Growth Bottleneck Finder
Surveys facts across demand, sales, pricing, capacity, fit, retention, and competition to name the one constraint most likely capping your growth right now.
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Run this command in your terminal, or paste it into Claude—or your favorite AI assistant—and ask it to install the skill for you.
What This Skill Does
Looks past the obvious "more marketing" answer
Checks capacity, pricing, fit, and retention just as seriously as demand and sales.
Ranks, doesn't just list
Names a primary constraint (and a secondary, if a real second candidate exists) instead of a flat list of maybes.
Grounded only in your own facts
Every rating traces to something you actually described, never a fabricated industry comparison.
Won't guess from a vague ask
Refuses to name a constraint from "what's holding us back" alone; asks for real facts across a few functions first.
Points you to the sharper tool when it exists
Flags when real funnel numbers would give Pipeline Symptom Checker a more precise read.
Best Used For
- Trying to figure out what's actually capping growth when "more marketing" doesn't feel like the real answer
- Sorting out whether a stall is a demand, sales, pricing, capacity, fit, retention, or market problem
- Before committing budget to a marketing push, to check whether marketing is really the binding constraint
- A "what's the one thing actually holding us back" gut check across the whole business
How It Works
When growth stalls, the instinct is to reach for whatever explanation is closest at hand - usually "we need more marketing" - without checking whether marketing is actually the binding constraint or just the most visible function. Growth can just as easily be capped by delivery capacity, a pricing model that no longer fits, a product that doesn't quite match the market, or a market that's genuinely more saturated than it used to be.
This skill surveys concrete facts across seven business functions - demand generation, sales execution, pricing, delivery capacity, product-market fit, retention, and competitive/market saturation - and rates each as a likely, possible, or unlikely constraint. It refuses to rate anything from a vague request; it needs real facts across at least a few functions first, and it flags when real funnel numbers exist so you can get a sharper read from Pipeline Symptom Checker instead.
You walk away with a primary constraint (and a secondary, if a real second candidate exists) and a plain sentence on what it means - never a recommended fix, hire, or price change.
Get This Skill
Run this command in your terminal, or paste it into Claude—or your favorite AI assistant—and ask it to install the skill for you.
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Common questions
Not by default - it checks capacity, pricing, fit, and retention just as seriously as demand and sales before naming a constraint.
It won't guess from a vague request - it needs concrete facts across at least a few of the seven functions first.
No - if you have real stage-by-stage counts, Pipeline Symptom Checker gives a sharper, numbers-based read. Use this when those numbers don't exist or the bottleneck might be outside the funnel.
No - it names the constraint, not the remedy.
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