Make a lead-magnet spreadsheet
- Pick a spreadsheet idea your audience would actually trade an email for
- Name and frame it so the offer lands
- Know which CF tool runs each step today
Step 1 — Pick the promise (Spark)
explainA lead magnet has to promise one clear outcome. Start with the angle, not the cells. Use Spark to generate ten candidate promises for your audience — 'A 12-month cash-flow tracker for freelancers', 'A content-calendar sheet that fills itself in.' Spark gives you the openers and titles; you pick the one that makes someone stop.
Run Spark for your audience and write down the three promises you'd actually click.
Step 2 — Draft a starter sheet (Design, Sheet mode)
explainDesign's Sheet mode (the spreadsheet studio) can generate a starter template from a plain-language prompt — describe what you want tracked and it drafts real columns and sample rows for you to shape. Or start from one of its locked templates (budget tracker, content calendar, savings calculator) and rename it into your promise.
In Design's Sheet mode, describe your sheet and generate a starter, or pick a template close to your idea.
Step 3 — Build the actual sheet (Design, Sheet mode)
explainThis is where the honest nuance matters: Design's Sheet mode ships real spreadsheet formulas as cell text (=B2-C2, =SUM(...), =COUNTIF(...)) and shows them as text while you edit — it does not calculate them live inside CF. The moment you export to .xlsx (or .csv), those become real, working formula cells that compute the instant you open the file in Excel or Google Sheets. Build it, check the formulas read right, then export.
Finish your sheet in Design, export the .xlsx, and open it in Excel or Sheets to confirm the formulas actually compute.
Step 4 — Make the cover graphic (Design, Graphic mode)
explainPeople download a thing they can picture. Design's Graphic mode builds the cover — bold type, shapes, your promise text, and (if you want one) a photo you upload yourself. There is no AI photo generation live in CF yet, so keep it typographic or bring your own image; export a PNG when it looks like a real product.
Build one cover in Design's Graphic mode. Put your promise text on it, export the PNG.
Step 5 — Write the opt-in copy (Spark + Push or Frame)
explainThe page (or post) that offers the sheet needs a hook and a few honest lines. Spark writes the hook. If you're posting about it, Push drafts the post body per platform in a click. If you're building a landing page for the opt-in, Frame answers a few questions and drafts the page copy for you to edit. Say exactly what they get and what it does — no inflated claims. The freebie is the proof; the copy just removes friction.
Draft the opt-in: one Spark hook + a Push or Frame draft. Read it out loud.
Step 6 — Send it to your store and launch (Sell + Pilot + Push)
explainSend the finished .xlsx to your store — that creates a real draft product with the file attached, priced and published from Sell. That is where the file is actually kept; it is not something you store in Idea Shield, which only locks short text notes today, not files. For the launch, Pilot lays out a per-platform packaging plan and a 14-day cadence; Push is what actually auto-posts on schedule today, to Telegram, Discord, LinkedIn, and Bluesky (other platforms are still manual for now). If you want dated proof you had the promise before anyone else, lock the promise text itself in Idea Shield — that is exactly what it is built for.
Send the sheet to your store, then let Pilot draft a one-week plan and Push schedule the posts it can reach.
Where Alfred sits
recapAlfred is the one keeping the thread: it knows this is your lead-magnet project, routes you to Spark then Design then Push in order, and remembers the promise you picked so step 5 stays consistent with step 1. You don't summon four tools — you tell Alfred what you're making.
- Start with the promise (Spark), not the cells.
- Design's Sheet mode builds the real sheet and the cover — formulas compute on open in Excel/Sheets, not live in CF; cover art is typographic or your own photo, no AI image generation yet.
- Sending the file to your store is how it is kept and made sellable — Idea Shield only locks text, not files.
- Pilot plans the launch; Push actually auto-posts it to your live channels; Alfred runs the order.