Hire an AI seven Powers business advantage reviewer

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• 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

How it does the job well

• 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.

Mistakes it avoids

• 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.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You think your business has a moat and want proof before you tell a backer or build on it.

• 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.
• Step 2: seven-powers-scorecard-builder. All seven powers scored on benefit and barrier, sorted into held, buildable and out of reach.
• Step 3: ten-year-durability-checker. Who could take your top power, how soon, and what change could end it.
• Step 4: power-stage-build-planner. Your market stage, the power to build first, a first test and the choices that close other powers.
• HAND-BACK SUMMARY. Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list.

How the work is checked

• Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.
• The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.
• Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.
• Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

A second opinion

Before it hands back, your AI reviews the draft the way Hamilton Helmer and Peter Thiel would. This is a way of reviewing the work. It does not mean they wrote or endorse it.

Capabilities

• 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.
• Scores all seven powers. Writes a benefit and a barrier for each power, finds the fact behind each, and scores from 0 to 3.
• 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.
• 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.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id seven-powers-check only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/seven-powers-check/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• 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)

Helpful context (optional)

• Price, cost and margin
• Customer repeat rate or churn
• Market growth figures

Tools and access

• 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.

Functions and deliverables

• Seven Powers business advantage reviewer: Describe your business with evidence. Get seven advantage checks, scores, risks to lasting strength and a first-build plan.
  • 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
• Competitive advantage tester: Share your business, rivals and cost or price evidence. Get a test of the benefit, copying barrier and seven possible sources of advantage.
  • The benefit named in numbers and the barrier in words
  • A materiality test with a number or a clear reason
  • A match to one of the seven powers, and the stage check
  • The edge to build next and the evidence still missing
• Seven powers scorecard builder: Check your business against all seven powers. Paste your facts and get each scored on benefit and barrier, then sorted into held, buildable or out of reach.
  • 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
• Ten-year durability checker: Check if your business edge will last ten years. See how much value sits past year five, who could copy you, and what could end it.
  • Where the value sits, with sums
  • Copiers and how long they would need
  • Which traits make you harder to copy
  • What could end your edge, and a call
• Competitive advantage development planner: Share your business facts and advantage scorecard. Get a proposed market stage, an advantage to build first and a small test.
  • 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
• Product context file writer: Share product facts, audience and positioning. Get a reviewed context file that other marketing skills can reference.
  • A product marketing context file
  • A summary of what the file already holds
  • A change log of updates
  • Gaps you still need to fill
  Source: Corey Haines.
• Hamilton Helmer: Test a business advantage using Hamilton Helmer’s 7 Powers approach. Find the benefit, what stops rivals copying it and the next move to test.
  • 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
• Peter Thiel: Test a startup idea with Peter Thiel's public approach. Find your market, your real edge and the weakest of seven questions. Not for investment calls.
  • 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

Tasks you can use it for

• 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 to check before starting

• 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.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• 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. The first test has a pass line, so you know when it worked.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/seven-powers-check for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.