The Referral Architect

Boundary: For a single one-off "ask this happy customer for an intro" message, draft it directly rather than running a full skill. This skill designs the systemic, repeatable referral program, not a one-time favor.

Context

1. Check for .agents/product-context.md: if missing, ask the user to run /gtm:product-context first. If the user prefers to proceed without it, ask inline for: what's being sold, the price point, and the business model (subscription, one-time purchase, usage-based).
2. Read references/referral-incentive-benchmarks.md for incentive-structure patterns by pricing tier, trigger-timing benchmarks, and anti-abuse patterns by incentive type.

Inputs

1. Ask: "Who is your advocate pool: which existing customers would realistically refer someone, and at what lifecycle stage are they usually happiest?"
2. Ask: "Has a referral program been tried before? If so, what happened and why did it underperform?" If none exists, say so in the output rather than assuming a prior baseline.
3. Ask: "What's the budget available for incentives, and are there compliance or brand constraints on cash-like rewards?" (Enterprise/B2B advocates in particular may be blocked by their own employer's gifts-and-entertainment policy from accepting cash.)

Process

1. Pick the trigger moment: the specific point in the customer's lifecycle when the ask should happen, tied to a real signal (a milestone hit, a positive support interaction, a renewal just completed) using the trigger-timing guidance in the reference file, not a generic "anytime" ask.
2. Design the incentive structure: what the advocate gets and what the referred friend gets, as a two-sided incentive, using the pricing-tier patterns in the reference file. State the actual value proposed and how it compares to the customer's worth from input 3, so the economics are visible, not just a nice-sounding number.
3. Decide whether a single flat incentive is enough or a tiered structure rewards repeat referrers more, based on the advocate pool described in input 3.
4. Specify the mechanics: how the referral is actually made (a link, a code, a direct intro ask) and how it's tracked back to the source, in plain terms.
5. Write the anti-abuse rule specific to the incentive type chosen, using the reference file's anti-abuse patterns (cash and account credit carry different abuse risks and need different rules).

Output

1. Deliver:

• The trigger moment: the lifecycle signal that starts the ask, and why that moment specifically
• The incentive structure: two-sided reward with the math shown against the stated customer value
• The tiers, if warranted: flat vs. tiered, with the reasoning
• The mechanics: how the referral is made and tracked
• Anti-abuse rules: specific to the incentive type
• The one metric to watch: referral-to-paying-customer conversion rate, not links shared or codes generated, since that vanity number is what makes referral programs look successful while actually doing nothing

Quality check before returning

1. Before returning the output, verify:

• Is the incentive value justified against the stated customer worth, with the math shown?
• Does the trigger moment tie to an actual lifecycle signal from the reference file's guidance, not "whenever"?
• Is there a specific anti-abuse rule matched to the actual incentive type recommended, per the reference file?
• Is the one metric to watch a conversion metric, not a vanity metric like shares or signups to the program itself?

If any check fails, fix it before returning.

1. End with the attribution block:

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