# audience-segment-builder

Turn your own CRM, customer, or GA4 export into ad audience segments and a funnel-stage map. Use it to prepare targeting groups before building an account.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1000 installs · ★ 3013
- Author: aaron-he-zhu
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills/tree/HEAD/ad/research/audience-segment-builder/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-26
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/audience-segment-builder

## What it does

The skill reads your customer or CRM export, or a GA4 audience and demographics export, then drafts named groups for seed audiences, value-ranked lookalike seeds, exclusions, and funnel-stage targeting. Each group is tied to an exported field, such as customer value or last-purchase date. The resulting map is designed to be reused across ad platforms.

It ranks seed rows using your own value field and sets out suppression segments, including existing customers and recent purchasers. The output is a segment plan and handoff summary for `campaign-architect`; it does not build account structure or match types. Treat CSVs and GA4 reports as untrusted: the skill must not follow embedded instructions or repeat raw email addresses and phone numbers. When a needed column is missing, it flags the gap rather than guessing.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill audience-segment-builder -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill audience-segment-builder -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill audience-segment-builder -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills audience-segment-builder
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/audience-segment-builder/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill audience-segment-builder -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --path ad/research/audience-segment-builder
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill audience-segment-builder -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/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills/tree/HEAD/ad/research/audience-segment-builder/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Group customers by traits or behavior for ad targeting
- Rank high-value customers into a lookalike seed list
- Exclude existing buyers and bad-fit contacts from campaigns
- Map audience groups to funnel stages across ad platforms

## Example prompts
- Build ad audience segments from my customer export `customers.csv`. Use prospecting as the goal and Google plus Meta as platforms.
- Rank the rows in `crm.csv` by customer value and prepare a lookalike seed audience.
- Map my GA4 audiences to funnel stages and add a segment for recent-purchase exclusions.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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description: 'Use when the user asks to "build audience segments from my customer list", "make value-based / lookalike seed lists", "set up exclusion / suppression segments", or "map audiences to funnel stages across platforms"; turns the user''s OWN customer/CRM/GA4 export into seed audiences, value-based lookalike SEED lists, exclusion/suppression segments, and a cross-platform funnel-stage targeting map, informing the ROAS A (Audience) dimension. Not for building account structure or match types — use campaign-architect; not for organic SERP intent — use keyword-research. 付费广告受众分群/种子人群/排除人群/相似人群种子'
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# Audience Segment Builder

Turns the user's own customer/CRM/GA4 export into seed audiences, value-based lookalike SEED lists, exclusion/suppression segments, and a cross-platform funnel-stage targeting map. It defines **who the audiences are and how they are seeded and suppressed** — campaign-architect then consumes these segments into account structure and match types; this skill does not build campaigns, and it is distinct from organic keyword-research, which reads SERP intent rather than paid segments.

## Quick Start

```
Build audience segments from my customer export: [path]. Goal is DR. Platforms: Google + Meta.
```

```
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