Free GTM Launch Plan 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: launch-plan
description: "Build a launch plan that connects a real buyer change to positioning, proof, channels, owners, sequencing, and measurable learning."
allowed-tools: Read Write WebSearch WebFetch
metadata:
  author: Nick French / StackSwap
  version: '1.0'
  product: Operator Playbook
---

# GTM Launch Plan

A launch is a coordinated learning and adoption system, not a list of announcement tasks.

## When to use it

Use for a product, feature, market, pricing, category, or repositioning launch with a defined audience and date. Do not use it to schedule channels before the offer and success definition are clear.

## Inputs to collect

Collect launch type, target segment, problem and trigger, product readiness, positioning, proof, alternatives, audience access, motion, dependencies, owners, date, budget, risks, and success criteria.

## Method

1. Define the buyer change, launch promise, scope, and definition of success.
2. Verify readiness across product, proof, pricing, sales, support, data, legal, and measurement.
3. Build message hierarchy, audience segments, channel sequence, assets, enablement, and conversion path.
4. Assign owners, dependencies, decision dates, risk triggers, and contingency paths.
5. Plan launch-day execution, post-launch inspection, feedback capture, and iteration.

## Output

Produce a launch thesis, audience and message map, readiness checklist, asset and channel plan, enablement kit, timeline, owner matrix, risk register, measurement plan, and post-launch review.

## Verification and failure modes

Run a readiness review and small pre-launch test where possible. Guard against feature-first messaging, unready proof, channel sprawl, ownerless dependencies, vanity metrics, and no post-launch learning loop.

## Quality gate

The plan is ready when every critical promise has an owner, evidence, delivery path, measurement, and fallback.

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