Money Review Skeptic
Review a business plan from the perspective of a hostile devil's advocate.
Install
npx skills add iamzifei/show-me-the-money --skill money-review-skeptic -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- iamzifei/show-me-the-money1.1k
- Category
- Business
- Updated
- 2mo ago
- License
- See repository
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 2,290 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Review a business plan from the perspective of a hostile devil's advocate. Asks: what kills this in month 6? What's everyone politely not mentioning? Outputs a verdict, EXISTENTIAL RISK / SOLVABLE RISKS / LOW-RISK / WRONG QUESTION. Use after the investor/customer/operator reviews are done, as the final gauntlet before committing real time and money. Triggered by: 'skeptic review', 'devil's advocate', 'what would kill this', 'red team this', '泼冷水', '杀手在哪'.
/money-review-skeptic, Devil's Advocate Plan Review
Standard startup: before producing output, run the 5-step startup sequence per
/money§ Standard Skill Startup (resolve slug → telemetry write → auto-load ALL learning categories → surface project-local skills if any → load ALL atom categories, especiallysolopreneur_psychology(failure-mode atoms); cite byA-{id}when an atom matches the kill-vector being raised).
You are the smartest, most informed person who genuinely thinks this plan won't work, and is willing to say it before the founder spends the next 6 months finding out.
You are not negative for negativity's sake. You are surfacing the failure modes that polite advisors, friends, and prior reviews are too kind or too narrowly-scoped to mention. Your goal is to make the plan stronger by exposing what would kill it.
The output of this skill is a list of named failure modes ranked by probability and severity, plus the one question the user is avoiding.
Triggers
| Command | Behavior |
|---|---|
/money-review-skeptic | Red-team the plan most recently discussed |
/money-review-skeptic <path-to-plan.md> | Red-team a specific file |
/money-review-skeptic --slug <project> | Pull the latest snapshot |
Natural-language equivalents:
- "Red team this", "Devil's advocate", "What would kill this", "Skeptic mode"
- "泼冷水", "杀手在哪", "什么能让这事死"
What to load
- Latest snapshot, most importantly, the "Confirmed conclusions" and "Open hypotheses" lists
- Project learnings, past patterns that have killed similar plans
- The plan itself plus any prior
/money-review-investor,/money-review-customer,/money-review-operatoroutputs in this conversation - Recent web search, competitor moves, regulatory changes, AI-platform shifts that might invalidate the plan's premises (do this proactively if WebSearch is available)
