LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads Planner

 

Thought Leader Ads put paid reach behind a post a person already published. The money only works when the post has already proved itself with that person's audience and speaks to the people you are paying to reach. This skill decides which posts earn that, and drafts the boost.

 

It does not run the organic program (who posts and how often), and it does not grade Thought Leader Ads after they run. Go deeper, if installed: `linkedin-ads-auditor` compares running thought leader ads with your Page-authored Sponsored Content, `linkedin-ads-b2b-optimizer` plans formats and budget across the whole account, and `social-content` plans the organic posts that feed this list.

 

 

Ask for these, and use the default when the user doesn't know:

 

1. **Goal.** Brand awareness or engagement. Video views is a third option for video posts only. Default: engagement.

2. **Audience.** Location, company size, seniority or job function, and industry if it matters. Default: the targeting of the account's best Sponsored Content campaign, if the user can name it; otherwise ask, because a boost with no audience is a guess.

3. **Themes.** Two to five topics the campaign is about, in the buyer's words (for example "no-shows", "deposits"). A post is graded against these.

4. **Total budget, currency and start date.** Default start: the next Monday.

5. **Authors.** For each person: their role, whether they are an employee or a creator, and their connection degree to the person who will run Campaign Manager.

6. **Post stats per author.** The last 20 posts, each with date, format, impressions, reactions, comments, reposts, and a link or one-line topic. Accept a LinkedIn post analytics export, a screenshot the user types out, or a paste. LinkedIn shows a post's analytics only to its author, so each person sends their own.

 

 

The plan works from pasted data alone. With connections it pulls more itself:

 

- **LinkedIn Pages** (untested until reconnected, see the note at the end):

1. `query_contexts` with `request="accounts"` and `platform="linkedin-pages"`. A row with `profile_only: true` is the connected member; the other rows are Pages.

2. `query_contexts` with `request="actions_details"` for `fetch_member_post_analytics_aggregated`, `fetch_organization_posts`, `fetch_share_statistics_per_post` and `fetch_social_metadata`, and follow the body shapes it returns.

- **LinkedIn Ads:** `query_contexts` with `request="accounts"` and `platform="linkedin-ads"`. Note `workspace_id`, `brand_id` and `ad_account_id`. Then `request="actions_details"` for `get_budget_pricing`, `create_campaign_group`, `create_campaign` and `get_creative_analytics`.

 

State the date of the run, the currency and each author's source (paste, export or live) at the top of the report.

 

 

**Engagement rate** = (reactions + comments + reposts) / impressions. Use the same formula for every post, every author and the Page. Don't mix in clicks: personal posts don't report them the same way.

 

**Connected member (live).** `fetch_member_post_analytics_aggregated` returns totals for the connected member only, one metric per call, with no per-post rows. It reads the signed-in member and needs no Page id: put the `account_id` of the `profile_only` row from `accounts` (it looks like `member:<id>`) in `org_id`. A Page's organization id in `org_id` is refused with "not authorized for the selected organization owner".

 

{"platform": "linkedin-pages", "workspace_id": "<WORKSPACE_ID>", "brand_id": "<BRAND_ID>", "org_id": "member:<MEMBER_ID>",

"action": "fetch_member_post_analytics_aggregated", "query_type": "IMPRESSION", "aggregation": "TOTAL",

"start_year": 2026, "start_month": 7, "start_day": 30, "end_year": 2026, "end_month": 10, "end_day": 27}

 

Run it for `IMPRESSION`, `REACTION`, `COMMENT` and `RESHARE` over the last 90 days (4 calls). Use the totals to check the member's pasted posts: sum the pasted posts dated inside the same 90 days and compare each metric. A gap above 10% on any metric means the paste is missing posts or is out of date; ask for a fresh export before grading. To spot-check one post, `fetch_social_metadata` with its `entity_urn` returns its reaction and comment counts. Impressions per post still come from the paste.

 

**Company Page (live).** `fetch_organization_posts` (`count` 20) lists the Page's latest posts. Pass their URNs to `fetch_share_statistics_per_post` (`post_urns`, up to 20) for impressions and engagement per post. Only the connected Page's and member's own posts can be read; any other post is refused, so never ask the connector for another person's post.

 

**Bids (live).** `get_budget_pricing` with the brief's targeting:

 

{"platform": "linkedin-ads", "workspace_id": "<WORKSPACE_ID>", "brand_id": "<BRAND_ID>", "action": "get_budget_pricing",

"ad_account_id": "<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>", "bid_type": "CPM", "campaign_type": "SPONSORED_UPDATES", "match_type": "EXACT",

"targeting_criteria": {"include": {"and": [

{"or": {"urn:li:adTargetingFacet:locations": ["urn:li:geo:103644278"]}},

{"or": {"urn:li:adTargetingFacet:seniorities": ["urn:li:seniority:10", "urn:li:seniority:9"]}}]}}}

 

It returns `suggestedBid` (min, default, max), `bidLimits` and `dailyBudgetLimits`. Use `bid_type` `CPV` instead for a video views goal. Without the connection, ask the user for the suggested bid Campaign Manager shows for the same audience, and say the plan's budget rests on it.

 

If a call fails or is rate-limited, keep going with what the user pasted, and say which numbers are missing and why. Never fill a gap with a guess.

 

 

 

For each author, take the last 20 posts (at least 8). The bar is the **median engagement rate** of those posts. Report it per author with the number of posts used.

 

- Fewer than 8 posts: the author is **not graded**. Say so, and don't boost on a hunch. For the connected member only, the live 90-day totals (total engagements / total impressions) can stand in, labelled as such.

- Never compare one author's post with another author's bar. A founder with 40,000 followers and a new hire live on different scales; each post competes with its own author's usual.

 

 

Every post gets one verdict. Check in this order; the first that applies wins.

 

| Verdict | When |

|---|---|

| **Ineligible** | The format can't be sponsored: a repost, a poll, a celebration or a multi-image post. For a repost, the original author can be asked instead. |

| **Skip** | The topic is off every campaign theme, at any age. Or the post has settled (500+ impressions, 3+ days old) and its lift (the post's rate / the author's bar) is under 1.5x. |

| **Wait** | On or next to a theme, but under 500 impressions or under 3 days old. The rate isn't settled yet, so it isn't judged against the bar. Give the recheck date. |

| **Hold** | Clears the bar, but the topic is next to a theme rather than on one, or the post is over 180 days old (confirm the story and numbers are still true). Say what would change it. |

| **Boost** | Eligible, lift 1.5x or more, on a theme, 500+ impressions, 3 to 180 days old. |

 

Eligible formats: public text, single image, video, document, LinkedIn-native article or newsletter, eligible collaborative posts, and posts about a LinkedIn Live event created by the Page tied to the ad account (the post must include the event link). The author's profile must show their full name. Campaign Manager shows an eligibility label on each post; when it disagrees with this plan, it wins.

 

Theme fit is a judgment from the post's text: **on** (it is about one of the themes), **adjacent** (it helps the same buyer but is about something else, for example a product update) or **off** (hiring, culture, personal news). Name the theme it matched, or the topic that kept it off.

 

 

Take the median engagement rate of the company Page's last 20 posts. It is a note, not a gate: when a boost candidate's rate is under the Page median, say that the author's audience, not the post's pull, is the reason to boost, and flag it for the day-7 check.

 

 

Rank boosts by lift, highest first. Break ties on comments per 1,000 impressions: comments show the post started a conversation, which is what a thought leader ad sells.

 

 

 

- **One campaign group** for the test.

- **One campaign per ad format,** because a LinkedIn campaign runs a single ad format: Single image (text-only and single image posts both run here), Video, Document, Article and newsletter, Event. At most 4 posts per campaign, so each gets delivery.

- **Targeting:** the brief's audience, with your own employees excluded (an `employers` exclusion on your Page), and Audience Expansion and the LinkedIn Audience Network off, so the test reads the audience you chose. LinkedIn won't serve an audience under 300 members; check the forecast in Campaign Manager.

 

 

- **Bid:** manual CPM at LinkedIn's suggested default for that targeting. Show the suggested min and max next to it.

- **Test size:** 10,000 paid impressions per post. Budget per post = 10,000 / 1,000 x the CPM bid.

- **Funding:** fund posts in rank order while the budget lasts. A post that can't be funded in full waits for the next round. What is left is a **reserve** for the day-7 winners; never spread it thin across every post at the start.

- **Run:** 14 days. Each campaign's total budget is the sum of its posts' budgets; its daily budget is that total / 14, rounded up to a whole unit, and never under LinkedIn's daily minimum from `dailyBudgetLimits`.

 

 

On day 7, for each post with at least 3,000 paid impressions, compare its paid engagement rate with its author's organic bar. **Pause a post under half its author's bar,** and move the reserve to the posts above the bar. With LinkedIn Ads connected, read the results with `get_creative_analytics`:

 

{"platform": "linkedin-ads", "workspace_id": "<WORKSPACE_ID>", "brand_id": "<BRAND_ID>", "action": "get_creative_analytics",

"ad_account_id": "<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>", "start_date": "YYYY-MM-DD", "end_date": "YYYY-MM-DD",

"creatives": "<sponsored creative urns>", "fields": ["impressions", "reactions", "comments", "shares", "costInUsd"]}

 

Paid engagement rate = (reactions + comments + shares) / impressions. A full comparison of thought leader ads with Page-authored ads after the run belongs to `linkedin-ads-auditor`, if installed.

 

 

1. **Header:** business, run date, currency, goal, audience, themes, budget and each author's data source.

2. **Verdict:** how many posts were reviewed, the boost list in one line, the test budget, the bid and the reserve.

3. **Author bars:** one row per author: posts used, median engagement rate, the 1.5x line, graded or not. Add the live cross-check result for the connected member.

4. **Boost list,** ranked: post, author role, format, topic and theme fit, impressions, engagement rate, lift, comments per 1,000 impressions, budget, and the Page note when it applies.

5. **Next round:** every hold and wait, with what would change it and the recheck date.

6. **Skipped:** a count by reason, and by name any post that cleared the bar but was off theme, so nobody boosts it by mistake. List ineligible posts with the reason.

7. **Campaign plan:** the group, each campaign with its format, posts, bid, total and daily budget and dates, the targeting and the day-7 rule per post.

8. **Payloads,** each marked "not run", then the Campaign Manager steps and a permission request message per author.

 

 

Only after the user says yes to the exact payloads. Show them first, and report the result after.

 

| Step | Action | Notes |

|---|---|---|

| 1 | `create_campaign_group` | `account`, `name`, `runSchedule` (epoch ms integers), `status` `ACTIVE`. LinkedIn refuses a paused group at creation, so the group is created active; it spends nothing while its campaigns are paused and hold no ads. |

| 2 | `create_campaign`, one per ad format | `type` `SPONSORED_UPDATES`, `objectiveType` `BRAND_AWARENESS`, `ENGAGEMENT` or `VIDEO_VIEW`, `costType` `CPM` (or `CPV` for video views), `unitCost`, `dailyBudget`, `totalBudget`, `runSchedule`, `targetingCriteria`, `campaignGroup` from step 1, `locale` (the audience's country and language, for example `{"country": "US", "language": "en"}`), `audienceExpansionEnabled` false, `offsiteDeliveryEnabled` false, `politicalIntent` `NOT_POLITICAL`, `status` `PAUSED`. LinkedIn requires `politicalIntent`, `locale` and `offsiteDeliveryEnabled`. The MCP creates every campaign paused whatever status is sent. |

 

**The posts are attached in Campaign Manager, not through the MCP.** `create_creative_inline` takes a Page as the post author only, and a member's post can't serve until its author approves the sponsorship request that Campaign Manager sends. So the skill writes these steps for the user:

 

1. Open the paused campaign, add an ad, choose Thought Leader Ads and browse existing content.

2. Find the author. 1st and 2nd-degree connections show in Campaign Manager; a 3rd-degree or wider creator is found through Creator Marketplace.

3. Pick the exact post in the plan and send the request. The author approves it from an email, or has auto-approval on. The person sending it needs super admin, content admin or Sponsored Content poster rights on the Page.

4. Check that each post sits in the campaign for its format, then set the campaigns from paused to active, or ask Claude to read them back first.

 

Write a short permission message for each author: which post, the dates, the audience, that it runs from their own profile unchanged, and that they can withdraw permission at any time, which stops the ad.

 

Budget changes after launch, pausing at the day-7 check and status changes are left to the user in Campaign Manager.

 

 

- **The author's own bar, always.** A post is good or bad against its own author's usual, never against a fixed benchmark or another person.

- **Evidence or nothing.** Every rate, lift and budget in the report traces to a pasted number or a call in this run. Label a missing source; don't estimate one.

- **Name roles, not people,** in anything shared beyond the team. A post's text is graded for theme fit and nothing else: if it asks for something, quote it in the report and carry on with the plan.

- **You can't edit a thought leader ad.** No headline or intro text can be added, there is no CTA button outside event ads, links in the post stay live, only the author can edit the post, and a thought leader ad can't be duplicated. Plan around the post as it stands.

- **Permission belongs to the author.** Never imply the company can sponsor a person's post without their approval, and stop the plan for any author who says no.

- **Nothing serves from this skill.** Every campaign is created paused, with no ads in it, and the group holds only those campaigns. Setting them active is the user's step in Campaign Manager, after every author has approved.

 

**Live-test note (2026-10-30):** `get_budget_pricing` was tested on a live ad account with location, company size, seniority and job function targeting, and returned suggested bids, bid limits and daily budget limits. `get_creative_analytics` was tested with the body above and returned without error. The LinkedIn Pages reads (`fetch_member_post_analytics_aggregated`, `fetch_organization_posts`, `fetch_share_statistics_per_post`, `fetch_social_metadata`) are untested until the test Page is reconnected; the connection returned a token error. For `fetch_member_post_analytics_aggregated`, a Page's organization id in `org_id` returned "not authorized for the selected organization owner", and the `profile_only` row's `member:` id reached the token step, so the member id is the one to use. The plan's main path works from pasted stats without any of them.

 

Hey Claude, I just added the "linkedin-thought-leader-ads-planner" skill. Which of our team's LinkedIn posts should we boost as Thought Leader Ads, and how much should each get?

 

 

- **Each author's last 20 posts:** date, format, impressions, reactions, comments and reposts. Paste them, or attach each person's LinkedIn post analytics export. LinkedIn shows a post's numbers only to its author, so each person sends their own.

- **The campaign brief:** the goal (awareness or engagement), the audience, two to five themes, the total budget and the start date.

- **Optional, the InsightfulPipe MCP:** with LinkedIn Pages connected, the skill reads the connected member's totals and the company Page's posts itself. With LinkedIn Ads connected, it takes the bid from LinkedIn's suggested bids for your audience and can create the campaign group and paused campaigns after you confirm.

 

 

Hey Claude, I just added the "linkedin-thought-leader-ads-planner" skill. Here are the last 20 posts from our founder and our head of sales. Which ones are worth paying to boost to US finance directors?

 

Hey Claude, I just added the "linkedin-thought-leader-ads-planner" skill. We have $5,000 for Thought Leader Ads next month. Rank these posts and split the budget, with a check halfway through.

 

Hey Claude, I just added the "linkedin-thought-leader-ads-planner" skill. A partner creator shared her post stats with us. Should we sponsor any of them, and what do we send her to ask for permission?

 

Hey Claude, I just added the "linkedin-thought-leader-ads-planner" skill. Plan our Thought Leader Ads, then create the campaign group and paused campaigns in our LinkedIn ad account. Show me the payloads first.

 

 

1. **A bar for each author:** the median engagement rate of their last 20 posts, and the 1.5x line a post must clear.

2. **A verdict for every post:** boost, hold, wait, skip or ineligible, with the reason and the numbers.

3. **A ranked boost list** with a budget per post, and a reserve held back for the posts that win.

4. **The campaign plan:** one campaign per ad format, targeting, a manual CPM bid, total and daily budgets, a 14-day run and a day-7 pause rule per post.

5. **The exact payloads,** marked not run, the Campaign Manager steps to attach each post, and a permission request message for each author.

 

 

With your yes on the exact payloads, it can create:

- a campaign group (LinkedIn creates new groups active, but a group spends nothing without running campaigns)

- one campaign per ad format, created paused

 

It never sets a campaign active, and it doesn't attach the posts: a member's post needs the author's approval in Campaign Manager, so the skill writes those steps for you.

 

 

- Run it every month or two. A post that waits today can qualify next week.

- Ask each author for the same 20-post export, so their bars are built the same way.

- After the run, use `linkedin-ads-auditor`, if installed, to compare the thought leader ads with your Page-authored ads.

 

"note": "Example data: an invented online booking software company with invented accounts, not a real business. Every number in expected_output.json follows from this input. The people are roles, not real members.",

"request": "Hey Claude, I just added the \"linkedin-thought-leader-ads-planner\" skill. Which of our people's LinkedIn posts should we put money behind as Thought Leader Ads this quarter? Budget is $3,000, start Monday 2026-11-02, goal is engagement with US owners of salons, clinics and studios with 2 to 50 staff.",

"business": "Example Booking Software, an online booking and scheduling app for small service businesses (invented example)",

"run_date": "2026-10-28",

"ad_account": {

"ad_account_id": "500000001",

"currency": "USD",

"page": "Example Booking Software",

"organization_id": "10000001"

},

"campaign_brief": {

"objective": "ENGAGEMENT",

"audience": {

"location": "United States",

"company_size": [

"2-10",

"11-50"

],

"seniority": [

"Owner",

"Partner",

"CXO"

]

},

"themes": [

"no-shows",

"deposits and payments",

"front desk time"

],

"total_budget_usd": 3000,

"start_date": "2026-11-02",

"currency": "USD",

"time_zone": "America/New_York"

},

"budget_pricing": {

"source": "get_budget_pricing (CPM, SPONSORED_UPDATES, EXACT) for the brief's targeting",

"bid_type": "CPM",

"suggestedBid": {

"min": 31.4,

"default": 46.8,

"max": 98.2

},

"bidLimits": {

"min": 2,

"max": 300

},

"dailyBudgetLimits": {

"min": 10,

"default": 250,

"max": 100000

}

},

"authors": [

{

"author": "founder",

"label": "Founder and CEO",

"relation": "employee, the member connected through LinkedIn Pages",

"source": "pasted LinkedIn post analytics export, cross-checked with live member totals",

"posts": [

{

"post_id": "F-01",

"date": "2026-10-24",

"format": "text",

"topic": "hiring",

"impressions": 4384,

"reactions": 87,

"comments": 15,

"reposts": 6

},

{

"post_id": "F-02",

"date": "2026-10-15",

"format": "text",

"topic": "deposits and payments",

"impressions": 1546,

"reactions": 19,

"comments": 5,

"reposts": 1

},

{

"post_id": "F-A",

"date": "2026-10-14",

"format": "text",

"topic": "deposits and payments",

"title": "Why we stopped letting clients book without a deposit, and what it did to no-shows",

"impressions": 4820,

"reactions": 189,

"comments": 66,

"reposts": 11

},

{

"post_id": "F-03",

"date": "2026-10-07",

"format": "document",

"topic": "personal milestone",

"impressions": 4743,

"reactions": 82,

"comments": 19,

"reposts": 3

},

{

"post_id": "F-B",

"date": "2026-09-30",

"format": "image",

"topic": "hiring",

"title": "We're hiring our first support lead",

"impressions": 6900,

"reactions": 241,

"comments": 63,

"reposts": 13

},

{

"post_id": "F-04",

"date": "2026-09-28",

"format": "text",

"topic": "small business growth",

"impressions": 1766,

"reactions": 35,

"comments": 9,

"reposts": 2

},

{

"post_id": "F-05",

"date": "2026-09-19",

"format": "image",

"topic": "front desk time",

"impressions": 1867,

"reactions": 27,

"comments": 6,

"reposts": 1

},

{

"post_id": "F-C",

"date": "2026-09-12",

"format": "image",

"topic": "no-shows",

"title": "Chart: no-show rate by industry from 2,000 booking pages",

"impressions": 3650,

"reactions": 83,

"comments": 22,

"reposts": 4

},

{

"post_id": "F-06",

"date": "2026-09-11",

"format": "text",

"topic": "event recap",

"impressions": 5778,

"reactions": 80,

"comments": 13,

"reposts": 6

},

{

"post_id": "F-07",

"date": "2026-09-03",

"format": "text",

"topic": "small business growth",

"impressions": 4372,

"reactions": 96,

"comments": 28,

"reposts": 6

},

{

"post_id": "F-08",

"date": "2026-08-26",

"format": "image",

"topic": "product update",

"impressions": 4024,

"reactions": 92,

"comments": 14,

"reposts": 4

},

{

"post_id": "F-D",

"date": "2026-08-25",

"format": "multi_image",

"topic": "front desk time",

"title": "6 front desk habits that save an hour a day",

"impressions": 4100,

"reactions": 136,

"comments": 36,

"reposts": 7

},

{

"post_id": "F-09",

"date": "2026-08-17",

"format": "image",

"topic": "event recap",

"impressions": 2277,

"reactions": 43,

"comments": 10,

"reposts": 3

},

{

"post_id": "F-10",

"date": "2026-08-07",

"format": "document",

"topic": "personal milestone",

"impressions": 5502,

"reactions": 118,

"comments": 33,

"reposts": 3

},

{

"post_id": "F-11",

"date": "2026-07-30",

"format": "text",

"topic": "no-shows",

"impressions": 5878,

"reactions": 115,

"comments": 33,

"reposts": 4

},

{

"post_id": "F-12",

"date": "2026-07-21",

"format": "document",

"topic": "no-shows",

"impressions": 3742,

"reactions": 62,

"comments": 14,

"reposts": 5

},

{

"post_id": "F-13",

"date": "2026-07-13",

"format": "text",

"topic": "no-shows",

"impressions": 3759,

"reactions": 78,

"comments": 20,

"reposts": 5

},

{

"post_id": "F-14",

"date": "2026-07-04",

"format": "document",

"topic": "personal milestone",

"impressions": 5869,

"reactions": 65,

"comments": 12,

"reposts": 4

},

{

"post_id": "F-15",

"date": "2026-06-25",

"format": "image",

"topic": "front desk time",

"impressions": 3832,

"reactions": 53,

"comments": 11,

"reposts": 3

},

{

"post_id": "F-E",

"date": "2026-04-08",

"format": "text",

"topic": "no-shows",

"title": "The day one no-show cost a salon owner a full afternoon",

"impressions": 5200,

"reactions": 191,

"comments": 50,

"reposts": 10

}

]

},

{

"author": "cs_head",

"label": "Head of customer success",

"relation": "employee, 1st-degree connection",

"source": "pasted LinkedIn post analytics export",

"posts": [

{

"post_id": "C-B",

"date": "2026-10-26",

"format": "text",

"topic": "front desk time",

"title": "What our busiest customers do in the first 10 minutes",

"impressions": 410,

"reactions": 23,

"comments": 6,

"reposts": 1

},

{

"post_id": "C-01",

"date": "2026-10-22",

"format": "text",

"topic": "no-shows",

"impressions": 2101,

"reactions": 30,

"comments": 5,

"reposts": 2

},

{

"post_id": "C-02",

"date": "2026-10-14",

"format": "image",

"topic": "front desk time",

"impressions": 2052,

"reactions": 54,

"comments": 13,

"reposts": 3

},

{

"post_id": "C-A",

"date": "2026-10-08",

"format": "document",

"topic": "no-shows",

"title": "7 reminder text templates that cut no-shows",

"impressions": 2260,

"reactions": 93,

"comments": 22,

"reposts": 5

},

{

"post_id": "C-03",

"date": "2026-10-07",

"format": "image",

"topic": "small business growth",

"impressions": 1634,

"reactions": 23,

"comments": 5,

"reposts": 1

},

{

"post_id": "C-04",

"date": "2026-09-29",

"format": "document",

"topic": "no-shows",

"impressions": 1043,

"reactions": 23,

"comments": 4,

"reposts": 1

},

{

"post_id": "C-05",

"date": "2026-09-20",

"format": "image",

"topic": "no-shows",

"impressions": 962,

"reactions": 28,

"comments": 4,

"reposts": 2

},

{

"post_id": "C-06",

"date": "2026-09-13",

"format": "image",

"topic": "small business growth",

"impressions": 967,

"reactions": 21,

"comments": 3,

"reposts": 1

},

{

"post_id": "C-07",

"date": "2026-09-06",

"format": "text",

"topic": "no-shows",

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"reactions": 47,

"comments": 8,

"reposts": 1

},

{

"post_id": "C-08",

"date": "2026-08-29",

"format": "text",

"topic": "personal milestone",

"impressions": 2108,

"reactions": 39,

"comments": 7,

"reposts": 1

},

{

"post_id": "C-09",

"date": "2026-08-21",

"format": "image",

"topic": "personal milestone",

"impressions": 707,

"reactions": 11,

"comments": 2,

"reposts": 0

},

{

"post_id": "C-10",

"date": "2026-08-12",

"format": "image",

"topic": "hiring",

"impressions": 1920,

"reactions": 34,

"comments": 10,

"reposts": 1

},

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"post_id": "C-11",

"date": "2026-08-05",

"format": "image",

"topic": "small business growth",

"impressions": 909,

"reactions": 16,

"comments": 3,

"reposts": 1

},

{

"post_id": "C-12",

"date": "2026-07-27",

"format": "document",

"topic": "personal milestone",

"impressions": 1429,

"reactions": 40,

"comments": 6,

"reposts": 2

}

]

},

{

"author": "creator",

"label": "Partner creator, a salon business coach",

"relation": "creator, 2nd-degree connection (request through Campaign Manager)",

"source": "pasted post stats",

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{

"post_id": "R-01",

"date": "2026-10-23",

"format": "image",

"topic": "event recap",

"impressions": 16952,

"reactions": 114,

"comments": 31,

"reposts": 7

},

{

"post_id": "R-B",

"date": "2026-10-19",

"format": "repost",

"topic": "deposits and payments",

"title": "Repost of the founder's deposit post",

"impressions": 9800,

"reactions": 98,

"comments": 26,

"reposts": 5

},

{

"post_id": "R-02",

"date": "2026-10-16",

"format": "image",

"topic": "hiring",

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"reactions": 208,

"comments": 45,

"reposts": 14

},

{

"post_id": "R-03",

"date": "2026-10-09",

"format": "image",

"topic": "event recap",

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"reactions": 164,

"comments": 50,

"reposts": 13

},

{

"post_id": "R-04",

"date": "2026-10-02",

"format": "text",

"topic": "small business growth",

"impressions": 19106,

"reactions": 126,

"comments": 22,

"reposts": 5

},

{

"post_id": "R-A",

"date": "2026-10-02",

"format": "video",

"topic": "no-shows",

"title": "How I took one salon's no-shows from 12% to 3%",

"impressions": 21400,

"reactions": 302,

"comments": 60,

"reposts": 15

},

{

"post_id": "R-05",

"date": "2026-09-26",

"format": "text",

"topic": "hiring",

"impressions": 11446,

"reactions": 64,

"comments": 13,

"reposts": 3

},

{

"post_id": "R-06",

"date": "2026-09-21",

"format": "video",

"topic": "deposits and payments",

"impressions": 23298,

"reactions": 161,

"comments": 25,

"reposts": 6

},

{

"post_id": "R-07",

"date": "2026-09-16",

"format": "image",

"topic": "product update",

"impressions": 19512,

"reactions": 144,

"comments": 35,

"reposts": 7

}

]

}

],

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"author": "founder",

"source": "fetch_member_post_analytics_aggregated, TOTAL",

"window": "2026-07-30 to 2026-10-27",

"IMPRESSION": 63455,

"REACTION": 1472,

"COMMENT": 372,

"RESHARE": 74

},

"company_page_posts": {

"source": "fetch_organization_posts, then fetch_share_statistics_per_post",

"posts": [

{

"post_id": "P-01",

"date": "2026-10-27",

"format": "text",

"impressions": 3178,

"reactions": 45,

"comments": 12,

"reposts": 2

},

{

"post_id": "P-02",

"date": "2026-10-24",

"format": "video",

"impressions": 2017,

"reactions": 33,

"comments": 9,

"reposts": 2

},

{

"post_id": "P-03",

"date": "2026-10-20",

"format": "text",

"impressions": 2920,

"reactions": 35,

"comments": 11,

"reposts": 3

},

{

"post_id": "P-04",

"date": "2026-10-15",

"format": "text",

"impressions": 2368,

"reactions": 32,

"comments": 5,

"reposts": 1

},

{

"post_id": "P-05",

"date": "2026-10-12",

"format": "document",

"impressions": 2233,

"reactions": 30,

"comments": 8,

"reposts": 1

},

{

"post_id": "P-06",

"date": "2026-10-08",

"format": "text",

"impressions": 3885,

"reactions": 61,

"comments": 13,

"reposts": 4

},

{

"post_id": "P-07",

"date": "2026-10-04",

"format": "video",

"impressions": 3182,

"reactions": 43,

"comments": 9,

"reposts": 3

},

{

"post_id": "P-08",

"date": "2026-10-01",

"format": "document",

"impressions": 4169,

"reactions": 57,

"comments": 15,

"reposts": 3

},

{

"post_id": "P-09",

"date": "2026-09-26",

"format": "text",

"impressions": 2714,

"reactions": 31,

"comments": 6,

"reposts": 2

},

{

"post_id": "P-10",

"date": "2026-09-21",

"format": "document",

"impressions": 3025,

"reactions": 54,

"comments": 10,

"reposts": 2

},

{

"post_id": "P-11",

"date": "2026-09-17",

"format": "document",

"impressions": 3635,

"reactions": 51,

"comments": 14,

"reposts": 3

},

{

"post_id": "P-12",

"date": "2026-09-13",

"format": "image",

"impressions": 2340,

"reactions": 48,

"comments": 7,

"reposts": 2

},

{

"post_id": "P-13",

"date": "2026-09-08",

"format": "video",

"impressions": 1627,

"reactions": 31,

"comments": 8,

"reposts": 2

},

{

"post_id": "P-14",

"date": "2026-09-03",

"format": "video",

"impressions": 1755,

"reactions": 19,

"comments": 4,

"reposts": 1

},

{

"post_id": "P-15",

"date": "2026-08-30",

"format": "video",

"impressions": 2537,

"reactions": 39,

"comments": 7,

"reposts": 2

},

{

"post_id": "P-16",

"date": "2026-08-26",

"format": "image",

"impressions": 3854,

"reactions": 52,

"comments": 13,

"reposts": 3

},

{

"post_id": "P-17",

"date": "2026-08-21",

"format": "document",

"impressions": 1270,

"reactions": 25,

"comments": 3,

"reposts": 1

},

{

"post_id": "P-18",

"date": "2026-08-16",

"format": "video",

"impressions": 2559,

"reactions": 42,

"comments": 11,

"reposts": 2

},

{

"post_id": "P-19",

"date": "2026-08-12",

"format": "text",

"impressions": 2511,

"reactions": 34,

"comments": 10,

"reposts": 2

},

{

"post_id": "P-20",

"date": "2026-08-09",

"format": "video",

"impressions": 1561,

"reactions": 28,

"comments": 5,

"reposts": 1

}

]

},

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"get_budget_pricing, 1 call (CPM for the brief's targeting)",

"fetch_member_post_analytics_aggregated, 4 calls (IMPRESSION, REACTION, COMMENT, RESHARE; TOTAL; last 90 days)",

"fetch_organization_posts, 1 call (20 Page posts)",

"fetch_share_statistics_per_post, 1 call (20 Page post URNs)",

"pasted: 20 founder posts, 14 customer success posts, 9 creator posts"

]

"header": {

"business": "Example Booking Software",

"run_date": "2026-10-28",

"currency": "USD",

"goal": "ENGAGEMENT",

"audience": {

"location": "United States",

"company_size": [

"2-10",

"11-50"

],

"seniority": [

"Owner",

"Partner",

"CXO"

]

},

"themes": [

"no-shows",

"deposits and payments",

"front desk time"

],

"total_budget_usd": 3000,

"sources": {

"Founder and CEO": "pasted LinkedIn post analytics export, cross-checked with live member totals",

"Head of customer success": "pasted LinkedIn post analytics export",

"Partner creator, a salon business coach": "pasted post stats",

"Company Page": "live (fetch_organization_posts, fetch_share_statistics_per_post)",

"Bids": "live (get_budget_pricing)"

}

},

"summary": {

"headline": "Boost 3 of 43 posts: F-A, C-A, R-A. Test budget $1,404.00 over 14 days at a manual CPM of $46.80; $1,596.00 held back for the posts that win the day-7 check.",

"posts_reviewed": 43,

"verdict_counts": {

"boost": 3,

"hold": 1,

"wait": 1,

"skip": 36,

"ineligible": 2

},

"biggest_lesson": "The founder's hiring post (F-B) clears the bar at 1.77x but is off theme, so paying for it would buy reach with job seekers, not with salon owners."

},

"inputs_used": {

"window": "each author's last 20 posts up to 2026-10-28",

"engagement_rate": "(reactions + comments + reposts) / impressions, the same for every post",

"bid_source": "get_budget_pricing suggested default for the brief's targeting"

},

"author_bars": [

{

"author": "founder",

"label": "Founder and CEO",

"posts_used": 20,

"bar_engagement_rate_pct": 2.6,

"boost_line_pct": 3.89,

"graded": true,

"source": "pasted LinkedIn post analytics export, cross-checked with live member totals"

},

{

"author": "cs_head",

"label": "Head of customer success",

"posts_used": 14,

"bar_engagement_rate_pct": 2.63,

"boost_line_pct": 3.95,

"graded": true,

"source": "pasted LinkedIn post analytics export"

},

{

"author": "creator",

"label": "Partner creator, a salon business coach",

"posts_used": 9,

"bar_engagement_rate_pct": 0.95,

"boost_line_pct": 1.43,

"graded": true,

"source": "pasted post stats"

}

],

"connected_member_check": {

"author": "founder",

"window": "2026-07-30 to 2026-10-27",

"pasted_posts_in_window": 15,

"pasted_totals": {

"IMPRESSION": 61607,

"REACTION": 1443,

"COMMENT": 372,

"RESHARE": 74

},

"live_totals": {

"IMPRESSION": 63455,

"REACTION": 1472,

"COMMENT": 372,

"RESHARE": 74

},

"gap_pct": {

"IMPRESSION": 2.9,

"REACTION": 2,

"COMMENT": 0,

"RESHARE": 0

},

"result": "matches",

"rule": "every gap within 10%: the paste is used; otherwise ask for a fresh export"

},

"page_reference": {

"posts": 20,

"median_engagement_rate_pct": 1.86,

"use": "a note only: a boost under it relies on the author's reach, not the post's pull"

},

"boost_list": [

{

"post_id": "F-A",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": "Why we stopped letting clients book without a deposit, and what it did to no-shows",

"date": "2026-10-14",

"age_days": 14,

"format": "text",

"topic": "deposits and payments",

"theme_fit": "on",

"impressions": 4820,

"engagements": 266,

"engagement_rate_pct": 5.52,

"author_bar_pct": 2.6,

"lift": 2.13,

"comments_per_1000_impressions": 13.7,

"verdict": "boost",

"why": "lift 2.13x, on theme 'deposits and payments', 4,820 impressions, 14 days old",

"page_note": null,

"test_budget_usd": 468,

"funded": true,

"rank": 1

},

{

"post_id": "C-A",

"author": "cs_head",

"author_role": "Head of customer success",

"title": "7 reminder text templates that cut no-shows",

"date": "2026-10-08",

"age_days": 20,

"format": "document",

"topic": "no-shows",

"theme_fit": "on",

"impressions": 2260,

"engagements": 120,

"engagement_rate_pct": 5.31,

"author_bar_pct": 2.63,

"lift": 2.02,

"comments_per_1000_impressions": 9.7,

"verdict": "boost",

"why": "lift 2.02x, on theme 'no-shows', 2,260 impressions, 20 days old",

"page_note": null,

"test_budget_usd": 468,

"funded": true,

"rank": 2

},

{

"post_id": "R-A",

"author": "creator",

"author_role": "Partner creator, a salon business coach",

"title": "How I took one salon's no-shows from 12% to 3%",

"date": "2026-10-02",

"age_days": 26,

"format": "video",

"topic": "no-shows",

"theme_fit": "on",

"impressions": 21400,

"engagements": 377,

"engagement_rate_pct": 1.76,

"author_bar_pct": 0.95,

"lift": 1.85,

"comments_per_1000_impressions": 2.8,

"verdict": "boost",

"why": "lift 1.85x, on theme 'no-shows', 21,400 impressions, 26 days old",

"page_note": "Its engagement rate (1.76%) is under the company Page's median (1.86%): the author's audience is the reason to boost, not the post's pull; watch it at the day-7 check.",

"test_budget_usd": 468,

"funded": true,

"rank": 3

}

],

"campaign_plan": {

"campaign_group": "Thought Leader Ads | Engagement | US owners 2-50 staff | 2026-11",

"objective": "ENGAGEMENT",

"targeting": "United States; company size 2-10 and 11-50; seniority Owner, Partner, CXO; own employees excluded; Audience Expansion and the LinkedIn Audience Network off",

"test_size": "10,000 paid impressions per post at the bid, 3,000 before any pause",

"budget_per_post_usd": 468,

"campaigns": [

{

"campaign": "TLA | Single image | Engagement | US owners 2-50 | 2026-11",

"ad_format": "Single image",

"posts": [

"F-A"

],

"bid": "manual CPM $46.80 (LinkedIn suggests $31.40 to $98.20)",

"total_budget_usd": 468,

"daily_budget_usd": 34,

"run": "2026-11-02 to 2026-11-15 (14 days)"

},

{

"campaign": "TLA | Document | Engagement | US owners 2-50 | 2026-11",

"ad_format": "Document",

"posts": [

"C-A"

],

"bid": "manual CPM $46.80 (LinkedIn suggests $31.40 to $98.20)",

"total_budget_usd": 468,

"daily_budget_usd": 34,

"run": "2026-11-02 to 2026-11-15 (14 days)"

},

{

"campaign": "TLA | Video | Engagement | US owners 2-50 | 2026-11",

"ad_format": "Video",

"posts": [

"R-A"

],

"bid": "manual CPM $46.80 (LinkedIn suggests $31.40 to $98.20)",

"total_budget_usd": 468,

"daily_budget_usd": 34,

"run": "2026-11-02 to 2026-11-15 (14 days)"

}

],

"reserve_usd": 1596,

"reserve_rule": "after the day-7 check, add it to the posts that beat their author's organic bar on paid engagement rate"

},

"day_7_check": {

"date": "2026-11-08",

"rule": "after 3,000 paid impressions, pause a post whose paid engagement rate is under 50% of its author's organic bar",

"posts": [

{

"post_id": "F-A",

"author": "Founder and CEO",

"organic_bar_pct": 2.6,

"pause_if_paid_engagement_rate_under_pct": 1.3

},

{

"post_id": "C-A",

"author": "Head of customer success",

"organic_bar_pct": 2.63,

"pause_if_paid_engagement_rate_under_pct": 1.32

},

{

"post_id": "R-A",

"author": "Partner creator, a salon business coach",

"organic_bar_pct": 0.95,

"pause_if_paid_engagement_rate_under_pct": 0.48

}

],

"query": {

"action": "get_creative_analytics",

"ad_account_id": "500000001",

"start_date": "2026-11-02",

"end_date": "2026-11-08",

"creatives": "<the sponsored creative urns once approved>",

"fields": [

"impressions",

"reactions",

"comments",

"shares",

"costInUsd"

]

}

},

"next_round": [

{

"post_id": "F-E",

"author": "Founder and CEO",

"verdict": "hold",

"lift": 1.86,

"what_would_change_it": "confirm the story and numbers are still true, then it qualifies"

},

{

"post_id": "C-B",

"author": "Head of customer success",

"verdict": "wait",

"lift": 2.78,

"what_would_change_it": "recheck on 2026-10-29 once it has 500+ impressions; its rate so far is 2.78x the bar"

}

],

"skipped": {

"count_by_reason": {

"under the 1.5x bar": 35,

"over the bar but off theme": 1

},

"named": [

{

"post_id": "F-B",

"author": "Founder and CEO",

"title": "We're hiring our first support lead",

"lift": 1.77,

"why": "topic 'hiring' is off the campaign themes"

}

],

"ineligible": [

{

"post_id": "F-D",

"author": "Founder and CEO",

"why": "multi-image posts can't be sponsored"

},

{

"post_id": "R-B",

"author": "Partner creator, a salon business coach",

"why": "a repost can't be sponsored; request the original author's permission and promote the original"

}

]

},

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"step": 1,

"action": "create_campaign_group",

"status": "not run",

"body": {

"platform": "linkedin-ads",

"workspace_id": 1,

"brand_id": 1,

"action": "create_campaign_group",

"ad_account_id": "500000001",

"account": "urn:li:sponsoredAccount:500000001",

"name": "Thought Leader Ads | Engagement | US owners 2-50 staff | 2026-11",

"runSchedule": {

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"end": 1794805199000

},

"status": "ACTIVE"

}

},

{

"step": 2,

"action": "create_campaign",

"status": "not run",

"body": {

"platform": "linkedin-ads",

"workspace_id": 1,

"brand_id": 1,

"action": "create_campaign",

"ad_account_id": "500000001",

"account": "urn:li:sponsoredAccount:500000001",

"campaignGroup": "urn:li:sponsoredCampaignGroup:<id returned by step 1>",

"name": "TLA | Single image | Engagement | US owners 2-50 | 2026-11",

"type": "SPONSORED_UPDATES",

"objectiveType": "ENGAGEMENT",

"costType": "CPM",

"unitCost": {

"amount": "46.80",

"currencyCode": "USD"

},

"dailyBudget": {

"amount": "34",

"currencyCode": "USD"

},

"totalBudget": {

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"currencyCode": "USD"

},

"runSchedule": {

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"end": 1794805199000

},

"targetingCriteria": {

"include": {

"and": [

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]

}

},

{

"or": {

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"urn:li:staffCountRange:(11,50)"

]

}

},

{

"or": {

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"urn:li:seniority:9",

"urn:li:seniority:8"

]

}

}

]

},

"exclude": {

"or": {

"urn:li:adTargetingFacet:employers": [

"urn:li:organization:10000001"

]

}

}

},

"locale": {

"country": "US",

"language": "en"

},

"audienceExpansionEnabled": false,

"offsiteDeliveryEnabled": false,

"politicalIntent": "NOT_POLITICAL",

"status": "PAUSED"

}

},

{

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"action": "create_campaign",

"status": "not run",

"body": {

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"workspace_id": 1,

"brand_id": 1,

"action": "create_campaign",

"ad_account_id": "500000001",

"account": "urn:li:sponsoredAccount:500000001",

"campaignGroup": "urn:li:sponsoredCampaignGroup:<id returned by step 1>",

"name": "TLA | Document | Engagement | US owners 2-50 | 2026-11",

"type": "SPONSORED_UPDATES",

"objectiveType": "ENGAGEMENT",

"costType": "CPM",

"unitCost": {

"amount": "46.80",

"currencyCode": "USD"

},

"dailyBudget": {

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"currencyCode": "USD"

},

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"currencyCode": "USD"

},

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"end": 1794805199000

},

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{

"or": {

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]

}

},

{

"or": {

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"urn:li:staffCountRange:(11,50)"

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}

},

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"or": {

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"urn:li:seniority:9",

"urn:li:seniority:8"

]

}

}

]

},

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"or": {

"urn:li:adTargetingFacet:employers": [

"urn:li:organization:10000001"

]

}

}

},

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"country": "US",

"language": "en"

},

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"offsiteDeliveryEnabled": false,

"politicalIntent": "NOT_POLITICAL",

"status": "PAUSED"

}

},

{

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"status": "not run",

"body": {

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"workspace_id": 1,

"brand_id": 1,

"action": "create_campaign",

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"account": "urn:li:sponsoredAccount:500000001",

"campaignGroup": "urn:li:sponsoredCampaignGroup:<id returned by step 1>",

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"type": "SPONSORED_UPDATES",

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"currencyCode": "USD"

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"Search for the author (1st and 2nd-degree connections show in Campaign Manager; a 3rd-degree creator is found through Creator Marketplace) and pick the exact post named in the plan.",

"Send the sponsorship request. The author gets an email and approves it (or has auto-approval on). The ad can't serve until they do.",

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"When every post shows as approved, set the campaigns from paused to active, or ask Claude to read them back first."

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"author": "Founder and CEO",

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"message": "Hi, your post \"Why we stopped letting clients book without a deposit, and what it did to no-shows\" is doing better than your usual posts, and it's on a topic our buyers care about. We'd like to sponsor it as a Thought Leader Ad from Nov 2 for 14 days, to US owners of 2 to 50 person businesses. It runs as your post, from your profile, and nothing in it changes. You'll get a LinkedIn email from Campaign Manager to approve it, and you can withdraw permission at any time, which stops the ad. OK to send the request?"

},

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"author": "Head of customer success",

"post_id": "C-A",

"message": "Hi, your post \"7 reminder text templates that cut no-shows\" is doing better than your usual posts, and it's on a topic our buyers care about. We'd like to sponsor it as a Thought Leader Ad from Nov 2 for 14 days, to US owners of 2 to 50 person businesses. It runs as your post, from your profile, and nothing in it changes. You'll get a LinkedIn email from Campaign Manager to approve it, and you can withdraw permission at any time, which stops the ad. OK to send the request?"

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"author": "Partner creator, a salon business coach",

"post_id": "R-A",

"message": "Hi, your post \"How I took one salon's no-shows from 12% to 3%\" is doing better than your usual posts, and it's on a topic our buyers care about. We'd like to sponsor it as a Thought Leader Ad from Nov 2 for 14 days, to US owners of 2 to 50 person businesses. It runs as your post, from your profile, and nothing in it changes. You'll get a LinkedIn email from Campaign Manager to approve it, and you can withdraw permission at any time, which stops the ad. OK to send the request?"

}

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"No campaign, group or ad was created: the payloads above are marked not run and wait for your yes.",

"The posts themselves are attached in Campaign Manager, because a member's post needs the author's approval there; the MCP's ad creation takes Page-authored posts only.",

"Each post's eligibility label in Campaign Manager wins over this plan if they disagree."

],

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"post_id": "F-01",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-10-24",

"age_days": 4,

"format": "text",

"topic": "hiring",

"theme_fit": "off",

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"engagements": 108,

"engagement_rate_pct": 2.46,

"author_bar_pct": 2.6,

"lift": 0.95,

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},

{

"post_id": "F-02",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-10-15",

"age_days": 13,

"format": "text",

"topic": "deposits and payments",

"theme_fit": "on",

"impressions": 1546,

"engagements": 25,

"engagement_rate_pct": 1.62,

"author_bar_pct": 2.6,

"lift": 0.62,

"comments_per_1000_impressions": 3.2,

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"why": "lift 0.62x is under the 1.5x bar"

},

{

"post_id": "F-A",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": "Why we stopped letting clients book without a deposit, and what it did to no-shows",

"date": "2026-10-14",

"age_days": 14,

"format": "text",

"topic": "deposits and payments",

"theme_fit": "on",

"impressions": 4820,

"engagements": 266,

"engagement_rate_pct": 5.52,

"author_bar_pct": 2.6,

"lift": 2.13,

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"page_note": null,

"test_budget_usd": 468,

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"post_id": "F-03",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-10-07",

"age_days": 21,

"format": "document",

"topic": "personal milestone",

"theme_fit": "off",

"impressions": 4743,

"engagements": 104,

"engagement_rate_pct": 2.19,

"author_bar_pct": 2.6,

"lift": 0.84,

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"why": "lift 0.84x is under the 1.5x bar; topic 'personal milestone' is off the campaign themes"

},

{

"post_id": "F-B",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": "We're hiring our first support lead",

"date": "2026-09-30",

"age_days": 28,

"format": "image",

"topic": "hiring",

"theme_fit": "off",

"impressions": 6900,

"engagements": 317,

"engagement_rate_pct": 4.59,

"author_bar_pct": 2.6,

"lift": 1.77,

"comments_per_1000_impressions": 9.1,

"verdict": "skip",

"why": "topic 'hiring' is off the campaign themes"

},

{

"post_id": "F-04",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-09-28",

"age_days": 30,

"format": "text",

"topic": "small business growth",

"theme_fit": "adjacent",

"impressions": 1766,

"engagements": 46,

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"author_bar_pct": 2.6,

"lift": 1,

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},

{

"post_id": "F-05",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-09-19",

"age_days": 39,

"format": "image",

"topic": "front desk time",

"theme_fit": "on",

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"engagements": 34,

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},

{

"post_id": "F-C",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": "Chart: no-show rate by industry from 2,000 booking pages",

"date": "2026-09-12",

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"format": "image",

"topic": "no-shows",

"theme_fit": "on",

"impressions": 3650,

"engagements": 109,

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},

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"author": "founder",

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"title": null,

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},

{

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"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-09-03",

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"format": "text",

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"theme_fit": "adjacent",

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"engagements": 130,

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},

{

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"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-08-26",

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"format": "image",

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"lift": 1.05,

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},

{

"post_id": "F-D",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": "6 front desk habits that save an hour a day",

"date": "2026-08-25",

"age_days": 64,

"format": "multi_image",

"topic": "front desk time",

"theme_fit": null,

"impressions": 4100,

"engagements": 179,

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},

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"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-08-17",

"age_days": 72,

"format": "image",

"topic": "event recap",

"theme_fit": "off",

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},

{

"post_id": "F-10",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-08-07",

"age_days": 82,

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"topic": "personal milestone",

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},

{

"post_id": "F-11",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-07-30",

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"format": "text",

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},

{

"post_id": "F-12",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-07-21",

"age_days": 99,

"format": "document",

"topic": "no-shows",

"theme_fit": "on",

"impressions": 3742,

"engagements": 81,

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"author_bar_pct": 2.6,

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},

{

"post_id": "F-13",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-07-13",

"age_days": 107,

"format": "text",

"topic": "no-shows",

"theme_fit": "on",

"impressions": 3759,

"engagements": 103,

"engagement_rate_pct": 2.74,

"author_bar_pct": 2.6,

"lift": 1.06,

"comments_per_1000_impressions": 5.3,

"verdict": "skip",

"why": "lift 1.06x is under the 1.5x bar"

},

{

"post_id": "F-14",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-07-04",

"age_days": 116,

"format": "document",

"topic": "personal milestone",

"theme_fit": "off",

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"engagements": 81,

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"lift": 0.53,

"comments_per_1000_impressions": 2,

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"why": "lift 0.53x is under the 1.5x bar; topic 'personal milestone' is off the campaign themes"

},

{

"post_id": "F-15",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-06-25",

"age_days": 125,

"format": "image",

"topic": "front desk time",

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"engagements": 67,

"engagement_rate_pct": 1.75,

"author_bar_pct": 2.6,

"lift": 0.67,

"comments_per_1000_impressions": 2.9,

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"why": "lift 0.67x is under the 1.5x bar"

},

{

"post_id": "F-E",

"author": "founder",

"author_role": "Founder and CEO",

"title": "The day one no-show cost a salon owner a full afternoon",

"date": "2026-04-08",

"age_days": 203,

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"theme_fit": "on",

"impressions": 5200,

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"why": "203 days old: check it is still true before paying for it"

},

{

"post_id": "C-B",

"author": "cs_head",

"author_role": "Head of customer success",

"title": "What our busiest customers do in the first 10 minutes",

"date": "2026-10-26",

"age_days": 2,

"format": "text",

"topic": "front desk time",

"theme_fit": "on",

"impressions": 410,

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},

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"author": "cs_head",

"author_role": "Head of customer success",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-10-22",

"age_days": 6,

"format": "text",

"topic": "no-shows",

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"engagements": 37,

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"author_bar_pct": 2.63,

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"why": "lift 0.67x is under the 1.5x bar"

},

{

"post_id": "C-02",

"author": "cs_head",

"author_role": "Head of customer success",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-10-14",

"age_days": 14,

"format": "image",

"topic": "front desk time",

"theme_fit": "on",

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"author_bar_pct": 2.63,

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"why": "lift 1.29x is under the 1.5x bar"

},

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"post_id": "C-A",

"author": "cs_head",

"author_role": "Head of customer success",

"title": "7 reminder text templates that cut no-shows",

"date": "2026-10-08",

"age_days": 20,

"format": "document",

"topic": "no-shows",

"theme_fit": "on",

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"engagements": 120,

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"author_bar_pct": 2.63,

"lift": 2.02,

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},

{

"post_id": "C-03",

"author": "cs_head",

"author_role": "Head of customer success",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-10-07",

"age_days": 21,

"format": "image",

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"theme_fit": "adjacent",

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},

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"author": "cs_head",

"author_role": "Head of customer success",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-09-29",

"age_days": 29,

"format": "document",

"topic": "no-shows",

"theme_fit": "on",

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"engagement_rate_pct": 2.68,

"author_bar_pct": 2.63,

"lift": 1.02,

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"why": "lift 1.02x is under the 1.5x bar"

},

{

"post_id": "C-05",

"author": "cs_head",

"author_role": "Head of customer success",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-09-20",

"age_days": 38,

"format": "image",

"topic": "no-shows",

"theme_fit": "on",

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"author_bar_pct": 2.63,

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},

{

"post_id": "C-06",

"author": "cs_head",

"author_role": "Head of customer success",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-09-13",

"age_days": 45,

"format": "image",

"topic": "small business growth",

"theme_fit": "adjacent",

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"author_bar_pct": 2.63,

"lift": 0.98,

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"why": "lift 0.98x is under the 1.5x bar; topic 'small business growth' is next to the themes, not on one"

},

{

"post_id": "C-07",

"author": "cs_head",

"author_role": "Head of customer success",

"title": null,

"date": "2026-09-06",

"age_days": 52,

"format": "text",

"topic": "no-shows",

"theme_fit": "on",

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"author_bar_pct": 2.63,

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