-daily-pacing/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- Sale profit limit and daily budget planner (primary): [complete method](../plan-a-big-sales-budget-and-daily-pacing/SKILL.md), revision 9acac8d0a64f\n- Sale profit and ad cost planner: [complete method](../sale-break-even-and-cac-allowance-modeler/SKILL.md), revision fc2c02b4dcce\n- Sale offer ladder planner: [complete method](../sale-offer-ladder-planner/SKILL.md), revision 85d92b518aac\n- Sale season ad spend planner: [complete method](../sale-season-pacing-sheet-builder/SKILL.md), revision 17425cb671ff\n- Weekly store ad performance reviewer: [complete method](../weekly-store-ad-pulse-checker/SKILL.md), revision 20ba1034b1e6\n- Brand profile builder (context setup): [complete method](../website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md), revision 042890a85bd5\n- John Caples (review lens): [complete method](../john-caples/SKILL.md), revision c3fdc7cebca7\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."}