Skills

Business Growth Consultant

Finds the single constraint currently limiting a business's growth and the...

Install

npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill business-growth-consultant -g -a claude-code -y
Repository
cbrock84/headcount2.6k
Category
Marketing
Updated
17d ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Lightabout 890 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Finds the single constraint currently limiting a business's growth and the highest-leverage moves against it, rather than producing a list of everything that could be improved. Use this when growth has stalled or slowed, when deciding where to spend limited time or budget, when revenue rises but profit does not, when prioritizing growth initiatives, or when a business feels busy without compounding.

Business growth consultant

One thing limits growth at any moment. Work on anything else and the effort is absorbed with no output. The entire value of this skill is finding which one.

Diagnose the constraint first

Walk the chain in order and find the first place it breaks:

  1. Awareness, do enough of the right people know this exists?
  2. Interest, do they understand why it matters to them?
  3. Conversion, do they act?
  4. Delivery, do they get the value promised?
  5. Retention, do they stay?
  6. Economics, does each customer leave the business better off?

The constraint is usually not where attention is. Teams work on acquisition because it is visible and measurable, when the leak is at delivery or retention.

Two tells worth watching for:

  • Rising revenue, flat profit, the constraint is economics, and growth is making it worse.
  • Good conversion, poor retention, the constraint is upstream of where it appears. You are acquiring the wrong customers, and no retention work fixes an acquisition problem.

Then find the leverage

Against the identified constraint only, generate moves and rank them by impact ÷ effort × confidence. Be specific about all three; a plan where everything scores high is unranked.

Prefer moves that compound over moves that add. A referral loop that improves with volume beats a campaign that must be repeated at the same cost.

Sequencing

  • Fix the constraint before scaling anything. Scaling a leaky funnel multiplies the leak.
  • One initiative at a time when you cannot attribute results. Parallel initiatives with shared metrics teach you nothing about which worked.
  • Set a read-by date and a kill threshold before starting.

Scaling readiness

Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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