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Use when someone wants to build, refine, or audit their personal brand positioning across professional platforms. Triggers on "personal brand", "brand positioning", "brand voice", "how should I position myself", "professional identity", "LinkedIn presence", "build my brand".

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name	personal-branding
description	Use when someone wants to build, refine, or audit their personal brand positioning across professional platforms. Triggers on "personal brand", "brand positioning", "brand voice", "how should I position myself", "professional identity", "LinkedIn presence", "build my brand".

Personal Branding

Build a distinctive personal brand through 7 sequential phases. Each phase gathers input conversationally, produces a deliverable, and feeds into the next.

When to Use

Building a personal brand from scratch
Refining or repositioning an existing brand
Auditing whether current content matches desired positioning
Defining brand voice, audience, or messaging hierarchy

When NOT to Use

Company/product branding (this is for individuals)
One-off content creation (use snowball-content instead)
Marketing strategy beyond personal positioning (use marketing-audit or gtm-partner)

Process Flow

digraph branding {
    "Entry: Fresh or Audit?" [shape=diamond];
    "Phase 1: Brand Foundation" [shape=box];
    "Phase 2: Competitive Differentiation" [shape=box];
    "Phase 3: Brand Voice" [shape=box];
    "Phase 4: Audience Clarity" [shape=box];
    "Phase 5: Signature Story" [shape=box];
    "Phase 6: Content Alignment Audit" [shape=box];
    "Phase 7: Messaging Hierarchy" [shape=box];
    "Compile Brand Strategy Doc" [shape=box];
    "Present & save deliverable" [shape=doublecircle];

    "Entry: Fresh or Audit?" -> "Phase 1: Brand Foundation" [label="fresh brand"];
    "Entry: Fresh or Audit?" -> "Phase 6: Content Alignment Audit" [label="audit existing"];
    "Phase 1: Brand Foundation" -> "Phase 2: Competitive Differentiation";
    "Phase 2: Competitive Differentiation" -> "Phase 3: Brand Voice";
    "Phase 3: Brand Voice" -> "Phase 4: Audience Clarity";
    "Phase 4: Audience Clarity" -> "Phase 5: Signature Story";
    "Phase 5: Signature Story" -> "Phase 6: Content Alignment Audit";
    "Phase 6: Content Alignment Audit" -> "Phase 7: Messaging Hierarchy";
    "Phase 7: Messaging Hierarchy" -> "Compile Brand Strategy Doc";
    "Compile Brand Strategy Doc" -> "Present & save deliverable";
}

Entry Point

Ask: "Are you building a brand from scratch, or do you already have a presence you want to audit and refine?"

Fresh: Start at Phase 1
Audit: Start at Phase 6, then loop back to fill gaps

Phase 1: Brand Foundation

Goal: Define the core of who you are professionally.

Gather through conversation (one question at a time):

What do you do? (elevator pitch)
Who do you serve?
What makes your approach different from others in your space?
How long have you been doing this?

Produce:

One-sentence brand promise
3 core themes you stand for
The one problem you're the go-to person to solve
The emotion you want people to feel after reading your content

Quality check: The brand promise should be specific enough that only this person could own it. If it could describe anyone in their field, push harder on differentiation.

Present the deliverable. Get approval before proceeding.

Phase 2: Competitive Differentiation

Goal: Find the white space in your field.

Gather:

"Name 3-5 people in your space whose work you respect. Share their profile URLs or paste their bios/headlines."
If URLs provided, use agent-browser to scrape their bios and headlines

Produce:

What competitors all have in common (what NOT to copy)
The white space (positioning none of them own)
3 positioning directions ranked by distinctiveness, with your recommendation

Reference Phase 1 output to ensure positioning directions align with the brand foundation.

Present the deliverable. Get approval before proceeding.

Phase 3: Brand Voice

Goal: Define HOW you write, not what you write about.

Gather:

"Share 3-5 samples of your writing. Posts, emails, messages, anything in your natural voice."
Accept pasted text, URLs to posts, or informal descriptions

Produce:

Voice defined in 4 words
What the voice sounds like in practice (1-2 sentences)
3 sentences you WOULD write
3 sentences you would NEVER write

This becomes the filter for all future content.

Present the deliverable. Get approval before proceeding.

Phase 4: Audience Clarity

Goal: Define WHO you're writing for — psychographic, not demographic.

Gather:

"What do you currently post about?"
"Share 2-3 comments or DMs that felt like exactly the right person responding."

Produce a psychographic profile:

Who is this person?
What do they believe?
What frustrates them?
What do they secretly want?
What would make them share your post without being asked?

Reference Phase 1 (who you serve) and Phase 3 (voice) to ensure alignment.

Present the deliverable. Get approval before proceeding.

Phase 5: Signature Story

Goal: Find and craft the one defining story that anchors your brand.

Gather:

"Tell me about 3 pivotal moments in your career — turning points, hard decisions, unexpected lessons."

For each moment, identify: the tension, the decision, the shift.

Produce: The strongest one crafted as a post:

150 words max
First line must NOT start with "I"
Ends with a belief you now hold because of this experience
Written in the brand voice from Phase 3

Present the deliverable. Get approval before proceeding.

Phase 6: Content Alignment Audit

Goal: Bridge the gap between current content and desired positioning.

Gather:

"Share your last 10 posts, or give me your profile URL and I'll pull them."
If URL provided, use agent-browser to scrape recent posts
If entering here as the starting point (audit path), gather enough context about desired positioning first

Produce:

Which posts are on-brand and why
Which posts are off-brand and what they signal instead
What a stranger would think your brand is based only on these posts
3 post topics that would close the gap between current and desired positioning

Present the deliverable. Get approval before proceeding.

Phase 7: Messaging Hierarchy

Goal: Build a 3-level messaging system applied across platforms.

Auto-references all prior phase outputs. No new gathering needed — this synthesizes everything.

Produce:

Level	Message	Where It Shows Up
Functional	What you do	Headline, bio
Methodological	How you do it differently	About section, intro posts
Philosophical	Why it matters	Post openers, keynotes

Each level is one clear sentence. Then show how all 3 levels appear in:

A headline
An about/bio section (first paragraph)
A typical post opener

Present the deliverable. Get approval before proceeding.

Final Deliverable

After all phases, compile everything into a single Brand Strategy Document:

# Brand Strategy: [Name]
Generated: [date]

## 1. Brand Foundation
- **Brand Promise:** ...
- **Core Themes:** ...
- **Go-To Problem:** ...
- **Desired Emotion:** ...

## 2. Positioning
- **White Space:** ...
- **Chosen Direction:** ...
- **Avoid:** ...

## 3. Brand Voice
- **Voice in 4 Words:** ...
- **Sounds Like:** ...
- **I Would Write:** ...
- **I Would Never Write:** ...

## 4. Audience
- **Psychographic Profile:** ...
- **Share Trigger:** ...

## 5. Signature Story
[The crafted story post]

## 6. Content Alignment
- **On-Brand:** ...
- **Off-Brand:** ...
- **Gap-Closing Topics:** ...

## 7. Messaging Hierarchy
| Level | Message | Applied To |
|-------|---------|------------|
| Functional | ... | Headline |
| Methodological | ... | About section |
| Philosophical | ... | Post openers |

Ask where to save. Default: ~/Documents/brand-strategy-[name].md

Key Rules

One question at a time. Do not dump all questions for a phase at once.
Present each phase deliverable and get approval before moving to the next.
Reference prior phases. Each phase builds on the last — voice should reflect foundation, audience should align with positioning, story should embody the brand.
Platform-flexible. The framework works for LinkedIn, X, personal sites, YouTube — ask which platforms matter and adapt the messaging hierarchy output accordingly.
Push on specificity. Generic positioning is worthless. If a deliverable could describe anyone in the field, it needs more work.
Browser-assist when possible. If the user provides URLs for competitors (Phase 2) or their own profile (Phase 6), use agent-browser to pull content rather than making them paste it manually.