BFCM 2026 with Sidekick: the 12-skill playbook

Black Friday is 27 November 2026 and Cyber Monday is 30 November. Here is a schedule that uses the BFCM 2026 pack and leaves your evenings free.

Early October: plan

• Run /bfcm-plan. It reads last November, checks stock and margins, and returns a tiered offer calendar plus the Sidekick tasks to build it.
• Run /dead-stock. Decide what to clear during the sale and what to protect.
• Run /restock for headline products with fewer than 30 days of cover at last year’s rate. Supplier lead times are the constraint now, not later.

Mid October: audiences and automations

• /vip-segment creates the early-access audience.
• /flow-low-stock and /flow-fraud-hold go live now, before order volume climbs. Both are created inactive; review and switch them on.
• /shipping-policy with a holiday cut-off section, and /inbox-faq so chat answers match it.

Early November: build the offers

• /flash-sale for each tier in the calendar, one at a time. Each run creates the collection, the timed discount and the email draft in one approval.
• /free-shipping if you are changing the threshold for the season.
• /campaign-draft for the VIP early-access email; /subject-lines to pick the test pair.
• /announce for the bar copy, updated for each phase.

Sale week: run and watch

• /orders-today and /unfulfilled every morning.
• /risky-orders daily; the Flow holds the worst cases but a human still reviews.
• /low-stock with a 7-day threshold so you can pull sold-out products from the sale.
• /wismo for the flood of shipping questions.

After: learn

• /weekly-review for sale week against the week before.
• /top-products for the 30 days including the sale. Note what to reorder for January and what to never discount again.

Twelve skills, twelve slots. Delete the seasonal ones in January and keep the daily ones.