# influencer-discovery-brief

The skill interviews you, sets weighted sourcing criteria and returns a discovery brief for shortlisting influencers before anyone gets contacted.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 13100 installs · ★ 2
- Author: Maya-Beth Finotti
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mbfinotti/partnerships-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/influencer-discovery-brief/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/influencer-discovery-brief

## What it does

Reach for this when the open question is who to approach at all. The skill asks one question per message: B2C campaign or B2B thought-leader program, objective (awareness, conversion, content-for-paid, trust-building), target customer, markets that actually convert, budget tier and form of compensation, how many creators will be signed. Nothing gets scored until those answers are in.

It then turns the objective into a draft set of weighted criteria — audience fit, engagement quality, niche consistency, brand safety — and presents weighting approaches in ranked order with the recommendation first. The default is a two-stage audience-fit gate; with public profiles only, or a deadline under a week, it drops to the floor-gate. The full objective-led scoring pass is worth paying for when the program repeats, since it is the only approach that yields weights you can tune later.

The candidate pool comes from six sourcing passes treated as a budget, not a checklist: existing roster and CRM, customer and community mentions, discovery-platform exports, social listening and others. Stop once the pool can survive the knockout screens. No licence for a discovery platform means the export pass is simply gone — worth deciding in advance what replaces it. For the pitch message itself the skill is the wrong tool; that is `influencer-outreach` in the same repository.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --skill influencer-discovery-brief -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --skill influencer-discovery-brief -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --skill influencer-discovery-brief -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mbfinotti/partnerships-skills influencer-discovery-brief
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/influencer-discovery-brief/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --skill influencer-discovery-brief -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --path skills/influencer-discovery-brief
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --skill influencer-discovery-brief -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/mbfinotti/partnerships-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/influencer-discovery-brief/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- turn a campaign objective into weighted creator criteria
- weight B2C and B2B tracks separately
- screen out candidates with knockout rules before outreach
- build a candidate pool from roster, mentions and exports
- produce a ranked shortlist with evidence per score

## Example prompts
- build a discovery brief for a conversion campaign in one market
- give me a creator shortlist weighted on audience fit and brand safety
- run the interview and propose weighting approaches for the criteria

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: influencer-discovery-brief
description: Define creator sourcing criteria and produce the discovery brief used to shortlist candidate influencers and creators - weighted criteria for audience fit, engagement quality, niche consistency and brand safety, knockout screens, and a ranked shortlist scoring template with evidence per score. Covers B2C brand campaigns and B2B creator and thought-leader programs. Use whenever the user mentions finding creators, vetting influencers, audience fit, creator shortlists, or deciding which creators to approach, even if they never say discovery. Runs before any contact. Do NOT use for writing the pitch message itself - use mbfinotti/partnerships-skills@influencer-outreach instead.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Maya-Beth Finotti
  version: "1.1.1"
---

# Influencer Discovery Brief

Define the sourcing criteria and produce the discovery brief a partnership manager uses to shortlist candidate creators - who qualifies, by what weighted criteria, and with what evidence.

The "3 Rs" (Reach, Relevance, Resonance) is a genuinely recurring industry convention for judging influence, but research could not trace it to a canonical originator - treat it as a floating mnemonic, not a citable method. A "4 Rs" variant adding "Reference" is one influencer-analytics vendor's framework, not an industry standard. This skill therefore works from explicit weighted criteria the manager approves, never from a named model presented as authoritative.

## Interview

Ask before sourcing anything. One question per message; offer multiple-choice answers when possible. Skip any question the user already answered.

- Is this a B2C brand campaign or a B2B creator/thought-leader program? (Or both - then weight criteria separately per track.)
- What is the brand/product, and what is the value prop a creator's _audience_ would actually care about?
- What is the campaign objective: awareness, conversion, content-for-paid, or trust-building? The objective changes the criteria weights, so answer before any scoring.
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