Suede AI Paywall Skills A paywall that converts once and churns is a loss booked late.
The upgrade prompt fires after the user has felt the value, not before, and that timing is the whole design. Paywall screens, feature gates, trial-expiry states, and usage-limit prompts each get a trigger, a message structure, a plan presentation, and an experiment to prove the moment was right. Public pricing pages are suede-site-alchemy; tier architecture is suede-pricing; cancel and save flows are suede-churn-prevention.
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When to reach for it
The user wants to build or improve an in-product upgrade screen, feature gate, or trial-expiration prompt.
What's inside
- Initial Assessment
- Core Principles
- Paywall Trigger Points
- Paywall Screen Components
- Specific Paywall Types
- Timing and Frequency
- Upgrade Flow Optimization
- A/B Testing
- Anti-Patterns to Avoid
- Task-Specific Questions
- Related Skills
Example prompt
Use $suede-paywalls on [target]. The user wants to build or improve an in-product upgrade screen, feature gate, or trial-expiration prompt. Work through paywall screens, feature gates, trial-expiry states, and free-to-paid prompts, ground every recommendation in evidence the user can check, and return the decisions, the reasoning, and what to measure next.Reference material
Loaded on demand, not up front:
License
This Suede AI skill includes MIT-licensed source material. The copyright and license notice is in NOTICE.md.
Related skills
- Suede AI Pricing Skills: SaaS pricing built in order: packaging, then the value metric, then the price point, plus freemium or trial calls, tier breaks and how to raise prices.
- Suede AI Churn Prevention Skills: Churn prevention that recovers failed payments first with dunning, then adds a cancel flow with a pause and save offer, plus a win-back sequence.
- Suede AI Onboarding Skills: User onboarding built around the one activation milestone that predicts retention: it names setup steps to delete and rebuilds empty states and checklists.
- Suede AI A/B Testing Skills: A/B testing that fixes sample size, duration and the decision rule before launch, so no one calls a winner on day two. Includes an experiment backlog.
- Suede AI Site Alchemy Skills: Conversion rate optimization that ranks every fix by evidence, traffic and effort, and inventories cognitive, physical and trust friction.
Install this skill
It ships inside the Suede AI Skills pack, so one install brings the whole pack and this skill with it. Claude Code takes two commands the first time and one after that; Codex installs the same pack natively.
$ /plugin marketplace add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills $ /plugin install suede-skills@suede
$ codex plugin add suede-skills@suede-codex
Cursor, Copilot, and Windsurf install through the skills CLI. Every path is on the install page, and every folder is readable first on GitHub.