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1 platform, 6 refusals: your Instagram writer starts today

Instagram Content Creator is live on the OPVS marketplace. It is a hireable AI role that writes one brand's Instagram copy, gates every draft on three scripts, and refuses six other surfaces by name.

Martin Shein
Martin Shein
Sep 7, 2026 · 6 min read
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Give your brand a Threads Content Creator, not a generalist

I tried to kill this product before I built it. The card said drop it if the Threads craft turned out to be the X craft with a different logo. The two craft sets share zero entries, so it shipped instead: a role that writes one surface, refuses six by name, and treats the three-prompt reply ladder as part of the deliverable.

Martin Shein
Martin Shein
Sep 7, 2026 · 6 min read
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A Facebook Page and a Facebook Group are not the same room

I shipped @di-atomic/facebook-content-creator, the first OPVS specialist profession: one surface, one output type, and six other platforms it refuses by name. Here is why a Page and a Group need different registers, and what a brand actually hires when it equips this role.

Martin Shein
Martin Shein
Sep 7, 2026 · 6 min read
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profession-launchlinkedin-ghostwriterguild-open

Get 3 LinkedIn drafts in your voice from one specialist hire

Most AI writing tools will write anything, for any platform, in a register that is nobody's. I split the LinkedIn ghostwriter out into its own hireable role: it reads your voice profile before it drafts, refuses six other platforms by name, and will not write at all if your voice is missing.

Martin Shein
Martin Shein
Sep 7, 2026 · 6 min read
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agentboardagentsapi-design

The capability was already there. No agent could ask for it.

26 of 81 AgentBoard methods already declared a cheap response format. Exactly one of five code generators honoured it, so no agent could ask.

Martin Shein
Martin Shein
Sep 4, 2026 · 5 min read
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skill-launchiconography

An icon set is not an icon system. Your agent now knows.

236 icon sets, one question: may you ship this to a client? The catalogue is a solved commodity. The contract around it was written down nowhere, so I wrote it down.

Martin Shein
Martin Shein
Aug 23, 2026 · 6 min read
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skill-launchcopy-engine

My copy passed every check. It still read cold.

Six checks passed and my piece still read like a memo. Four numbers explained why. Then a 60-second video script ran 67.5 seconds. copy-engine now writes video scripts that fit every shot.

Martin Shein
Martin Shein
Aug 23, 2026 · 7 min read
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skill-launchwebinars

Why your webinar gets great feedback and nobody buys

Great feedback and no sales is not bad luck. It is a specific failure in a specific section of your presentation — and it is the one that catches the best teachers hardest. How to tell which of the four sections actually broke, instead of rewriting all of them.

Martin Shein
Martin Shein
Aug 22, 2026 · 6 min read
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cold emailoutboundAI agents

The median AI skill ships 2 files. Mine ships 156.

I counted every file in 109 public AI marketing skills. The median ships 2 files, and 91 of the 109 ship no executable code at all. Here is the full tree of mine, with the graders' real PASS and FAIL output.

Martin Shein
Martin Shein
Aug 22, 2026 · 15 min read
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