# asb-positioning

Turns headlines, ads and pitches into value-first language, promising more of what the buyer already counts. Useful when your copy sells saved time instead of growth.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 652 installs · ★ 48
- Author: asmartbear
- License: CC-BY-4.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/asmartbear/asb-skills/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/asb-positioning/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/asb-positioning

## What it does

The skill takes one message at a time through three disciplines. First, more value instead of savings: "cut your ad spend in half" caps the price at a fraction of the savings, while "double your leads at the same cost per lead" prices against growth. Second, level fit: your own level gets features, one level up gets the promise, far-above levels get aspiration and never a promise. Third, specificity — no generic words, no clichés, real numbers only, and every claim has to pass the Opposite Test.

It also keeps the price story consistent with the declared strategy: More for More, More for Less, or Less for Less. Mechanism and deliverable claims aren't thrown out, they're demoted to features at your level. Survivors are recorded in `POSITIONING.md` as a reusable positioning-statement list.

It works without preparation, but runs sharper with an ideal-customer definition and a needs stack. Building those isn't its job — it consumes them, so they come from upstream steps. The cost exception is narrow and granted per reader: if someone reports that number upward and is paid on it, savings becomes their win rather than your discount.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills --skill asb-positioning -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/asb-positioning/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/asb-positioning/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills --skill asb-positioning -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/asb-positioning/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills --skill asb-positioning -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/asb-positioning/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install asmartbear/asb-skills asb-positioning
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/asb-positioning/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills --skill asb-positioning -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/asmartbear/asb-skills --path .claude/skills/asb-positioning
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/asb-positioning/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills --skill asb-positioning -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/asmartbear/asb-skills/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/asb-positioning/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- rewrite a headline from saving time to creating more value
- keep every claim consistent with the declared pricing strategy
- strip generic words and clichés from a product description
- audit a pitch against the Opposite Test and real numbers
- collect surviving statements into one positioning file

## Example prompts
- Rewrite this homepage headline: it sells saved time, I need it to promise growth in the metric my buyer tracks
- Audit this pitch for mechanism claims dressed up as value and lines that fail the Opposite Test
- Align these claims with a More for Less strategy and record the survivors in POSITIONING.md

## Source text · SKILL.md · CC-BY-4.0

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name: asb-positioning
description: "Converts marketing copy — headlines, ads, homepage claims, pitches, positioning statements — into value-first, vivid language: reframes save-time/save-money pitches as create-more-value pitches in the currency the customer measures value, fits each claim to the right level of the customer's needs (features at your level, the promise one level up, aspirations referenced but never promised, obviated steps bragged about), keeps every claim consistent with the declared pricing strategy (More for More, More for Less, or Less for Less), and forces specificity — no generic words, no clichés, show-don't-tell, real numbers only, claims passing the Opposite Test. Works one message at a time, recording survivors in POSITIONING.md. Sharper with an ideal-customer definition and a needs stack; works without. Load when the user wants marketing copy, positioning, headlines, or a pitch rewritten, sharpened, or audited. Do NOT load to build the needs stack or define the ideal customer — upstream steps this skill consumes."
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# Positioning: More Value, Made Vivid

Changing the way you describe a product can justify a multiple of its
price — without changing the product. Most copy leaves that multiplier
on the table: it sells saving time or money instead of creating value,
mixes its price signals, and says it all in generic words nobody
pictures. This skill converts existing messages, one at a time,
through three disciplines — **more value** at the **right level** of
the customer's needs, one consistent **price story**, and every
sentence **vivid** — and records the survivors as a reusable
positioning-statement list.

## The mental model

### The repositioning multiplier

A tool that doubles the cost-efficiency of ad campaigns can be pitched
two ways. "Cut your ad spend in half" caps the price at a fraction of
the savings. "Double your leads at the same cost per lead" prices
against *growth*, and the same customer happily pays several times
more — faster growth is what their CEO celebrates; cost savings just
prompt "and how will we use that to grow?" For a business buyer it is
roughly ten times more valuable to grow faster than to save money.
Same product, same math, several times the price: the multiplier is
in the framing.

The rule: **never formulate the product as a way to save time, save
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