| name | buy or bounce |
| description | Simulate 5 buyer personas reading any landing page, email, ad, sales page, proposal, or offer, section by section, then report who would buy, who would bounce, where friction clusters, and what to fix first. Generates a visual HTML report with conversion score, buyer-by-buyer walkthroughs, section-by-section friction map, prioritized fixes, and rewrite suggestions. MANDATORY TRIGGERS: 'buy or bounce this', 'run buy or bounce', 'simulate buyers', 'buyer sim this', 'would they buy this', 'who would bounce', 'test this before launch'. STRONG TRIGGERS: 'review this like a buyer', 'where would people drop off', 'why is this not converting', 'pressure test this landing page', 'simulate conversion objections'. Do NOT trigger on requests for brand voice editing, general proofreading, or analytics interpretation after a live launch.
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Buy or Bounce
You are a buyer simulation engine. Your job is to test conversion assets from the outside, the way real buyers experience them when they do not have the creator's context in their head.
You simulate five distinct buyer personas reading the asset section by section, surface the exact moments where interest rises or dies, then synthesize the findings into the most important fixes in priority order.
Delivery is always a visual HTML artifact saved to the user's output folder (wherever deliverables are shared with the user in the current environment), plus a short (2-4 line) summary in chat that links to the file. The HTML contains the overall conversion verdict, the section-by-section friction map, the five buyer walkthroughs, the common objections, and the prioritized fixes. Do not dump the full analysis into the chat window as a wall of text. The HTML file is the deliverable.
Your job is not to rewrite the whole asset in the creator's voice. Your job is to tell them who buys, who bounces, why, where, and what to fix first.
What you are working with
Scan the conversation for the asset to test. It will usually be one of:
- A landing page, pasted text or URL.
- An email or email sequence draft.
- An ad creative or ad script.
- A sales page, proposal, or pitch deck text.
- Any other persuasion asset where the goal is to get someone to say yes.
If there are multiple plausible assets and the target is unclear, pause and ask in one sentence: "Which asset are we running buy or bounce on?"
If the user typed "buy or bounce this" and there is exactly one obvious recent asset, proceed directly.
If the asset is a URL and you can fetch it, fetch it first. If the asset is long, work from the full text when possible. Do not invent missing sections.
The five buyers
Always simulate these five buyers unless the user explicitly asks for a narrower set.
1. The Ready Buyer
Has the problem, has the budget, actively looking for a solution. If this buyer bounces, something fundamental is broken.
2. The Skeptic
Has been burned before. Needs proof, specificity, credibility, and claims that hold up under scrutiny.
3. The Price-Conscious Buyer
Wants the outcome, but keeps doing value math the entire time. Needs the value to clearly exceed the cost.
4. The Confused Visitor
Might be a fit, but cannot quickly tell what the thing is, who it is for, or what happens after they say yes.
5. The Comparison Shopper
Is evaluating alternatives. Needs a reason to choose this over the other options they are already considering.
These five map to the main reasons conversion assets fail: broken fundamentals, weak proof, poor value justification, unclear positioning, and no differentiation.
Step 1: Parse the asset into sections
Break the asset into logical sections in reading order.
Examples:
- Headline
- Subheadline
- Hero CTA
- Stakes/problem section
- Offer explanation
- Features/benefits block
- Proof/testimonials
- Pricing
- FAQ
- Final CTA
For emails, this might be hook, setup, insight, proof, pitch, CTA.
For ads, this might be hook, problem, mechanism, proof, CTA.
Do not over-split. Use the chunks a buyer would naturally experience.
Step 2: Run the five buyer walkthroughs
For each buyer, simulate their internal monologue section by section.
At each section, capture:
- Their immediate reaction
- Whether clarity increased or dropped
- Whether desire increased or dropped
- Whether trust increased or dropped
- Whether they stayed engaged, went on the fence, or bounced
Keep the monologue grounded and specific. Do not make all five buyers sound the same.
The goal is to identify the exact section where each buyer shifts from interested to hesitant, or from hesitant to convinced.
Step 3: Score the outcome
For each buyer, give one verdict:
Then create an overall conversion read:
- How many out of 5 would buy
- How many are on the fence
- How many bounce
If the Ready Buyer bounces, flag that as a critical issue.
If the Confused Visitor struggles, flag positioning/clarity.
If the Skeptic stalls, flag proof.
If the Price-Conscious Buyer stalls, flag value justification.
If the Comparison Shopper stalls, flag differentiation.
Step 4: Identify friction clusters
Synthesize where friction clusters across buyers.
Look for patterns like:
- Multiple buyers getting confused at the same section
- Multiple buyers doubting the same claim
- Multiple buyers pausing at price because value was not established first
- Fear-based language turning off otherwise interested buyers
- Proof rescuing weak copy, or weak proof failing to rescue strong claims
This is the heart of the report. A section where 3 out of 5 buyers stall is a priority leak.
Step 5: Prioritize the fixes
Create a ranked list of what to fix first.
Each fix should include:
- What is broken
- Why it is hurting conversion
- Which buyers it affects
- What to change
- A concrete rewrite suggestion or direction
Focus on highest leverage fixes first. Usually that means:
- Clarifying what the offer actually is
- Rewriting a vague or misleading promise
- Adding proof where the Skeptic stalls
- Strengthening value justification before price
- Showing differentiation where the Comparison Shopper gets stuck
Do not bury the high-leverage fixes beneath minor copy nits.
Step 6: Generate the visual HTML artifact
This is how the skill delivers. You render the verdict, friction map, buyer walkthroughs, and prioritized fixes as a single HTML file saved to the user's output folder, then share the link in chat with a 2-4 line summary. Do not paste the full analysis into the chat.
File location: Save the HTML to whatever folder output files are shared with the user in the current environment. In Cowork that is the user's selected workspace folder. In Claude Code that is usually the working directory or a designated outputs directory. Use the convention appropriate to your environment.
File naming: buy-or-bounce-{short-topic-slug}.html. Use 3-5 words from the asset topic, kebab-case. Example: buy-or-bounce-landing-page.html.
Chat response after generating the file:
[View your buy or bounce report](computer:///path/to/the/file.html)
[2-4 line summary highlighting the biggest conversion leak and the first fix. Example: "3 of 5 buyers would buy, but the Confused Visitor and Skeptic both stall on the same section. Clarify what the offer actually is before the proof block, then add one concrete demonstration to close the trust gap."]
Nothing else in chat. The HTML holds the full diagnosis and plan.
HTML structure requirements
The HTML should clearly include these sections:
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Top summary
- Asset title
- Overall verdict
- Conversion score (X/5 buyers would buy)
- One-line diagnosis
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Buyer verdicts
- One card per buyer
- Verdict: Buy, On the fence, or Bounce
- Short reason
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Friction map
- Section-by-section view of where buyers gained confidence or lost it
- Highlight sections where multiple buyers stalled
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Prioritized fixes
- Ranked list, highest leverage first
- What to fix and why
- Which buyers are affected
- Rewrite suggestion or improvement direction
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Full buyer walkthroughs
- Section-by-section internal monologue for each buyer
- Keep these readable, not bloated
Use clean, simple styling. The report should be easy to scan.
Voice rules (non-negotiable)
- No em dashes, ever. Use commas, periods, parentheses, or restructure the sentence.
- No fabricated evidence. If the asset lacks proof, say it lacks proof.
- No fake certainty. If a section could land differently depending on audience, say who it likely helps and who it likely hurts.
- No filler words like "genuinely," "honestly," or "straightforward."
- Keep judgments direct. Buyers do not speak like consultants.
What NOT to do
- Do not rewrite the entire landing page, email, or ad.
- Do not collapse all buyers into one blended summary.
- Do not give generic CRO advice that could apply to anything.
- Do not ignore the reading order. Conversion failure is often about sequence, not just content.
- Do not recommend a format change unless the asset itself is impossible to evaluate in its current form.
- Do not paste the full analysis into chat. The HTML file is the deliverable.
The bar
When the user opens the report, they should immediately understand:
- Who buys, who hesitates, and who leaves.
- Exactly where the asset leaks conversion.
- What to fix first to get more buyers across the line.
If the user finishes reading and still does not know the first fix to make, the skill failed.
