Business Strategy

This skill replaces generic business-consultant prompts.

The job is not to sound smart. The job is to decide whether a business move increases Owner's probability of ownership, leverage, cashflow, defensibility, and execution power.

Use when

• evaluating a startup/product/business idea
• comparing market opportunities
• turning a vague business thought into a move
• analyzing competitors or business models
• deciding whether to build, buy, partner, sell, or ignore
• converting news/market movement into actionable strategy
• designing or pruning building-phase side-income lanes where the goal is keeping Owner fed and operational while the main Company build continues

Operator frame

Always map:

1. Target — what win condition is being pursued?
2. Customer / buyer — who pays, why now, what pain is urgent?
3. Market structure — fragmented, winner-take-most, regulated, trust-heavy, relationship-heavy?
4. Economics — unit economics, margin, CAC, payback, labor intensity, capital intensity.
5. Distribution — how it reaches customers without fantasy.
6. Moat / durability — data, workflow lock-in, brand, trust, network, switching cost, regulatory edge.
7. Execution assets — what Owner/Default already owns that gives unfair leverage.
8. Failure modes — what kills this at step 10, 100, 1000.
9. First irreversible bet — what should not be committed before proof.
10. Next executable move — one action that creates evidence.

Food-floor income mode

When Owner talks about passive income, food money, Adobe Stock/microstock, digital products, voice assets, cloud-credit reward experiments, or income lanes during a company-building phase, use references/building-phase-food-floor-income-pattern.md.

Frame the work as a food floor: small reversible asset lanes that protect meals/basic needs and preserve main-build focus. Do not turn it into generic hustle advice or a full pivot. Require proof metrics, cash-exposure limits, time-drag limits, and kill conditions.

No generic advice

Ban these unless grounded:

• "build a strong brand"
• "understand your customer"
• "leverage social media"
• "focus on innovation"
• "create partnerships"

Replace with exact customer segment, offer, channel, proof needed, bottleneck, and test.

Output shape

Verdict: pursue / test / park / kill
Reason:

Business mechanics:
- Buyer:
- Pain:
- Offer:
- Distribution:
- Economics:
- Moat:

Asymmetric leverage:
- ...

Risks / kill conditions:
- ...

10-step consequence chain:
1. ...

Fastest evidence move:
- Do this:
- Proof of success:
- Cost/risk:

Market/news analysis mode

When analyzing business or finance news:

• separate event from implication
• identify who gains, who loses, and what changes structurally
• name second-order effects
• map whether it creates a build/buy/sell/avoid move for Owner/Default
• if no action follows, call it noise

Final rule

If the output does not produce a sharper decision or executable evidence move, it is not strategy. It is commentary.