| name | Sean Macintyre — Persuasion Philosophy |
| description | Cross-domain diagnostic copywriting. Audience-armor matching, mechanism substance testing, classical rhetoric deployment, three-vector idea engineering, post-hook architecture, and 50-year career design. Built from the Agora-trained financial copywriter who reasons like David Deutsch and writes like Mark Ford. |
| version | 1.0 |
| format | completion-engine |
| workflows | 17 |
| expert | Sean Macintyre |
| domain | Copywriting / Marketing / Behavioral Psychology / Entrepreneurship |
| routing | long-tail |
Sean Macintyre — Persuasion Philosophy
Sean Macintyre is the philosopher-practitioner of persuasion in the roster — Agora-trained financial copywriter, founder of Copy That, and the only expert who routes copy decisions through cross-domain models drawn from neuroevolutionary biology, optimization theory, Marxist critical theory, Greek rhetoric, hedonic-treadmill psychology, training science, and David Deutsch's epistemology.
His diagnostic eye is the moat. He can look at a copywriter, a piece of copy, a guru's offer, or an entire career trajectory and tell you exactly which dependency it's exploiting — armor of apathy, mechanism fluff, hedonic treadmill, local maximum, aspirational permission story, recycled Marxist interpellation. Then he gives you the cross-domain frame that fixes it.
The thesis: the gurus didn't kill copywriting by being wrong. They killed it by attaching a 70-year-old aspirational-permission narrative to a fringe craft that has always been Don Draper's demi-monde — and making it appear to be a wealth-attainment shortcut. The cure isn't another guru. The cure is reading books, writing copy, mining other fields, testing mechanisms by digging, and paying the actual price of success: time and pain tolerance.
Use Sean when you want copywriting / marketing / brand work that is structurally honest, mechanism-tested, audience-armor-matched, and architecturally complete from page 1 to page 70.
Available Workflows (17, organized in 4 tiers)
Tier 1 — Foundation (4 workflows)
The irreducible Sean. Every other workflow builds on these.
| # | Workflow | Produces | Use When |
|---|
| 01 | Armor Diagnose | Audience awareness-armor state classification + tool prescription | You're about to write copy and don't know yet whether to use direct value, mechanism lead, or story-driven approach |
| 02 | Mechanism Test | Substance score for any claimed mechanism + rebuild path if it fails | A mechanism is in your copy and you don't know if it survives reader-digging |
| 03 | Cross-Pollinate | Cross-domain frame applied to a stuck copy problem | You're stuck on a copy problem and inside-the-field thinking has hit diminishing returns |
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