# budget-optimizer

This skill splits an influencer campaign budget across tiers, platforms and content formats, then shows what each option returns. Useful when you need to justify a number or move money mid-campaign.

- 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/influencer/target/budget-optimizer/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/budget-optimizer

## What it does

Feed it a total budget, platforms and a campaign goal, and it returns an allocation table across influencer tiers, platforms and content types. Alongside that come reach, CPM and CPE projections, two or three budget scenarios, and one recommended split. For mid-campaign work it reads spend-to-date and per-influencer results.

It does not invent rates. Quotes, multipliers and forecasts need a source: a user-provided quote, dated market evidence, or your own campaign history. Give it only a budget, platforms and a goal, and you get an allocation skeleton plus the exact rate-card queries to run, with status `NEEDS_INPUT`. Every projection carries a formula and a label — measured, user-provided or estimated.

Scope matters here. The skill computes a reallocation plan and nothing else: it does not read live pacing or issue scale-up and scale-down moves, which belong to separate skills in the same family. It also does not build the full campaign plan — the author points to `campaign-planner` for that. And the call needs an argument: the hint reads `"<total budget> [platforms] [campaign goal]"`, so a bare invocation gets you nowhere.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/budget-optimizer/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 budget-optimizer
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --path influencer/target/budget-optimizer
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill budget-optimizer -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/influencer/target/budget-optimizer/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- split a campaign budget across influencer tiers and platforms
- compare a conservative and an aggressive scenario on the same sum
- back a budget request with a table of reach and CPM projections
- move money between influencers mid-campaign
- work out how much to hold back for gifting, amplification and tools

## Example prompts
- Help me allocate a $30,000 budget for an influencer campaign on Instagram and TikTok
- Optimize my influencer budget across micro and macro influencers for a Gen Z product launch — compare a $50K and a $100K scenario
- Rework the allocation: part of the budget is already spent, here are the per-influencer results

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

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name: budget-optimizer
slug: budget-optimizer
displayName: "Budget Optimizer · 预算优化"
summary: "跨创作者与层级的预算分配:目标导向的花费拆分与情景对比"
description: 'Use when the user asks to "allocate my influencer budget", "optimize spend across tiers", or "compare budget scenarios"; produces a tier/platform/content allocation table, ROI and CPM/CPE projections, scenario comparisons, and mid-campaign reallocation moves. Not for building the full campaign plan — use campaign-planner. 达人预算分配/投放预算优化'
version: "20.1.0"
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: "Claude Code and compatible agent-skill hosts"
homepage: "https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills"
when_to_use: "Use when planning budget allocation for a new influencer campaign, splitting spend across nano/micro/macro tiers or platforms, estimating influencer costs and projecting ROI, modeling conservative vs aggressive scenarios, justifying a budget request, or reallocating budget mid-campaign based on performance."
argument-hint: "<total budget> [platforms] [campaign goal]"
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# Budget Optimizer

This skill helps you allocate and optimize your influencer marketing budget to maximize return on investment. It considers platform costs, influencer tier economics, and campaign objectives to recommend optimal budget distribution.

## Quick Start

Shortest invocation:

```
Help me allocate a $30,000 budget for an influencer campaign on Instagram and TikTok
```

Common scenario:

```
Optimize my influencer budget across micro and macro influencers for a Gen Z product launch — compare a $50K and a $100K scenario
```

Output: a tier/platform/content allocation table, projected reach + CPM/CPE, 2-3 budget scenarios, and a recommended split.

## Skill Contract
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