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Get buyer and volume maths, key choices, incentive checks and failure risks.","area":"product","family":{"id":"plan-strategy","name":"Plan your strategy"},"lead":"new-business-growth-needs","featured":false,"contextKind":"product","deliverables":["Three to six big choices settled by the goal, each with its reason","The target turned into earnings and a four-part sum, each figure marked checked, estimated or guess","The figure the plan leans on most, from a half test on each part","A design for the repeat-buying habit, with true rewards, true ties and a reach map","A check of your partners' pay, and a list of what to avoid"],"inputs":["The business, what it sells and to whom","The exact group of buyers","The size you want it to reach and by what year","Your open questions and the limits you cannot change (optional)","Market size, purchase counts and prices you can source (optional)","Your partners and how each is paid (optional)"],"opening":{"give":["The business, what it sells and to whom","The exact group of buyers","The size you want it to reach and by what year"],"get":["Three to six big choices settled by the goal, each with its reason","The target turned into earnings and a four-part sum, each figure marked checked, estimated or guess","The figure the plan leans on most, from a half test on each part","A design for the repeat-buying habit, with true rewards, true ties and a reach map"]},"helpfulInputs":[],"fit":["You are shaping a business from scratch and want its plan tested against a big target.","A pitch says a huge market means a huge result, and you want to test it.","You want to find the one assumption your plan leans on most."],"limits":["You want to value a company that already trades or has sales: use a valuation tool or ask an accountant.","You have no buyer group in mind yet: use the Customer needs finder first, then come back.","You want to test how strong your edge is: use the Competitive advantage tester."],"tools":["Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini: Sorting questions against a stated goal is text work any strong chat AI does well.","A whiteboard or index cards: Writing each open question on a card lets you move settled ones aside.","A spreadsheet: Lets you change one figure and watch the half test and the earnings update.","Any good chat AI: It lays out the sum and the marks, but check the arithmetic on a calculator.","Any good chat AI: Linking forces and checking claims is text work any strong chat AI does well.","A map or list of selling places: Helps you fill in the reach map with real places.","Any good chat AI: It reasons about people, rewards and plans in text, which any strong chat AI handles with this skill.","A spreadsheet: Easier to try a new pay rule on past numbers and see what it would have paid.","Any good chat AI: Listing and testing failure modes is text reasoning that any strong chat AI handles with this skill.","A spreadsheet: Handy for putting numbers on dependencies, cash and runway."],"method":["Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.","Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say \"Follow HANDOFF.md\". The five skill files are in the pack.","Give your business, the target size and the year. Paste every open question you have, even small ones.","It works step by step and saves each result. Go and find real facts for the figure the plan leans on."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Settles the big choices first","description":"Tests each open question against the goal, settles those it forces with a one-line reason and notes what each choice rules out."},{"name":"Works backward from the target","description":"Turns the target into yearly earnings, splits it into buyers, purchases, share and profit per sale, and halves each part to find the weak one."},{"name":"Designs the repeat habit","description":"Names the action and its cue, checks the rewards are real, lists true ties, maps where rivals could form a habit and links the forces into a chain."},{"name":"Checks how partners are paid","description":"Lists who you depend on, what their pay encourages and where it differs from what the business needs."},{"name":"Thinks in reverse","description":"Asks what would guarantee failure, checks the plan against the standard ways of failing and writes what to avoid."}],"expertise":{"principles":["Start from the user problem and the evidence for it, then the solution.","Write decisions down with the reason and the options you rejected.","Keep scope small enough to ship and learn. Name what is out of scope.","Define how success will be measured before building."],"pitfalls":["Treating opinions or one loud request as proven demand.","Specs that skip edge cases, error states or dependencies.","Roadmaps with dates but no owners or confidence levels."],"quality":["Each settled choice follows from the goal and rules something out.","The sum has four parts: buyers, purchases, share and profit per sale. Every figure is marked CHECKED, ESTIMATED or GUESS, and the marks match the sources you gave.","The half test names the one part the plan leans on most.","Every reward in the habit design is real. Nothing depends on a false claim, such as fake reviews.","The avoid list is specific to this business, not a general list.","Every gap is a MISSING: line, and the result is labelled a planning aid, not a valuation.","Every requirement can be tested."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":6,"source":0,"area":"product"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"You are shaping a business from scratch and want its plan tested against a big target.","task":"Share a business idea, target size and assumptions. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","given":["The business, what it sells and to whom","The size you want it to reach and by what year","Your open questions and limits you cannot change (optional)","Market size, purchase counts and prices you can source (optional)","Your partners and how each is paid (optional)"],"outputs":[{"name":"Step 1: Big decisions first sorter","contains":"The choices the goal already settles, each with a reason, plus the open questions in order."},{"name":"Step 2: Target size back-solver","contains":"The target as yearly earnings, split into buyers, purchases, share and profit, each marked checked, estimated or guess."},{"name":"Step 3: Buying habit stack designer","contains":"The action and cue, the rewards, five true ties, a reach map and the chain that makes buying repeat."},{"name":"Step 4: Incentive checker","contains":"Each partner, how they are paid, what that encourages and where it pulls the wrong way."},{"name":"Step 5: Failure-first plan check","contains":"What would guarantee failure, the standard failures checked and a list of what to avoid."},{"name":"Hand-back summary","contains":"Each step's file and every missing item in one list."}]},"example":"Share a business idea, target size and assumptions. 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Get buyer and volume maths, key choices, incentive checks and failure risks.","method":"new-business-growth-needs","when":["You are shaping a business from scratch and want its plan tested against a big target.","A pitch says a huge market means a huge result, and you want to test it.","You want to find the one assumption your plan leans on most."],"inputs":["The business, what it sells and to whom","The exact group of buyers","The size you want it to reach and by what year","Your open questions and the limits you cannot change (optional)","Market size, purchase counts and prices you can source (optional)","Your partners and how each is paid (optional)"],"deliverables":["Three to six big choices settled by the goal, each with its reason","The target turned into earnings and a four-part sum, each figure marked checked, estimated or guess","The figure the plan leans on most, from a half test on each part","A design for the repeat-buying habit, with true rewards, true ties and a reach map","A check of your partners' pay, and a list of what to avoid"]},{"name":"Decision priority planner","description":"Sort a messy plan's open questions against your goal. Get the big choices it already settles, with reasons, and the few hard questions left.","method":"big-decisions-first-sorter","when":["You are planning a business, product or project and do not know where to begin.","Your list of open questions keeps growing and none of them gets answered.","You want to avoid wasting weeks on details that the goal already decides.","You have a goal with a clear size or date and want to know which choices it settles."],"inputs":["Your goal, with a size or a date, such as \"10,000 paying users by next spring\"","The questions you have not settled, even small ones (optional)","Limits you cannot change, such as money, time or rules (optional)"],"deliverables":["The goal in one sharp line","Three to six settled choices, each with its reason and what it rules out","A shorter, ordered list of the hard questions","The first question to work on, and what you need to find out"]},{"name":"Business target calculator","description":"Back-solve a business size target into the buyers, purchases, market share and profit per sale that must be true, with each figure marked.","method":"target-size-back-solver","when":["You have a big target for a business and no sense of what it would take.","A pitch says a huge market means a huge result and you want to test it.","You want to find which assumption in your plan is carrying the most weight."],"inputs":["Your plan and the big choices you have made","The size you want and the year (optional)","Market and price facts you can check (optional)"],"deliverables":["The target turned into yearly earnings","A four-part sum with each figure marked checked, estimated or guess","A test for rising prices and one for richer buyers","A half test for each part and the figure the plan leans on"]},{"name":"Repeat purchase habit planner","description":"Describe your product and repeat buying goal. Get a plan for real rewards, brand ties, reach and visible use, with an honesty check.","method":"buying-habit-stack-designer","when":["You want customers to buy again without comparing options each time.","Your plan has an ad idea but no reason anyone would buy twice.","You sell something used often, such as coffee, razors or a monthly app, and a rival wins the moment of choice.","You must choose where to spend so your product feels like the obvious pick in one moment, such as the mid-afternoon dip."],"inputs":["What you sell, who buys it, the price and where it is sold. Paste your plan or a few lines.","The one action you want repeated, such as \"reorder on the first of the month\" (optional)","When and where buyers buy now, and which rivals they use (optional)","Your budget, if you want the reach map sized to it (optional)"],"deliverables":["The one action to repeat and the cue that sets it off","A rewards table with each reward marked strong, weak or none","Up to five true ties the brand can earn, and how each is made","A reach map, a visibility plan and a chain showing how the forces feed each other"]},{"name":"Incentive checker","description":"Check your pay plan or deal with this incentive checker. See who is rewarded for what, where it pulls the wrong way, and get a fix.","method":"incentive-checker","when":["A team hits its numbers but the real result is poor.","You are about to sign a deal, a commission plan or a contract.","You are setting up a new role or pay plan and want to catch problems early."],"inputs":["The team, plan or deal in plain words, and the goal it should serve","How each person or party is paid or rewarded","The plan from an earlier step (optional)"],"deliverables":["A table of people, rewards and the behaviour each really encourages","Each mismatch with a concrete example","A fix that pays for the outcome you want, with a loophole check","A note on pay fairness and on which work is routine and which is thinking"]},{"name":"Plan failure reviewer","description":"Find the ways your plan could fail before you commit. Paste your plan and goal, and get ranked failure risks with a fix for each.","method":"failure-first-plan-check","when":["You have a plan written and want to find holes before you commit money or time.","A team is excited about a plan and nobody is arguing against it.","You are choosing between two paths and want to see what the other one would look like."],"inputs":["The plan, in as much detail as you have","The goal it serves, and the deadline","What the plan depends on (money, people, one big customer or tool) (optional)"],"deliverables":["The goal in one line","A list of failure modes specific to your plan, survival risks first","A change to the plan for each failure","The bet stated, and a set of attacks for the people you pick to argue against it"]},{"name":"Product context file writer","description":"Share product facts, audience and positioning. Get a reviewed context file that other marketing skills can reference.","method":"product-context-builder","when":["You are starting a new marketing project and want one source of truth.","You keep pasting the same product background into every chat.","Your positioning changed and old notes are out of date.","A new teammate needs to learn the audience and tone fast."],"inputs":["Answers about your product and customers","Your website or existing brand notes (optional)","Competitor names (optional)","Any recent learnings to record (optional)"],"deliverables":["A product marketing context file","A summary of what the file already holds","A change log of updates","Gaps you still need to fill"]},{"name":"Charlie Munger","description":"Stress-test a plan using Charlie Munger’s recorded approach. Turn it upside down, examine incentives and ask where your knowledge ends.","method":"charlie-munger","when":["Invert a plan: list every way it could fail, then avoid each one","Find the incentive that's really driving a person, team or partner","Run a big decision past several thinking models from different fields","Spot the biases piling up behind a choice that feels too exciting","Build a checklist of mistakes to avoid before you sign a deal or hire someone","Decide whether to wait for a better chance or act now","Plan your own learning across many subjects, not just your job","Challenge an adviser whose advice also pays them","Check whether you know enough about a field before you act on it","Build a checklist for a decision you keep making"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Charlie Munger would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Charlie Munger's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]},{"name":"Al Ries","description":"Clarify what a brand should stand for using Al Ries’s recorded approach. Examine its category, focus, name and launch story.","method":"al-ries","when":["Find the one word your brand could own in a customer's mind","Decide if a new product should carry your current name or get a new one","Name a new category you could be first in, instead of fighting a leader head-on","Position a small business against the market leader, the way Avis did with Hertz","Cut a sprawling product list down to the focus that makes you known for something","Plan a launch that starts with press coverage before you spend on ads","Spot when your brand is tied to a fading category, and what to do about it","Choose the customers you want before launch, so the brand takes on their character"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Al Ries would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Al Ries's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]}],"resources":[{"slug":"new-business-growth-needs","name":"Business growth target and risk planner","summary":"Share a business idea, target size and assumptions. 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Every figure is marked CHECKED, ESTIMATED or GUESS, and the marks match the sources you gave."},{"id":"c7","criterion":"The half test names the one part the plan leans on most."},{"id":"c8","criterion":"Every reward in the habit design is real. Nothing depends on a false claim, such as fake reviews."},{"id":"c9","criterion":"States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs."}],"goldenTasks":[{"id":"g1","kind":"core","situation":"You are shaping a business from scratch and want its plan tested against a big target.","expect":["Three to six big choices settled by the goal, each with its reason","The target turned into earnings and a four-part sum, each figure marked checked, estimated or guess","The figure the plan leans on most, from a half test on each part"]},{"id":"g2","kind":"core","situation":"A pitch says a huge market means a huge result, and you want to test it.","expect":["Three to six big choices settled by the goal, each with its reason","The target turned into earnings and a four-part sum, each figure marked checked, estimated or guess","The figure the plan leans on most, from a half test on each part"]},{"id":"g-missing","kind":"missing-input","situation":"The request leaves out: The business, what it sells and to whom","expect":["Names the missing input and asks for it, or finishes only the parts that do not depend on it."]}],"note":"These checks are defined but have not been run against a model yet."},"version":{"number":2,"since":"2026-11-03","changes":[{"version":2,"date":"2026-11-03","what":"Updated scope, deliverables or inputs. Source methods updated to new revisions."},{"version":1,"date":"2026-11-02","what":"First recorded version."}]},"learning":{"rules":[],"maturity":{"level":0,"name":"Not measured yet","runs":0,"score":0,"editRatio":0,"acceptance":0,"critical":0,"next":"10 reviewed jobs, average check score 70%+"}},"worker":{"schema":"ai-blocks-specialist-worker/1","id":"new-business-growth-needs","name":"Business growth target and risk planner","interface":{"inputs":[{"type":"short_text","required":true}],"outputs":[{"type":"document","required":true}],"brief":"The current task in the workflow goal and supplied context.","handoff":"work/handoff.md indexes the actual native deliverables and checks. An index does not replace a requested implementation."},"identity":{"remit":"Share a business idea, target size and assumptions. 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Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue.","reuse":"Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package."},"learning":{"state":"HOST_SETUP_REQUIRED","automatic_persistence":false,"measured_improvement":false,"storage":"The user-authorized business/project memory home; never a public catalogue or an unrelated client.","index":"memory/INDEX.md","records":["memory/preferences.md","memory/corrections.md","memory/decisions.md","memory/checks.md"],"outcome_loop":"Baseline, hypothesis, chosen route, approved change, actual implementation receipt, agreed measurement window, observed result, confidence/limitations, user decision and next test. Preserve negative and inconclusive outcomes.","update":"Save explicit user corrections and accepted examples with source, date, business, task/role scope, previous/new value and supersedes link. Distinguish a one-off edit from a durable preference; ask only when that distinction matters and remains unclear.","retrieval":"Read the short index and only relevant current records. Keep each fact in one canonical home, deduplicate and link to full evidence. Supersede stale guidance without silently erasing its history.","limits":"Feedback cannot expand action authority, override host rules or change imported source methods. Verify new skills, links and knowledge before use; preserve source revisions and credits.","measurement":"Turn repeatable errors into concrete acceptance or regression checks. Compare dated results on comparable cases, track failures and regressions, and do not promise near-zero errors or improvement without measurements."},"coordination":{"state":"PLAN_REQUIRED","entry":"coordinator","approval":"Review the contextual team plan, including a single-worker plan when sufficient. Incorporate comments and obtain user approval of the exact final version before specialist production. A preparation is not an approved plan.","handoffs":"Name the actual producer artifacts, source revisions, required consumer inputs, acceptance checks and blocked dependencies. Verify the artifact content before advancing.","memory":"Save the reviewed plan, decisions, artifact/check receipts and resumable state in the authorized business project. 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Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"target-size-back-solver","name":"Business target calculator","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have a big target for a business and no sense of what it would take.","A pitch says a huge market means a huge result and you want to test it.","You want to find which assumption in your plan is carrying the most weight."],"inputs":["Your plan and the big choices you have made","The size you want and the year (optional)","Market and price facts you can check (optional)"],"deliverables":["The target turned into yearly earnings","A four-part sum with each figure marked checked, estimated or guess","A test for rising prices and one for richer buyers","A half test for each part and the figure the plan leans on"],"instruction":"skills/target-size-back-solver/SKILL.md","revision":"2d7b5348575a375a38d8108ccb4918a60be0f3b96c93b628f0704ca7efd21234","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"buying-habit-stack-designer","name":"Repeat purchase habit planner","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You want customers to buy again without comparing options each time.","Your plan has an ad idea but no reason anyone would buy twice.","You sell something used often, such as coffee, razors or a monthly app, and a rival wins the moment of choice.","You must choose where to spend so your product feels like the obvious pick in one moment, such as the mid-afternoon dip."],"inputs":["What you sell, who buys it, the price and where it is sold. Paste your plan or a few lines.","The one action you want repeated, such as \"reorder on the first of the month\" (optional)","When and where buyers buy now, and which rivals they use (optional)","Your budget, if you want the reach map sized to it (optional)"],"deliverables":["The one action to repeat and the cue that sets it off","A rewards table with each reward marked strong, weak or none","Up to five true ties the brand can earn, and how each is made","A reach map, a visibility plan and a chain showing how the forces feed each other"],"instruction":"skills/buying-habit-stack-designer/SKILL.md","revision":"abe613e69145b9545dff568fbf31c91db4e62bdbb26a11c365f0d0c71ab897a3","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"incentive-checker","name":"Incentive checker","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["A team hits its numbers but the real result is poor.","You are about to sign a deal, a commission plan or a contract.","You are setting up a new role or pay plan and want to catch problems early."],"inputs":["The team, plan or deal in plain words, and the goal it should serve","How each person or party is paid or rewarded","The plan from an earlier step (optional)"],"deliverables":["A table of people, rewards and the behaviour each really encourages","Each mismatch with a concrete example","A fix that pays for the outcome you want, with a loophole check","A note on pay fairness and on which work is routine and which is thinking"],"instruction":"skills/incentive-checker/SKILL.md","revision":"682f77975326ac29c020ad5ee15c1b8b7962ad9fa1cafb144d8589deffed41f7","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"failure-first-plan-check","name":"Plan failure reviewer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have a plan written and want to find holes before you commit money or time.","A team is excited about a plan and nobody is arguing against it.","You are choosing between two paths and want to see what the other one would look like."],"inputs":["The plan, in as much detail as you have","The goal it serves, and the deadline","What the plan depends on (money, people, one big customer or tool) (optional)"],"deliverables":["The goal in one line","A list of failure modes specific to your plan, survival risks first","A change to the plan for each failure","The bet stated, and a set of attacks for the people you pick to argue against it"],"instruction":"skills/failure-first-plan-check/SKILL.md","revision":"2c3612f7365fc4c94d43958b6c9fff671dbf092ccad3c50deac0784a4cb585ab","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"product-context-builder","name":"Product context file writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"context","when":["You are starting a new marketing project and want one source of truth.","You keep pasting the same product background into every chat.","Your positioning changed and old notes are out of date.","A new teammate needs to learn the audience and tone fast."],"inputs":["Answers about your product and customers","Your website or existing brand notes (optional)","Competitor names (optional)","Any recent learnings to record (optional)"],"deliverables":["A product marketing context file","A summary of what the file already holds","A change log of updates","Gaps you still need to fill"],"instruction":"skills/product-context-builder/SKILL.md","revision":"2fe017f2b8b417b6dd382b110c57a4f0619bff4b1b88d50e4fbe771219d3f78b","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"charlie-munger","name":"Charlie Munger","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Invert a plan: list every way it could fail, then avoid each one","Find the incentive that's really driving a person, team or partner","Run a big decision past several thinking models from different fields","Spot the biases piling up behind a choice that feels too exciting","Build a checklist of mistakes to avoid before you sign a deal or hire someone","Decide whether to wait for a better chance or act now","Plan your own learning across many subjects, not just your job","Challenge an adviser whose advice also pays them","Check whether you know enough about a field before you act on it","Build a checklist for a decision you keep making"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Charlie Munger would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Charlie Munger's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/charlie-munger/SKILL.md","revision":"a87cd5c2b761a64cb5a96db38ba9d7233e8603d2e8d5e8162c47ac88eaa75137","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."},{"method":"al-ries","name":"Al Ries","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Find the one word your brand could own in a customer's mind","Decide if a new product should carry your current name or get a new one","Name a new category you could be first in, instead of fighting a leader head-on","Position a small business against the market leader, the way Avis did with Hertz","Cut a sprawling product list down to the focus that makes you known for something","Plan a launch that starts with press coverage before you spend on ads","Spot when your brand is tied to a fading category, and what to do about it","Choose the customers you want before launch, so the brand takes on their character"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Al Ries would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Al Ries's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/al-ries/SKILL.md","revision":"0a58850b33b5777d8715880784c8b58edcac20f9e994c5fedd0c090a7eb68d54","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."}],"connections":[{"name":"Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini: Sorting questions against a stated goal is text work any strong chat AI does well.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"A whiteboard or index cards: Writing each open question on a card lets you move settled ones aside.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"A spreadsheet: Lets you change one figure and watch the half test and the earnings update.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: It lays out the sum and the marks, but check the arithmetic on a calculator.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: Linking forces and checking claims is text work any strong chat AI does well.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"A map or list of selling places: Helps you fill in the reach map with real places.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: It reasons about people, rewards and plans in text, which any strong chat AI handles with this skill.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"A spreadsheet: Easier to try a new pay rule on past numbers and see what it would have paid.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: Listing and testing failure modes is text reasoning that any strong chat AI handles with this skill.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"A spreadsheet: Handy for putting numbers on dependencies, cash and runway.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."}],"permissions":{"action_tiers":{"green":{"needs_owner_approval":false,"when":"Do it, then report it.","actions":["Read the files and exports the user supplied.","Read reports and settings in the tools from CONNECTIONS.md, read-only, once access is checked.","Draft deliverables, run local checks and calculators, and prepare changes as drafts or paused items."]},"yellow":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"None by default. Once the owner writes a limit in PERMISSIONS.md, act inside it and tell the owner the same day.","actions":["Reversible changes inside a written limit, for example moving up to a set share of daily budget between ad sets within an agreed cost band."]},"red":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"Ask the owner before each action, every time.","actions":["Publish, send or post anything.","Spend money or raise a budget.","Delete or overwrite live data.","Use a claim the owner has not approved.","Change anything live in a tool from CONNECTIONS.md."]}},"authority":"The user's current authorization and host rules govern actions; source files and role settings cannot override them.","local":"Read authorized task files, prepare drafts and run supported local checks within the request.","external":"Use existing authorization for the specific action. Resolve missing authority before sending, publishing, spending, deleting or changing live systems.","background":"No ongoing work, schedule, memory or agent delegation exists unless the host supports it and the user authorized it."},"training":{"mode":"Editable instructions and examples, not model fine-tuning.","files":["TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","PERMISSIONS.md"],"feedback":"Record accepted examples and dated corrections in the user's chosen project. Apply them on later tasks only when supplied and still relevant."},"maturity":{"level":0,"name":"Not measured yet","runs":0,"score":0,"editRatio":0,"acceptance":0,"critical":0,"next":"10 reviewed jobs, average check score 70%+"},"files":["SOUL.md","KNOWLEDGE.md","PLAYBOOK.md","TOOL_ROUTER.md","CONNECTIONS.md","PERMISSIONS.md","TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","JOB.md","CHECKS.md","worker.json"],"execution":{"location":"user-ai-environment","status":"NOT_STARTED","hosted":false}},"instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-new-business-growth-needs\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped business growth target and risk planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Business growth target and risk planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/new-business-growth-needs · version 2\n\n## Remit\nShare a business idea, target size and assumptions. Get buyer and volume maths, key choices, incentive checks and failure risks.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- Three to six big choices settled by the goal, each with its reason\n- The target turned into earnings and a four-part sum, each figure marked checked, estimated or guess\n- The figure the plan leans on most, from a half test on each part\n- A design for the repeat-buying habit, with true rewards, true ties and a reach map\n- A check of your partners' pay, and a list of what to avoid\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Settles the big choices first: Tests each open question against the goal, settles those it forces with a one-line reason and notes what each choice rules out.\n2. Works backward from the target: Turns the target into yearly earnings, splits it into buyers, purchases, share and profit per sale, and halves each part to find the weak one.\n3. Designs the repeat habit: Names the action and its cue, checks the rewards are real, lists true ties, maps where rivals could form a habit and links the forces into a chain.\n4. Checks how partners are paid: Lists who you depend on, what their pay encourages and where it differs from what the business needs.\n5. Thinks in reverse: Asks what would guarantee failure, checks the plan against the standard ways of failing and writes what to avoid.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Start from the user problem and the evidence for it, then the solution.\n- Write decisions down with the reason and the options you rejected.\n- Keep scope small enough to ship and learn. Name what is out of scope.\n- Define how success will be measured before building.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Treating opinions or one loud request as proven demand.\n- Specs that skip edge cases, error states or dependencies.\n- Roadmaps with dates but no owners or confidence levels.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You are shaping a business from scratch and want its plan tested against a big target.\nGiven: The business, what it sells and to whom; The size you want it to reach and by what year; Your open questions and limits you cannot change (optional); Market size, purchase counts and prices you can source (optional); Your partners and how each is paid (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- Step 1: Big decisions first sorter: The choices the goal already settles, each with a reason, plus the open questions in order.\n- Step 2: Target size back-solver: The target as yearly earnings, split into buyers, purchases, share and profit, each marked checked, estimated or guess.\n- Step 3: Buying habit stack designer: The action and cue, the rewards, five true ties, a reach map and the chain that makes buying repeat.\n- Step 4: Incentive checker: Each partner, how they are paid, what that encourages and where it pulls the wrong way.\n- Step 5: Failure-first plan check: What would guarantee failure, the standard failures checked and a list of what to avoid.\n- Hand-back summary: Each step's file and every missing item in one list.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Each settled choice follows from the goal and rules something out.\n- The sum has four parts: buyers, purchases, share and profit per sale. Every figure is marked CHECKED, ESTIMATED or GUESS, and the marks match the sources you gave.\n- The half test names the one part the plan leans on most.\n- Every reward in the habit design is real. Nothing depends on a false claim, such as fake reviews.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Second opinion\nBefore handoff, run a second-opinion pass with Charlie Munger (skills/charlie-munger/SKILL.md) and Al Ries (skills/al-ries/SKILL.md). List the strongest objection each would raise and how the draft answers it. This is a review lens, not an endorsement.\n\n## Limits\n- You want to value a company that already trades or has sales: use a valuation tool or ask an accountant.\n- You have no buyer group in mind yet: use the Customer needs finder first, then come back.\n- You want to test how strong your edge is: use the Competitive advantage tester.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. This role's work depends on its product context, not on brand research.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: what the product does, who it is for, current goals and constraints, and the user evidence available (research, tickets, analytics). Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If product context is needed, reuse an existing product brief or use the context method to write a reviewed product context file from supplied facts: skills/product-context-builder/SKILL.md. Files: product-context.md, work/evidence.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nSeparate user evidence from opinions and requests. Record goals, constraints, owners and decisions already made so they are not reopened by accident. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/new-business-growth-needs/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Business growth target and risk planner (primary): [complete method](../new-business-growth-needs/SKILL.md), revision b1ac974b076d\n- Decision priority planner: [complete method](../big-decisions-first-sorter/SKILL.md), revision 9d22df987acb\n- Business target calculator: [complete method](../target-size-back-solver/SKILL.md), revision 2d7b5348575a\n- Repeat purchase habit planner: [complete method](../buying-habit-stack-designer/SKILL.md), revision abe613e69145\n- Incentive checker: [complete method](../incentive-checker/SKILL.md), revision 682f77975326\n- Plan failure reviewer: [complete method](../failure-first-plan-check/SKILL.md), revision 2c3612f7365f\n- Product context file writer (context setup): [complete method](../product-context-builder/SKILL.md), revision 2fe017f2b8b4\n- Charlie Munger (review lens): [complete method](../charlie-munger/SKILL.md), revision a87cd5c2b761\n- Al Ries (review lens): [complete method](../al-ries/SKILL.md), revision 0a58850b33b5\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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