Models develop opening hooks from a fixed concept and brand context. Ben blind-scores attention, commercial sharpness, relevance and product specificity, allowing a catchy line to be distinguished from a useful selling idea.
Reviewed 16 October 2026 · Tests and editorial direction: Ben Nancarrow · AI-assisted writing and checks.
A sparse concept and its commercial context are supplied from the active concept-to-brief pack. Current rows have different repeat coverage; the results table records output counts. A pair of outputs can represent the same concept in two prompt conditions.
What changes between prompts
The same fixed creative input and brand context are used with plain and scaffolded-context prompts. The structured condition adds guidance for developing the output. The publisher keeps hooks, narratives and compliant briefs as separate tasks, with their own scores.
How the result is scored
Each hook receives four human ratings: attention grab, commercial sharpness, relevance and product specificity. The mean forms the task score. The scale is anchored to useful paid-social work, with 8 representing the skilled-human usability threshold. It does not measure live hook rate or conversion rate.
All 19 reviewed model results
Human-rated hook quality / 10
Model
Result / setup
Scored outputs
Configuration / recorded test date
Cost / scored output
Meta Muse Spark 1.3published
8.75/10Scaffolded prompt
2
max8 September 2026
Not recorded
Claude Opus 5published
8.50/10Scaffolded prompt
2
thinking_max21 August 2026
Not recorded
Gemini 3.7 Flashpublished
8.50/10Scaffolded prompt
2
reasoning_high21 August 2026
Not recorded
Google Gemini 4 Argonpublished
8.25/10Scaffolded prompt
2
high14 October 2026
Not recorded
Claude Fable 5published
8.00/10Scaffolded prompt
2
thinking_max21 August 2026
Not recorded
Claude Opus 4.7provisional
8.00/10Scaffolded prompt
6
thinking_high20 August 2026
Not recorded
Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewprovisional
8.00/10Scaffolded prompt
6
reasoning_high21 August 2026
Not recorded
GPT-6 Astrapublished
8.00/10Scaffolded prompt
2
xhigh5 September 2026
Not recorded
Claude Opus 4.8provisional
7.83/10Scaffolded prompt
6
thinking_high20 August 2026
Not recorded
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Liteprovisional
7.83/10Simple prompt
6
reasoning_high20 August 2026
Not recorded
GPT-5.6 Solpublished
7.75/10Simple prompt
2
xhigh21 August 2026
Not recorded
GPT-5.4 Miniprovisional
7.58/10Scaffolded prompt
6
reasoning_high21 August 2026
Not recorded
GPT-5.5provisional
7.58/10Simple prompt
6
reasoning_high21 August 2026
Not recorded
Meta Muse Wonderpublished
7.50/10Simple prompt
2
max14 October 2026
Not recorded
Gemini 3.8 Flashpublished
7.00/10Simple prompt
2
reasoning_high5 September 2026
Not recorded
Claude Fable 5.1published
6.75/10Scaffolded prompt
2
thinking_max5 September 2026
Not recorded
Claude Opus 5.5published
6.75/10Simple prompt
2
thinking_max23 September 2026
Not recorded
GPT-6 Solpublished
6.75/10Simple prompt
2
xhigh23 September 2026
Not recorded
Gemini 3.5 Flashpublished
6.29/10Scaffolded prompt
14
Not recorded25 May 2026
Not recorded
Recorded output counts can include repeats and both prompt conditions. Configurations and cost bases are retained; joint scores remain joint.
This record preserves the evidence and interpretation reviewed together. The live explorer can advance independently. Public results include provisional evidence; the methods above define what the scores measure.