Strategy prompts

50 prompts with fill-in fields and a copy button. The ones tagged with a connector run best in Muse with that connector attached.

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Acquisition Target Screen

Scores and ranks M&A candidates on fit, quality, and integration risk, with deal-killer questions.

Annual Review Synthesizer

Turns a year of results into next year's strategy, written as a founder's letter to the team.

Board Deck Critique

A former-board-member teardown of your deck: buried bad news, missing evidence, and hard questions.

Budget Reallocation

Scores every budget line on alignment and ROI, then proposes cuts and where the money goes.

Scores build, buy, and partner options with double-weighted time-to-value, and sets a revisit date.

Channel Strategy

Scores your GTM channels, kills the bottom half, and defines the specific play for the winners.

Churn Post-Mortem

Diagnoses whether churn is a product, pricing, or wrong-customer problem, with a 90-day fix plan.

Competitor Pricing Intel

Decodes a competitor's pricing to reveal their strategy, traps, and where they're vulnerable.

Competitor Teardown

Reverse-engineers a competitor's strategy from their public materials, with evidence for every inference.

Concentration Risk Check

Quantifies what happens if your top customers leave, and builds a plan to dilute the risk.

Drafts a crisp one-page decision memo with options, risks, and tripwires for reversing the call.

Defensive Playbook

A tiered response plan for a competitor's attack: this week, 30 days, and the structural defense.

Differentiation Audit

Verdicts every marketing claim as true differentiator, table stakes, or wishful thinking.

Disruption Radar

Scans for tech, regulatory, and new-entrant threats to your model, with early signals for each.

Exit Options Explorer

Lays out your realistic strategic paths - from scaling to a graceful wind-down - with honest odds.

Fundraising Narrative

Builds your round's story arc, a 5-slide outline, a cold email, and answers to the top objections.

Geography Picker

Ranks expansion markets with double-weighted friction factors and lays out a phased entry plan.

Hiring Sequencer

Ranks your hiring gaps by urgency times leverage, with 90-day outcomes for the top three.

Launch Kill Criteria

Sets pre-commit kill criteria with numeric thresholds, so you can't move the goalposts later.

Market Entry Decision

A structured go/no-go analysis for entering a new market, with costs, barriers, and 90-day watch metrics.

North Star Picker

Picks your North Star metric with three tests, then builds the input-metric tree beneath it.

OKR Sanity Check

Audits draft OKRs for ambition, measurability, and conflicts, then rewrites the weak ones.

Org Design Review

Diagnoses whether your org friction is structure, people, or strategy, then proposes a redesign.

P&L Pressure Test

Attacks your forecast's assumptions, runs three sensitivity cases, and finds the linchpin metric.

Partnership Evaluator

Scores a partnership proposal on alignment, economics, and dependency risk, with must-have clauses.

Planning Kickoff

Designs your planning cycle week by week, with inputs, conflict resolution, and anti-patterns to avoid.

Positioning Statement Draft

Drafts a sharp positioning statement with proof points, anti-positioning, and attack defenses.

Price Increase Playbook

A complete price-increase plan: segmentation, customer email, objection scripts, and rollback triggers.

Pricing Model Rebuild

Diagnoses what's broken in your pricing, then redesigns the model with a customer migration plan.

Pricing Pressure Test

Stress-tests your pricing across five dimensions and proposes concrete alternatives.

Designs your quarterly business review: agenda, narrative, honest misses, and next quarter's commitments.

Red Team My Plan

An adversarial review that attacks your plan's assumptions before acknowledging what's solid.

Runway Strategist

Turns your cash, burn, and revenue into three concrete plans with trigger metrics between them.

SWOT With Teeth

A SWOT that rejects vague claims and forces evidence, then crosses the quadrants for implications.

Scenario Planning Trio

Builds base, bull, and stress scenarios around your real uncertainties, with no-regret moves.

Second-Order Effects

Maps how customers, competitors, and your team will react to a decision, and where it could backfire.

Ranks customer segments on five factors and assigns each a double-down, maintain, or deprioritize verdict.

Skeptic's Interview

Writes a discovery interview guide designed to disprove your hypothesis, not confirm it.

Stakeholder Map

Maps influence and incentives for a decision, with tailored pitches for the top three players.

Strategic Bet Evaluator

Steelmans both sides of a big bet, scores it, and recommends do it, kill it, or test it.

Strategic Debt Ledger

Catalogs your accumulated compromises by interest rate, and decides what to pay down or default on.

Strategy Narrative Builder

Builds the story of a strategic change in spoken and written form, with answers to hard questions.

The 10x Question

Tests whether 10x growth is possible, what would have to change, and the cheapest experiment to prove it.

The 80/20 Review

A Pareto analysis that finds your vital few, and forces a fire, reprice, or automate call on the worst 5.

The Adjacency Map

Maps growth adjacencies in four directions and recommends the sequence to pursue them.

The Hedgehog Finder

Finds the intersection of your strengths, economics, and passion, and names what falls outside it.

Ranks your initiatives by kill-worthiness and writes the honest rationale for stopping the top ones.

Grades each potential moat as real, decaying, or imaginary, then picks the one worth deepening.

The Pivot Checklist

A scored pivot decision: persevere, pivot now, or run a 6-week validation sprint first.

Trade-off Forcer

Forces you to keep at most 3 priorities and writes the memo that kills the rest.