Hire an AI SaaS growth channel test planner

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
• A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
• The next action and what needs approval

How it does the job well

• Start from the user problem and the evidence for it, then the solution.
• Write decisions down with the reason and the options you rejected.
• Keep scope small enough to ship and learn. Name what is out of scope.
• Define how success will be measured before building.

Mistakes it avoids

• Treating opinions or one loud request as proven demand.
• Specs that skip edge cases, error states or dependencies.
• Roadmaps with dates but no owners or confidence levels.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You need a practical way to find customers for a software business.

• business-profile.md. Your product, offer and buyer, a dated growth goal, the main bottleneck and any facts still missing.
• channel-matrix.csv. All 19 channels, each with one idea, ranked against your goal.
• shortlist.md. Up to three cheap tests picked from the ranking, with combined cash and time limits.
• experiments/<channel>.md. A plan for each picked channel with an owner, cost cap, customer-quality outcome and review window.
• results-ledger.csv. A dated record of each test, its status and the results you supply.
• review.md. Whether to focus, revise, stop or wait, judged on account activation, paid conversion, retention and gross-margin payback.

How the work is checked

• Every requirement can be tested.
• Assumptions and risks are listed with how each will be checked.
• Dependencies and owners are named.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

Capabilities

• Profile the business. Read the product and offer, state the goal, and record missing private facts.
• Compare all 19 channels. Give each channel one plausible idea, then rank the ideas and select affordable pilots.
• Prepare only the selected pilots. Run selected specialist skills. Keep all other skills available and mark them skipped.
• Review observed results. Choose focus, revise, stop or wait after checking costs and customer quality.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id find-your-saas-growth-channel only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/find-your-saas-growth-channel/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• A public product link or pasted product and pricing text
• Your growth goal, stage and buyer, if known
• Cash and time limits, past tests and results, if available

Functions and deliverables

• SaaS growth channel test planner: Compare 19 ways to reach software customers. Plan small tests and review actual use, payments, retention and costs before choosing one.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Growth channel profile builder: Turn your product link into a business profile with your buyer, offer, growth goal and missing facts, ready for a small channel test.
  • A business-profile.md with your buyer, offer, goal, limits and the evidence behind each fact
  • A list of the private facts still missing
  • The limits a later test needs (cash cap, hours, owner, tracking), ready for the channel ranker to design the test
• Growth channel shortlist planner: Share your product facts. Compare 19 traction channels and get a short list of small tests.
  • channel-matrix.csv, with all 19 channels and one idea and rationale each
  • shortlist.md, with up to three small tests, shared cash and hour limits and what ruled out the close contenders
  • The facts still missing and the next step
• Viral growth experiment planner: Share your product link. Test a voluntary invite or share moment with an activation measure and stop rule.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Press outreach experiment planner: Share product facts and a dated news hook. Get a reporter research plan, evidence-backed pitch and small outreach test.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Unconventional PR test planner: Share your buyer, product proof and limits. Get three truthful attention ideas and a screened, reversible prototype.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Search ads experiment planner: Share your buyer, conversion goal and budget. Get intent-based keyword groups, landing-page matches and a capped search-ad test.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Social and display ad experiment planner: Share your buyer, product demo and budget. Get audience and message tests with an activation tracking plan.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Offline ads experiment planner: Share your product link. Test a small placement with a quote, cost cap and outcome measure.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Search content experiment planner: Share your buyer problem and existing pages. Get a query-to-page plan, useful page briefs and early search checks.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Content growth experiment planner: Share your product link. Test one article, tutorial or research brief before planning a publishing calendar.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Lifecycle email experiment planner: Share your product link. Test an activation email with an eligible group, a holdout and an outcome measure.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Free tool experiment planner: Share your product link. Test a small free tool by task completion and interest in the paid product.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Niche publication experiment planner: Share your buyer and product. Get a publication-fit shortlist, guest pitch or sponsorship brief, and tracked landing-page plan.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Partnership experiment planner: Share your product link. Get a small partner test with a cost cap, measures and decision rule.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Sales channel experiment planner: Share your buyer, contract value and limits. Get a qualified-account pilot with discovery questions, sales steps and paid-next-step measures.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Affiliate experiment planner: Plan an affiliate program test for your software product. Paste your link and get a small pilot, commission limits and clear stop rules.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Platform growth experiment planner: Share your product link. Test demand for one integration before building a full marketplace listing.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Trade show experiment planner: Share your buyer, desired outcome and cost cap. Get a show comparison, meeting plan, demo and follow-up steps.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Offline event experiment planner: Share your product, buyer and limits. Get a small workshop plan with an attendee group, agenda, cost cap and follow-up measures.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Speaking event outreach planner: Share your expertise and buyer audience. Get an event shortlist, talk proposal and follow-up resource plan.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Community growth experiment planner: Share your product link. Test whether a small founding group returns and helps other members.
  • A recommendation with its evidence and missing facts
  • A small test with an owner, cost cap and decision rule
  • The next action and what needs approval
• Customer acquisition experiment reviewer: Share your test results. Get a checked comparison and a focus, revise, stop or wait decision.
  • A results ledger with costs, leads, trials and paid customers checked
  • A review of definitions, data quality and credit for each sale
  • A verdict (focus, revise, stop or wait) and the next small test with its limits
• Product context file writer: Share product facts, audience and positioning. Get a reviewed context file that other marketing skills can reference.
  • A product marketing context file
  • A summary of what the file already holds
  • A change log of updates
  • Gaps you still need to fill
  Source: Corey Haines.

Tasks you can use it for

• You need a practical way to find customers for a software business.
• You want to test a growth idea before committing more time or money.

Limits to check before starting

• Your product has no public link or pricing yet: write down what you sell and who buys it first, then come back.
• You run a shop or service, not software: use the Business growth channel test planner workflow instead.
• You want a full campaign built and sent: this workflow only plans tests and stops before sending or spending.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Open Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini and add the workflow pack. Use your strongest model.
• Paste your product link. Add your goal, budget and time limits if you know them.
• Say: Run the Bullseye workflow and mark anything you cannot verify as MISSING.
• Read the matrix and shortlist. Check the cost caps and fix any wrong assumptions.
• Approve any test yourself. The AI will not send, spend or publish for you.
• Run the tests, then paste your results back and ask for the review.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/find-your-saas-growth-channel for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.