How this site grows, in order, into the global resource across the markets Tim knows: magnetics first, then the operator's method, then homebuilding, auto, Austin, and Colorado — each step written as the prompt that builds it. 16 prompts, seven phases, each phase compounding on the last.
How to use it
Copy a prompt, paste it into a build session in the websites repo, and review before anything publishes. The phases are sequenced, but prompts within a phase can run in parallel. Nothing here auto-ships.
Everything starts where there is already proof: Polymagnet, the MMM guide, the roll-up war room, and the new 223-company global directory. Finish this vertical so completely that it becomes the reference the industry checks — then every later vertical copies the pattern.
Enrich the global directory with size and revenue
The two empty columns in the Magcos directory. Done honestly, they turn a list into a market map.
Enrich the Magcos global magnetics directory at hub.ceotim.com/magcos/. For each of the 223 companies add an employee-size band and, where it is publicly reported, annual revenue. Pull from the company's own site, LinkedIn, and public filings; cite a source for every value and mark anything not public as "unknown" — never estimate or invent a number. Re-run the website audit so each row's score is current, then regenerate and redeploy.
Company profile pages
A directory row is a lead; a profile page is a relationship and an SEO/AEO surface.
For each company in the Magcos directory, generate a private profile page: what they make, their category and HQ, the full website-audit scorecard with the specific fixes we'd recommend, and how they fit the consolidation thesis. Keep any acquisition-target naming on the gated hub only, never on a public page. Link each profile from its directory row.
Original buyer's guides (AEO)
The content AI search quotes. Our own selection and words — never a reproduction of anyone's list.
Write a set of original, answer-engine-optimized buyer's guides to the magnetics supply chain — our own selection and prose, never a scrape or reproduction of any publisher's ranking. Start with permanent-magnet suppliers: rare-earth vs rare-earth-free, SmCo vs NdFeB, raw magnets vs assemblies, typical lead times, and what to ask a supplier. Add JSON-LD and answer-shaped headings so AI engines cite us.
Living roll-up tracker
Turn the war room from a document into an operating board.
Turn the Roll-Up War Room into a living tracker on the gated hub: per candidate, log outreach status, the next action, who owns it, and the last touch, updating as conversations progress. Surface a short 'what moved this week' digest. All target names stay on the gated hub only.
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Next — the method
Package the operator's playbook
Magnetics is one proof of a repeatable method. Name the method and the whole site stops being a magnetics site and starts being a platform about how a fragmented industry gets transformed — which is the bridge into every other vertical.
The 'how an industry gets transformed' spine
The single page every vertical hangs off.
Build a flagship page that names the repeatable method behind the EV launch, the semiconductor turnaround, homebuilding, and now magnetics: spot the fragmented market, find the picks-and-shovels gap, build or roll up the platform. Tell it in an institutional voice, no private individual named. This becomes the spine the other verticals link back to.
One case study per industry
Proof, in a repeatable shape readers and AI can follow.
Write one case study per industry already transformed (auto, semiconductors, homebuilding), each in the same structure: the stuck market, the insight, the platform, the outcome. Public-safe and institutionally bylined; never invent financial figures — where a number isn't public, say so.
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Expand — vertical two
Homebuilding resource
The nearest adjacent market Tim has actually moved. Clone the magnetics machine — directory, audit worksheet, guides — pointed at the homebuilding-technology supply chain.
Stand up the homebuilding directory
Same worksheet, new vertical. The audit scorecard is the hook that makes companies engage.
Stand up a homebuilding vertical modeled exactly on the Magcos directory: a global directory of industrialized/modular homebuilding and building-technology companies, each row expanding to a live website-audit scorecard, with a two-row sticky header of running totals. Category chips by segment. Original selection only — no reproduction of anyone's list.
Homebuilding buyer's guides + roll-up lens
Repeat the magnetics content pattern; apply the consolidation thesis to a new market.
Write original AEO buyer's guides for the homebuilding-technology market and a private memo identifying where the fragmented, picks-and-shovels layer sits — the same consolidation lens we used for magnetics. Keep any target naming on the gated hub.
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Expand — vertical three
Auto & auto-marketing
Tim's origin story is auto. Build the EV/auto-tech vertical, and use the auto-marketing engine to produce it at a pace a person can't — with the no-scrape guardrail and a human gate.
The auto-tech directory + guides
Ties the vision back to where Tim started, with the same proven worksheet.
Build the auto vertical: a directory of the EV and auto-tech supply chain on the same audit-worksheet model, plus original guides, connected to the auto track record and the consolidation lens (where is the fragmented picks-and-shovels layer in auto?).
Point the engine at it
This is where 'auto-marketing' becomes literal — the AME builds the vertical.
Point the auto-marketing engine at the auto vertical: auto-generate original company profiles and guides on a schedule, with the no-scrape / original-selection guardrail enforced in the generator and a human review gate before anything publishes. Nothing auto-ships.
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Expand — local
Austin, Texas companies
A local resource with national method. Wire it into the existing Austin network so it's not built from zero, and let the audit scorecard pull local companies in to claim and fix their listing.
The Austin company resource
Local lead engine; the live scorecard is the reason a business claims its row.
Create an Austin, Texas company resource: a sector-by-sector directory that reuses the audit worksheet so every listing shows a live website scorecard. Pull from the existing Austin network rather than starting empty. Add a 'claim and improve your listing' path. Original selection and prose only.
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Expand — destination
Colorado lodge & destination
The lifestyle counterweight to the industrial verticals, built on real assets already in the network (the Leadville lodge, gravel and outdoor experiences).
The Colorado destination hub
Same model, warmer subject; rounds out the 'Tim's interests' set.
Build a Colorado destination vertical around the Leadville lodge assets: a guide to the lodge, the town, and gravel/outdoor experiences, plus a directory of regional operators on the same worksheet model. Original selection only — never reproduce a published 'best of' list.
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Compound — the engine
The machine that makes it global
Verticals in isolation are a set of sites. Wired together — one search, cross-linking, AEO everywhere, a monetization layer, and a nightly engine — they become a compounding network: the global resource. This is the Kit lesson, 'distribution as product,' applied across everything.
One cross-linked network
Each new listing should strengthen the whole, not sit alone.
Wire every vertical into one cross-linked network: a shared nav, a unified search across all directories, and a recommendation flywheel where same-category companies cross-link automatically. The goal is that each new listing makes every other more valuable.
AEO across everything
Be the source AI search quotes, in every vertical.
Audit every page across all verticals for answer-engine optimization: JSON-LD, answer-shaped headings, and quotable summaries, so AI search surfaces us as the source across magnetics, homebuilding, auto, Austin, and Colorado. Produce a prioritized fix list and apply it.
The monetization layer
Charge for the work. A global resource that pays for itself compounds faster.
Add the monetization layer: claim-your-listing upsells, sponsored placements, and a lead-capture path on each directory, with a clean pricing page and a payment path at go-live. Keep it tasteful and never ahead of the substance.
Put it on rails
A resource this size can't be hand-tended; it needs a nightly department.
Put the whole network on the auto-marketing engine with a nightly department: generate new original content per vertical, re-audit listed sites, refresh sitemaps, cross-link new pages, and queue everything for human review before publish. Report what it did each morning.