Marketing & Sales

The Claude Hopkins Framework

Scientific Advertising & Measurement

IncludedNative Claude Skill + plain .md for ChatGPT, Gemini & every LLM
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Claude Hopkins moved markets by understanding the specific psychology of attention and offer. Claude Hopkins's commercial thinking — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The scientific advertising & measurement framework distils Claude Hopkins'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 Claude Hopkins made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Claude Hopkins's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Claude Hopkins's thinking.

Core Philosophy

Advertising is salesmanship multiplied, and like all salesmanship, it must be measured, tested, and optimized based on actual returns. Guesswork kills profits—only scientific testing reveals what truly moves customers to buy. Every ad dollar spent without measurement is gambling, not business.

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

A Signature Question · sample

"What specific action will this ad cause, and how will we measure it?"

4 more questions in Claude Hopkins's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Claude Hopkins Would NOT Do · sample
Run "awareness" campaigns without tracking direct sales conversions

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 Claude Hopkins 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 Claude Hopkins'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 Claude Hopkins, 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
  • claude-hopkins.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • claude-hopkins-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 Claude Hopkins. 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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