One-Page Strategy Brief — Business

Generates a one-page strategy brief from an office-hours intake or raw topic, framing the question, options, assumptions, constraints, and success criteria for boardroom deliberation. It is the first step in the strategic sprint pipeline and produces a structured Markdown file.

c-level-advisor claude-code

📂 View skill on GitHub ↗ 🚀 How to use

✨ What it does

Parses office-hours output or prompts for missing pieces when given a raw topic.
Drafts 2-3 options, always including a counterfactual and 'do nothing' as an option.
Makes assumptions and constraints explicit (time, money, people, reversibility).
Identifies affected cs-* advisor roles to route to the boardroom panel.
Writes success and kill criteria before the decision.
Saves the brief to ~/.claude/briefs/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md.

🎯 When to use it

When a strategic question needs to be framed before boardroom deliberation, such as a pricing change or market-entry decision.
When you have an office-hours output that needs to be turned into a structured brief.
When you need to lock options, assumptions, and success criteria before a decision.
When you want to prevent scope creep by agreeing on the question before debating implementation.

🚀 How to use

Trigger: /cs:brief

Trigger with the slash command /cs:brief <topic> or /cs:brief <office-hours-output>. Provide either a topic string or the output from /cs:office-hours. The skill loads company context automatically and may prompt for missing details. Example prompts:

/cs:brief Should we enter the German market?
/cs:brief <paste office-hours output>

📄 Output: A one-page Markdown strategy brief saved to ~/.claude/briefs/.

📦 Add this skill to Claude Code

# 1. Get the skills repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills /tmp/claude-skills

# 2. Copy this skill into your project (or ~/.claude/skills for all projects)
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/c-level-agents/skills/brief .claude/skills/brief

Skill source: c-level-agents/skills/brief/SKILL.md

⚠️ Good to know

Requires company context in ~/.claude/company-context.md and works best with an office-hours output for full rigor.

❓ FAQ

What is the minimum number of options in a brief?

At least two options, and 'do nothing' is always an option.

Where is the brief saved?

It is saved as a Markdown file under ~/.claude/briefs/ with a date-stamped filename.

What is the purpose of the success criteria?

They define measurable outcomes that must be set before the decision to ensure rigor.

🤖 Overview, features, install steps and FAQ were generated from the project's SKILL.md on Sep 4, 2026. Always check the original source before running commands.