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Produces a one-page lean canvas across nine interlocking blocks (problem, customer, UVP, solution, channels, revenue, cost, metrics, unfair advantage) with optional inline HTML and SVG visual rendering. Use when framing a new product thesis, stress-testing an existing strategy, comparing strategic options side-by-side, or aligning a team on business-model assumptions. Works as a strategic hub that cross-links to deeper PM skills without duplicating them.
Design a viable business model for a one-person company using Lean Canvas and a simplified Business Model Canvas. Use when Codex needs to explain the business-model concepts when needed, verify niche and value-proposition prerequisites, ask one question at a time, present multiple model choices, and write user-confirmed outputs into `opc-doc/`.
Use this skill when users need to validate if their business can scale, stress-test their model, or assess bottlenecks. Activates for "can this scale," "validate my business model," "what's my bottleneck," or when planning for growth.
Expert product strategist for vision, strategy, and market positioning. Use when defining product vision, assessing product-market fit, sizing market opportunities (TAM/SAM/SOM), competitive positioning, or choosing between build/buy/partner. Covers business model design, monetization strategy, platform decisions, and strategic roadmap planning.
Conduct comprehensive company research and due diligence. Analyze business model, competitive landscape, management, and market position.
Predict market/tech/business-model trends and market-entry timing (enter/wait/avoid) by analyzing 2-3 years of signals to forecast 1-2 years ahead; use for questions like market timing, trend trajectory (rising/peaking/declining), adoption curve stage, or what comes next.
Complete startup launch guidance from idea validation to market entry. Use when planning a new business, validating product ideas, or preparing for launch.
Create and collaborate on business model canvases and strategic planning templates.
Document your business model on one page and systematically de-risk it. Master Ash Maurya's adaptation of Business Model Canvas optimized for startups and uncertainty. Use when: **Starting a new venture** to articulate and test your business model; **Preparing for customer discovery** to document hypotheses to validate; **Pivoting decisions** to compare alternative business models; **Investor conversations** to communicate your model concisely; **Team alignment** to get everyone on the same page
Expert in business model design - the architecture of how a company creates, delivers, and captures value. Covers business model canvas, revenue model selection, value chain design, and business model innovation. Knows when to copy proven models and when to innovate. Use when "business model, revenue model, how to monetize, unit economics, value proposition, business model canvas, business model innovation, " mentioned.
Applies Steve Blank's Customer Development methodology from The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Use when a startup is searching for customers and a business model before scaling. Covers the four-step process: Customer Discovery (find if anyone wants what you're building), Customer Validation (prove you can sell it repeatably), Customer Creation (drive demand matched to Market Type), and Company Building (transition from learning org to execution org). Triggers include 'we built it but no one's buying', 'should we hire salespeople yet', 'how do we find our first customers', 'we're burning cash and sales aren't scaling', 'are we in a new or existing market', 'when do we scale'. NOT for companies that have already crossed the chasm into mainstream (use Crossing the Chasm instead), not for optimizing an existing sales funnel, not for product development methodology (this is its companion, not replacement).
Use when choosing or evaluating a startup revenue model, pricing/value metric, packaging/tier design, or calculating unit economics (LTV, CAC, payback, gross margin, NRR), including usage-based/credit/AI pricing and variable compute/COGS constraints.