The Pack

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name: 01-daily-linkedin-post
description: Run for the daily post. Trigger - "run 01" plus the raw material, the hook idea, the data, and whatever the team wants pushed this week.
---

# TASK 01 - THE DAILY LINKEDIN POST

## INPUT
What I want to post about. Any data I am holding, any
hook I have already drafted, and anything the team
has asked me to push this week.

## PROCESS
1. HOMEWORK CHECK first, on every claim in the
   material. Are we the source and the beneficiary of
   the same number. If yes, it needs an outside
   source, or a named method stated in the post, or
   it comes out. "Based on our own data" is not a
   method.
2. RETRIEVAL TEST on the hook. Will this sentence be
   returned next to something I have already
   published, and can I hold both. If the hook
   contradicts a published position, do not soften
   it and do not run it. The change of mind IS the
   post, and it is the better post.
3. Find the ONE idea. One sentence with a verb in it.
   If there are two, say which one runs today and
   file the other with a date.
4. TWO SURFACES check. If the draft says search is
   dead, or that nothing has really changed, it is
   wrong in one of the two standard directions. Fix
   the sentence, not the tone.
5. Shape it for a phone. Hook, then short lines, one
   idea per line, the specific thing before the
   general one.
6. ONE ask, and default it away from Searchable. If
   the team has three things to push this week, the
   post carries one and the rest go to the newsletter
   or a different day.
7. Name what is held and why, so it does not leak
   into next week's draft.

## OUTPUT
THE ONE IDEA, one sentence. THE HOOK, with the
retrieval test result. THE POST, drafted in full, in
my voice. THE ASK. HELD, with reasons.

## RULES
- No ARR, customer count, churn, pipeline or cohort
  number. [PRIVATE], ask once.
- No internal Searchable statistic without a stated
  method inside the post itself.
- No "X is dead" hook unless the post pays for it in
  the next four lines.
- Never name a competing tool to criticise it.
  Critique the scoring method.
- No engagement bait question at the end.

## EDGE CASES
- It is product news day and the only honest post is
  an announcement. Publish the mechanism, not the
  milestone. What we learned building it is useful to
  someone who will never buy it. The milestone is one
  line at the bottom, not the hook.
- The hook that will fly hardest contradicts what I
  said on the company blog. That is not a reason to
  post it quietly and hope. Post the contradiction on
  purpose, with both dates in it. I am selling
  visibility in retrieval engines, so being caught by
  one is a worse outcome than admitting it first.

## GOOD LOOKS LIKE
"Six months ago I posted that Google SEO was dead.

I was wrong, and I want to be specific about how.

SEO is not dead. It is now one of two surfaces, and
the second one does not behave like the first.

That is a harder thing to sell than a funeral. It is
also what is actually happening."

---
name: 02-step-by-step-newsletter
description: Run for the weekly Step by Step issue. Trigger - "run 02" plus the topic, the raw material and anything I have already drafted. The promise is 5 minutes.
---

# TASK 02 - STEP BY STEP, WEEKLY ISSUE

## INPUT
The topic. Whatever I have collected this week: a
post that landed, a question from the cohort, a
change in an engine, something that went wrong.

## PROCESS
1. Find the ONE thing a reader can do this week. Not
   understand. Do. If the issue has no action in it,
   it is a LinkedIn post that got long.
2. Enforce the 5 minute budget as a hard constraint,
   because it is a promise on my own site. Draft,
   then cut to fit. Roughly 900 to 1,100 words. What
   gets cut is reported back to me, not deleted
   silently.
3. The action must be executable with no purchase. If
   the only way to do it is inside Searchable, write
   the manual version even though it takes longer,
   and say it takes longer.
4. HOMEWORK CHECK on every number. If it came from
   us, name the method in the sentence.
5. Give it the shape people actually read: the thing
   that happened, why it matters, the steps, the one
   trap.
6. ONE ask at the bottom. Rotate it. If it was
   Searchable last week it is not Searchable this
   week.
7. TWO SURFACES check on any search advice.

## OUTPUT
THE ACTION, one line. The full issue, in my voice,
inside the word budget. THE ASK. CUT FOR LENGTH, so I
can see what I lost. HELD.

## RULES
- Nothing in the issue requires paying us to be
  useful.
- No internal metric without a method.
- No recap of my own week unless something in it
  transfers to the reader.
- Never open with an apology for the gap, a weather
  report, or a paragraph about how busy things are.

## EDGE CASES
- The best material this week is a Searchable
  feature. Then the issue is about the problem it
  solves, written so that a reader using a
  spreadsheet and ChatGPT can do 70 percent of it by
  hand. If that version does not exist, the feature
  is not a newsletter, it is a product email, and it
  goes on a different list.
- The honest advice this week is "wait." The category
  moves weekly and sometimes the right move is to
  change nothing. Publish that, and say what you
  would need to see before it changes. A newsletter
  that manufactures an action every week trains
  people to ignore it.

## GOOD LOOKS LIKE
"Here is the whole job this week, and it takes about
forty minutes.

Write down the ten questions a customer actually asks
before they buy from you. Not keywords. Questions, in
their words.

Now ask each one in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI
Overviews. Copy the answers into a doc.

Count how many times you appear. That number is your
starting line, and you got it without buying
anything."

---
name: 03-free-or-gated
description: Run when deciding what research goes out free and what gets gated or sold. Trigger - "run 03" plus the research, the data set and what the team wants to do with it.
---

# TASK 03 - GIVE IT AWAY OR GATE IT

## INPUT
The research. What the data set actually is, how it
was gathered, what the findings are, and what the
team wants to do with it.

## PROCESS
1. Split the material into three piles before
   deciding anything.
   - FINDING: the thing that changes what somebody
     believes. Relevance beats reach. Two surfaces.
     The number that moved.
   - METHOD AND DATA: how it was gathered, sample
     size, the full tables, the formats and formulas.
   - EXECUTION: doing it repeatedly, tracking it,
     the prompt sets, the workflow.
2. FINDINGS GO FREE AND UNGATED. Always. A finding
   held behind a form is a finding somebody else
   publishes first, with their name on it.
3. METHOD AND DATA is what a gate is for. That is
   what the 58 page report is and it is why the gate
   works.
4. EXECUTION is the product. It was never the
   research.
5. Price the gate honestly. Every gate costs reach,
   and reach is the lead engine. So the test is
   whether the gated version is genuinely more useful
   than the free one, not whether it is longer.
6. HOMEWORK CHECK on the headline finding. If the
   sample is ours and the conclusion flatters us, the
   report states the sample and the limitation on
   page one, not in an appendix.
7. RETRIEVAL TEST. This report will be cited back at
   me for years. Date it, version it, and say what
   would make it wrong.

## OUTPUT
The three piles, itemised. FREE: the finding and
where it goes. GATED: what sits behind the form and
why it is worth the address. PRODUCT: what stays in
the platform. The stated limitation. The version and
date.

## RULES
- Never gate a finding that would change somebody's
  behaviour on its own.
- Never publish a chart from a sample I will not
  describe.
- No research where we are the only source and the
  conclusion is that people should buy us.
- Never quote a report price, a conversion rate on
  the gate, or a download count. [PRIVATE].

## EDGE CASES
- The finding is bad for us. An engine changes and it
  makes part of what we sell less necessary. Publish
  it free, first, in my own words, on the same day.
  The alternative is a competitor publishing it about
  us, and then we are answering instead of framing.
- Sales wants a report gated that the accelerator
  cohort already has in slides. A gate that leaks is
  worse than no gate, because the first person to
  post it gets the credit for our work. Either it
  goes fully free with our name on it, or the cohort
  version is genuinely different and we can say how.

## GOOD LOOKS LIKE
"The finding goes out free and it goes out today:
relevance now beats reach. That single line is worth
more to us in the open than behind an email form.

What is behind the form is the 397,605 post sample,
the formats, and the formulas. That is a fair trade
for an address. The finding is not."

---
name: 04-cohort-session-and-questions
description: Run before or after an AI Search Accelerator session, or on a student question. Trigger - "run 04" plus the question or the session topic, and which track it came from.
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# TASK 04 - COHORT SESSION AND STUDENT QUESTION

## INPUT
The question, in the student's own words. Which
track, Brand or Agency. What week the cohort is in.
What they have already tried.

## PROCESS
1. Identify the track first. Brand and Agency ask the
   same question and need opposite answers. A brand
   wants to be in the answer. An agency wants
   something they can price, sell and deliver
   repeatably to a client who will ask for proof in
   90 days.
2. Answer the question they asked before the question
   they should have asked. Then ask the better one,
   in one line.
3. Manual method first. If they can do it with a
   spreadsheet and three engines, teach that. The
   tool is how you do it at scale, and it is the
   second half of the answer or it is not in the
   answer at all.
4. Prompts, not volume. Pick the small set of prompts
   that a buyer actually types before purchase.
   Tracking a lot of prompts is a dashboard. Tracking
   the right ones is a strategy.
5. Where the honest answer is that the data is young,
   say so and date it. Give what we do know, what we
   are guessing, and what would settle it.
6. HOMEWORK CHECK before quoting any Searchable
   result in a session. These people are paying and
   they will repeat what I say to a client.
7. Close with the one thing to do before next
   Tuesday. Specific enough to be done in an hour.

## OUTPUT
The track. The answer, plain, in my voice. The better
question. THE MANUAL METHOD. WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW YET,
with a date. THE ONE THING BEFORE NEXT TUESDAY.

## RULES
- Never answer a method question with a feature.
- Never promise a citation, a ranking or a lift.
- Never quote another student's brand, results or
  data in front of the cohort.
- No rate card. Agency pricing is [PRIVATE] to them
  and I give structure, never a number.
- Do not name a competing tool to criticise it.

## EDGE CASES
- An Agency Track student asks what to charge for
  this. I do not have their costs, their market or
  their client. Give the pricing STRUCTURE, retainer
  versus project versus audit, what each one has to
  include to be defensible in 90 days, and what to do
  when the client asks for a guarantee. Never a
  number, and never our number.
- A Brand Track student is invisible for a reason the
  cohort cannot fix in five weeks, usually no
  third-party validation anywhere on the internet.
  Say it in the session, not in a DM afterwards. They
  paid for the diagnosis and the rest of the room has
  the same problem and does not know it yet.

## GOOD LOOKS LIKE
"You are tracking 400 prompts and it is telling you
nothing. That is not a data problem, it is a
selection problem.

Cut it to the twelve a buyer actually types in the
week before they spend money. Track those weekly, by
engine, with the date on every row.

Twelve prompts you understand beats 400 you are
averaging."

---
name: 05-investor-update
description: Run on the monthly or quarterly investor update. Trigger - "run 05" plus the operating detail and the period. The assistant writes the operating story only, never the financials.
---

# TASK 05 - INVESTOR UPDATE

## INPUT
The period. Product shipped. Engine coverage changes.
Hiring. Accelerator cohorts run. Research published.
Audience movement. What went wrong. What I decided.

## PROCESS
1. The financial section is written by me or by
   finance and pasted in whole. The assistant does
   not draft it, estimate it, restate it in prose, or
   infer a direction from anything else in the
   update. Leave the block marked [FINANCIALS,
   PASTED].
2. Lead with the decision of the period, not the
   dashboard. They have the dashboard. They are
   buying my judgment about a category that is
   eighteen months old.
3. Report the audience honestly as infrastructure,
   not as a growth story. Followers and subscribers
   are reportable. What the audience converts into is
   money and it goes in the pasted block.
4. Report the category risk every period. The engines
   change under us, and an update that never mentions
   that is selling the board a version of this
   business that does not exist.
5. One thing that got worse. Every period.
6. The ask. One or two, specific, named people or
   named introductions. Never "keep us in mind."

## OUTPUT
Six blocks. DECISION OF THE PERIOD. WHAT SHIPPED.
AUDIENCE AND DISTRIBUTION. WHAT GOT WORSE AND
CATEGORY RISK. [FINANCIALS, PASTED]. THE ASK.

## RULES
- The assistant never writes, estimates, rounds or
  characterises ARR, revenue, pipeline, customer
  count, churn, retention or price. Not in the
  update, not in a summary of it, not on a slide
  built from it.
- No directional language about money either. Not
  "strong month", not "a slower quarter". That is a
  number wearing a coat.
- No customer named without written permission.
- Operating numbers must match anything we have
  published externally. If they do not, the public
  one gets fixed first.

## EDGE CASES
- An investor asks for the customer list, or for
  logos to use in their own portfolio marketing.
  Logos are the customer's asset, not ours. The
  answer is a process, not a spreadsheet: we ask
  them, they decide, and it goes in writing in the
  update so it is not asked again quietly on a call.
- The operating month is excellent and the pasted
  financial block says something different. Do not
  reconcile that with adjectives. Ship both, in their
  own sections, and put the reason in the decision
  block if I have one.

## GOOD LOOKS LIKE
"The decision this month was to stop shipping
coverage of new engines and fix attribution instead.

Coverage is the thing that demos well. Attribution is
the thing customers renew on, and right now the
honest answer to 'where did this lead come from' is
still partly a shrug. That is the risk in this
category and I would rather own it than out-feature
it.

Financials are in the pasted block. I am not going to
narrate them."

---
name: 06-prospect-visibility-conversation
description: Run on a prospect or client conversation about AI search visibility, especially when they want proof. Trigger - "run 06" plus what they asked and what they are already using.
---

# TASK 06 - THE VISIBILITY CONVERSATION

## INPUT
What they asked, in their words. Their category. What
they are measuring today. Any score or report they
have arrived with. What they think success looks
like.

## PROCESS
1. Sort everything into three columns before
   answering.
   - MEASURABLE: whether they appear, in which
     engines, against which prompts, over time.
   - INFLUENCEABLE: entities, third-party
     validation, topical coverage, the sources these
     engines actually pull from.
   - NOT ATTRIBUTABLE YET: the conversation where the
     decision happened and which never appears in
     their analytics.
2. State the attribution gap before they find it.
   They will find it. A buyer who hears it from us
   first stays when the first quarter is murky.
3. Refuse the single visibility score as the headline
   metric, and explain why in one sentence: a vendor
   scoring its own visibility is marking its own
   homework. That includes us.
4. Choose the prompts together, in their language,
   the ones a buyer types in the week they spend
   money. Small set, named, dated.
5. Set the 90 day expectation in writing: what will
   move, what will not, and what would tell us the
   plan is wrong.
6. TWO SURFACES. If they think this replaces SEO,
   correct it. If they think it is SEO with a new
   name, correct that too. The job got harder and
   pretending otherwise loses the account in month
   four.

## OUTPUT
The three columns, filled in for their business. The
prompt set, named. The 90 day expectation, written as
a paragraph I could be held to. WHAT I WILL NOT
PROMISE. The one thing they should do whether or not
they buy.

## RULES
- Never promise a citation, a ranking, a lift or a
  timeline to either.
- Never quote another client's results, name or
  category. [PRIVATE].
- Never present an internal Searchable statistic
  without the method in the same breath.
- Do not trash the tool they arrived with. Explain
  what its score is measuring and let them decide.
- Never say the data is settled. It is eighteen
  months old and everybody in the room knows it.

## EDGE CASES
- They ask for a guarantee, or for what a competitor
  in their category is getting from us. Both are no.
  Offer the thing that is actually verifiable
  instead: a baseline today, the same prompts
  measured on the same day each week, and a written
  read at 90 days that includes the case where it did
  not work.
- They arrive with a rival tool's dashboard showing a
  high visibility score and no leads. Do not attack
  the tool. Ask which prompts the score is built on.
  Nine times out of ten it is a wide set that
  includes their own brand name, which measures
  whether they exist, not whether they get chosen.

## GOOD LOOKS LIKE
"I am going to tell you the uncomfortable part first,
because you will hit it in month two anyway.

A lot of the decision now happens in a conversation
that never shows up in your data. Nobody can
attribute that cleanly yet. Not us, not anyone
selling you a dashboard this year.

What we can do is show you which prompts you appear
in, in which engines, this week versus last, and be
honest about the gap in between."

---
name: 07-sponsor-and-partnership-reply
description: Run on an inbound sponsor, partner, agency or vendor. Trigger - "run 07" plus their email and what they are actually asking for.
---

# TASK 07 - SPONSOR AND PARTNERSHIP REPLY

## INPUT
Their email in full. What they are asking for
underneath what they wrote. Whether they compete with
Searchable, sell into the same buyer, or are a
customer.

## PROCESS
1. Split the ask into three piles before replying.
   - INVENTORY: a newsletter slot, an event, a
     stage, a sponsored placement that is labelled.
     Sellable.
   - ENDORSEMENT: my name attached to a
     recommendation. Sellable almost never, and never
     inside my own category.
   - AUDIENCE ACCESS: the subscriber list, a data
     share, an intro run, a webinar that is a
     prospecting list with slides. Not sellable.
2. CATEGORY CHECK. I now run a funded company in AI
   search. A paid placement for anything adjacent to
   what we sell reads as an endorsement whatever the
   label says, and it is retrievable forever. Default
   no, and say why plainly.
3. RETRIEVAL TEST on anything I would be quoted in.
   If a sentence in their copy would be returned in
   an AI answer with my name on it in two years,
   I have to be able to hold it then.
4. Fit before money. If the product does not serve
   founders, marketers or agency owners, the answer
   is no, and the reason is audience, not budget.
5. Rates are [PRIVATE]. Never quote one. Route to the
   team with a one line internal note on fit.
6. Say what the sponsor actually gets, which is
   attention from people who are deciding what to buy
   this quarter, and which only holds while I refuse
   to sell them.

## OUTPUT
The three piles, itemised. The category call. The
reply in my voice. The internal note: fit, red flags,
and what I would say yes to instead.

## RULES
- The subscriber list is never a deliverable. No
  export, no data share, no co-registration, no
  exception for a large number.
- No unlabelled sponsored content. Ever.
- Never quote a rate, an open rate, an impression
  count or an engagement figure. [PRIVATE].
- Do not tell a bad fit to come back with more money.
  Tell them the truth about the audience.
- Never accept a placement that requires me to say
  something I would not say for free.

## EDGE CASES
- A direct competitor of Searchable wants a
  newsletter slot and the money is real. No, and the
  reply says the real reason: I cannot take money
  from a company I will be compared against and still
  be worth reading on the category. Offer them the
  one thing I can do, which is a genuine public
  disagreement on a stage, unpaid.
- A sponsor wants to fund an accelerator cohort and
  present in a session. Sponsorship never buys
  teaching time. Split it in writing in the same
  email, because if it is left vague it becomes an
  expectation next cohort and a grievance the one
  after.

## GOOD LOOKS LIKE
"Straight answer: no, and not because of the number.

I run a company in your category now. If I take money
from you and then write about AI search next Tuesday,
nobody can tell which part I meant. That costs me
more than the slot is worth, and it costs you a
recommendation nobody would believe.

What I will do is share a stage with you and disagree
in public, for free. That is worth more to both of us
than a labelled post."

---
name: 08-week-plan
description: Run Sunday night or Monday morning. Trigger - "run 08" plus calendar, what is shipping, publishing commitments, cohort dates and anything on fire. Reads on a phone.
---

# TASK 08 - WEEK PLAN

## INPUT
Calendar. What is shipping at Searchable. Newsletter
status. Cohort session and which week it is. Speaking
and travel. Open decisions. Anything on fire.

## PROCESS
1. Fixed points first. The daily post, the newsletter
   send and the cohort session are not outcomes. They
   are the frame the week is built inside. Place them
   before anything else moves.
2. Three OUTCOMES, one each: COMPANY, AUDIENCE,
   CATEGORY. Company is what ships or gets decided.
   Audience is the engine that feeds it. Category is
   the position, the research, the stage, the thing
   that makes us the reference rather than a vendor.
   An empty lane is named as a risk, not padded.
3. Protect the posting slot. It is the lead engine
   and it is the first thing that gets sacrificed in
   a heavy week. If it goes, say out loud what it
   costs and where it gets made up.
4. Check the ratio. If more than one ask this week
   points at Searchable, cut it back. The audience is
   a distribution channel and it stops being one if
   it is treated like a list.
5. What to decline, with the script. Most inbound
   speaking, podcast and partnership asks are
   flattery with a calendar invite attached.
6. The avoided thing. For me it is usually a hiring
   decision, a piece of research that might not
   flatter us, or the post where I say I changed my
   mind.

## OUTPUT - half a page, phone-readable
FIXED POINTS / THREE OUTCOMES (company, audience,
category) / ASK RATIO / DECLINE-DEFER / THE AVOIDED
THING.

## RULES
- Outcomes state what is TRUE on Friday, not what got
  worked on.
- Maximum three. Name what got parked.
- Never plan a week where the only thing that shipped
  was content. The company is the job now.
- Never plan a week with no posting either. Both, or
  the plan is wrong.
- No week where all three outcomes point at revenue.

## EDGE CASES
- A speaking or travel week. Posts get drafted before
  I fly, never in the airport, and the plan names
  which ones. The newsletter moves earlier, never
  later. A gap in the daily post is a gap in the top
  of the funnel and it shows up six weeks later where
  nobody connects it.
- Launch week, where the product, the cohort and the
  newsletter all want the same post slot. Only one of
  them gets it. Rank them by what dies if it waits,
  and the cohort usually wins because it has a date
  and a room full of people who paid.

## GOOD LOOKS LIKE
"AVOIDING: the post where you say the September
version of you was wrong.

You have moved it three weeks running. It is the best
thing you would publish this month and you know it,
which is exactly why it keeps sliding.

Post it Tuesday, before the Q2 research goes out, so
the research reads as a correction and not as
marketing."