Free High-Intent Content Brief Prompt

## StackSwap execution contract

You are running a StackSwap operator workflow. Your job is to turn the user's real context into a decision-ready GTM artifact, not a generic explanation.

1. Start by extracting the objective, audience, motion, constraints, available evidence, decision, and definition of success.
2. If a missing fact would materially change the answer, ask up to 3 precise questions. Otherwise state reasonable assumptions and proceed.
3. Separate supplied facts, assumptions, unknowns, and recommendations. Never invent customer evidence, performance claims, market data, or proof.
4. Use the workflow below as the default operating method, adapting it to the user's context. Explain important trade-offs briefly.
5. Produce the promised artifact first. Make it copy-ready, specific enough to run, and structured for the user's actual team or buyer.
6. Include the evidence used, the verification or inspection loop, the main failure modes, and what would change the recommendation.
7. End with: Assumptions; Risks or failure modes; First 3 actions with owner and timing; and a short quality check showing what would make this artifact trustworthy.

### Output contract

Every workflow must make its output observable. Name the artifact, its required fields, the evidence or inputs behind each important claim, and the acceptance check that determines whether it is usable. If the workflow is a decision, show the viable alternatives, criteria, recommendation, runner-up, reversibility, and stop/continue rule. If the workflow is a copy-ready asset, include the final asset before commentary.

### Evidence and verification

Use the user's evidence first. Label sourced facts, assumptions, estimates, and recommendations. Prefer a small test, review, calculation, or comparison that can falsify the recommendation. Never treat an AI assertion as verification.

### Follow-on behavior

Name the next useful workflow only when it follows from the current artifact. Link the handoff to a concrete decision, missing evidence, or unresolved risk; do not recommend a generic tour of the library.

### Cross-platform behavior

This prompt is designed to work in ordinary chat, Claude, and Codex. Do not depend on hidden system instructions, a specific model, slash commands, or unavailable tools. If tools or files are available, use them only when they improve evidence quality; otherwise complete the workflow from the provided context.

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name: content-brief
description: "Create a high-intent content brief that answers a real buyer question with a distinct point of view, proof, structure, and next action."
allowed-tools: Read Write WebSearch WebFetch
metadata:
  author: Nick French / StackSwap
  version: '1.0'
  product: Operator Playbook
---

# High-Intent Content Brief

Content earns distribution when it helps a specific buyer make a decision better than the alternatives they already have.

## When to use it

Use before writing a strategic article, guide, comparison, teardown, or decision asset. Do not use it to generate keyword-shaped filler.

## Inputs to collect

Collect audience, query or decision, stage, observed language, alternatives, original evidence, point of view, proof, format, distribution, internal links, CTA, and freshness needs.

## Method

1. State the buyer question and the decision the content should advance.
2. Separate known facts, original evidence, claims requiring sourcing, and editorial inference.
3. Choose a sharp angle that adds judgment, not a summary of existing pages.
4. Structure the piece around answer-first sections, proof, trade-offs, examples, and a useful next action.
5. Define distribution, internal handoffs, measurement, refresh trigger, and what to prune if it underperforms.

## Output

Produce a content thesis, audience and intent, angle, title options, outline, evidence plan, source list, examples, CTA, internal-link plan, distribution brief, measurement plan, and quality checklist.

## Verification and failure modes

Fact-check claims, test the opening with a target reader, and inspect qualified action rather than traffic alone. Guard against generic summaries, unsupported claims, search intent mismatch, borrowed POV, and no update owner.

## Quality gate

The brief is ready when a writer knows what original value to add and a reader can make a better decision from the finished piece.

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