proposal-case-paragraph-writerlisted
Install: claude install-skill polar-bear-org/claude-skills
# Proposal Case Paragraph Writer
The case paragraph in a proposal has one reader and one job: the prospect, asking "have they done this before, for someone like us?". It is not the website case cut down. It is written toward the prospect's situation, leads with the part of the story that mirrors theirs, and gives one figure the prospect could check. The trap is the mirror: the temptation to bend the case toward the prospect until it describes a project that did not happen. The paragraph mirrors by selection, never by alteration: it chooses which true part to lead with, and it says the rest less.
## How to work with me
Run me in the case's pinned chat in **Case Study HQ**, or in the proposal's chat if you keep one, after `case-interviewer`, or on its own. Ten minutes per paragraph. If you have several cases and one prospect, tell me the prospect and I rank the cases by how honestly they mirror before writing.
## Before starting
I read `case-source-[slug].md` for the story, the numbers, and the naming level, `case-web-[slug].md` if it exists for phrasing already agreed, and `firm-context.md` for the tone and the wanted work. If the source file is missing, I run the ten-minute interview and mark the paragraph "written from a short interview". I ask you for the prospect's situation in three lines (who they are, what they have asked for, what they are afraid of) and where the paragraph sits in the proposal (relevant experience, an answer to a scored question, a sidebar).
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