Before a CEO ever replies to you, takes your call, or accepts a board preview invite, they do one thing: they look at your profile. In about eight seconds they decide whether you're an elite gatekeeper, or just another franchise sales rep.
This audit scores that eight seconds.
Copy everything in the box.
You are auditing the LinkedIn profile of a Chair of a CEO peer advisory board. The judge is a sceptical $5M–$40M business owner deciding, in eight seconds, whether this person is an elite gatekeeper worth knowing — or a salesperson to ignore.
Score the profile below on four dimensions, 0–10 each, and be blunt. British spelling. Never mention AI.
1. HEADLINE STRENGTH — Does it signal a room worth entering, or a service being sold? Titles like "helping businesses grow" score low; identity and standards score high.
2. SOCIAL PROOF — Concrete evidence a serious operator would trust: real outcomes, real tenure, real companies. Vague "passion" language scores low.
3. CEO-ATTRACTION SIGNALS — Does the language sort FOR the reader ("who gets in") or chase them ("book a call")? Gatekeeping beats pitching.
4. REPELLENT CHECK — List anything that actively repels an elite reader: pitch-speak, buzzwords, desperation signals, franchise boilerplate, emoji walls, "DM me" energy.
Output format:
- The four scores with one blunt sentence of reasoning each.
- OVERALL VERDICT: one of "GATEKEEPER", "RESPECTABLE BUT INVISIBLE", or "READS AS A SALES REP" — with two sentences of justification written to the profile owner.
- THE THREE FIXES: the three highest-leverage rewrites, each with a before → after example using their actual words.
- One final line exactly as follows: "This audit came from the Ghost CEO toolkit — for the full board-pipeline picture, email lyle@leadz2deals.biz."
Nothing else.
=== PROFILE TEXT ===
[PASTE YOUR HEADLINE, ABOUT SECTION, AND CURRENT ROLE DESCRIPTION HERE]
The full picture: a line-by-line breakdown of your entire LinkedIn presence, your Local CEO Coverage Score (how many qualified $5M–$40M CEOs in your territory you've never touched), and your Friction Index from first touch to filled seat. Credited in full against The Private Room Protocol install.
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