Your weekly Substack outline and opener — in your actual voice.

What it does

Weekly posts are where paid Substacks live or die, and the gap between 'I have a good idea this week' and 'I have a publishable post' is usually three hours of restructuring and rewriting your own lede until it stops sounding like a LinkedIn update. This skill closes that gap. Give it your theme, your audience, two or three sources, and a voice sample — get back a complete Substack post outline with section-by-section structure and an opening paragraph matched to your voice. Voice matching isn't vibes. The bundled voice-matching-guide.md analyzes six concrete dimensions from your sample (sentence rhythm, first-person posture, formality register, evidence style, irony and skepticism level, signature constructions like em-dashes vs. parentheses, rhetorical questions, numbered lists mid-prose) and reproduces at least two signature constructions in the opening paragraph. If you only give adjectives, the guide has five archetypes (Warm and Personal, Wonky and Rigorous, Conversational Skeptic, Essayistic and Literary, Urgent and Direct) to start from. The bundled substack-post-formats.md picks the right structure for your material — Argument Post for a strong thesis, Personal Essay when your experience is the lens, Explainer when readers need clarity, Reported Post for multi-source synthesis, List Post when items genuinely stand alone, Letter Post for community moments. It will not write a finished polished draft for you on demand, because the outline + opening is the highest-leverage step where your voice still owns the work. Section expansion is available as a follow-up if you want a sample section drafted in full.

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