This Skill Makes Claude BRUTALLY Honest About Your Ideas

🤥 The Yes-Man Problem 0:00

AI is the world's biggest yes-man. No matter how good or bad your idea is, it will justify exactly what you want to hear. It validates, it encourages, it cheers — and that's a dangerous default when you're making real business decisions.

Brad built a skill that solves this by making Claude genuinely honest. The approach: clone your real customers into AI agents and let them react to your ideas the way actual people would — with indifference, skepticism, or enthusiasm depending on what you show them.

🎯 Running a Focus Group 0:57

Type /focus-group and paste anything you want tested: a landing page, an offer, an email, a price point. The skill spawns separate sub-agents for each seat on your custom focus panel.

• Each agent represents a composite avatar built from your real customer data
• Agents run simultaneously but isolated — Marcus has no idea what Dana said
• No groupthink, no anchoring bias — each reaction is genuinely independent
• Works with any content format: text, URLs, screenshots, pricing tables

🔄 Two-Round Reaction System 1:25 1:49

Round 1 — Quick gut check: Did this get their attention? The system mimics how real people engage with content:

• If they'd skim it and move on, you get a two-line brush-off like a real person would give
• Only strong reactions (positive or negative) get full explanations
• This filters out the polite noise that makes normal AI feedback useless

The Moderator: A separate moderator agent reads all reactions and finds the sharpest disagreements. Critically, it adds no opinions of its own — it's purely an observer identifying conflict.

Round 2 — Debate: Only the disagreeing agents are called back, and each sees the opposing argument. This tests whether they'd genuinely change their mind when confronted with a counter-position.

📊 Actionable Readout 2:09

After both rounds, you get a 30-second summary: what they said, what's missing. Every verdict is cited from real customer quotes — not AI opinions.

• Consensus view: Where the panel agrees (and where they don't)
• Cited verdicts: Every claim backed by actual words from your customer transcripts
• The killer section: "What would change the mind of each holdout?"

After the readout, you can grill any agent directly — ask follow-up questions, probe deeper into their objections, or test revised messaging on the spot.

🧬 How Avatars Are Built 2:33

On first run, the skill reads your entire sales call library. A fleet of sub-agents each processes a few transcripts, extracting:

• Exact words customers use to describe their problems
• Every objection raised during the call
• Price reactions — how they responded to pricing
• Buying decision stakeholders — who else is involved
• Word-for-word quote bank — verbatim language for each person

The system then groups real people by how they buy to create composite avatars. The critical rule:

🧠 Persistent Memory & Evolution 4:01

Each avatar gets a full dossier saved as markdown:

• Who they are and how they buy
• Complete objection map
• 30+ real quotes from actual customers
• Coverage map showing what data backs each trait

Memory is persistent across sessions. Agents remember past decisions and never contradict themselves. A position file gets updated after every session to track evolving stances.

🛠️ Three Use Cases 4:35

1. Testing Messaging & Positioning

• Landing pages, emails, hooks, pricing — iterate before anything goes live
• Get reactions from customer archetypes rather than guessing

2. Validating Concepts Before Building

• Ask the panel if the need is even real before you invest time
• Surface objections you haven't thought of from people who match your buyers

3. Post-Mortem on Failures

• Launch email got no replies? Run it through the panel
• Get failure causes with receipts: who scrolled past and why, which objection triggered, what would change their mind

⚡ Setup 5:38

2 minutes to install. Works on Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and regular Claude.

Two commands: add the marketplace, then install the focus-group skill. Completely free.

First run asks where your sales data lives:

• Local transcript folder (recommended) — point it at your call recordings/transcripts
• MCP connection — Fireflies, Google Drive, or other integrations

The system reads your calls, finds avatars, asks you to confirm the panel — and then you have a standing focus group forever.