Quote Engine — 5 ready-to-post quotes from any long text

Pull quotable lines from a source — "pull quotes from this", "give me quotes from this interview", "find the quotable lines", "best lines from this transcript". Reads pasted text directly or extracts

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Quote Engine

Does: takes any long text, interview, or transcript and returns 5 strong, ready-to-post quotes. Solves: reading 3,000 words to find the two lines worth sharing. Triggers on: "pull quotes from this" · "give me quotes from this interview"

How Maxim does this (not a generic highlighter)

Routes through content-creation (CMO). For a pasted block, it reads directly; for an attached document/long source it uses the mxm-notebooklm extraction tools. It does not just grab sentences — it scores candidates for standalone punch (does the line survive with zero context?), then returns the top 5, each tagged with where it'd land best (X / LinkedIn / pull-quote graphic).

Behavioral overlay

  • Frameworks (cited per ADR-007): Made to Stick — SUCCESs (Simple · Unexpected · Concrete) for quotability · Picture Superiority (concrete > abstract) · Peak-End (lead with the strongest line). Each returned quote names the lever it pulls.
  • No-fabrication: quotes are verbatim from the source — never invented or "improved." If a line is lightly trimmed for length, it's marked [trimmed].
  • Voice-aware: if a brand voice DNA is set, the framing/caption around the quote matches it (via nk-writer); the quote itself stays verbatim.
  • Confidence tag (ADR-010) on the set.

Output

5 quotes, ranked, each with: the verbatim line · suggested platform · the psychological lever · an optional 1-line caption.