# improve-business

Step-by-step turnaround workflow for plateaued businesses. It diagnoses bottlenecks across eight phases and saves decisions directly to 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/improve-business/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-10
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/improve-business

## What it does

This skill targets businesses that already have revenue and customers but hit a growth plateau. Instead of jumping straight into isolated tactics, it works through eight sequential layers: strategy, execution, management, organizational structure, team motivation, core metrics, margin, and pricing.

Each phase relies on a dedicated skill such as `good-strategy-bad-strategy`, `traction-eos`, or `lean-analytics`. When a specific skill is missing, the agent prompts to install it globally via `npx` or falls back to an embedded brief. Every milestone and decision is recorded in `docs/` files like `STRATEGY.md` and `OPERATIONS.md`, which keeps context across agent sessions.

Jumping directly into restructuring or repricing will fail: the operating rules block treatment phases until a written diagnosis is confirmed in `docs/STRATEGY.md`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill improve-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/improve-business/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- diagnose why revenue stopped growing in an operating business
- establish a weekly operating rhythm for team execution
- identify margin leaks and reprice offers based on value
- track turnaround decisions and owners across project markdown files

## Example prompts
- Revenue is flat and I do not know why. Let's run improve-business.
- Resume our business turnaround from docs/IMPROVE-BUSINESS-PLAN.md.
- Help me diagnose why our team execution stalled and set up weekly rhythms.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: improve-business
description: 'Guided journey from a stalled, plateaued business to one with an honest diagnosis, a working operating rhythm, and offers repriced to real value. Orchestrates eight skills phase by phase - good-strategy-bad-strategy, traction-eos, high-output-management, team-topologies, drive-motivation, lean-analytics, negotiation, monetizing-innovation - asking the user questions at every decision point and recording results in the project docs/ folder (STRATEGY.md, OPERATIONS.md, METRICS.md, IMPROVE-BUSINESS-PLAN.md) so the journey resumes across sessions. Use when the user wants to fix a business that has plateaued, diagnose why growth stalled, tighten strategy and execution, re-motivate a team, or says ''revenue is flat and I do not know why''. Starting from scratch with no customers: use create-business. Once the fundamentals work and the goal is expansion: use grow-business. When the product itself drags the business down: use improve-app. For one framework in isolation, invoke that skill directly.'
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: wondelai
  version: "1.0.1"
---

# Improve a Business

An interactive, resumable journey for a business that already runs but has stopped moving — real revenue, real customers, a flat line. Across eight phases it works the layers in order (strategy, execution, management, structure, motivation, metrics, margin, pricing), diagnosing before treating rather than chasing one tactic at a time. The agent asks before every decision and records each choice in `docs/` so the turnaround survives across sessions.

## Core Principle

**A plateau is a diagnosis failure: diagnose before treating, and work the layers in order — strategy, execution, management, structure, motivation, metrics, margin, pricing.** Poking one tactic at a time never breaks a plateau because the constraints compound. This skill sequences the phases, asks the decision questions, and records what was decided; the constituent skills carry the actual method — invoke them rather than improvising their frameworks.

## Journey Map

| Phase | Skill | Question it answers | Artifact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | good-strategy-bad-strategy | What single challenge is capping the business? | Creates docs/STRATEGY.md — GATE |
| 2 | traction-eos | How do we execute the strategy every week? | Creates docs/OPERATIONS.md |
| 3 | high-output-management | How does the operator multiply the team, not bottleneck it? | Extends docs/OPERATIONS.md |
| 4 | team-topologies | Is the org structure itself the constraint? | Extends docs/OPERATIONS.md |
| 5 | drive-motivation | Why has the team quietly checked out? | Extends docs/OPERATIONS.md |
| 6 | lean-analytics | Which one number tells us the truth? | Creates docs/METRICS.md |
| 7 | negotiation | Where are we leaking margin, and what do customers truly value? | Extends docs/CUSTOMER.md |
```
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