# grow-business

Walks you through nine phases from lumpy revenue to a repeatable growth engine, recording every decision in docs/.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2200 installs · ★ 2508
- Author: wondelai
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/wondelai/skills/tree/HEAD/grow-business/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-10
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/grow-business

## What it does

This skill is for a business that already has paying customers but whose good months arrive by accident. It splits the work into nine phases: a marketing map, an offer, outbound sales, word-of-mouth, persuasion, a mainstream go-to-market, a compounding network, one honest metric, and the discipline to hold price. Each phase leans on its own skill — `one-page-marketing`, `hundred-million-offers`, `predictable-revenue`, `contagious`, `influence-psychology`, `crossing-the-chasm`, `cold-start-problem`, `lean-analytics`, `negotiation`.

The order matters. The offer comes before any channel, because sending traffic to a weak offer is the most expensive mistake in growth. The agent asks before each decision and writes the answers into `docs/GROW-BUSINESS-PLAN.md`. Phase output lands in `docs/MARKETING.md`, `docs/OFFER.md`, `docs/METRICS.md`, `docs/STRATEGY.md` and `docs/CUSTOMER.md`; existing files get extended rather than overwritten. That is what makes the journey resumable in a later session.

If the offer, retention or operations underneath are broken, run `improve-business` first. With no paying customers yet, start with `create-business`; when the product itself has to carry the growth loops, use `grow-app`. For a single framework on its own, invoke that skill directly. The whole stack installs with `npx skills add wondelai/skills --all --global`, or each phase can pull its skill on demand.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill grow-business -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/grow-business/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/grow-business/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill grow-business -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/grow-business/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill grow-business -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/grow-business/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install wondelai/skills grow-business
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/grow-business/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill grow-business -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/wondelai/skills --path grow-business
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/grow-business/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill grow-business -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/wondelai/skills/tree/HEAD/grow-business/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- turn lucky months into a forecast you can plan around
- build an offer that beats the alternatives
- manufacture outbound pipeline on demand
- engineer word-of-mouth and referrals into the product
- pick the one metric that shows growth is working

## Example prompts
- Run grow-business — revenue is real but lumpy, start from phase 1
- Resume grow-business at phase 3, I'm back on the project
- Walk me through the offer phase of grow-business

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: grow-business
description: 'Guided journey from a business with lucky months to a repeatable growth engine that produces a forecast. Orchestrates nine skills phase by phase - one-page-marketing, hundred-million-offers, predictable-revenue, contagious, influence-psychology, crossing-the-chasm, cold-start-problem, lean-analytics, negotiation - asking the user questions at every decision point and recording results in the project docs/ folder (MARKETING.md, OFFER.md, METRICS.md, GROW-BUSINESS-PLAN.md) so the journey resumes across sessions. Use when the user wants to build a marketing and sales system, manufacture predictable pipeline, engineer word-of-mouth and referrals, or says ''revenue is real but lumpy and I need growth that repeats''. If the offer, retention, or operations underneath are broken, run improve-business first; with no paying customers yet, start with create-business; when the product itself must carry the growth loops, use grow-app. For one framework in isolation, invoke that skill directly.'
license: MIT
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  author: wondelai
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# Grow a Business

You already have the hard part: a product people pay for. Revenue is real but lumpy — a good month came from a conference you happened to attend or a referral that happened to land, and none of it repeats on demand. This journey turns that traction into a repeatable growth engine across nine phases: a marketing map, an irresistible offer, an outbound motion, engineered word-of-mouth, persuasion on every surface, a mainstream go-to-market, a compounding network, one honest metric, and the discipline to hold price. It is interactive — the agent asks before every decision — and resumable, because every decision and asset is recorded in `docs/`. Install the whole stack at once with `npx skills add wondelai/skills --all --global`, or let each phase pull its skill on demand.

## Core Principle

**Build a repeatable growth engine: each phase produces an asset the next phase consumes — offer feeds pipeline, pipeline feeds word-of-mouth, metrics keep it honest.** The order is load-bearing; a skipped Phase 1 leaves the later phases with no shared target. This skill sequences the phases, asks the decision questions, and records the answers. The constituent skills carry the method — invoke them rather than improvising their frameworks.
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