Guided Journey · Improve × Business

Improve a Business

Diagnose and fix a plateaued business

Takes you from a stalled, plateaued business to one with an honest diagnosis, a working operating rhythm, and offers repriced to real value. It orchestrates its eight skills phase by phase, asking you the decision questions at every step and recording every result in your project's docs/ folder so the journey resumes across sessions.

Written to your repo
  • docs/STRATEGY.md
  • docs/OPERATIONS.md
  • docs/METRICS.md
  • docs/CUSTOMER.md
  • docs/OFFER.md
  • docs/IMPROVE-BUSINESS-PLAN.md journey tracker — stop anytime, resume any session

One prompt runs it

Every phase asks before it acts, and every decision lands in your project’s docs/ folder as a living document — quit anytime, resume in any session.

Use it when you need to
  • Figure out why growth stalled before launching new initiatives
  • Replace a goals-as-strategy plan with a real strategy kernel
  • Install an execution rhythm (rocks, weekly meetings, ownership)
  • Stop leaking margin in renewals and vendor deals
  • Reprice around value instead of cost-plus guesswork
Install this metaskill
npx skills add wondelai/skills/improve-business --global

This skill is compatible with Claude, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and other agentskills.io-compatible agents.

Journey Map

8 phases, one deliberate order

Each phase invokes one skill from the library, asks you the decision question, and writes the answer to your project’s docs/ before moving on.

  1. 01 What single challenge is capping the business? Good Strategy Bad Strategy good-strategy-bad-strategy → docs/STRATEGY.md Gate
  2. 02 How do we execute the strategy every week? Traction EOS traction-eos → docs/OPERATIONS.md
  3. 03 How does the operator multiply the team, not bottleneck it? High Output Management high-output-management → docs/OPERATIONS.md
  4. 04 Is the org structure itself the constraint? Team Topologies team-topologies → docs/OPERATIONS.md
  5. 05 Why has the team quietly checked out? Drive Motivation drive-motivation → docs/OPERATIONS.md
  6. 06 Which one number tells us the truth? Lean Analytics lean-analytics → docs/METRICS.md
  7. 07 Where are we leaking margin, and what do customers truly value? Negotiation negotiation → docs/CUSTOMER.md
  8. 08 Are we charging for the value we deliver? Monetizing Innovation monetizing-innovation → docs/OFFER.md
In Practice

Diagnose and Fix a Plateaued Business

Revenue has been flat for three quarters and every fix so far was a guess.

Our business has plateaued: [paste context — what you sell, team
size, what's been tried]. Run the improve-business journey starting
with a proper diagnosis. Don't let me jump to solutions before the
diagnosis is confirmed.

Use improve-business skill.
Example Prompts

Try these with the skill installed

Our revenue has been flat for three quarters — diagnose and fix it with me. using improve-business skill

Flat revenue diagnosis

Run the improve-business journey; start with the strategy diagnosis. using improve-business skill

Start the journey

Continue our business turnaround from the tracker. using improve-business skill

Resume journey
The Source

Born from a guide

This journey packages the playbook below as a single skill — the guide is the long-form read behind every phase.

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Install Improve a Business

Free, open-source, and ready in 30 seconds.

npx skills add wondelai/skills/improve-business --global
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