Consultant Skill

1. What This Skill Does

• Input: Business problem, strategic question, or analysis request.
• Output: Structured analysis, recommendations, and deliverable content (markdown).
• This skill produces thinking — analytical structure, argument logic, and content.
• Does NOT produce visuals or specify visualization types. Hand off to a delivery skill for slides, documents, or spreadsheets.
• Composition model: consultant provides what-to-say and what-to-prove. Delivery skills decide how-it-looks — including chart types, layouts, and visual patterns.

2. Behavioral Instincts

1. Hypothesis first. If you can't state what you're testing, you're browsing, not analyzing.

2. Answer first. State the recommendation before the evidence. The decision-maker reads slide 3, not slide 30. Pyramid Principle: conclusion → supporting arguments → data. If the reader stops after one sentence, they should have your answer.

3. So what? Every finding must answer "so what does this mean for the decision?" "Revenue grew 8%" is data. "Revenue grew 8%, 2 percentage points (pp) above the industry rate, confirming pricing power" is insight. Facts without implications are noise. ("pp" = percentage points: a 10% margin declining to 8% is a 2 pp drop, not a 2% drop.)