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Find the live wire
You give the AI your topic, audience, format, payoff, and voice boundaries. The AI identifies the sharpest audience problem, useful contrast, and honest promise before writing hooks.
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Hook Lab for the First Three Seconds
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15 min
Intermediate
Content Creation
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Need Ideas Quickly
Turn one content idea into distinct hooks built around curiosity, tension, surprise, specificity, and immediate value, then choose a winner with a clear scoring test.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
A clever opening isn't enough if it attracts the wrong people, overpromises, or delays the point.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Build five doors into the same idea
You generate two hooks for each opening approach, creating real variety instead of a stack of near-duplicate lines.
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Pressure-test and stage the winner
You compare each opening against the audience and payoff, then turn the strongest option into a practical first-three-seconds plan.
Make Your Play
Hook Lab for the First Three Seconds
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Describe the idea, lesson, story, opinion, or problem your content will cover, including any concrete details the hooks may use.
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Describe who should stop for this content and what this audience already knows, wants, or finds frustrating.
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Select the format you plan to publish so the opening fits its pace and presentation.
State what your audience will understand, feel, or be able to do after consuming the content.
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Describe the tone you want and list any claims, phrases, tactics, or styles you don't want used.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
Find the live wire
You give the AI your topic, audience, format, payoff, and voice boundaries. The AI identifies the sharpest audience problem, useful contrast, and honest promise before writing hooks.
02
Build five doors into the same idea
You generate two hooks for each opening approach, creating real variety instead of a stack of near-duplicate lines.
03
Pressure-test and stage the winner
You compare each opening against the audience and payoff, then turn the strongest option into a practical first-three-seconds plan.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill in the brief with plain language. Your promised payoff should say what your audience will understand, feel, or be able to do after consuming the content. Run the full prompt, then read the top three hooks aloud before choosing one.
Advanced instructions
Use the scoring table as a decision aid rather than an automatic verdict. You can override the winner when platform context, visual execution, or recent audience feedback favors another option. Save the top three as test variants and track hold rate or opening engagement when that data is available.
Use this when
Use this before scripting or publishing a video, Reel, Short, carousel, podcast clip, newsletter, or post when your topic feels useful but the opening feels flat, familiar, or vague.
You'll need
- Content topic
- Intended audience
- Content format
- Promised payoff
- Voice and boundaries
You'll get
- 10 genuinely different hooks across five opening approaches
- One selected hook that fits your audience, format, voice, and actual payoff
- You also have two backups and a clear first visual or next beat that carries attention beyond the opening line.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- 10 genuinely different hooks across five opening approaches
- One selected hook that fits your audience, format, voice, and actual payoff
- You also have two backups and a clear first visual or next beat that carries attention beyond the opening line.
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