# suede-ops-assessment

Maps actual day-to-day operations and hidden data silos before building automations. It interviews front-line staff and prices process friction using your real numbers.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 126
- Author: JasonColapietro
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/suede-ops-assessment/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/suede-ops-assessment

## What it does

This skill diagrams actual floor workflows instead of the official org chart. It captures workarounds, personal spreadsheets, and inbox threads acting as databases. To map reality, it insists on interviewing the person executing each task. If only a manager describes a workflow, the skill halts until a performer is interviewed or the workflow is marked `[leadership map only]`.

During the silo inventory, the skill documents every unintegrated store: shared folders, spreadsheets, and chat channels where decisions occur. Live tools need evidence like recent write timestamps or invoices. Process bottlenecks get priced across three items: labor hours, error costs, and missed capacity. It prices the process rather than judging individual workers.

The skill stops before deciding what software to build: architecture planning belongs to `suede-ops-architecture`. If the agent estimates any figures on its own, it must tag them inline as `[assumed]`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-ops-assessment -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-ops-assessment -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-ops-assessment -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills suede-ops-assessment
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/suede-ops-assessment/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-ops-assessment -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --path skills/suede-ops-assessment
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-ops-assessment -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/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/suede-ops-assessment/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- map actual floor workflows through front-line staff walkthroughs
- catalog unintegrated spreadsheets, inboxes, and file shares
- calculate annual dollar losses from manual labor and operational errors
- identify key-person risks where operations depend on unwritten memory

## Example prompts
- Audit our customer onboarding process using the suede-ops-assessment workflow.
- Prepare floor interview questions based on references/interview-guide.md.
- Calculate the annual labor and error friction for our manual invoice intake.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: suede-ops-assessment
description: "Suede AI operations-assessment discipline that maps how work actually happens before anyone designs a system: floor-level interviews with the people who do the work, an inventory of every silo including spreadsheets and inboxes used as databases, friction quantified in the requester's own numbers, opportunities ranked by annual value against build complexity, and adoption watched for the thirty days after launch. Use when nobody can answer what to automate, when an operation needs auditing before a build, when tribal-knowledge and key-person risk has to surface, or when a shipped system is quietly being routed around. NOT FOR: deciding what to build and in what order once the map exists (use suede-ops-architecture); researching external customers rather than internal operators (use suede-customer-research); lead lifecycle, scoring, and CRM routing rules (use suede-revops); product instrumentation and dashboards (use suede-analytics); getting a new user to first value (use suede-onboarding)."
metadata:
  version: 1.0.0
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# Suede Ops Assessment

```text
Iron law: map the floor, not the org chart.
```

Every operation has two maps. The leadership map describes how the business is
meant to run. The floor map describes how the work actually gets done, including
each workaround, each unofficial spreadsheet, and each extra step that exists
because something broke once. A system designed from the leadership map gets
routed around, because the people doing the work can feel the mismatch on day
one.

This skill produces the floor map and the numbers attached to it. It stops
before deciding what to build.

## The requester's numbers are given

Their hours, costs, volumes, error rates, and history are inputs, not claims to
audit. No step here verifies, scores, hedges, or gates on a figure the requester
supplied.

What does get audited is anything **this skill** produces: a benchmark it
reached for, an estimate it filled in, a process step it inferred rather than
heard. Mark every one of those inline as `[assumed]` and list them in the Output
Contract, so a reader can tell the operation's own numbers from this skill's.

Never substitute an industry average for a number the requester has. Ask for
theirs, or record the line as missing.

## Before Starting

1. **Scope**: which processes, departments, or surfaces are in the assessment.
2. **Access**: what the requester has authorized you to read. Work inside it.
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