Verified against Claude · 2026-07-30
Repurpose a blog post into a LinkedIn post that doesn't read like a summary
Extract the single strongest argument from a long-form post, name what got left out and why, and rewrite the chosen argument entirely in LinkedIn's native register — with an honest, hedged answer on link placement instead of a stated rule presented as settled fact.
The prompt
Ready to copy — highlighted parts are example details you can swap.
BLOG POST CONTENT OR SUMMARY A 1,400-word post arguing that most startups over-invest in onboarding flows before they have enough retained users to know what actually needs onboarding, with 3 supporting examples. STRONGEST ARGUMENT, IF ALREADY KNOWN You can't design onboarding for a retention problem you haven't diagnosed yet BLOG URL (reference only, not to be quoted in the post) https://example.com/blog/onboarding-before-retention AUDIENCE FOR THE LINKEDIN VERSION Early-stage founders and product leads obsessing over onboarding too early WHAT YOU WANT THE READER TO DO AFTER READING Get people replying with their own experience trying to fix onboarding too early TWO-STEP PROCESS STEP ONE — PICK ONE ARGUMENT Identify the single argument or insight in the source that's strong enough to carry a standalone LinkedIn post entirely on its own — not a summary of every section of the post. State which one you picked and, just as important, name the other candidate arguments you considered and why each one didn't make the cut for a single post. A repurposing pass that can't explain what it left out usually hasn't actually chosen anything, it's just compressed everything. STEP TWO — REWRITE IN LINKEDIN'S NATIVE REGISTER Rewrite the chosen argument entirely in the feed's actual register: 1-2 sentence paragraphs with a line break between them, no subheadings, no bullet-point dump of the blog's sections repackaged as a list. Open with a hook line that has nothing to do with the blog's own headline — blog headlines are written for search intent and click-through from a results page, an entirely different job than stopping a scroll, so reusing one as the post's opening line is importing the wrong tool for this job. LINK PLACEMENT — ANSWER HONESTLY, NOT WITH A RULE OF THUMB Address whether the blog link belongs in the post body or should be held for the first comment instead. Explain the real, current tradeoff: a native link in the body may reduce on-platform reach because it pulls attention off LinkedIn before the post has had time to fully circulate, while many creators now treat "link in first comment" as an unofficial workaround rather than a documented platform rule. State this as the honest, hedged tradeoff it actually is — do not present either option as a guaranteed algorithmic fact, since that would be presenting a widely repeated creator heuristic as settled, verified behavior. CLOSE TOWARD A SPECIFIC GOAL End with a call to action aimed at Get people replying with their own experience trying to fix onboarding too early that feels native to a LinkedIn post — an invitation to discuss, disagree, or share a related experience — not "read the full article here," which reads as a redirect away from the platform rather than an invitation to engage on it. OUTPUT The chosen argument and the rejected candidates with reasons, the rewritten post, and the link-placement recommendation with its stated tradeoff.
Customize
Optional — swap in your own details for the highlighted parts above.
Why this works
A blog post's structure — SEO-driven subheadings, longer paragraphs built for skimmability on a search-results landing page, and a headline written to match search intent rather than to stop a scroll — is instantly recognizable as crossposted the moment any of that structure survives into the feed, even after light trimming. Readers register "this was pasted from somewhere else" before they process whether the content itself is good, which is a first-impression cost this rewrite step is specifically designed to eliminate. Forcing the model to name the single strongest argument and explicitly state what it left out, rather than silently compressing everything, prevents the default failure mode of most repurposing attempts: compressing every section proportionally instead of committing to one point, which produces a post that reads as a shrunk blog post rather than a real, native piece of content that happens to share a source with one. The honest, hedged answer on link placement matters specifically because the "link in first comment" habit is a widely repeated creator heuristic passed around informally, not a confirmed rule from LinkedIn's own documentation about how its ranking treats native versus off-platform links. A prompt that stated it as settled fact would be teaching a myth as though it were verified platform behavior, and the actual honest answer — a real tradeoff, not a solved problem — is more useful than false confidence either way. Explicitly banning the reused blog headline as the post's hook targets a subtle but common mistake: a headline optimized for search intent describes the topic ("5 Reasons Startups Over-Invest in Onboarding"), while a hook optimized for a scroll has to create tension or curiosity in the first line regardless of topic — these are different jobs, and a headline doing double duty as a hook usually does neither job particularly well.
Verified against
Claude Sonnet 5 · 2026-07-30
ChatGPT GPT-5.1 · 2026-07-31
Changelog
- 2026-07-31 — Initial publish for the rewritten linkedin category, verified against Claude (Sonnet 5) and ChatGPT (GPT-5.1).
Need this built into your business?
If a prompt isn't enough — Google Ads management, built and maintained for you — that's Scult's day job.
EXPLORE GOOGLE ADS MANAGEMENT
