Signed and Paid in One Sitting
Turns signature and deposit into a single action, with the exact amount, the start-date condition and a phone test before you send.
What it is for
A signature without a deposit is a promise, and the project quietly waits on someone else's payment run while the client's certainty fades. This makes signing and paying the same moment, states the amount and start condition precisely, and includes the phone test that catches steps mobile signers cannot complete. Use it before sending anything you expect to be signed.
The skill
The gap between "yes" and money is where deals die quietly. Close it by making signature and payment one action instead of two events a week apart. Build the close into the document: - Take the deposit at signature. If payment happens later, by invoice, the project starts whenever somebody else's accounts department gets to it. - State the exact amount, not a percentage on its own. "50%" with no figure is an arithmetic argument you will have on the day you wanted to start. - Tie the start date to the money: work begins when the deposit clears, and the date is held for a stated number of days. That is a fact, not pressure. - Put the terms inside the document being signed. Terms attached separately, or linked and never opened, are terms you will be arguing about later. Before you send: - Confirm on the call who signs. A proposal sent to someone without authority gets forwarded, loses its context, and stalls for a fortnight. - Send it to your own phone and sign it with a thumb. Any step that needs a desktop, an account, a download or a printer loses you the signatures that would have happened at 9pm on a sofa. - Remove every optional field. Each one is a place to stop. The hour after signature sets the tone of the whole project: - Send written confirmation with the start date, the amount received, and the three things you need from them, each with a date. - Doubt arrives after commitment, not before. Silence right after signing is what feeds it. If a client insists on paying later, fine — but move the start date with it, in writing, at that moment. A start date that survives an unpaid deposit is a start date you will miss.
How to install it
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.