Source: Zubair Trabzada | AI Workshop | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbKob_OlE8M Duration: 16 min | Published: 2026-04-08 Processed: 2026-04-10
SKILL.md) that together replicate the work of a paid ad agency./ads-strategy). It tells the model its purpose, execution sequence, and constraints, turning the general assistant into a specialist for that task.skills/ folder inside a project and become available through slash commands./ads-strategy <site> is called./ads-hooks skill generates 25 scroll-stopping hooks across five psychological angles./ads-quick gives a rapid audit snapshot rather than the full report — useful for cold outreach or rating an existing campaign.SKILL.md files that drop into any Claude Code project. This is a distribution model — no server, no backend, just markdown./ads-strategy (full report) and /ads-quick (5-minute audit). Quick version becomes the lead magnet; full version becomes the paid deliverable.SKILL.md bundles — no hosting, no auth, no infrastructure. That makes them shippable, sellable, and version-controllable like any static asset.# Claude Just Changed Advertising Forever! (Tutorial)
**Source:** Zubair Trabzada | AI Workshop | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbKob_OlE8M
**Duration:** 16 min | **Published:** 2026-04-08
**Processed:** 2026-04-10
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## Core Concepts
- The tool is a collection of Claude Code Skills (domain-specific markdown instruction files, `SKILL.md`) that together replicate the work of a paid ad agency.
- A Skill is a markdown file Claude Code loads when invoked by name (e.g. `/ads-strategy`). It tells the model its purpose, execution sequence, and constraints, turning the general assistant into a specialist for that task.
- Skills live in a `skills/` folder inside a project and become available through slash commands.
- The package contains 15 skills grouped into categories: strategy and analysis, creative copy, ad funnel, ad budget, ad testing, landing page audit, and quick snapshots.
- Execution runs in three phases when a top-level skill like `/ads-strategy <site>` is called.
- Phase 1 — discovery and business intelligence: the agent scrapes or reads the target website, competitors, and category context.
- Phase 2 — parallel agent analysis: five sub-agents run simultaneously, each owning a slice (audience, creative, funnel, competitive, budget).
- Parallel means they run in separate context windows at the same time, not sequentially, so total wall-clock time is close to the slowest single agent rather than the sum of all five.
- Phase 3 — synthesis: a PDF report is produced combining all sub-agent outputs into one deliverable.
- Report contents demonstrated on dollarshaveclub.com:
- AI readiness score (0–100) with dashboard across audience clarity, creative quality, funnel architecture, competitive position, budget efficiency.
- Audience personas with demographics, income bands, preferred platforms, and paid-platform targeting parameters (interest stacks, behavioural signals).
- Campaign structure broken into funnel stages: awareness, consideration, conversion, retargeting — with platform, ad type, KPI, and budget allocation per stage.
- Funnel stage means where a potential buyer is in their decision process; each stage needs different messaging and different ad formats.
- Ad copy samples per platform (Meta, Google, LinkedIn, etc.) giving headline, primary text, and call to action.
- Budget allocation by platform and projected metrics: impressions, clicks, click-through rate, conversions, cost per acquisition, return on ad spend (ROAS = revenue generated divided by ad spend), estimated revenue.
- The `/ads-hooks` skill generates 25 scroll-stopping hooks across five psychological angles.
- Each hook includes the hook text, variations for A/B testing (running two versions against each other to see which performs better), reasoning for why it works, and platform-specific deployment notes (Meta split-screen, TikTok, Google, YouTube pre-roll, email subject line).
- `/ads-quick` gives a rapid audit snapshot rather than the full report — useful for cold outreach or rating an existing campaign.
- Installation path for non-technical users:
- Install Visual Studio Code (a free code editor from Microsoft).
- Install the Claude Code extension from the VS Code marketplace.
- Download the skills zip from the creator's community, unzip into the project folder, and the slash commands become available inside Claude Code.
## Buildable Ideas
- Skill-pack architecture: ship domain expertise as a zipped bundle of `SKILL.md` files that drop into any Claude Code project. This is a distribution model — no server, no backend, just markdown.
- Same pattern works for any agency discipline: SEO audit, brand audit, financial due diligence, volunteer recruitment strategy.
- Three-phase orchestration template: discovery → parallel sub-agents → synthesis PDF. A reusable spine for any "agency-in-a-box" product.
- Parallel sub-agent pattern for reports: give each sub-agent one section of the deliverable to own. Faster than sequential, and each sub-agent stays focused on a narrow brief which improves quality.
- Hook generator module: a standalone skill that produces A/B-ready copy with variation, reasoning, and platform formatting. Usable as a micro-product on its own.
- Snapshot vs. deep-dive duality: ship both `/ads-strategy` (full report) and `/ads-quick` (5-minute audit). Quick version becomes the lead magnet; full version becomes the paid deliverable.
- PDF report as the final artefact — not chat output, not a dashboard. A fixed deliverable clients recognise from existing agency work, easy to price and invoice against.
- White-label positioning: the creator explicitly frames this as "charge clients $500 to $2,000 for this report." The tool is built for resale, not internal use only.
## Key Takeaways
- Claude Code Skills are now mature enough to bundle into vertical packs that do agency-level work end to end, not just assist with individual tasks.
- The winning pattern is discovery → parallel sub-agents → PDF synthesis. Each sub-agent owns a section, runs concurrently, and the output is one file a client can read without training.
- Skills are distributed as zipped `SKILL.md` bundles — no hosting, no auth, no infrastructure. That makes them shippable, sellable, and version-controllable like any static asset.
- For Jo specifically: this is a template for how to package Himiko's capabilities into resale products. Pick a vertical (volunteering recruitment, fractional COO audits), write the skills, ship the zip.
- The business model insight: price the output, not the tool. A skill pack that replaces a $5k audit is worth selling for $500–$2,000 per use even if the underlying cost is a few Claude tokens.