Agency OS Skill Library

Conversion Optimizer

Audits live pages and funnels, finds the biggest leak, and plans the tests worth running, working only from your own page and your own numbers.

Growth conversion-optimizer
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What it does

Turns a live page or funnel plus its numbers into a diagnosis and a plan. It scores a page on a weighted scorecard covering value proposition, relevance, clarity, social proof, CTA effectiveness, anxiety and distraction, maps a funnel step by step to find where the biggest drop-off meets the most traffic, designs A/B tests with a stated hypothesis and a single deciding metric, strips friction out of forms, and can rewrite a full landing page structure when the diagnosis calls for it. Every finding ties to something visible on the page or present in your data, and every fix is ranked by expected revenue impact against implementation effort. It thinks in visitor psychology using the LIFT Model, Cialdini's principles, the Fogg Behavior Model and AIDA, not in vanity metrics.

Say this to start

This skill has no button. You start it by saying what you want. Any of these will do it:

> why is this page not converting?
> audit this landing page
> diagnose my funnel, where am I losing people?
> plan an a/b test for my headline
> quick wins I can ship on this page today

When to reach for it

When NOT to use it

If you actually wantUse this instead
a funnel or page set that does not exist yet: this skill improves pages that exist, it does not build new onesfunnel-architect
a judgement call on a draft with no traffic behind it, where the question is message, voice or whether it lands with the readercritique
fresh persuasive copy written from master frameworks once the diagnosis has named the problemlegendary-copywriters
the recommended fixes actually implemented on the sitesite-builder
email or SMS sequences to patch the drop-offs the funnel analysis findsemail-sequence

Before you start

What you needWhy
The page itself: a URL it can read or the copy pasted inevery diagnosis must map to a quoted element on the page, so there is nothing to diagnose without the page in front of itRequired
Your raw numbers with a date range: sessions and conversions per step, not a pre-rounded raterates get computed from your figures with the formula shown, and metrics that arrive without a date range are flagged before any trend claim is allowedRequired
Brand context: positioning.md and audience.md, or offer, price point and audience supplied by handfixes are matched to who actually visits and what they are buying; without this the recommendations stay structurally sound but genericOptional
ica-output.mddeepens the psychology behind relevance and anxiety findings; message match is judged against the real visitor, not a guessOptional
Analytics, heatmap or session recording data if you have itused only when supplied; behavior data you did not provide will never be cited as if it existedOptional

How it runs

  1. Load contextReads brand memory for the active workspace under the freshness rules, plus any learnings.md patterns tagged conversion-optimizer from earlier runs, so past test results and corrections shape this one.
  2. Pick the operating modeRoutes your request to the right job: a full funnel diagnostic, a scored page audit, a test plan, a form fix, a quick-wins pass, or a complete page rebuild. You do not have to name the mode, the request itself decides it.
  3. Work only from what you gave itComputes conversion rates from your raw numbers and shows the working, for example 38 opt-ins from 1,200 sessions is 3.2 percent, stated to no more precision than the data supports. Missing date ranges are flagged here, before any interpretation begins.
  4. Diagnose against the frameworksEvaluates the page with the LIFT Model, Cialdini, Fogg and AIDA. Each finding names the specific element it comes from: the headline, the CTA label, the field count, the absent proof section. Nothing is attributed to data that was not provided.
  5. Score and prioritiseProduces the weighted scorecard, then ranks fixes by revenue impact: traffic at the step, times the plausible improvement, times value per conversion. High traffic meeting above-average drop-off rises to the top. Each fix states what is broken, why, the exact change and the effort.
  6. Plan the testsEvery proposed test carries a hypothesis in the form "we believe this change will move this metric because of this reasoning", a described control and variant, one primary metric that decides the winner, a minimum sample size and duration, and kill criteria. Ideas are prioritised by impact, confidence and ease.
  7. Deliver and logOutputs the structured cro-audit-v1 record that downstream skills read, logs the deliverable to assets.md, and asks how the output landed so the learning loop has something to learn from.

What you get

Honest limits

Read this before you rely on it

Where people go wrong

The mistakeDo this instead
Bringing it a draft nobody has visited yetThat is a critique job. This skill earns its keep on something live, where real behavior and real numbers exist to diagnose.
Pasting a pre-rounded conversion rate instead of the raw countsGive it sessions and conversions with dates. The raw figures let it show the working and size the samples a test needs; a bare percentage hides both.
Starting with button colors and small visual tweaksTest in priority order: the headline and value proposition carry the most weight, then CTA copy and placement, then proof, then structure, then everything else.
Running a change with no hypothesis and calling it a testWrite the sentence first: we believe this change will move this metric because of this reasoning. If you cannot finish the sentence, you are redecorating, not testing.
Calling a winner after one strong weekendLet the test run its full planned duration through complete weekly cycles at the stated confidence level. Early peeking crowns false winners.
Auditing the desktop page and shipping the fixesMost visitors are on a phone. Check the sticky CTA, the field count, the font size, the tap targets and the load time before anything ships.
Quoting an industry benchmark in a client reportUse the client's own baseline, or say plainly that the number does not exist yet and go establish it.
Worth knowing

The fastest route to value is usually the funnel diagnostic, not the page audit. One highest-leverage fix, chosen where heavy traffic meets a heavy drop-off, tends to beat a long list of page polish. Run the diagnostic first, then audit the one page it points at.