The Creative Score Is a Sort Order

What it is for

How to use a predictive creative score without letting it make the decision: rank with it, reject on brand and compliance, then test three genuinely distinct concepts against a finish line you set before launch. Reach for it the moment a tool hands you a number next to each creative. It prevents shipping the highest-scoring generic creative and calling the number a forecast — and it prevents killing the rest on a single day of data.

The skill Copy

Use when the tool has scored your creatives and you have to choose.

A predicted score ranks your candidates against patterns in data you did not
choose. It does not know your audience, your offer, your landing page or your
season. Treat it as a sort order that saves you time, never as a forecast of
what you will pay per result.

Choosing:
- Start at the top of the ranking, then throw out anything off-brand, unclear
  at phone size, or making a claim you cannot back. A high score on a creative
  you cannot legally run is worth nothing.
- Ship at least three genuinely different concepts, not three colour variants
  of one. Colour variants teach you nothing you did not know.
- Concepts differ in the promise, the format, or who is on screen. If one
  sentence describes two of your creatives, they are one concept.

Testing:
- Change one variable at a time or you will not know what worked.
- Set the finish line before you launch: a minimum number of results per
  creative, or a minimum number of days, whichever comes first. Fifty link
  clicks or three days is a workable default on a small budget. Write the
  number down before the first impression is served.
- Never compare two creatives unless both have cleared that line. Killing on
  the first day's numbers is guessing with extra steps.
- Judge on cost per result and on what happened after the click. A creative
  that wins on clicks and loses on purchases is expensive, not successful.

Afterwards:
- Write one line saying which concept won and why you think it won.
- Feed that line into the next brief. After a few rounds this is worth more
  than any score, because it is about your customers.

If the highest-scoring creative is also the most generic one, that is a signal
about the score, not about your audience.

Failure this prevents: killing the creative that would have won, on one day of
numbers, because a score said the other one was better.

How to install it Copy

1. Open the tool and start a new conversation, project or template.
2. Paste the text below wherever the tool keeps standing instructions
   — usually called system prompt, instructions, or persona.
3. Save it so it applies to every run rather than a single message.

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