Rate Anchored Opportunity

Rate-Anchored Opportunity

Brands lowball because they guess a number. This skill stops that: given a vertical (or a brief to infer one) and a deal type, it pulls the Creatorland corpus rate band for that vertical/tier and assembles a complete, market-credible opportunity object — the exact shape request_creator_connection consumes — with a budget_band expressed as the market range, never a single number and never a per-creator quote. The deliverable is a reusable offer block plus a one-line "why this band is credible" provenance note, ready to hand to a reach skill or paste into the connection-flow opportunity field. It does NOT reach anyone itself.

Read first: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/conventions.md (tool schemas, credit prices, the nine conventions — esp. convention 10: a stated spend is a PRICE, not a follower filter; convention 2 honest rate framing) and ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/connection-flow.md (the opportunity shape and the budget_band field this skill fills — for reference only; this skill does not call the connection tools). This skill honors thrifty/thorough credit modes (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/credit-modes.md) and Refusal Recovery (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/refusal-recovery.md).

Boundary — this skill composes the rate skills by reference and stops at the offer. It mirrors the honest rate framing of one-number-rate / fair-price-brief to source the band, then builds an opportunity object. It does not call request_creator_connection and never edits a shared file. To actually reach creators with this offer, hand the block to cast-and-connect, conflict-safe-connect, or waterfall-casting. For a negotiation memo about a live quote, use fair-price-brief; for one quick number, use one-number-rate.

Inputs to collect

• Vertical (required, but inferable) — e.g. "Beauty". If the user only gives a brief or a brand, infer the vertical from it; only ask if it's genuinely ambiguous (multi-vertical brand). Never ask if the brief names or implies it.
• Deal type (required) — what the campaign is, mapped to the closest corpus deal_type (e.g. "sponsored_post", "affiliate"). Drives both the rate slice and the campaign_type field.
• Tier (optional) — macro / mid / micro framing if the user has a follower band in mind. When given, it is passed as creator_tier on the rate call so the budget_band scopes to same-size creators (a tier too thin for the privacy floor broadens, disclosed, to the vertical band); it also labels the band and feeds comp_tags.
• Campaign basics (collect what's offered, default the rest) — deliverables (e.g. "1 Reel + 3 Stories"), timeline, comp_tags (e.g. usage rights, exclusivity, whitelisting), and a one-line brief_context. Anything the user doesn't give is left empty in the object, not invented.
• personal_message — brand-authored only. Never write one for the brand; leave it out and label it as the brand's to fill. (connection-flow honesty rule.)
• Credit mode — default thorough; thrifty on the credit-modes triggers (caps the refusal ladder at 2 rungs).

Never ask twice for anything the brief already states — quote it back instead.

Flow

1. Resolve vertical + deal type (no tool call). From the inputs/brief, fix the vertical and the corpus deal_type. If the user named a creator instead of a vertical and the vertical isn't obvious, this is the one place a single get_creator_profile { identifier: { type: "social_handle", platform: <p>, handle: <h> } } (1 credit) is allowed to infer the vertical — but prefer the brief; skip the profile whenever the vertical is already known (0 credits).

2. Pull the corpus rate band — one call, Refusal-Recovery-wrapped.

   query_market_intelligence {
     "mode": "rate",
     "vertical": "<resolved vertical>",
     "deal_type": "<resolved deal_type, only if the campaign specifies one>",
     "creator_tier": "<the offer's tier — macro/mid/micro — when the user gave a follower band>"
   }
   

   Rate mode enforces a privacy floor of 10 brands / 50 deals. On a refusal (or a server-side disclosed broaden), walk the Refusal Recovery ladder one rung at a time — drop deal_type → drop sub_category → drop active_since → drop company_type → vertical only — and stop at the first rung that clears the floor. Record the clearance level for disclosure. Thrifty mode: at most 2 rungs, then report what you have. 5 credits per call, including each ladder retry. When the offer targets a known tier, pass creator_tier (emerging <1k / nano 1k-10k / micro 10k-100k / mid 100k-500k / macro 500k-1M / mega 1M+) so the budget_band is a same-size band rather than the whole-vertical spread; a tier too thin to clear the floor broadens (disclosed) to the vertical band — surface that in the credibility line. No quoted_rate is passed — this skill builds a band for an offer, it is not positioning a number against the band (that's fair-price-brief).

3. Assemble the opportunity object (no tool call). Map the inputs onto the connection-flow opportunity shape, with budget_band set to the corpus band as a market range string (p25–p75), labeled with the vertical and tier framing — never a single number, never "this creator's rate". Leave unstated fields empty; leave personal_message for the brand. When the offer is a promo/gifting/event/collab rather than a plain casting, carry the structured brief into the same object — archetype (casting|product_gift|partner_promo|event_invite|paid_collab), an offer ({what, value, expiry, redemption}), and the on-behalf-of brand ({name, represented_by}) — following the schema and required-field rules in connection-flow.md (the new archetypes require brand + offer.what); this skill still only fills budget_band, it doesn't invent offer terms. The credit estimate fires only if a deep refusal ladder would push the run past ~30 credits (rare — it would take a 5-rung ladder).

Deliverable

A ready-to-use opportunity block plus its credibility line, paste-ready:

# Rate-anchored opportunity — <vertical><, deal type>

```json
{
  "campaign_type": "<deal type / campaign, required>",
  "deliverables": "<if stated, else omitted>",
  "comp_tags": ["<if stated — usage, exclusivity, whitelisting, tier>"],
  "budget_band": "$<p25>–$<p75> (market p25–p75, <vertical><, tier> — framing, not a per-creator quote)",
  "timeline": "<if stated, else omitted>",
  "brief_context": "<one-line context, no contact info>"
  // personal_message: leave for the brand to author — never invented
}

Why this band is credible: the budget_band is the Creatorland corpus rate range (p25–p75) for , so the offer sits inside what this vertical/tier is actually transacting at — not a guessed lowball.

Fire it

Hand this opportunity to a reach skill to actually contact creators:

• cast-and-connect — cast a brief into a shortlist, then reach the top-N.
• conflict-safe-connect — same, with a competitor-conflict screen first.
• waterfall-casting — tier-by-tier sequential outreach. Or paste the block straight into the connection-flow opportunity field. This skill does not reach anyone; reaching costs 10 credits/creator and is the reach skill's pre-flight (estimate + confirm + suppression pre-screen).

Benchmark basis: <vertical / scope at which the privacy floor cleared, with the floor-disclosure note if broadened — "the narrower ' × ' slice was below the 10-brand/50-deal privacy floor, so the scope was widened; this is a privacy feature of the data source, not missing data"> Provenance: <the provenance line the rate response returned, verbatim> · recency window: Honesty note: budget_band is the corpus-level market range for this vertical/tier — NOT any creator's personal rate (that data does not exist), and a stated spend is a price for the work, never a follower filter. Credits used this run: ~N (breakdown: <0–1 profile> + 5×).

Never strip the provenance or benchmark-basis footers to make the block prettier —
they are what makes the `budget_band` defensible when the offer goes out.

## Honesty rules

- **`budget_band` is a market band, never a per-creator quote** (convention 2 +
  connection-flow). Express it as p25–p75 for the vertical/tier; never as a single
  number, never as "what this creator charges". Per-creator rate history does not
  exist in the product.
- **A stated spend is a PRICE, not a follower filter** (convention 10). The
  `budget_band` describes what the brand is willing to pay for the work — it is not a
  threshold that screens creators by size. Never frame it as a filter.
- **Disclose every broaden.** If Refusal Recovery widened the slice, the
  benchmark-basis line states the level at which the floor cleared. Never present a
  broadened band as if it answered the narrow vertical/deal-type question.
- **`personal_message` is the brand's to write.** Never invent a quote, tone, or
  promise on the brand's behalf — leave the field for them.
- **This skill does not reach.** It emits an offer; it never calls
  `request_creator_connection`. The reach skills own the credit estimate, confirm,
  and suppression pre-screen before anyone is contacted.
- **No contact info**, ever (convention 7) — `brief_context` carries campaign
  context only, never a creator's address or contact link.

## Credit footprint

thorough: ~5 credits (1 rate call) — +1 if a profile was needed to infer the
vertical; +5 per refusal-ladder rung if the narrow slice was below the privacy
floor · thrifty: ~5 credits (1 rate call, max 2 ladder rungs, vertical given so no
profile). Always end with the actual tally (`Credits used this run: ~N`).