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Offer design skill

Design an irresistible offer: value framing, bonuses, guarantees, urgency that is real, and how to present it.

Free · MIT licence · Copy needs a free sign-in

Category
Strategy & research
Works with
Claude, Codex, Cursor, any agent
Format
SKILL.md · 1,483 words
Version
v0.1.0
Price
Free · MIT

The Offer design skill file

cmo-offer-design/SKILL.md1,483 words · MIT
---
name: cmo-offer-design
description: Design an irresistible offer: value framing, bonuses, guarantees, urgency that is real, and how to present it.
---

Improves the thing being sold, not just the words around it. A strong offer with plain copy beats clever copy on a weak offer. This skill finds the weakest part of the current offer, rebuilds one or two parts at a time, and keeps every promise, bonus and deadline honest. It works best for services, agencies, courses, coaching, info products and sales-led B2B; for self-serve subscription tiers, use cmo-pricing-strategy after the value diagnosis.

When to use

  • "Our offer isn't converting", "too expensive", "build an offer", "guarantee", "bonuses", "urgency".
  • Launching a service or package, a promotion, or a lead-magnet-to-paid step.
  • Not for: tier structure and value metric of a software product (use cmo-pricing-strategy), the sales page itself (use cmo-copywriting), or applying nudges to an existing page (use cmo-marketing-psychology).
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Everyday usage

How people use Offer design day to day

Ask in plain words. The agent picks this skill, asks for anything it needs and hands back the result. Words in a highlight are yours to change.

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Offer design

A diagnosis of the current offer against the value levers and the six components

Ask your agentOur offer isn't converting
  • A diagnosis of the current offer against the value levers and the six components
  • A rebuilt offer: core, bonuses, guarantee, reason to act now, name, price and payment terms
  • An offer summary block ready for the page, deck or email

More things to ask

  • Help me build an offer
  • What guarantee should we give?
  • What bonuses should we add?
  • How do we create urgency honestly?
  • Package our service so it sells
  • People say it's too expensive for what they get
How it works

From input to output

  1. 1You give it
    • What is sold, to whom, at what price, and how it is delivered
    • The buyer's main objections (from sales calls, refund requests, reviews)
    • Proof available: results, case studies, testimonials with permission
    • Capacity limits, real deadlines, and how much refund risk the business can carry
  2. 2It works through the method
    • Asks what's missing, one question at a time
    • Follows the workflow step by step
    • Checks the result against its quality bar and guardrails
  3. 3You get
    • A diagnosis of the current offer against the value levers and the six components
    • A rebuilt offer: core, bonuses, guarantee, reason to act now, name, price and payment terms
    • An offer summary block ready for the page, deck or email
Why a skill

The skill against the alternatives

Do it yourselfHire helpOffer design skill
CostYour own timeAgency or freelancer feesFree, MIT licence
Time to a first resultHours, every timeDays to weeks, plus revisionsMinutes, in your agent
ConsistencyDepends on remembering every stepAs long as the retainer lastsSame steps and checks every run
The methodIn your headTheir process, often hiddenWritten down: read it, change it
Who does the workYou, from scratchSomeone learning your businessYour agent, following the skill
FAQ

Questions about the Offer design skill

What it does, what it needs and how to use it with your agent.

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What is the Offer design skill?

Design an irresistible offer: value framing, bonuses, guarantees, urgency that is real, and how to present it.

It's one of cmo.so's open Strategy & research skills: a SKILL.md file that tells an AI agent when to use it, what to ask you first, the steps to follow, the checks to pass and what to hand back, so the job is done the same careful way every time.

When should I use it?

Reach for it when you'd otherwise say something like “Our offer isn't converting”, “Help me build an offer”, “What guarantee should we give?”. Your agent reads the skill's description and picks it for requests like these, so you don't need to name it.

If a request is close but not quite right, the skill says so and points to the related skill that fits better, instead of forcing a poor answer.

What do I need to give it?

It works best with what is sold, to whom, at what price, and how it is delivered; the buyer's main objections (from sales calls, refund requests, reviews); proof available: results, case studies, testimonials with permission; and capacity limits, real deadlines, and how much refund risk the business can carry.

You don't have to prepare everything up front. The skill asks for missing pieces one at a time and says plainly when it's working from an assumption instead of your data.

What do I get back?

You get a diagnosis of the current offer against the value levers and the six components; a rebuilt offer: core, bonuses, guarantee, reason to act now, name, price and payment terms; and an offer summary block ready for the page, deck or email.

Every result comes from a written method with a quality bar, so numbers name their source, claims are checked and the output is ready to use or share rather than a rough draft.

Is it free?

Yes. The skill is open source under the MIT licence, so you can use it, change it and share it, including for client work.

Seeing, copying and downloading the whole file on cmo.so needs a free sign-in. Copying also upvotes and saves it, so you can find it again under Saved on the skills page.

Which AI agents can use it?

Claude Code installs it from the cmo.so marketplace. Any agent that reads SKILL.md folders, such as Codex or Cursor, can use it once the folder is in its skills directory.

You can also paste the copied skill into ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant at the start of a conversation and ask it to follow the skill.

How do I install it?

In Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace add AI-Marketing-OS-LTD/cmo-so-skills, then /plugin install cmo-so-strategy@cmo-so. That installs this skill together with the rest of the Strategy & research group.

For other agents, sign in, press Copy or Download above and put the file in your agent's skills folder as SKILL.md inside a folder named after the skill.

Do I need a cmo.so account to use it?

No. The skill works on its own with whatever your agent can already see and do: your files, the pages you share and the data you paste in.

A free cmo.so account only matters if you also want Maggie to plan, write and publish your marketing every day.

Which skills work well with it?

It pairs well with Pricing & packaging; and Conversion copywriting. The agent can hand over from one to the next in the same conversation, for example research first, then the plan, then the writing.

Each of them has its own page with what it needs and what it returns, linked below.

Can I change it to fit my business?

Yes. It's a plain Markdown file, so you can edit the steps, add your own checks and examples, and keep your version in your own repo. The MIT licence allows it.

If your change would help others too, suggest it on the skills page or open a pull request on GitHub, and it may be folded into the library for everyone.

Where does the method come from?

It's written and maintained by cmo.so in the public cmo-so-skills repo, alongside the rest of the library.

Improvements ship to the repo and appear here as soon as they're synced, with the version shown at the top of the page.

Is my data sent to cmo.so when the agent uses it?

No. The skill only guides your own agent; your files, documents and data stay wherever your agent and its tools keep them.

cmo.so only sees what you connect to cmo.so. Your votes and saves on this page are stored against your cmo.so sign-in.

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