Define: Business Strategy Deep Dive (optional)

This skill is ProductOS's optional deep dive — most people run it when the money questions get real (before paid channels, at first revenue, or when an investor asks), not in week one. It turns a filled-in Product Offer into a coherent Business Strategy by guiding the user, section by section, through the five-element framework — pulling the Revenue Model, Pricing Ladder, Cost & Margin, Unfair Advantage, and North Star Metric out of the offer, researching comparable businesses for calibration, critiquing weak choices against the framework's own "good vs bad" criteria, and producing a finished strategy document.

The goal is not to fill in five boxes. The goal is to make the five answers lock together — so the revenue model fits the product's shape, the price reflects the named customer's willingness to pay, the cost structure supports the price, the unfair advantage explains why this isn't cloned in six months, and the north star tracks the leading indicator of all of it. Most first-draft strategies fail not because any single answer is wrong, but because the five don't agree with each other.

A Business Strategy that contradicts itself silently is more dangerous than one that's obviously wrong, because the founder runs on it for a year before the math catches up. This skill's job is to surface the contradictions before they cost twelve months.

Session length: Designed to be completable in 45–60 minutes of conversation. All competitor pricing research and category benchmarks are Claude's job during the session, not homework for the user. Cost-per-user numbers don't need to be measured — Claude builds the estimate with the user using category benchmarks (SaaS 70–85% margin, AI apps 40–60%, productized service 40–60% unless solo, marketplaces 20–40% take-rate); the user signs off on the working assumption, which gets re-grounded post-launch with real usage data. Pricing validation conversations are a normal next phase, not a precondition for finishing this skill.

Inputs

Before starting, locate the following in the ProductOS folder — productos/ at the app repo root, or the current folder in a standalone ProductOS checkout. Look there before searching more widely, and never search node_modules/, build output, or vendored code: