- Eugene Schwartz, *Breakthrough Advertising* (1966) — the five stages of audience awareness; the basis for Prompt 8 and the value-prop logic in Prompt 3.
- Joanna Wiebe / Copyhackers — voice-of-customer methodology and the conversion-copywriting school behind Prompts 1, 5, and 6. See copyhackers.com.
- Robert Cialdini, *Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion* and *Pre-Suasion* — the six influence levers used in Prompt 2.
- BJ Fogg, *Tiny Habits* and the Fogg Behavior Model (B = MAP) — the motivation/ability/prompt framework that structures Prompt 9. See behaviormodel.org.
- OpenAI, *Prompt engineering guide* — platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering.
- OpenAI, *Models documentation* — platform.openai.com/docs/models.
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