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The doctrine

Most lead magnets are brochures with a download button

Six rules, and an asset that obeys all six of them or disproves itself. Grade your own magnet below, in your browser, and find out which rule is costing you the most. Nothing you answer is stored or attached to you.

11 pages · 6 rules · free · nothing withheld

Six questions · no email required

Grade the magnet you already have

One question per rule. Answer honestly rather than generously, since nobody sees this and a flattering score buys you nothing.

Rule 1 · Complete value

Could a reader act on it without buying anything from you?

Rule 2 · A specific reader

Would the wrong reader put it down in the first paragraph?

Rule 3 · An honest cost

Does it state what following the advice actually costs?

Rule 4 · Usable on its own

Can a reader do something with it this week?

Rule 5 · Immediate delivery

Does the reader get everything the moment they submit?

Rule 6 · Worth forwarding

Would a reader send it to a colleague without embarrassment?

The honest part · rule three, obeyed

What building one of these actually costs

Rule three says publish the honest cost, so here is ours for a single magnet built to this doctrine. It is on the page rather than in the PDF, because gating the ledger would break the rule the ledger is demonstrating.

Deciding what it is and who it repels~2 hrs
Writing it, properly~8 to 14 hrs
Design and layout~4 hrs
The landing page~4 hrs
Capture, delivery and testing~3 hrs
One magnet, built properly~21 to 27 hours

Agent Craft’s own estimate, not a published statistic. Most abandoned magnets are abandoned in the writing, which is the one line above that cannot be shortened without breaking rule one.

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Eleven pages, six rules, everything on the page already included

  • The full argument for each rule, with its test and what breaking it costs
  • The repel test as a three-part worksheet
  • The value split table: what goes on the page and what goes behind the gate
  • The portfolio evidence page, showing the doctrine applied across real assets
  • Where people actually abandon a build, and what to do about it

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Six rules, and an asset that obeys all six of them or disproves itself. Grade your own magnet and find out which rule is costing you the most.

One email with the download, and whatever you choose to receive after that. No sequence starts without you opting into it.

Agent Craft

The doctrine is free. The twenty-one hours are the product.

Every rule in this guide works by hand and the ledger above is what running it costs you. Agent Craft turns a voice note into the content that feeds a magnet like this, in your voice, across LinkedIn, X, TikTok and YouTube, and collects the people it brings in.

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Before you ask

Reasonable questions

Does the grader store my answers?

No. It scores in your browser, nothing is sent anywhere, and the score is not attached to your email if you download the guide. We record which band results land in, and nothing else. Your score is yours.

My magnet scored badly. Is it worth fixing or starting again?

Fix the weakest rule first, which is the one the grader names. Most low scores come from one or two rules rather than all six, and the fixes are usually additive: publish the ledger, name the situation, put the whole method in. Starting again is rarely the answer.

Six rules seems few.

It is. Most published advice on this runs to twenty checkpoints, which is how nothing gets fixed. Six is what survived the cut, and each one is load-bearing enough that breaking it alone will sink an otherwise good asset.