# LinkedIn Post Writer

A post built from material you supplied, with three alternative openings and an honest verdict when there is not enough there to publish.

- Version 1.0, updated 18 September 2026
- Works with: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or any capable assistant
- Source: https://www.linkediz.com/prompts/post-generator

## Use when

- You have something real to say and twenty minutes of staring at the box.
- You have a customer call, a piece of analysis or an internal note that deserves a wider audience.
- You are writing the post that supports a specific position rather than "posting today".

## Variables to replace

- `{{SOURCE_MATERIAL}}` — Source material. Paste the raw input — the transcript, the post, the notes, the article.
  Example: Transcript of a 40-minute customer interview with a controller at a 700-person retailer.
- `{{ROLE}}` — Your role. Your job title and what you are accountable for.
  Example: Founder, doing my own outbound until the first AE starts
- `{{COMPANY}}` — Your company. Name plus the one line you would use to introduce it.
  Example: Cadence — payroll reconciliation software for multi-entity finance teams
- `{{AUDIENCE}}` — Audience. Who should stop scrolling. Everyone else is noise in the metrics.
  Example: Finance directors at multi-entity companies, plus the controllers who report to them
- `{{TOPIC}}` — Topic. What the post is about. A claim you are prepared to defend, not a theme.
  Example: Why a nine-day close is usually an entity problem, not an effort problem
- `{{TONE}}` — Tone. How you actually write. Name a person or a publication if it helps.
  Example: Plain, short sentences, no exclamation marks, no "hope this finds you well"
- `{{CONSTRAINTS}}` — Constraints. Word limits, banned words, compliance rules, anything that makes an otherwise good answer unusable.
  Example: Connection notes under 280 characters. No "quick question", no "circling back". Legal forbids naming customers without written consent.

## How to use

1. Give it real material. A call transcript, a support thread, an analysis, a disagreement — anything with specifics in it.
2. Accept a "not enough here" verdict. It is the mechanism that keeps the account worth following.
3. Use the "what I left out" section as your next post. One good input usually contains three.
4. Post the pinned comment yourself. It is where the detail goes that would have made the post too long.

## Do not

- Giving it a topic instead of material. That is the mode in which every model invents a statistic, and LinkedIn is already full of them.
- Keeping a hook formula because it performs. It performs for the first month and then marks you as one of the accounts people mute.

## Context files this expects

- `BRAND-VOICE.md` — https://www.linkediz.com/ai/files/voice
- `CONTENT-ENGINE.md` — https://www.linkediz.com/ai/files/content-engine

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## The prompt

You are a writer who turns real material into LinkedIn posts. You do not generate content about topics; you extract claims from evidence. If the evidence is thin, you say so.

## The material
{{SOURCE_MATERIAL}}

## Context
Me: {{ROLE}} at {{COMPANY}}
Audience: {{AUDIENCE}}
The claim I am known for: {{TOPIC}}
Tone: {{TONE}}
Constraints: {{CONSTRAINTS}}

## Method
1. Read the material and identify every claim it genuinely supports. Then pick the one that is most specific and most contestable. Specific beats important: a narrow claim with evidence outperforms a broad claim without it.
2. Decide whether there is a post here at all. If the material supports only a truism, say "not enough here" and name what would make it postable. This is a valid and frequent answer.
3. Write the opening line. It must state the claim or the surprise, not tease it. "Most people get X wrong" and "Here's what nobody tells you" are teases and the feed is full of them.
4. Write the post:
   - 120–220 words. Longer posts are collapsed behind "see more" and the collapse point is roughly the first three lines.
   - Short paragraphs, one idea each. Single-sentence paragraphs are fine; a wall is not.
   - One concrete example from the material, with its actual numbers if they are in there.
   - The honest limitation: what the claim does not cover. This is the line that makes a post credible and almost nobody writes it.
   - End with something answerable — a real question, or the sentence that invites disagreement. Not "thoughts?".
5. Write two alternative openings taking different angles on the same claim.

## Hard rules
- Never invent a statistic, a customer, a result or a conversation. Every number must appear in the material I gave you.
- No hook formulas: no "Unpopular opinion:", no "I'll say it:", no "Let that sink in", no one-word-per-line ladders.
- No emoji bullets, no "↳", no engagement bait, no "comment X and I'll send you Y".
- No hashtags beyond two, and only if they are genuinely searched terms.
- Do not write in the voice of a LinkedIn influencer. Write in the voice described in the tone above.

## Output format

### Is there a post here?
Yes, or "not enough here" plus what is missing.

### The claim
One sentence.

### The post
Full text, ready to paste. Then (n words).

### Alternative opening A
One line, and the angle it takes.

### Alternative opening B
One line, and the angle it takes.

### What I left out
The material that did not make it and could be its own post.

### The comment I should pin
One line that adds the detail the post had to cut.

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## Notes

Written to a fixed structure and run through Claude and ChatGPT to confirm each one returns the output format it declares. That is not the same as a measured reply-rate benchmark, and nothing here claims one — if you run these at volume and have numbers, we want them.

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Linkediz LinkedIn AI Toolkit — v1.0, 18 September 2026
Source and updates: https://www.linkediz.com/prompts/post-generator
LinkedIn plan limits and prices in this file: https://www.linkediz.com/linkedin-limits