Ryan Heltemes

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    I build tools that make AI do expert work instead of average work. These skills are the methods behind Deliberon, a desktop AI council, published rather than kept. The rest of my work is at ryan-heltemes.com.

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    Skills by Ryan Heltemes (38)

    SCOUT Recon: Their Words, Not Yours

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $7

    Capture how a market actually describes its problem, in its own words, and record which rooms it gathers in.

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    SCOUT Provision: Point the Machine at a New Product

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $7

    Read a product's own repo, data, and artifacts, then write the three supply-side files the rest of the system needs.

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    SCOUT Outcome: What Actually Moved

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $7

    Read real captured analytics and grade a campaign into what moved, what stayed flat, and what to prune.

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    SCOUT Intake: Grade the Chatbot Dump

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $9

    Grade research you didn't gather, a chatbot dump or someone else's summary, into usable files, and find what it left out.

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    SCOUT Geo: Does the AI Find Your Product?

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $7

    Run a repeatable audit of how an AI assistant answers a literal buyer question about your product, and write down what it got wrong.

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    SCOUT: Find the Truth by Looking

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    The front door to reconnaissance and measurement: state the floors, then route to one of five live sub-skills.

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    FORTRESS Truth: A Linter That Blocks Unsourced Claims

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $12

    Installs and runs a linter that blocks claim-shaped language with no source, and keeps a five-state register of what you may actually say.

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    FORTRESS Standing: Trust Before You Spend It

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    Check and record per-account trust in each community before spending any of it, because standing doesn't transfer between rooms.

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    FORTRESS Motte: Assets Nobody Can Confiscate

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    Sort marketing assets by whether a platform could take them away, and build the ones it can't first.

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    FORTRESS Measure: Few Numbers, Honestly

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    Track few numbers honestly, separate durable signal from noise, and kill the activity that produced nothing.

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    FORTRESS Gate: Nothing Sends Without a Human

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    A pre-send checklist with a hard default: the deliverable is a paste block for a human, not an automated send.

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    FORTRESS Bailey: Rented Ground, Honestly Tracked

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    Track every rented channel and, just as importantly, the ones you ruled out and why, so the same debate doesn't run twice.

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    FORTRESS: Build What Can't Be Taken

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $12

    The front door to asset and claim discipline: sort what you own from what you rent, and route to six focused sub-skills.

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    RAID Stunt: The Carry Test

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $7

    Design attention-getting work that survives the carry test: would a stranger pass it on, with your name still attached?

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    RAID Multiply: One Asset, Many Cuts

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    Turn one substantial piece into many standalone cuts, where every cut has to make sense to someone who never saw the source.

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    RAID Moment: Ride Attention Already Moving

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    Judge whether attention already in motion can be ridden, instead of trying to manufacture it from nothing.

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    RAID Draft: Copy Where Every Fact Traces

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $9

    Paste-ready copy in which every factual sentence traces to a cleared claim, written for a room whose rules were read first.

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    RAID Dossier: The Printable Strategy Document

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $7

    One self-contained printable strategy document, assembled only from the pack, with every line traceable to its source file.

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    RAID Cite: Get Chosen by an AI Assistant

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $9

    Derive the one claim, one verifier, and one citation that make an AI assistant select your product and defend the choice.

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    RAID Campaign: Five Gated Stages

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $9

    A sequenced no-budget campaign where each of five stages stays closed until its gate is met, and the plan says what would open it.

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    RAID Briefing: What to Work On Today

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $9

    A daily marketing briefing built only from what you already captured, capped at three things, with stale inputs flagged rather than used.

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    RAID Borrow: Standing in Someone Else's Room

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $7

    Find a room that already has your audience, and pay for standing in it with something genuinely useful rather than a pitch.

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    RAID Asymmetry: Ground the Incumbent Can't Take

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    Find the angle a funded competitor can't follow you onto, and write it down as two sections an agent can act on.

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    RAID: Never Fight Where the Money Wins

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $15

    The front door to a no-budget marketing doctrine: pick fights you can win, stage everything for a human, and route to ten focused sub-skills.

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    KISS Changelog: Record It While You Remember

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    Make the changelog entry part of landing the change, not a reconstruction at the end of the sprint. Two tiers so a small repo does not carry enterprise ceremony.

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    KISS Coherence: One Question, One Answer

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    Catches cross-cutting duplication that file-size and modularity audits structurally cannot see. One canonical accessor per concept, plus a reverse pass for orphaned data.

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    KISS Blast Radius: Contain the Refactor

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    Keep a change contained to its bounded unit. Carries the silent-deletion trap and the residue trap, the two ways refactors break things nobody mentioned.

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    KISS Clean Edits: Three Reflexes at the Edit

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    Fires at the moment an agent adds to an existing file: state the file's size first, change only what traces to the request, write nothing speculative.

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    KISS Readable: Code Built to Be Navigated

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    Bounded labeled sections, intent summaries, why-comments instead of what-comments, and naming that documents. Readability as structure, not cosmetics.

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    KISS Modularity: Guard Both Cliffs

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    Keep units cohesive and right-sized while guarding the monolith cliff and the thousand-tiny-files cliff at the same time.

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    KISS Map: Find It Before You Rebuild It

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    Answer does this already exist, and where, cheaply and without guessing. Builds a durable index and checks for twins by question, not just by name.

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    KISS Plan: Design Before Code

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $5

    Orient inside the existing structure first, then turn the request into a short design doc with named modules, explicit interfaces, and a verify-stepped build sequence.

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    Ekphrasis: Image Prompts That Are Not Obviously AI

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $7

    Prompt authorship for image and animation generators. Six principles, a legibility tell that explains the mush, and a four-move fix ordered strongest first.

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    Janus: Positioning From Contradiction

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $7

    Turn the contradiction you keep apologizing for into the thing you lead with. For products carrying two opposed truths where picking a side kills it.

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    Paraphrasis: Restate Without Drift

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $9

    Say the same thing to a different reader without the meaning moving. Carries a drift catalog, a fidelity ledger, and a reversal test.

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    Metaphrasis: Read Audio You Cannot Hear

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $12

    Triage a music library without playing it, and catch a voiceover the music is burying. Returns cut points, splice plans, and a measured mix verdict.

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    Peitho: Prose That Holds a Reader

    by Ryan Heltemes

    $15

    Prose discipline with teeth: a banned-word catalog, a hard em-dash ceiling, a coherence pass, and an edit mode that protects your voice instead of rewriting it.

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    KISS: Keep It Structurally Sound

    by Ryan Heltemes

    Free

    Set a project up to stay clean from the start instead of bolting discipline on later. The entry point that routes to eight focused sub-skills.

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