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Articulate what sponsors of a technical event genuinely get and why each sponsor segment buys - brand exposure, product feedback, recruiting, community goodwill, and (vendor-run events only) pipeline - one segment at a time through a six-part jobs-to-be-done template, bounded by what the event type can honestly promise and backed by proof points a diligent sponsor will check. Use whenever the user mentions why a company should sponsor an event, sponsor benefits or motivations, or building the value story before a prospectus or rate card exists - even if they never say "value proposition". Sponsorship never buys talks, judging results, or roadmap influence. Do NOT use to package or price it - use samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-sponsor-prospectus instead.
Use to develop a deep, usable understanding of who a brand creates content for — sharp enough that every content skill resonates with them specifically. Run when the user says "who's my audience," "audience research," "target audience," "build a persona," "customer profile," "ideal customer profile" / "ICP," "who am I talking to," "understand my followers," or before content work that needs more audience depth than the brand-profile sketch. Reads brand-profile first and goes deeper: jobs-to-be-done, pains, objections, and the audience's ACTUAL language (voice-of-customer), grounded in real sources where possible — never demographic theater. Produces an audience.md that content-pillars, batch-content-plan, and the content skills read. Works for any business.
Research-backed customer persona creation with market data and avatar generation. Covers demographics, psychographics, jobs-to-be-done, journey mapping, and anti-personas. Use for: marketing strategy, product development, UX research, sales enablement, content strategy. Triggers: customer persona, buyer persona, user persona, target audience, ideal customer, customer profile, audience research, user research, icp, ideal customer profile, target market, customer avatar, audience persona
Designs the account segmentation model between ICP and tier structure - which firmographic, technographic, intent and jobs-to-be-done signal layers define account fit, the weighted fit score calibrated from 12 months of closed-won deals, fit and readiness as separate axes, whitespace and expansion mapping, and how the model is encoded, routed and re-scored in the CRM. Covers B2B account segmentation and B2C value-based customer segmentation. Use whenever the user mentions account scoring, fit score, whitespace, book-of-business carve-up, or reps picking accounts on gut feel, even without the word segmentation. Do NOT use for tier cutoffs and coverage (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-account-tiering) or ICP criteria (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-icp-definition).
Use when documentation needs to be updated, clarified, or reorganized to better serve users' jobs-to-be-done with low cognitive load and high signal.
Design products and pricing around validated willingness to pay, from Ramanujam & Tacke's "Monetizing Innovation". Use when the user mentions "pricing", "how much should we charge", "willingness to pay", "pricing page", "packaging", "freemium vs free trial", "are we leaving money on the table", "nobody buys at this price", "price increase", or "good-better-best". Also trigger when designing or auditing pricing and packaging, validating willingness to pay before building, segmenting customers by value, or choosing between subscription, usage-based, and freemium models. Covers price-before-product, willingness-to-pay talks, the four failures (feature shock, minivation, hidden gem, undead), leader/filler/killer packaging, and behavioral pricing. For offers and guarantees, see hundred-million-offers. For what customers value, see jobs-to-be-done.
Expert product discovery guidance for user research and problem validation. Use when conducting user interviews, validating problems, applying jobs-to-be-done framework, sizing opportunities, customer segmentation, competitive analysis, prototype testing, usability testing, designing surveys, or synthesizing research insights. Covers discovery sprints, continuous discovery, and research operations.
Talk to customers without leading them using Mom Test rules: discuss their life not your idea, ask about specifics in the past, and talk less. Use when the user mentions "customer interviews", "validate my idea", "users say they want it but don't buy", "leading questions", or "The Mom Test". Covers commitment and advancement, avoiding compliments, and extracting signal from noise. For product-market fit, see jobs-to-be-done. For rapid prototype testing, see design-sprint.
Guided journey from raw idea to a validated, positioned, priced business with a chosen beachhead. Orchestrates ten skills phase by phase - jobs-to-be-done, mom-test, design-sprint, lean-startup, good-strategy-bad-strategy, blue-ocean-strategy, obviously-awesome, hundred-million-offers, monetizing-innovation, crossing-the-chasm - asking the user questions at every decision point and recording results in the project docs/ folder (CUSTOMER.md, POSITIONING.md, OFFER.md, CREATE-BUSINESS-PLAN.md) so the journey resumes across sessions. Use when the user wants to start a new business, validate a startup idea, find product-market fit before building, or says 'I have an idea for a company'. Do not use once the business has paying customers: use grow-business to add revenue and customers, or improve-business to fix strategy and operations. For building the product itself use create-app or create-website. For one framework in isolation, invoke that skill directly.
Run a structured 5-day process to prototype, test, and validate product ideas with real users. Use when the user mentions "design sprint", "validate in a week", "rapid prototype", "test with users", or "de-risk before building". Covers mapping, sketching, deciding, prototyping, and testing. For ongoing experimentation, see lean-startup. For customer job analysis, see jobs-to-be-done. Trigger with 'design', 'sprint'.
The Jobs-to-be-Done framework as applied product methodology. Job statements, struggling moments, hire and fire criteria, the difference between feature-thinking and job-thinking. Honest about where JTBD adds clarity (discovery, prioritization, positioning) and where it becomes performative ritual (job-statement workshops that do not drive decisions, persona-theater disguised as JTBD). Triggers on jobs-to-be-done, JTBD, job statements, struggling moments, hire criteria, fire criteria, switch triggers, functional emotional social jobs, outcome-driven innovation. Also triggers when a team is over-relying on feature-request lists or persona archetypes that do not drive product decisions, when a positioning conversation needs the framing JTBD provides, or when discovery is producing outputs that do not connect to product strategy.
Provides Jobs-to-be-Done and psychographic research frameworks for brand identity work. Auto-activates during brand positioning, voice development, messaging, and strategy phases. Use when discussing target audience, customer research, JTBD, jobs to be done, four forces, push pull anxiety habit, emotional jobs, social jobs, functional jobs, limbic types, VALS segments, psychographics, or customer motivations.