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Get seven advantage checks, scores, risks to lasting strength and a first-build plan.","area":"product","family":{"id":"plan-strategy","name":"Plan your strategy"},"lead":"seven-powers-check","featured":false,"contextKind":"product","deliverables":["A test of your main advantage, with the benefit in numbers, the barrier in words and a size check","A scorecard of all seven powers, sorted into held, buildable and out of reach","A ten-year check on what could take your best power away","The power to build first at your stage, a first test with a pass line, and the early choices that close the others"],"inputs":["What you sell, to whom, and your price, cost and margin","Your main rivals and what they do","How fast your market is growing, if you know (optional)"],"opening":{"give":["What you sell, to whom, and your price, cost and margin","Your main rivals and what they do","How fast your market is growing, if you know (optional)"],"get":["A test of your main advantage, with the benefit in numbers, the barrier in words and a size check","A scorecard of all seven powers, sorted into held, buildable and out of reach","A ten-year check on what could take your best power away","The power to build first at your stage, a first test with a pass line, and the early choices that close the others"]},"helpfulInputs":["Price, cost and margin","Customer repeat rate or churn","Market growth figures"],"fit":["You think your business has a moat and want proof before you tell a backer or build on it.","You can name one advantage and want to know if a stronger one is sitting unused.","You are choosing between spending on brand, scale, a community or a better model, and want to know which one your market still allows."],"limits":["You have no revenue or customer data yet: size your market first, then come back.","You only want to test one edge: use the Competitive advantage tester.","You want a rival-proof pricing or model idea: ask a trusted adviser or accountant, as this gives no investment advice."],"tools":["Claude: Holds four checks, their numbers and your facts in one run.","Any good chat AI: Weighing evidence against a fixed list of tests is reasoning work any strong chat AI does well.","Your accounts or margin report: Real margins make the materiality test a number, not an opinion.","Any good chat AI: Weighing facts against seven fixed tests is reasoning work any strong chat AI does well.","Your accounts or margin report: Real margins turn the benefit rows from opinion into numbers.","Any good chat AI: Discounting a few numbers and reasoning about rivals is text work that any strong chat AI does with this skill.","Any good chat AI: Judging stage from thin signs and choosing among options is reasoning work any strong chat AI does well.","Industry reports or your own sales history: A growth figure makes the stage call a number, not a feeling."],"method":["Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md and four skill files, in the order they run: Business power tester, Seven powers scorecard builder, Ten-year durability checker and Power build-order planner.","Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say \"Follow HANDOFF.md\".","Describe your business and paste any numbers on price, cost, margin and repeat rate. It works step by step and saves each result.","Check step 2 before it goes on. Each score of 2 or 3 should have a number or fact behind it. Ask for a rework if a score rests only on a good team or a big user count.","Read the buildable list and the first test last. Run the test before you spend on the power. 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If they are missing, the scores stay low and the gap is a MISSING: line.","Every requirement can be tested."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":6,"source":0,"area":"product"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"You think your business has a moat and want proof before you tell a backer or build on it.","task":"Describe your business with evidence. 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Paste your facts and get each scored on benefit and barrier, then sorted into held, buildable or out of reach.","method":"seven-powers-scorecard-builder","when":["You believe you have a moat but can only name a list of strengths.","You named one advantage and want to check the other six before you put money behind it.","A backer, partner or buyer asked what protects your margin and you had no clear answer."],"inputs":["What the business sells, to whom, and the price and cost per sale","The result of a first power test, if you have one","Your main rivals and what they do better or worse than you (optional)"],"deliverables":["Seven rows, one per power, each with a benefit line, a barrier line and the fact behind them","A score for each power from 0 to 3, with a reason","The powers sorted into held, buildable and out of reach","The facts still missing, listed so you can go and find them"]},{"name":"Ten-year durability checker","description":"Check if your business edge will last ten years. 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Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"power-stage-build-planner","name":"Competitive advantage development planner","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You know your edge is thin and want to choose which one to build next.","You are about to spend on brand, scale or a platform and want to know if the timing is right.","You are choosing a product design and want to know which long-run edges it will allow or rule out."],"inputs":["A power test or scorecard for your business","How fast demand in your market is growing, and who your rivals are","Your early product, supplier and customer choices that are hard to undo"],"deliverables":["Your market stage and the signs behind the call","A table of the seven powers, each open, narrowing or closed at your stage","The one power to build first, with a first test, a pass line and a six-month check","Three early choices and the powers each one helps or closes"],"instruction":"skills/power-stage-build-planner/SKILL.md","revision":"40ee5d1db3cec355ab5b57d596e5550a441cf255b3fb3b546d1ab520cd76ea40","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":"hamilton-helmer","name":"Hamilton Helmer","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Check whether your business has a lasting advantage or just a good product","Name which of the seven powers you could build, and which you can't","Find a new way of doing business that a bigger rival can't copy without hurting itself","Decide what to build first, given whether your market is new, growing fast or settled","Test a claimed network effect or brand to see if it really changes price or cost","Plan a second business that builds on what your first one already does well","Separate good operations, which every rival needs, from a real strategic edge","Question a team's belief that it already has a moat"],"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 Hamilton Helmer would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Hamilton Helmer's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/hamilton-helmer/SKILL.md","revision":"a6d0a96f5efd2b3c7a4d57b687207ace0fe6d19b5ddf35a2a6c6486892044dcf","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":"peter-thiel","name":"Peter Thiel","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Find the one important truth your plan rests on that most people would doubt","Check whether you are building something new or copying what already exists","Pick a small market you could own outright before you try to grow","Spot when you are fighting rivals so hard that you forget the customer","Ask what would make your business the last one standing in its category","Decide whether to go all in on a project or not start it","Look at a team's history together before you back them or join them","Think through a bet where a few wins matter far more than many small ones"],"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 Peter Thiel would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Peter Thiel's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/peter-thiel/SKILL.md","revision":"1ea3c819f6dba33de2436bea4d9e2d0fd6aa845382c0295afd63841678a230c0","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: Holds four checks, their numbers and your facts in one run.","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: Weighing evidence against a fixed list of tests is reasoning 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":"Your accounts or margin report: Real margins make the materiality test a number, not an opinion.","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: Weighing facts against seven fixed tests is reasoning 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":"Your accounts or margin report: Real margins turn the benefit rows from opinion into numbers.","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: Discounting a few numbers and reasoning about rivals is text work that any strong chat AI does 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":"Any good chat AI: Judging stage from thin signs and choosing among options is reasoning 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":"Industry reports or your own sales history: A growth figure makes the stage call a number, not a feeling.","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-seven-powers-check\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped seven powers business advantage reviewer task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Seven Powers business advantage reviewer\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/seven-powers-check · version 2\n\n## Remit\nDescribe your business with evidence. Get seven advantage checks, scores, risks to lasting strength and a first-build plan.\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- A test of your main advantage, with the benefit in numbers, the barrier in words and a size check\n- A scorecard of all seven powers, sorted into held, buildable and out of reach\n- A ten-year check on what could take your best power away\n- The power to build first at your stage, a first test with a pass line, and the early choices that close the others\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Tests your main advantage: Names the benefit in numbers and the barrier in words, checks the benefit is big enough, and matches it to one power.\n2. Scores all seven powers: Writes a benefit and a barrier for each power, finds the fact behind each, and scores from 0 to 3.\n3. Checks it lasts ten years: Asks who could copy you, how long it would take and what change in the world would end the edge.\n4. Plans what to build at your stage: Finds whether your market is starting, taking off or settled, marks the open powers and picks one with a first test.\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 think your business has a moat and want proof before you tell a backer or build on it.\nGiven: What you sell, to whom, and your price, cost and margin; Your main rivals and what they do; Your market growth, if you know it (optional); Your customer repeat rate or churn (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- Step 1: business-power-tester: Your main advantage with a benefit in numbers, a barrier in words, a size check and the power it matches.\n- Step 2: seven-powers-scorecard-builder: All seven powers scored on benefit and barrier, sorted into held, buildable and out of reach.\n- Step 3: ten-year-durability-checker: Who could take your top power, how soon, and what change could end it.\n- Step 4: power-stage-build-planner: Your market stage, the power to build first, a first test and the choices that close other powers.\n- HAND-BACK SUMMARY: Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.\n- The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.\n- Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.\n- Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.\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 Hamilton Helmer (skills/hamilton-helmer/SKILL.md) and Peter Thiel (skills/peter-thiel/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 have no revenue or customer data yet: size your market first, then come back.\n- You only want to test one edge: use the Competitive advantage tester.\n- You want a rival-proof pricing or model idea: ask a trusted adviser or accountant, as this gives no investment advice.\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/seven-powers-check/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- Seven Powers business advantage reviewer (primary): [complete method](../seven-powers-check/SKILL.md), revision 8d17cf8c3802\n- Competitive advantage tester: [complete method](../business-power-tester/SKILL.md), revision 7057584bed66\n- Seven powers scorecard builder: [complete method](../seven-powers-scorecard-builder/SKILL.md), revision 6369fd723e0e\n- Ten-year durability checker: [complete method](../ten-year-durability-checker/SKILL.md), revision 8b4fc66518c4\n- Competitive advantage development planner: [complete method](../power-stage-build-planner/SKILL.md), revision 40ee5d1db3ce\n- Product context file writer (context setup): [complete method](../product-context-builder/SKILL.md), revision 2fe017f2b8b4\n- Hamilton Helmer (review lens): [complete method](../hamilton-helmer/SKILL.md), revision a6d0a96f5efd\n- Peter Thiel (review lens): [complete method](../peter-thiel/SKILL.md), revision 1ea3c819f6db\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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