david-garfinkel-persuasion-story-code

name	David Garfinkel - Persuasion Story Code
description	Conversational persuasion storytelling for entrepreneurs: business stories, sales stories, social content, written content, video scripts, proof stories, and objection-handling story stacks
version	1.0
format	completion-engine
workflows	12

David Garfinkel - Persuasion Story Code

This skill turns raw business material into short, true, conversational persuasion stories. It is based on David Garfinkel's The Persuasion Story Code, extracted from the local 140-page PDF in extractions/persuasion-story-code/source/.

The core distinction: dramatic stories entertain and teach broad life lessons; persuasion stories move a prospect toward agreement. The skill is built for entrepreneurs who need stories that sell, reassure, explain, build trust, and travel across sales copy, posts, emails, pitches, webinars, and video.

Available Workflows

Tier	Workflow	Produces	Use When
Foundation	story-code-diagnostic	Story Opportunity Map	You have raw business material and need to know which persuasion stories are missing.
Foundation	story-code-conversational-story	Finished Persuasion Story	You need one short business story that sounds natural and persuades without hype.
Foundation	story-code-entrepreneur-message	Story-Led Message System	You need offer, positioning, pitch, or founder messaging built around story.
Foundation	story-code-story-bank	Reusable Story Bank	You want founder, customer, proof, origin, objection, and transformation stories on demand.
Practitioner	story-code-content-engine	Written Content Package	You need posts, newsletters, threads, emails, captions, or long-form content.
Practitioner	story-code-video-script	Video Script Package	You need short-form or long-form scripts that carry persuasion through story.
Practitioner	story-code-sales-story	Sales Story Sections	You need story blocks for sales pages, webinars, VSLs, emails, or pitches.
Practitioner	story-code-proof-case-study	Proof Story Package	You need case studies, testimonials, and result stories that build trust.
Practitioner	story-code-story-audit	Story Diagnosis + Rewrite	You have flat, vague, inflated, or non-conversational copy that needs repair.
Stacking	story-code-social-stack	Platform Story System	You want Story Code fused with Kallaway, Shaan Puri, Story Compass, or social narrative workflows.
Stacking	story-code-conversion-stack	Conversion Story System	You want Story Code fused with Joanna Wiebe, Donald Miller, Jeremy Miner, or Rory Sutherland.
Stacking	story-code-video-stack	Video Story Production Brief	You want Story Code fused with PJ Accetturo, Tao Prompts, Remotion, or /create-video.

Quick Reference

• Load genius.md before any workflow.
• Use references/story-taxonomy.md to choose the right story type.
• Use references/quality-rubric.md before final output.
• Use references/stacking-guide.md when combining with other Antigravity experts.
• Use references/source-map.md for chapter-level provenance and OCR notes.

Decision Framework

Use this skill when the business asset needs one of these jobs:

• Credibility: Why you, this product, or this idea deserves belief.
• Familiarity: Show the prospect you know their pain, world, pressure, or situation.
• Future desire: Make a true future promise feel visible and desirable.
• Reassurance: Calm doubt about novelty, usability, endurance, risk, or refund.
• Explanation: Make a process, product, mechanism, or alternative choice clear.
• Trust: Prove that other people, authorities, or customers already validate the claim.
• Objection handling: Answer concern through story rather than argument.

Use another skill first when the job is pure brand strategy, funnel math, market research, cinematic production, or platform growth mechanics. Use Story Code after those inputs exist to turn them into persuasive human communication.

Stacking Defaults

• Conversion copy: Story Code + joanna-wiebe-persuasion-mastery + donald-miller-storybrand.
• Sales conversations: Story Code + jeremy-miner-identity-persuasion.
• Social posts: Story Code + kallaway-addictive-storytelling + shaan-puri-storytelling + story-compass.
• Video: Story Code + pj-accetturo-ai-video + tao-prompts-ai-video + remotion-video-creation.
• Perception and framing: Story Code + rory-sutherland-marketing.

Anti-Patterns

• Do not turn every message into a hero's journey.
• Do not write long dramatic arcs when a three-paragraph persuasion story will do.
• Do not invent facts, results, testimonials, client stories, or proof.
• Do not use vague claims where a concrete sequence of events is needed.
• Do not exaggerate past what can be defended.
• Do not use corporate, academic, or ornamental language.
• Do not make the story responsible for the entire sale; persuasion stories usually work as precise puzzle pieces inside a larger message.

Execution Prompts (structure-pure v2)

12 deterministic practitioner prompts — each carries an Output Contract, Output Skeleton, and Quality Gate. When a deliverable matches one, Read it and honor its contract instead of improvising the output shape.

• David Garfinkel — Conversion Story System — skills/persuasion-story-code/references/prompts-v2/conversion-story-system.md
• David Garfinkel — Finished Persuasion Story — skills/persuasion-story-code/references/prompts-v2/persuasion-story.md
• David Garfinkel — Platform Story System — skills/persuasion-story-code/references/prompts-v2/platform-story-system.md
• David Garfinkel — Proof Story Package — skills/persuasion-story-code/references/prompts-v2/proof-story-package.md
• David Garfinkel — Reusable Story Bank — skills/persuasion-story-code/references/prompts-v2/reusable-story-bank.md
• David Garfinkel — Sales Story Sections — skills/persuasion-story-code/references/prompts-v2/sales-story-sections.md
• David Garfinkel — Story Diagnosis + Rewrite — skills/persuasion-story-code/references/prompts-v2/story-diagnosis-rewrite.md
• David Garfinkel — Story-Led Message System — skills/persuasion-story-code/references/prompts-v2/story-led-message-system.md
• David Garfinkel — Story Opportunity Map — skills/persuasion-story-code/references/prompts-v2/story-opportunity-map.md
• David Garfinkel — Video Script Package — skills/persuasion-story-code/references/prompts-v2/video-script-package.md
• David Garfinkel — Video Story Production Brief — skills/persuasion-story-code/references/prompts-v2/video-story-production-brief.md
• David Garfinkel — Written Content Package — skills/persuasion-story-code/references/prompts-v2/written-content-package.md