# thought-leadership-ads

Plans a paid campaign that promotes a founder's or executive's existing organic posts from their own profile.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 19900 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/advertising-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/thought-leadership-ads/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/thought-leadership-ads

## What it does

The skill plans a campaign where the advertiser buys distribution for a post it does not own and cannot edit. Every decision follows from that: which posts to pick, how to sequence them, audience and exclusions, permission and governance, budget, measurement. It never writes the featured person's content — it only chooses among posts that already exist.

It runs an interview, one question at a time, multiple-choice where it can. Business model, candidate featured people, whether they have agreed, whether a written agreement exists, how often they post organically, what capture layer is live today, budget and deadline. There is a hard eligibility gate: no working retargeting and conversion tracking, no plan, because retargeting is not retroactive. Consent is per-post and revocable, and assuming the CEO will say yes does not count as consent.

Neighbouring work is handed off to other skills in the same repository: copy variants, creative briefs, audience targeting, the retargeting funnel, spend allocation. Install runs through `npx skills add`, or `gh skill install` for GitHub Copilot.

## Requirements
- Works with: LinkedIn

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/advertising-skills --skill thought-leadership-ads -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/advertising-skills --skill thought-leadership-ads -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/advertising-skills --skill thought-leadership-ads -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mbfinotti/advertising-skills thought-leadership-ads
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/thought-leadership-ads/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/advertising-skills --skill thought-leadership-ads -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mbfinotti/advertising-skills --path skills/thought-leadership-ads
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/advertising-skills --skill thought-leadership-ads -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/advertising-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/thought-leadership-ads/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pick which already-published posts are worth promoting
- sequence a flight without burning the audience on frequency
- build an audience with exclusions for a narrow ICP
- get per-post consent and a written agreement in place
- set budget and a pipeline-to-spend bar for the review

## Example prompts
- Plan a thought leader ads campaign around our CEO's LinkedIn posts
- Check whether we pass the eligibility gate for promoting the founder's posts
- Build the audience and exclusions for a campaign using exec posts

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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# Thought Leadership Ads

Plan a paid campaign that amplifies a named person's own organic posts from that person's profile, under a paid-promotion label naming the sponsoring brand. The advertiser buys distribution for a post it does not own and cannot edit - every planning decision below follows from that constraint.

## Scope and handoffs

This skill selects posts, sequences the campaign, designs the audience, sets governance, sizes budget, and defines measurement. It hands off neighbouring work:

- Writing or improving the featured person's posts - never done here. This skill only chooses among posts that already exist.
- Working conversion tracking is a prerequisite → verify via `mbfinotti/advertising-skills@ad-conversion-tracking`.
- The broader layered targeting plan → `mbfinotti/advertising-skills@ad-audience-targeting`.
- The downstream retargeting sequence this campaign feeds → `mbfinotti/advertising-skills@retargeting-funnel`.
- Ad copy variants and creative briefs → `mbfinotti/advertising-skills@ad-copy-variants`, `mbfinotti/advertising-skills@ad-creative-brief`.
- Which channels to run at all → `mbfinotti/advertising-skills@ad-platform-selection`.
- Buying-committee role mapping → `mbfinotti/advertising-skills@ad-buyer-group-mapper`.
- Total budget split across campaigns → `mbfinotti/advertising-skills@ad-spend-allocation`.
- Ongoing decay monitoring after launch → `mbfinotti/advertising-skills@ad-creative-fatigue`.
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