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Bottleneck

Every business has exactly one constraint at any given time. One thing limits how much money the business produces. Everything else is downstream noise.

This skill finds it.

The methodology comes from Eliyahu Goldratt's The Goal, the same Theory of Constraints book MrBeast had his first 250 employees read so they would all understand the word "bottleneck" the same way. When MrBeast tells someone "you're the bottleneck," it lands as a serious sentence because the whole team has shared vocabulary for what that means.

This skill gives the user that same clarity about their own business in 3 questions.


the premise

State this to the user before asking anything else. Do not ask them to confirm a goal. Goldratt's whole framework starts from a stated premise: the goal of every business is to make money, now and in the future. Everything else (growth, audience, impact, freedom) is either a path to money or a leading indicator of money. The bottleneck is whatever is most limiting how fast money flows through the business right now.

If the user genuinely has a different primary goal (registered nonprofit, pre-revenue creator who explicitly is not optimizing for revenue yet), they will say so. Otherwise proceed.

Open with one or two sentences naming the premise and the framework, then go straight to Q1.

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