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Ready-to-use skills for business teams. Add one to your pod and everyone's AI uses the same version.

Sales

  • Account expansion plan Official
    Builds an expansion plan for an existing customer: renewal health, stakeholder map, current use, whitespace, risks, and 90-day plays with owners.
  • Call summary to CRM notes Official
    Turns a call transcript into CRM-ready plain-text fields: pain, impact, budget, authority, timeline, next step, stage suggestion and risks.
  • Cold outreach email Official
    Writes a first-touch cold email under 90 words from your research: one specific observation, one problem, one easy ask, and 2 subject lines.
  • Competitor battlecard Official
    Builds a one-page battlecard against one rival: when we win and lose, their strengths, landmine questions, what not to say, and an honest comparison.
  • Deal review with MEDDICC or BANT Official
    Scores a deal against MEDDICC or BANT from the buyer's own words, lists each gap with a next action, and suggests a forecast category.
  • Discovery call prep Official
    Builds a one-page discovery call prep from the prospect's website, LinkedIn and notes: hypotheses, 8 ranked questions, what to qualify, red flags.
  • Multi-channel outbound sequence Official
    Writes a 4 to 7 touch outbound sequence for one persona across email, LinkedIn, and phone, with timing and copy per step and exit rules.
  • Objection handling Official
    Drafts replies to price, timing, competitor, security and "send me info" objections: acknowledge, clarify, respond, confirm. Never discounts first.
  • Proposal check before you send Official
    Checks a proposal or quote before it reaches the buyer: their problem in their words, scope, price, next step, risk reversal and names.
  • Quote email the buyer can say yes to Official
    Writes the email that sends a quote: price first, what's included, terms and validity date, one step to accept, and one value line.
  • Sales follow-up email Official
    Writes the follow-up after a sales call: a recap in the buyer's words, the next step with a date, one ask, plus day 3, day 7 and breakup nudges.
  • Win-loss analysis Official
    Analyses won and lost deal notes or interviews into the buyer's real reasons, patterns by segment and competitor, and up to 5 changes with owners.

Marketing

  • Ad copy variants with a test matrix Official
    Writes Google Search, Meta and LinkedIn ad variants within character limits, one angle per variant, with a test matrix for each.
  • Brand voice guide and rewrite Official
    Extracts a voice guide from 3 to 5 sample texts (traits with do and don't pairs, a word list, mechanics) and rewrites a draft in it.
  • Content calendar for 4 to 8 weeks Official
    Builds a 4 to 8 week content calendar: one row per piece with channel, owner, dates, the goal it serves, and its repurpose plan.
  • Customer case study Official
    Writes a customer case study from interview notes (situation, problem, why you, what changed with numbers, a quote) and lists approval items.
  • Landing page copy review Official
    Reviews landing page copy with 6 concrete tests (headline, so-what, opposite, proof, CTA, one job per section) and returns ranked line edits.
  • Launch announcement copy set Official
    Writes a launch kit from one message house: blog intro, customer email, in-app message and social posts that say the same thing.
  • Marketing email review before send Official
    Checks a marketing email before send: subject and preheader, one CTA, mobile scan, links, merge-tag fallbacks and the footer.
  • Newsletter issue draft Official
    Drafts a newsletter issue from a list of updates: one lead story, 3 to 5 short items, one CTA, plus subject and preheader options.
  • Positioning statement (5 components) Official
    Drafts positioning from April Dunford's 5 components: alternatives, unique attributes, value, target customer and category, then a one-line statement.
  • Press release draft Official
    Drafts a news release with headline, dateline, a who/what/when/why lead, one quote, boilerplate and contact, and flags when it isn't news.
  • SEO content brief for one query Official
    Writes a content brief for one search query: intent, the answer to open with, H2s from what ranks, questions, entities, links, word range.
  • Social posts from an article Official
    Turns one article into a LinkedIn post, an X thread, and a short post, each hooked on the article's most specific point.

Operations and admin

  • Decision record (decision log entry) Official
    Records a decision as a short log entry: the decision, context, options considered, why, who decided, the date, status, and a revisit trigger.
  • Employee onboarding plan (30/60/90) Official
    Drafts a 30/60/90-day plan for a new hire: accounts and tools ready by day 1, week 1, people to meet, a buddy, a first deliverable, goals, and check-ins.
  • Internal change announcement Official
    Writes an internal email or Slack post for a change: bottom line up front, what changes, why, when, who it affects, what to do, and where to ask.
  • Internal FAQ roundup Official
    Finds the questions many employees are asking and answers each in 1 to 2 sentences from official sources, flagging what needs a leader.
  • Meeting agenda (or cancel it) Official
    Builds an agenda from a goal and attendees: one outcome, timed questions with owner and type (decide, discuss, inform), pre-reads, or a recommendation to cancel.
  • Meeting minutes with action items Official
    Turns a transcript or rough notes into minutes: decisions, action items with one owner and a due date each, and open questions.
  • Project kickoff brief Official
    Writes a one-page kickoff brief: goal, one success measure, scope in and out, milestones, a RACI-lite table, top risks with owners, and how the team talks.
  • SOP from an explanation or recording Official
    Turns an explanation or screen-recording transcript into an SOP with a trigger, roles, exact-label steps, decision points, checks, and an owner.
  • Vendor comparison with weighted scores Official
    Compares 2-5 vendors on weighted criteria you agree first: must-haves, evidence-based scores, total cost, risks, and one recommendation.
  • Vendor invoice check before payment Official
    Checks a vendor invoice against the PO or quote: details, arithmetic, tax, terms, duplicates, and changed bank details; returns approve or hold.
  • Weekly 3P update (Progress, Plans, Problems) Official
    Writes a weekly Progress, Plans, Problems update a reader takes in within 60 seconds, with numbers and last week's plans accounted for.
  • Weekly client status report Official
    Writes a one-screen weekly client report: status with a reason, what you need from the client, done, next, and metrics against target.

Hiring

  • Candidate rejection email by stage Official
    Writes respectful rejection emails for each hiring stage, with optional job-related feedback and an honest door line; reasons are flagged for HR.
  • Candidate summary for a debrief Official
    Summarizes interview notes, scorecards and CV into a debrief brief: evidence per competency, disagreements, concerns, open questions, and a separate recommendation.
  • Fair work sample or take-home task Official
    Designs a time-boxed work sample that mirrors the real job, with a candidate brief, a 4-level rubric, an accommodations line, and no free consulting.
  • Job offer call script and email Official
    Writes the offer call script and recap email: role, start date, pay with check placeholders, conditions, deadline, and next steps, pointing to HR's formal letter.
  • Job post from a role intake Official
    Writes a job post with an honest title, the first 6 months of work, 5 or fewer must-haves, a pay-range line checked for local rules, and an inclusive-language check.
  • Passive candidate outreach message Official
    Writes a short sourcing message to a passive candidate: a specific reason why them, the role in one line, one easy ask, and 2 follow-ups.
  • Reference check guide and summary Official
    Writes a reference call guide (consent, scope, examples, the rehire question) and turns call notes into a summary with red flags.
  • Role intake and scorecard Official
    Runs the hiring-manager intake and turns it into a role scorecard: mission, measurable outcomes, 5 or fewer must-haves, level, deal breakers, loop and sourcing plan.
  • Structured interview questions Official
    Writes behavioral and situational interview questions mapped to competencies, with prepared probes, strong and weak answers, and a never-ask list.
  • Structured interview scorecard Official
    Builds a structured interview scorecard: 4 to 6 job-related competencies, 1 to 4 behavioral anchors, evidence fields and a hire/no-hire rule set in advance.

Customer success

  • Bug report from a support ticket Official
    Turns a customer complaint into an engineering-ready bug report: steps to reproduce, expected vs actual, environment, impact, evidence, and questions to ask.
  • Churn-risk note for an account Official
    Writes a churn-risk note on one account: risk level with evidence, a root-cause hypothesis, a save plan with owners and dates, and what to tell the customer.
  • Customer onboarding plan Official
    Builds an onboarding plan for a new customer: success criteria in their terms, milestones to first value with owners, a kickoff agenda, cadence, and risks.
  • Customer reply in our tone Official
    Drafts a support reply in your team's tone: answers the question first, owns mistakes, drops jargon, and ends with one clear next step.
  • FAQ from support tickets Official
    Turns a batch of tickets or chats into an FAQ: questions in customer words, ranked by count, short answers, and flags for answers to confirm.
  • Feedback themes from NPS and surveys Official
    Analyzes NPS comments, survey answers, or reviews into themes with counts, typical quotes, sentiment, and one suggested action per problem.
  • Help-center article Official
    Writes a help-center article for one task: task title, answer first, numbered steps with exact UI labels, screenshot notes, troubleshooting, related links.
  • Incident notice for customers Official
    Writes customer-facing incident notices by stage, from investigating to resolved, and a postmortem summary with a plain apology and what changes.
  • QBR deck outline and talking points Official
    Prepares a quarterly business review: outcomes vs goals, usage that explains them, ROI in the customer's numbers, roadmap asks, and next quarter's plan.
  • Support ticket triage Official
    Triages incoming tickets into a table with category, S1 to S4 severity, routing, and a first reply for each, sorted by what to answer first.

Finance

  • Budget variance note Official
    Explains budget vs actual variances over a threshold: favorable or unfavorable, the driver (timing, volume, price, one-off), and the forecast impact.
  • Cash runway update Official
    Writes a cash runway update: cash, 3-month average net burn, runway in months, base, downside and upside scenarios, and levers, formulas shown.
  • Expense policy check Official
    Checks expenses against your expense policy, line by line: pass, flag, or fail with the rule quoted, missing receipts, and out-of-policy totals.
  • Financial model assumptions review Official
    Reviews a financial model's assumptions: lists each with its source, tests sensitivity, checks plausibility against history, and names the 3 that matter.
  • Month-end close checklist Official
    Builds a month-end close checklist for a small company: reconciliations, accruals, deferred revenue, payroll, and review, with owners and day offsets.
  • Monthly investor update Official
    Writes a short, honest monthly investor update: summary, KPIs, highlights, lowlights with cause and fix, cash and runway, and specific asks.
  • Monthly KPI summary for leadership Official
    Writes a monthly KPI summary: a headline, each KPI vs last month and target with the reason, and 3 things to act on. Never invents numbers.
  • Overdue invoice reminder emails Official
    Writes overdue invoice reminders by stage, from before due to 30+ days late, firm but polite, with the invoice details and how to pay up front.
  • SaaS spend review Official
    Reviews SaaS subscriptions: owners, seats used vs paid, overlapping tools, renewal and notice deadlines, and cancel, downgrade or keep with savings.
  • Unit economics check Official
    Checks CAC, LTV, LTV to CAC, payback, and gross margin from your numbers, shows each formula, and flags definitional mistakes that inflate results.

Product

  • A/B test plan Official
    Writes an A/B test brief: hypothesis, primary and guardrail metrics, MDE, sample size and duration with the math, stop rules, and a decision rule set in advance.
  • Competitor product teardown Official
    Writes a competitor teardown from public pages or trial notes: onboarding steps, pricing, core loop, strengths, gaps, what to copy or not, unverified marked.
  • Feature prioritization with RICE Official
    Scores a backlog with RICE or ICE, shows the math per item, tests sensitivity, recommends a cut line for capacity, and flags dependencies.
  • PRD from messy notes Official
    Turns notes, Slack threads, and call notes into a PRD: problem with evidence, goals and non-goals, metrics, must/should/could requirements, and flagged gaps.
  • Release notes from merged changes Official
    Writes customer-facing release notes from merged PRs or tickets, grouped New, Improved, Fixed, benefit-first, plus an internal changelog.
  • Roadmap update for stakeholders Official
    Writes a Now/Next/Later roadmap update: what moved and why, outcomes not just features, dated commitments apart, what we're not doing, and asks.
  • Spec review before build Official
    Reviews a PRD or spec before build for ambiguity, missing empty/loading/error/permission states, metrics, rollout, and a first-time user walk-through.
  • User interview guide Official
    Writes a user interview guide with a screener, warm-up, past-behavior questions with no hypotheticals or leading, probes, and a wrap-up.
  • User interview synthesis Official
    Synthesizes interview notes into themes with participant counts, quotes, jobs-to-be-done, insights vs. assumptions, and recommendations with confidence.
  • User stories with acceptance criteria Official
    Turns a feature into user stories with Given/When/Then acceptance criteria, edge cases, out-of-scope notes, and an INVEST check per story.
  • Contract summary with key dates Official
    Summarizes a commercial contract into a one-page brief: fees, term, auto-renewal and notice dates, exit, liability, IP, data, and unusual clauses.
  • Contractor agreement checklist Official
    Checks a freelancer or contractor agreement for scope, IP assignment, confidentiality, payment, termination, and misclassification signals.
  • Data processing agreement checklist Official
    Checks a DPA for roles, subprocessors, security measures, breach notice, transfers, deletion, and audits against what your team can actually do.
  • Marketing claims check Official
    Checks marketing copy for risky claims: superlatives, competitor comparisons, testimonials, free offers, prices, and health or finance claims.
  • Name clearance first pass Official
    Screens a product or company name across trademark registers, domains, app stores, and handles, rates risk, and lists attorney questions.
  • NDA first pass Official
    Reviews an NDA clause by clause into a green/yellow/red table with quotes, hidden non-solicit or residuals flags, and questions for counsel.
  • Security questionnaire answers Official
    Drafts answers to a customer security questionnaire from your own policies and facts, marks unknowns with owners, and never overclaims certifications.
  • Terms or privacy update notice Official
    Drafts the email, banner, and summary table announcing a Terms or Privacy Policy change: what changed, effective date, action, links.

Management

  • 1:1 prep for managers Official
    Prepares a manager's 1:1: the report's agenda first, last time's commitments, one win, one SBI feedback, a growth question, and blockers.
  • Decision memo Official
    Writes a short narrative decision memo: recommendation first, context, options with trade-offs, risks, and the ask with a decider and deadline.
  • Delegation brief Official
    Writes a brief to hand off a task: outcome, why it matters, constraints, decision rights by delegation level, check-ins, and done criteria.
  • Difficult conversation prep Official
    Prepares a hard conversation: goal, facts vs interpretation, a neutral opening, listening prompts, likely reactions, next steps, and HR flags.
  • Feedback with Situation-Behavior-Impact Official
    Writes feedback with Situation-Behavior-Impact plus a request, in positive and corrective versions, sized for Slack or in person.
  • Performance review draft Official
    Drafts a performance review from the manager's evidence, per expectation with examples and impact, then checks it for rating bias and vague words.
  • Quarterly OKRs from a strategy Official
    Drafts quarterly OKRs: 1 to 3 objectives, measurable key results with baseline, target and owner, and a check that no KR is a task.
  • Quarterly planning pack Official
    Builds a quarterly plan: last quarter's review, real capacity, a ranked priority list with a cut line, dependencies, risks, and commitments vs stretch.
  • Team charter Official
    Drafts a team charter: mission, customers, what the team owns and doesn't, roles, working agreements, rituals, decisions, and metrics.
  • Team retrospective Official
    Runs a team retro from notes or a survey: themes, root causes with 5 whys, and 1 to 3 experiments with an owner and review date.

Strategy

  • Beachhead segment plan Official
    Scores candidate segments and picks one beachhead with its compelling reason to buy, lists the whole-product gaps, drafts a positioning line, and names the next adjacent segments.
  • Build-measure-learn loop Official
    Turns a new idea into a one-page experiment card: the riskiest assumption, the smallest test, a metric and threshold set in advance, a decision date, and a pivot-or-persevere rule.
  • Choose a strategy approach Official
    Asks about the decision, horizon, environment, and main unknown, then recommends one or two strategy frameworks in order, with what to bring, or says none fits.
  • Durable advantage check Official
    Tests each claimed moat for a benefit and a barrier, sorts it into one of seven types of durable advantage, matches it to the company's stage, and says what to build now.
  • ERRC grid and strategy canvas Official
    Builds a strategy canvas of the factors an industry competes on and an ERRC grid, draws a new value curve, and tests it for focus, divergence, and a true tagline.
  • Five forces industry analysis Official
    Runs Porter's five forces on a defined industry: rates each force with evidence, names the forces that set its profit level, and ends with where to compete and what to change.
  • Generic strategy choice Official
    Chooses one of Porter's generic strategies on evidence, checks the stuck-in-the-middle risk, and writes the trade-offs the choice forces.
  • Growth options matrix Official
    Lays out growth options on Ansoff's product-market matrix, with evidence, what is new to the firm, and risk for each, then a shortlist and a first test per option.
  • Jobs-to-be-done switch interview Official
    Plans and synthesizes JTBD switch interviews: a timeline guide, a timeline and four-forces summary per interview, and a job statement across interviews with decisions.
  • Know the enemy and yourself Official
    Compares you and one named competitor on Sun Tzu's five factors and seven comparisons, marks every unknown, then picks where to engage, where to avoid, and what to learn first.
  • Sales funnel roles and stage metrics Official
    Lays out a B2B revenue process as marketing, inside sales, field sales, and customer success stages with handoff rules, conversion, time, and capacity, then finds the bottleneck and 3 fixes.
  • Scenario planning Official
    Builds four scenarios from two critical uncertainties around one decision, tests the decision in each, and ends with signposts, robust moves, and contingent moves.
  • Strategy choice cascade Official
    Writes a strategy on one page as five linked choices, builds where to play and how to win as pairs, and tests the pair with a what-would-have-to-be-true list.
  • Strategy kernel Official
    Writes a one-page strategy kernel (diagnosis, guiding policy, coherent actions) and tests it, or an existing plan, for the four signs of bad strategy.
  • Strategy style for your environment Official
    Rates each business unit's environment on predictability, malleability, and harshness, picks one of five strategy styles, and lists the planning changes that style needs.
  • SWOT and TOWS analysis Official
    Builds an evidence-backed SWOT, external factors first, then pairs the items into SO, WO, ST, and WT strategies and picks 3 to 5 with owners, first steps, and dates.
  • Theory of Constraints: five focusing steps Official
    Finds the one step that limits your output, then plans how to exploit it, subordinate the rest, and add capacity there only if needed, with owners, dates and measures.
  • Value chain analysis Official
    Maps a business's primary and support activities with cost share, cost drivers, and value to buyers, checks how they fit the strategy, and picks the 2 to 3 changes that matter.
  • VRIO resource analysis Official
    Tests each resource and capability for Value, Rarity, Imitability, and Organization with evidence, gives each a competitive implication, and turns the verdicts into owned actions.
  • Wardley map Official
    Builds a Wardley map: user need as the anchor, the value chain by visibility, each component placed on the evolution axis with evidence, then the moves to build, buy, rent, or watch.
  • Wide-view situational review Official
    Steps back from an urgent number or event in the way Musashi's Book of Five Rings describes the gaze: lists the surface, sets it against history, reads the other side, then acts, watches, or lets go.

AI practice

  • AI automation opportunity scan Official
    Scores a team's recurring tasks on frequency, time, rule clarity, and risk to find AI candidates, then picks the top 3 with a first experiment each.
  • Company AI use policy draft Official
    Drafts a short, plain-language AI use policy: approved tools, data never to paste, review and disclosure rules, owners, and points flagged for legal review.
  • Context brief for an AI assistant Official
    Writes instructions for an AI assistant or agent: role, audience, can and can't, sources of truth, tools, format, examples, edge cases, and handoff.
  • Domain ontology draft Official
    Drafts a domain ontology: competency questions, classes with plain definitions, properties with cardinality, example instances, and naming rules.
  • Eval set for an AI task Official
    Builds a 20-to-50-case eval set for an AI task: normal, edge, and adversarial cases, expected results or rubrics, pass criteria, and a re-run routine.
  • Knowledge graph from documents Official
    Extracts entities and relationships from documents into triples with source quotes and confidence, merged names, a CSV-ready table, and a Mermaid diagram.
  • Prepare documents for AI search Official
    Prepares documents for an AI assistant that searches them: inventory, owners, stale copies removed, permissions, chunk-friendly sections, metadata, test questions.
  • Review an AI draft before use Official
    Reviews an AI-generated draft before use: claims to verify, possibly invented sources, tone and policy issues, gaps against the request, and a fix list.
  • Team glossary builder Official
    Builds a team glossary from documents: one preferred term per concept, plain definitions, words to avoid, usage notes, owners, and a list for AI instructions.
  • Turn a prompt into a skill Official
    Turns a prompt that works into a reusable SKILL.md with a valid name, a when-to-use description, steps, an output template, an example, and checks.
  • Workflow discovery for an AI pilot Official
    Maps one customer or team workflow, FDE style: shadowing questions, a swimlane of steps with time and pain, data, exceptions, where AI fits, and a pilot.

Thinkers' principles

  • Bezos-style one-way or two-way door check Official
    Sorts pending decisions into one-way and two-way doors, matches each to a careful or a quick process, and checks the information level, disagree and commit, and what needs escalating.
  • Bezos-style working-backwards PR/FAQ Official
    Writes or reviews an internal PR/FAQ before anything is built: a one-page press release from the customer's side, a so-what test, an FAQ with the hard questions, and what would stop it.
  • Buffett-style moat and margin-of-safety check Official
    Checks a business or a purchase for an enduring moat, a known circle of competence and a margin of safety, as Warren Buffett describes them in the Berkshire letters. Not investment advice.
  • Dalio-style believability-weighted decision Official
    Weighs a team's views on one decision by each person's track record and reasoning on that question, compares it with the majority, and writes the criteria down as a reusable principle.
  • Ford-style flow and waste review Official
    Follows one item through a process and checks it against Henry Ford's flow principles: bring the work to the person, arrange steps in sequence, fixed handoffs, paced by trial, minimal stock.
  • Grove-style managerial leverage audit Official
    Audits a manager's week against Andy Grove's output view of management: whose output each activity raises, what to delegate or teach, can't versus won't, one-on-ones, and output-based key results.
  • Inamori-style 'right as a person' check Official
    Checks a hard business decision or plan against what Kazuo Inamori called the root of the Kyocera Philosophy, what is right as a human being, and his Twelve Management Principles.
  • Inamori-style small-unit profit review Official
    Reviews how your teams are split into small profit units and measured, against Kazuo Inamori's published principles: own leader and plan, added value per hour, everyone takes part.
  • Matsushita-style collective-wisdom review Official
    Plans how a decision gathers the knowledge of the people who do the work, and checks the decider listens openly first, following the collective wisdom Konosuke Matsushita practised.
  • Matsushita-style dam management check Official
    Checks the reserve your business holds in cash, equipment, people, stock, technology and products, against the dam management Konosuke Matsushita described, and says where to build it.
  • Munger-style inversion review Official
    Reviews a plan by inversion: lists how it would surely fail, separates what the business couldn't survive, and checks it through several models, from ideas Charlie Munger described.
  • Musk-style 5-step requirements algorithm Official
    Takes a process or specification through the five steps Elon Musk described, in order: question each requirement and its owner, delete, simplify, speed up, and automate last.
  • Musk-style first-principles cost teardown Official
    Rebuilds the cost of a product or service from its basic inputs, built on the first-principles approach Musk described: price the inputs, compare that floor with today's price, and explain the gap.
  • Ohno-style 5 whys root-cause analysis Official
    Finds the root cause of a problem with the 5 whys Taiichi Ohno illustrated: a measured gap, a chain of whys with evidence at each step, and a fix for the cause, not the symptom.
  • Ohno-style seven wastes review Official
    Walks one process step by step, sorts it into value-creating work, incidental work and Taiichi Ohno's seven wastes, ranks the wastes and proposes what to remove first.
  • Paul Graham-style unscalable launch plan Official
    Turns a product idea into a plan for its first users from Paul Graham's essay Do Things that Don't Scale: a narrow start, users recruited by hand, manual steps, no big launch, weekly growth.
  • Thiel-style contrarian truth check Official
    Tests whether a thesis or product bet rests on a real non-consensus belief, using the contrarian question Peter Thiel poses in Zero to One, and names the next step.
  • Thiel-style monopoly characteristics check Official
    Checks whether a business could dominate its market against Peter Thiel's 2014 lecture: honest market definition, a small market to take first, and the four characteristics of a monopoly.