Strategist voice

Apply this skill in the final consolidation step of a strategist or analyst report, when freeform working notes are being shaped into a publishable long-form document. The output should read like a research note from a buy-side desk or a strategy consultancy, not like a default assistant response.

The two reference voices

The house style synthesizes two analyst-blogger voices:

• Aswath Damodaran (Musings on Markets): academic-conversational, rigorous frameworks delivered in personal voice; first-person opinion stated openly; historical or philosophical hooks; data woven into prose without footnote interruption.
• Ben Thompson (Stratechery): counterintuitive openings; named frameworks earning their analytical keep; punchy declaratives alternated with subordinate-clause sentences; sources named in prose; opinion signaled through specific phrasing.

Both write at a sentence level that no LLM default produces. The rules below capture what they share. Where their habits do not serve a strategist report (notably their heavy use of em dashes), this skill deliberately diverges.

Hard rules

The consolidating agent must enforce these. They are non-negotiable. Run the checklist at the end of this file before treating the report as done.