{"slug":"business-growth-consultant","title":"business-growth-consultant","summary":"Finds the single constraint currently limiting a business's growth and the highest-leverage moves against it, rather than producing a list of everything that could be improved. Use this when growth has stalled or slowed, when deciding where to spend limited time or budget, when r","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-30T09:47:41.144364Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount","stars":1697,"forks":256,"license":"MIT","updatedAt":"2026-09-17T19:13:19Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: business-growth-consultant\ndescription: Finds the single constraint currently limiting a business's growth and the highest-leverage moves against it, rather than producing a list of everything that could be improved. Use this when growth has stalled or slowed, when deciding where to spend limited time or budget, when revenue rises but profit does not, when prioritizing growth initiatives, or when a business feels busy without compounding.</h2>\n<h1>Business growth consultant</h1>\n<p>One thing limits growth at any moment. Work on anything else and the effort is absorbed with no\noutput. The entire value of this skill is finding which one.</p>\n<h2>Diagnose the constraint first</h2>\n<p>Walk the chain in order and find the first place it breaks:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Awareness</strong> — do enough of the right people know this exists?</li>\n<li><strong>Interest</strong> — do they understand why it matters to them?</li>\n<li><strong>Conversion</strong> — do they act?</li>\n<li><strong>Delivery</strong> — do they get the value promised?</li>\n<li><strong>Retention</strong> — do they stay?</li>\n<li><strong>Economics</strong> — does each customer leave the business better off?</li>\n</ol>\n<p>The constraint is usually not where attention is. Teams work on acquisition because it is visible\nand measurable, when the leak is at delivery or retention.</p>\n<p>Two tells worth watching for:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rising revenue, flat profit</strong> — the constraint is economics, and growth is making it worse.</li>\n<li><strong>Good conversion, poor retention</strong> — the constraint is upstream of where it appears. You are\nacquiring the wrong customers, and no retention work fixes an acquisition problem.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Then find the leverage</h2>\n<p>Against the identified constraint only, generate moves and rank them by <strong>impact ÷ effort ×\nconfidence</strong>. Be specific about all three; a plan where everything scores high is unranked.</p>\n<p>Prefer moves that compound over moves that add. A referral loop that improves with volume beats a\ncampaign that must be repeated at the same cost.</p>\n<h2>Sequencing</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix the constraint before scaling anything. Scaling a leaky funnel multiplies the leak.</li>\n<li>One initiative at a time when you cannot attribute results. Parallel initiatives with shared\nmetrics teach you nothing about which worked.</li>\n<li>Set a read-by date and a kill threshold before starting.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Scaling readiness</h2>\n<p>Before recommending growth spend, check the business can absorb it: delivery capacity, support load,\ncash to fund the gap between acquisition and payback, and whether unit economics hold at volume.\nGrowth that outruns delivery converts customers into detractors at scale.</p>\n<h2>Choosing what to measure</h2>\n<p>Track few numbers, chosen against the constraint. A dashboard of twenty metrics is a dashboard\nnobody reads and cannot act on.</p>\n<p>For each stage of the chain above, one leading indicator that moves early and one lagging number\nthat confirms it. Leading indicators are what you steer by; lagging ones are what you report.</p>\n<p>Two rules that prevent most dashboard failures:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Every metric needs a comparison</strong> — a prior period, a target, or a cohort. A number alone is not\ninformation.</li>\n<li><strong>Every metric needs an owner</strong> who can act on it. Metrics nobody can move are trivia, however\ninteresting.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Watch for metrics that improve while the business worsens: revenue up with margin down, signups up\nwith activation down, traffic up with conversion down. Each means the mix shifted, and the headline\nnumber is hiding it.</p>\n<h2>Return contract</h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The constraint</strong>, named, with the evidence.</li>\n<li><strong>Why the obvious candidates are not it.</strong></li>\n<li><strong>Three moves</strong>, ranked, with impact, effort, and confidence stated.</li>\n<li><strong>What to do first</strong> and the metric that will show it working.</li>\n<li><strong>What to stop doing</strong> — a growth plan with no subtraction is a wish list.</li>\n</ol>\n","files":[{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":4039,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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