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The Blair Enns Framework

Win Without Pitching & Pricing Creativity

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Blair Enns represents one of the most distinctive thinking patterns in their field. Blair Enns's approach, captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask.

The win without pitching & pricing creativity framework distils Blair Enns's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds.

Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Blair Enns made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Blair Enns's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Blair Enns's thinking.

Core Philosophy

Enns spent decades inside agency new business before writing it down, and his starting observation is about power, not persuasion: the moment an expert agrees to pitch, present free ideas, or compete in a spec-work parade, they have traded the expert's position for the vendor's, and everything downstream, price, scope, respect, the quality of the work itself, degrades from there.

The sale is the client's first experience of what working with you is like, so the sale must be conducted the way an expert conducts an engagement: diagnosing before prescribing, addressing money early, and being genuinely willing to walk away. Pricing follows the same logic. Money is made in the conversation about value, not in the efficiency of delivery, and a firm that prices time is selling the one thing the client should care about least.

Five Mental Models
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples, unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

Are you behaving like the expert or the vendor in this sale, and which of your own choices decided that?

5 more questions in Blair Enns's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Blair Enns Would NOT Do · sample
✗Join a spec-work beauty parade or present free creative to win an account.

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

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The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Blair Enns actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.

Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.

What's inside
  • ✦Core philosophy: 2–3 sentences grounded in Blair Enns's documented worldview
  • ✦Five signature mental models: each named, with concrete examples from their work
  • ✦Decision heuristics: the concrete rules they actually used
  • ✦Signature questions: five questions that sound like Blair Enns, not a generic MBA
  • ✦What they would NOT do: the anti-patterns this framework rejects
  • ✦Copy-paste activation prompt: drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
  • ✦Worked example: the framework applied to a realistic scenario
Delivered in two formats
  • →blair-enns.zip: a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • →blair-enns-framework.md: plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts, anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Blair Enns. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.

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