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Pre-sell to three buyers, then launch in thirty days
Give it your idea. Get a three-buyer test, a paid ask, a launch plan and a trial log.
Pre-sell to three buyers, then launch in thirty days is a free AI workflow for the job "Test an idea before you build it". It guides your AI through several skills in order, passing each step's output to the next.
Free · No account · Made by AI Blocks · Level: beginner · Thinking: high
What it does
Ideas die in two ways: never tested, or tested with a question. "Would you buy this?" gets a polite yes from everyone. The honest test is money changing hands before the thing exists. This workflow runs that test in a week and then ships in a month. It plans how to get three real buyers to pay, following Noah Kagan's rule from Million Dollar Weekend: three customers before you build. It scripts a two-day paid ask: who to ask, what to say, how to take the money and what to promise. If three pay, it plans a thirty-day launch in the manner of Pieter Levels and Sara Blakely: the smallest version that works, shipped on a date. Throughout, a trial log records each attempt, what you expected and what happened, in the manner of Edison and Galileo, so a no teaches as much as a yes.
You give it
- The idea, in a few lines
- Who it is for and how you can reach ten of them this week
- What you could deliver in thirty days with what you have
- What you have tried before (optional)
- A buyer brief (optional)
- Your results (optional)
You get
- A three-buyer test plan: who to ask, in what order, what counts as a yes
- A two-day paid ask script and how to take the money
- A thirty-day launch plan with the smallest version that works
- A trial log that records every attempt and what it taught
Use it when
- You have an idea and have been thinking about it for months.
- Friends say it is great and none of them has paid.
- You want to ship something this month instead of planning something this year.
Steps
- Three-buyer idea test planner: Paste your business idea. Get the one-minute math and a weekend plan to ask ten people to pay.
- Paid idea test planner: Paste your idea, buyer and price. Get the buyer-count math, ten people to ask and a go or change rule.
- Thirty day launch planner: Paste your idea, budget and tools. Get a 30-day plan to launch, take payment and decide to keep, kill or change.
- Trial log planner: Paste what you want to get working. Get many cheap trials, a log for each and what each failure ruled out.
How to use it
- 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".
- Paste the idea and who it is for. It plans the three-buyer test and the paid ask.
- Run the ask over two days. Record every answer in the trial log.
- If three pay, follow the thirty-day plan. If not, read the log and decide what to change.