{"schema":"ai-blocks-role/1","id":"plan-a-sale-across-email-and-sms","name":"Sale email and text campaign planner","summary":"Share offer terms, audience and brand facts. Get coordinated email/text timing, message drafts, checks and a later results review.","area":"marketing","family":{"id":"write-emails","name":"Write emails that get read"},"lead":"plan-a-sale-across-email-and-sms","featured":false,"contextKind":"brand","deliverables":["A text plan with dates, send times, audience, exclusions and the cost of the month","A hold-out test to find out how often your list wants texts","An email calendar placed around the texts, with the mix of email types checked","The sale email, with subject options, a plain-text version and two A/B variants","A text check with character count, billed parts, cost and a readiness score out of 100","A results review with ranked causes, what to repeat, what to rework and a channel health score out of 100"],"inputs":["Your offer, with dates and terms","Your product facts (optional)","Past email and SMS results, such as sends, clicks, orders and unsubscribes","Your brand file","Customer reviews (optional)","A one-paragraph brief for the sale email, which it asks you for halfway through","An export of results after the sale, which it asks for at the end"],"opening":{"give":["Your offer, with dates and terms","Your product facts (optional)","Past email and SMS results, such as sends, clicks, orders and unsubscribes"],"get":["A text plan with dates, send times, audience, exclusions and the cost of the month","A hold-out test to find out how often your list wants texts","An email calendar placed around the texts, with the mix of email types checked","The sale email, with subject options, a plain-text version and two A/B variants"]},"helpfulInputs":[],"fit":["You have a sale, a drop or a launch coming and want email and text to support each other.","Your texts cost more each month and you are not sure they pay back.","You ran a sale last month and cannot tell which channel did the work."],"limits":["You only need one sale email written: use the Campaign email writer.","You only want a month of emails with no texts: use the Monthly email campaign calendar planner.","Your list has not clearly agreed to get texts: fix that first, because the plan will not include texts without consent."],"tools":["Klaviyo: It handles email and SMS together, supports smart sending and shows clicks and unsubscribes by send.","Shopify: Order data shows who bought, which sets who gets a text and when.","Any good chat AI: Any current chat AI can build the calendar from your events and numbers.","Klaviyo: Its campaign calendar shows scheduled sends and segments in one view.","Notion or Google Sheets: A shared table with date, type, owner and status keeps the production schedule visible.","Any good chat AI: Any current chat AI can draft the blocks once it has your brand context, then you edit by hand.","Klaviyo: It builds the email from blocks and runs the manual 50/50 split for the variants. It is a paid service.","Klaviyo: Paid. Needs an account, and texts cost extra per send. It shows segments, smart sending and the cost of each SMS send.","Any good chat AI: Any current chat AI can count and apply the checks to a pasted text.","Klaviyo: Paid service with an account. Any email tool that exports the same columns works too. Its export of campaign and flow analytics, by-provider report and test results give the figures this skill reads.","Shopify: Paid store plan with an account. Traffic, orders and average order value show whether a drop is a site problem.","Any good chat AI: Any current chat AI can read an exported file and apply the steps."],"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\".","Start with your offer, your dates and how people opted in to texts. It will not plan texts without clear consent.","When it pauses, write the one-paragraph brief for the sale email.","Send the emails and texts, then export results for the sale window and give them to the last step."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Plan the texts","description":"SMS send planner decides which launches, sales and restocks deserve a text, sets dates and send windows, pairs each with an email and prices the month. It also sets up a hold-out test for how often to text."},{"name":"Place the emails","description":"Email campaign calendar planner builds the email calendar around the text plan. Fixed dates go first, and the mix of email types is checked so the two channels do not repeat each other."},{"name":"Write the sale email","description":"Campaign email writer takes the sale email's slot from the calendar and the brief you write, and writes the email block by block. You get subject and preview options, a plain-text version and two A/B variants, with every claim checked against your facts."},{"name":"Check the texts","description":"SMS send checker takes the text you plan to send, checks it against the plan and the email timing, counts characters and billed parts, prices the send, tests whether an image pays for itself and asks if the news is urgent. It flags opt-in, send-hour and flow-rule problems and scores readiness out of 100."},{"name":"Read the results","description":"Email and SMS performance reader starts from the results you export after the sale, not from the pre-send check. It checks nothing is broken, then reads list growth, campaigns, flows, deliverability and SMS. It ranks causes and scores channel health out of 100."}],"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":["Every text is tied to a real event or a true restock, and nothing is sent outside quiet hours.","The text cost shows its sum, list size times cost per text.","The email calendar does not repeat the message the texts already carry.","Every claim in the email matches a fact you gave, and no timer or stock limit is made up.","The results read quotes numbers from the person's data.","Both pauses happened, or the run says which was skipped and why.","Every claim traces to the brand brain or supplied evidence."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":6,"source":0,"area":"marketing"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"You have a sale, a drop or a launch coming and want email and text to support each other.","task":"Share offer terms, audience and brand facts. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","given":["Your offer, with dates and terms","How people on your list agreed to get texts","Your cost per text and list size (optional)","A one-paragraph brief for the sale email, asked for when it pauses","An export of email and text results, after the sale"],"outputs":[{"name":"Step 1: Text plan","contains":"Consent line, quiet hours, dated texts with the email each pairs with, exclusions, month cost and a hold-out test."},{"name":"Step 2: Email calendar","contains":"Pace, dated sends with angle, a mix check across email types and a production schedule."},{"name":"Step 3: Sale email","contains":"Subject and preview options, email blocks, a plain-text version, two A/B variants and a claims check."},{"name":"Step 4: Text check","contains":"Characters and billed parts, cost, image break-even, rule flags, urgent or not and a score out of 100."},{"name":"Step 5: Results read","contains":"Ranked causes, then list growth, campaigns, flows, deliverability and texts, with a channel health score. This is the audit report, in the last step file: outputs/step-05-email-and-sms-performance-reader.md."},{"name":"Hand-back summary","contains":"Each step's file and every MISSING line in one list."}]},"example":"Share offer terms, audience and brand facts. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","functions":[{"name":"Sale email and text campaign planner","description":"Share offer terms, audience and brand facts. Get coordinated email/text timing, message drafts, checks and a later results review.","method":"plan-a-sale-across-email-and-sms","when":["You have a sale, a drop or a launch coming and want email and text to support each other.","Your texts cost more each month and you are not sure they pay back.","You ran a sale last month and cannot tell which channel did the work."],"inputs":["Your offer, with dates and terms","Your product facts (optional)","Past email and SMS results, such as sends, clicks, orders and unsubscribes","Your brand file","Customer reviews (optional)","A one-paragraph brief for the sale email, which it asks you for halfway through","An export of results after the sale, which it asks for at the end"],"deliverables":["A text plan with dates, send times, audience, exclusions and the cost of the month","A hold-out test to find out how often your list wants texts","An email calendar placed around the texts, with the mix of email types checked","The sale email, with subject options, a plain-text version and two A/B variants","A text check with character count, billed parts, cost and a readiness score out of 100","A results review with ranked causes, what to repeat, what to rework and a channel health score out of 100"]},{"name":"SMS send planner","description":"Plan a month of SMS marketing texts: pick which events earn a text, set dates and send times, and test how often to text. Give it your events and list size.","method":"sms-send-planner","when":["You are planning next month's launches and sales and need to decide which ones get a text.","You text every week out of habit and your costs or unsubscribes are rising.","You want to know whether sending more texts would earn more, without guessing."],"inputs":["Your launches, sales and restocks for the month, with dates","Your SMS list size and cost per text","Your current texts per month and unsubscribe rate (optional)","Whether subscribers are buyers, prospects or a mix (optional)","Which country or countries your subscribers are in (optional)"],"deliverables":["A date-by-date text plan with the purpose of each text","Send windows and email pairing for each text","List exclusions, with the monthly clean-up rule","The cost of the month and a hold-out test for frequency"]},{"name":"Monthly email campaign calendar planner","description":"Plan a month of store emails around real dates and team capacity. Get audiences, angles, owners, content variety and a production schedule.","method":"email-campaign-calendar-planner","when":["You send emails only around sales and want a steady monthly rhythm.","You have a launch coming and want the sends around it planned.","You are always writing the same day's email at the last minute."],"inputs":["Your brand, products and target customer","Fixed dates: launches, restocks and sale events","Blogs, videos and reviews you can reuse","The month to plan and the segments you can send to","Your monthly revenue and team size (optional)"],"deliverables":["A month calendar with send date, type, segment, status and owner","A two-line angle for each send","A mix check against seven content types","A production schedule that keeps you two weeks ahead"]},{"name":"Campaign email writer","description":"Write a campaign email that says one thing. Give it your goal and product facts. You get subject lines, copy by block, a plain-text version and two A/B tests.","method":"campaign-email-writer","when":["You have a launch, sale, restock or value email to send this week.","Your emails get opens but few clicks, and you suspect the message is too crowded.","You use AI to draft emails and want them to sound like your store."],"inputs":["The campaign type and goal (promotion, launch, value or restock)","Product or topic facts, including any real deadline or stock limit","Your customers' pains and doubts","Your brand voice, and reviews that answer a doubt (optional)"],"deliverables":["Subject line and preview text options","Headline, subhead, body, call to action, review and benefit blocks","A plain-text version","Two A/B variants that each change one thing"]},{"name":"SMS send checker","description":"Check your SMS before you send it. Get the character count, send cost, rule flags and a send-readiness score out of 100 for your text.","method":"sms-send-checker","when":["You wrote a text and want to check it before you send it to your whole list.","You are about to add images to your texts and want to know if they pay.","You set up a flow text, such as an abandoned cart text, and want to confirm it follows the rules."],"inputs":["The text itself, exactly as it will be sent","Your list size and cost per text","The send day, time and time zone","Which flow or campaign it belongs to, and how people opted in (optional)","Revenue from your last text with and without an image (optional)"],"deliverables":["The character count and the number of billed parts","The cost of the send, with the sum","A break-even result for an image text, if you use one","Rule flags, with a fix for each, and a send-readiness score out of 100"]},{"name":"Email and SMS results reviewer","description":"Review email and SMS results against your own history. Get possible causes, tests to try and a house score with missing checks shown.","method":"email-and-sms-performance-reader","when":["It is the start of the month and you want to know what your email and SMS did.","Your revenue from email dropped and you do not know whether to blame the list, the emails or the site.","You suspect a deliverability problem because clicks keep falling."],"inputs":["Campaign list for the last 30 days or more, with revenue, clicks and placed orders","Flow revenue, with the number of recipients and skips","List growth, with pop-up views and sign-ups","Deliverability figures, and SMS click, unsubscribe and delivery rates","Your site traffic change (optional)"],"deliverables":["Observed findings and possible causes, kept separate","Campaign types to repeat or rework as tests","Delivery concerns supported by the supplied checks, with unknowns shown","A house score for judged areas, or NOT SCORED if no area can be judged"]},{"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":"Ann Handley","description":"Write or revise an email, page or newsletter using Ann Handley’s public approach. Start with the reader’s concern and cut generic lines.","method":"ann-handley","when":["Turn a dull company update into an email people want to open","Find the worry behind a customer's question before you write the page","Rewrite a page so the reader's biggest concern comes first","Get past a blank page with a rough first draft, then edit it into shape","Cut the generic lines that could appear in anyone's newsletter","Decide which parts of your writing to keep human and which to hand to AI","Find your own voice in a blog post, a talk or a LinkedIn post","Plan a newsletter readers reply to, with a welcome email that starts the conversation"],"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 Ann Handley would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Ann Handley's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]}],"resources":[{"slug":"plan-a-sale-across-email-and-sms","name":"Sale email and text campaign planner","summary":"Share offer terms, audience and brand facts. 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Get audiences, angles, owners, content variety and a production schedule.","task":"write-emails","kind":"skill","path":"/skills/email-campaign-calendar-planner","revision":"7bf1acdf4fef0af73a8eaa996875c8e013dbc324c97a1795c8b812ecb1bad3b7","skillPath":"/skills/email-campaign-calendar-planner/SKILL.md","bundled":true,"onboarding":false},{"slug":"campaign-email-writer","name":"Campaign email writer","summary":"Write a campaign email that says one thing. Give it your goal and product facts. You get subject lines, copy by block, a plain-text version and two A/B tests.","task":"write-emails","kind":"skill","path":"/skills/campaign-email-writer","revision":"dd260d1913f5c538b2eec4c4d1fa861505b8fb02186d769a10152d2c12ad4656","skillPath":"/skills/campaign-email-writer/SKILL.md","bundled":true,"onboarding":false},{"slug":"sms-send-checker","name":"SMS send checker","summary":"Check your SMS before you send it. Get the character count, send cost, rule flags and a send-readiness score out of 100 for your text.","task":"write-emails","kind":"skill","path":"/skills/sms-send-checker","revision":"4a1d7b7d3932b69d71558bf13127eb79d358db66bbb5340df8bcc498e98c6329","skillPath":"/skills/sms-send-checker/SKILL.md","bundled":true,"onboarding":false},{"slug":"email-and-sms-performance-reader","name":"Email and SMS results reviewer","summary":"Review email and SMS results against your own history. Get possible causes, tests to try and a house score with missing checks shown.","task":"write-emails","kind":"skill","path":"/skills/email-and-sms-performance-reader","revision":"48a7bda53b2def3bd31b52fa664eac4a89ef0fd285b3ca1fc15011e78d02a3d4","skillPath":"/skills/email-and-sms-performance-reader/SKILL.md","bundled":true,"onboarding":false},{"slug":"website-brand-brain-builder","name":"Brand profile builder","summary":"Share your website. 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Use it only when it covers the job."},{"method":"sms-send-planner","name":"SMS send planner","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You are planning next month's launches and sales and need to decide which ones get a text.","You text every week out of habit and your costs or unsubscribes are rising.","You want to know whether sending more texts would earn more, without guessing."],"inputs":["Your launches, sales and restocks for the month, with dates","Your SMS list size and cost per text","Your current texts per month and unsubscribe rate (optional)","Whether subscribers are buyers, prospects or a mix (optional)","Which country or countries your subscribers are in (optional)"],"deliverables":["A date-by-date text plan with the purpose of each text","Send windows and email pairing for each text","List exclusions, with the monthly clean-up rule","The cost of the month and a hold-out test for frequency"],"instruction":"skills/sms-send-planner/SKILL.md","revision":"17c20bd729e6b315f2d5559c163bba2bf8e01a7efe82247c58d4d56e9a6887ab","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"email-campaign-calendar-planner","name":"Monthly email campaign calendar planner","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You send emails only around sales and want a steady monthly rhythm.","You have a launch coming and want the sends around it planned.","You are always writing the same day's email at the last minute."],"inputs":["Your brand, products and target customer","Fixed dates: launches, restocks and sale events","Blogs, videos and reviews you can reuse","The month to plan and the segments you can send to","Your monthly revenue and team size (optional)"],"deliverables":["A month calendar with send date, type, segment, status and owner","A two-line angle for each send","A mix check against seven content types","A production schedule that keeps you two weeks ahead"],"instruction":"skills/email-campaign-calendar-planner/SKILL.md","revision":"7bf1acdf4fef0af73a8eaa996875c8e013dbc324c97a1795c8b812ecb1bad3b7","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"campaign-email-writer","name":"Campaign email writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have a launch, sale, restock or value email to send this week.","Your emails get opens but few clicks, and you suspect the message is too crowded.","You use AI to draft emails and want them to sound like your store."],"inputs":["The campaign type and goal (promotion, launch, value or restock)","Product or topic facts, including any real deadline or stock limit","Your customers' pains and doubts","Your brand voice, and reviews that answer a doubt (optional)"],"deliverables":["Subject line and preview text options","Headline, subhead, body, call to action, review and benefit blocks","A plain-text version","Two A/B variants that each change one thing"],"instruction":"skills/campaign-email-writer/SKILL.md","revision":"dd260d1913f5c538b2eec4c4d1fa861505b8fb02186d769a10152d2c12ad4656","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"sms-send-checker","name":"SMS send checker","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You wrote a text and want to check it before you send it to your whole list.","You are about to add images to your texts and want to know if they pay.","You set up a flow text, such as an abandoned cart text, and want to confirm it follows the rules."],"inputs":["The text itself, exactly as it will be sent","Your list size and cost per text","The send day, time and time zone","Which flow or campaign it belongs to, and how people opted in (optional)","Revenue from your last text with and without an image (optional)"],"deliverables":["The character count and the number of billed parts","The cost of the send, with the sum","A break-even result for an image text, if you use one","Rule flags, with a fix for each, and a send-readiness score out of 100"],"instruction":"skills/sms-send-checker/SKILL.md","revision":"4a1d7b7d3932b69d71558bf13127eb79d358db66bbb5340df8bcc498e98c6329","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"email-and-sms-performance-reader","name":"Email and SMS results reviewer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["It is the start of the month and you want to know what your email and SMS did.","Your revenue from email dropped and you do not know whether to blame the list, the emails or the site.","You suspect a deliverability problem because clicks keep falling."],"inputs":["Campaign list for the last 30 days or more, with revenue, clicks and placed orders","Flow revenue, with the number of recipients and skips","List growth, with pop-up views and sign-ups","Deliverability figures, and SMS click, unsubscribe and delivery rates","Your site traffic change (optional)"],"deliverables":["Observed findings and possible causes, kept separate","Campaign types to repeat or rework as tests","Delivery concerns supported by the supplied checks, with unknowns shown","A house score for judged areas, or NOT SCORED if no area can be judged"],"instruction":"skills/email-and-sms-performance-reader/SKILL.md","revision":"48a7bda53b2def3bd31b52fa664eac4a89ef0fd285b3ca1fc15011e78d02a3d4","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":"ann-handley","name":"Ann Handley","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Turn a dull company update into an email people want to open","Find the worry behind a customer's question before you write the page","Rewrite a page so the reader's biggest concern comes first","Get past a blank page with a rough first draft, then edit it into shape","Cut the generic lines that could appear in anyone's newsletter","Decide which parts of your writing to keep human and which to hand to AI","Find your own voice in a blog post, a talk or a LinkedIn post","Plan a newsletter readers reply to, with a welcome email that starts the conversation"],"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 Ann Handley would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Ann Handley's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/ann-handley/SKILL.md","revision":"9e57624f697eb7c4032ad4f28ba91d33219e62b5db0dac22210facd75870c21e","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":"Klaviyo: It handles email and SMS together, supports smart sending and shows clicks and unsubscribes by send.","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: Order data shows who bought, which sets who gets a text and when.","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 build the calendar from your events and numbers.","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: Its campaign calendar shows scheduled sends and segments in one view.","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":"Notion or Google Sheets: A shared table with date, type, owner and status keeps the production schedule visible.","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 draft the blocks once it has your brand context, then you edit 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":"Klaviyo: It builds the email from blocks and runs the manual 50/50 split for the variants. 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: Paid. Needs an account, and texts cost extra per send. It shows segments, smart sending and the cost of each SMS send.","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 count and apply the checks to a pasted text.","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 service with an account. Any email tool that exports the same columns works too. Its export of campaign and flow analytics, by-provider report and test results give the figures this skill reads.","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 store plan with an account. Traffic, orders and average order value show whether a drop is a site problem.","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 read an exported file and apply the steps.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. 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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-sale-across-email-and-sms\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped sale email and text campaign planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Sale email and text campaign planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/plan-a-sale-across-email-and-sms · version 2\n\n## Remit\nShare offer terms, audience and brand facts. Get coordinated email/text timing, message drafts, checks and a later results review.\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 text plan with dates, send times, audience, exclusions and the cost of the month\n- A hold-out test to find out how often your list wants texts\n- An email calendar placed around the texts, with the mix of email types checked\n- The sale email, with subject options, a plain-text version and two A/B variants\n- A text check with character count, billed parts, cost and a readiness score out of 100\n- A results review with ranked causes, what to repeat, what to rework and a channel health score out of 100\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Plan the texts: SMS send planner decides which launches, sales and restocks deserve a text, sets dates and send windows, pairs each with an email and prices the month. It also sets up a hold-out test for how often to text.\n2. Place the emails: Email campaign calendar planner builds the email calendar around the text plan. Fixed dates go first, and the mix of email types is checked so the two channels do not repeat each other.\n3. Write the sale email: Campaign email writer takes the sale email's slot from the calendar and the brief you write, and writes the email block by block. You get subject and preview options, a plain-text version and two A/B variants, with every claim checked against your facts.\n4. Check the texts: SMS send checker takes the text you plan to send, checks it against the plan and the email timing, counts characters and billed parts, prices the send, tests whether an image pays for itself and asks if the news is urgent. It flags opt-in, send-hour and flow-rule problems and scores readiness out of 100.\n5. Read the results: Email and SMS performance reader starts from the results you export after the sale, not from the pre-send check. It checks nothing is broken, then reads list growth, campaigns, flows, deliverability and SMS. It ranks causes and scores channel health out of 100.\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 have a sale, a drop or a launch coming and want email and text to support each other.\nGiven: Your offer, with dates and terms; How people on your list agreed to get texts; Your cost per text and list size (optional); A one-paragraph brief for the sale email, asked for when it pauses; An export of email and text results, after the sale\nA strong result contains:\n- Step 1: Text plan: Consent line, quiet hours, dated texts with the email each pairs with, exclusions, month cost and a hold-out test.\n- Step 2: Email calendar: Pace, dated sends with angle, a mix check across email types and a production schedule.\n- Step 3: Sale email: Subject and preview options, email blocks, a plain-text version, two A/B variants and a claims check.\n- Step 4: Text check: Characters and billed parts, cost, image break-even, rule flags, urgent or not and a score out of 100.\n- Step 5: Results read: Ranked causes, then list growth, campaigns, flows, deliverability and texts, with a channel health score. This is the audit report, in the last step file: outputs/step-05-email-and-sms-performance-reader.md.\n- Hand-back summary: Each step's file 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- Every text is tied to a real event or a true restock, and nothing is sent outside quiet hours.\n- The text cost shows its sum, list size times cost per text.\n- The email calendar does not repeat the message the texts already carry.\n- Every claim in the email matches a fact you gave, and no timer or stock limit is made up.\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 Ann Handley (skills/ann-handley/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 only need one sale email written: use the Campaign email writer.\n- You only want a month of emails with no texts: use the Monthly email campaign calendar planner.\n- Your list has not clearly agreed to get texts: fix that first, because the plan will not include texts without consent.\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-sale-across-email-and-sms/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 email and text campaign planner (primary): [complete method](../plan-a-sale-across-email-and-sms/SKILL.md), revision 99684204c4c4\n- SMS send planner: [complete method](../sms-send-planner/SKILL.md), revision 17c20bd729e6\n- Monthly email campaign calendar planner: [complete method](../email-campaign-calendar-planner/SKILL.md), revision 7bf1acdf4fef\n- Campaign email writer: [complete method](../campaign-email-writer/SKILL.md), revision dd260d1913f5\n- SMS send checker: [complete method](../sms-send-checker/SKILL.md), revision 4a1d7b7d3932\n- Email and SMS results reviewer: [complete method](../email-and-sms-performance-reader/SKILL.md), revision 48a7bda53b2d\n- Brand profile builder (context setup): [complete method](../website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md), revision 042890a85bd5\n- Ann Handley (review lens): [complete method](../ann-handley/SKILL.md), revision 9e57624f697e\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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