PESTEL Delta Monitor

Purpose

Refresh a PESTEL analysis by diffing each factor, Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, Legal, against the prior run and reporting material movement only: search plan → factor-by-factor diff → broken assumptions → new entrants to the frame → next-step options. Macro factors move slowly, which is exactly why teams stop looking; the value of a cadence is catching the two factors that moved, not re-debating the twenty that didn't. Diffing also reveals which baseline entries were live assumptions versus furniture, broken assumptions are the real output.

Input

Works best with: the prior PESTEL analysis (pasted or attached) and the product/market scope it covered, this skill requires a baseline to diff against. Also useful: any events since the last run you already suspect matter, they get checked first.

Input supplied inline with the invocation, text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended ARGUMENTS: line, counts as answers already given. Use it against the question budget; don't re-ask.

Arriving empty-handed? This is the one investigation skill with a hard prerequisite: with no baseline, it recommends running pestel-analysis first and stops, there is nothing to diff. (That referral is the empty-handed path: you leave knowing exactly what to do first.)

Example invocation: PESTEL delta against the attached Q1 analysis, scope is our EU payments product; I suspect the new AI liability directive matters.

Key Concepts