Claude Skills by deciqAI

Activate when: user says 'I can never find time for focused work', 'I feel busy but produce nothing', 'I keep getting interrupted', 'I want to protect my focus time', 'flow state', 'deliberate practice', 'Cal Newport', or asks how to make progress on hard cognitive work (research, writing, engineering, strategy). Do NOT activate when: the role is genuinely high-coordination with no discrete focus windows (ER medicine, real-time trading desk), or user is in a short-term emergency where availab...

Activate when: user says 'definite optimism,' 'Thiel's 2x2,' 'do we have a real plan or just options,' 'we're keeping our options open,' or asks whether a strategy/career/company is a concrete bet on the future or a diversified hedge; a plan consists mainly of process (iterate, A/B test, stay lean, stay flexible) with no falsifiable long-term thesis; someone must choose between committing to one path and preserving optionality. Do NOT activate when: the question is tactical execution inside a...

"Activate when: user says 'I've been doing this for years but I'm not getting better'; someone suspects a skill plateau despite continued effort; designing a learning program for a high-performance outcome; an organization reports high training hours but low skill transfer.

"Activate when: 'we have a strong product but keep losing on price', 'customers treat us like a commodity', 'how do we stop being compared to competitors', 'why aren't customers coming to us before they write the RFP', 'we want to define the category before someone else does'.

"Activate when: user asks 'why isn't anyone using our product?', 'how do we understand what customers really want?', 'we know the tech works but the market isn't responding', team is stuck on a single solution and needs divergent ideas, or someone discusses user research / personas / prototyping / iterative design.

Activate when: user says "I can't stop worrying about something I can't control," "I'm anxious about how this will turn out," "I keep replaying what went wrong," "I need them to change," "this uncertainty is paralyzing me," or is processing a setback, preparing for a high-stakes unknown outcome, or stuck in anger/frustration at someone else's choices. Do NOT activate when: the user needs to grieve or feel first (premature Stoic framing suppresses healthy emotion); or the user is avoiding real...

Activate when: running sales discovery calls; deals stall because the buyer doesn't feel the pain; 'how do I run a sales call', 'my demos don't convert', qualifying a prospect. Do NOT activate when: the deal is transactional/self-serve with no call, or it's post-sale support. More: deciqai.com/s/discovery-call-spin

"Activate when: a founder asks 'can we avoid competing head-on with big players?', someone asks 'is this disruption or just a price war?', an investor wonders if a startup's entry angle creates durable structural advantage, an incumbent spots a cheap new entrant and needs to know if it's a real threat, a product team wants to know which features to deliberately leave out of an MVP.

Activate when: an early founder is over-automating or waiting for growth to be 'efficient'; 'this won't scale', recruiting first users, delivering early service manually; concierge/white-glove starts. Do NOT activate when: the motion is already validated and the task is genuinely to scale it (then systemize/automate). More: deciqai.com/s/do-things-that-dont-scale

"Activate when: user asks 'they made a big ask then backed off, should I concede?'; user is designing a negotiation opening and wants to land at a specific price; someone says 'anchor high then retreat' or 'reciprocal concession'; user suspects they are being manipulated by a two-step request pattern.

Activate when: a decision feels obvious but the stakes are high; someone says 'I just trust my gut' on a consequential call; a team is converging fast without pushback; you're tired or pressured and still need to decide; you're in an unfamiliar domain moving on instinct. Do NOT activate when: the decision is genuinely routine and low-stakes; you have well-trained calibrated expert intuition in that exact domain and need to act fast. More: deciqai.com/s/dual-system-thinking

Activate when: team headcount is approaching or crossing 150 (or 50, or 500); someone says "coordination is getting harder," "we lost the startup feel," or "we don't know who does what anymore"; deciding whether to split a team, open a new office, or add a management layer. Do NOT activate when: group is well below 50 and problems are clearly interpersonal; core issue is incentive misalignment rather than group size (use principal-agent instead). More: deciqai.com/s/dunbars-number

Activate when: someone says 'how hard could it be' about an unfamiliar domain; a novice dismisses expert opinion or says 'I could do that'; someone's self-assessed confidence seems disconnected from their actual track record; a hiring or promotion decision is driven by self-presentation; feedback loops are absent and someone is operating on gut confidence alone. Do NOT activate when: the person is a known expert with an established external track record; the confidence claim is in a domain wi...

"Activate when: user asks 'what is our real edge?', 'what will our moat look like in 3 years?', 'which capabilities should we invest in?', someone says 'competitive advantage' without a specific testable claim, or a team is assessing whether their current position will survive a technology or market shift.

"Activate when: user asks 'does this business have a moat', 'what stops competitors from copying us', 'how defensible is this company', 'is this advantage durable', evaluating a company for investment or acquisition, designing startup strategy for long-term defensibility, reviewing an investor pitch's competitive-advantage claims.

Activate when: user asks "will our margins improve as we grow?", "do we need scale to compete?", "why does our competitor charge less than us?", analyzing whether a business model has a cost advantage at higher volume, evaluating M&A "scale synergies," sizing minimum efficient scale, or deciding whether to invest in capacity ahead of demand. Do NOT activate when: the advantage is demand-side value growth with users (use network-effects instead); the business competes on differentiation/IP/rel...

"Activate when: user says 'our culture isn't working despite directives', 'the market behaves unexpectedly', 'this worked at small scale but not at large scale', 'we can't predict or control what's happening', 'designing a platform/community/open-source project'.

Activate when: seller is asking way more than buyers will pay; a founder or homeowner insists their asset is worth far more than market comps; a team refuses to cut a feature they built; a free-trial cancellation flow has more friction than signup; someone says 'I've put too much into this to sell for that.' Do NOT activate when: the valuation gap is explained by genuine information asymmetry the seller actually has; the asset is a pure commodity with a transparent live market price (endowmen...

Activate when: self-employed / K-1 / variable-income client planning quarterly 1040-ES; 'how much should I set aside?', 'will I owe a penalty?', volatile income year. Do NOT activate when: W-2 withholding fully covers liability. More: deciqai.com/s/estimated-tax-safety-buffer

"Activate when: user asks 'how much should I bet/invest on this?', 'what's the expected value here?', 'Kelly criterion', 'optimal bet size', 'fractional Kelly', 'how big a position should I take?', or is allocating capital across repeated decisions (ad spend by segment, VC portfolio construction, position sizing, A/B test ramp).

"Activate when: user says 'what would prove this wrong', 'how do we know if our strategy is working', 'what would change your mind', 'this claim feels unfalsifiable', or is designing a hypothesis/experiment/investment thesis that needs to be made testable.

Activate when: user says "we keep overshooting/undershooting", "the cure is causing the disease", "we're stuck in a loop", "why does this keep happening?", "the system keeps fighting back", "bullwhip effect", "death spiral", "growth flywheel"; system shows oscillation or sudden collapse; user is planning an intervention in an org/market/supply chain and wants to predict how it will respond. Do NOT activate when: the decision is a one-shot linear choice with no feedback to future decisions, or...

Activate when: user says 'explain this simply', 'teach me like I'm five', 'do I really understand this', 'what's the simplest way to think about X', 'what's missing in my model', wants to test genuine vs. surface understanding of a concept, or is preparing to teach/present and needs to verify their mental model. Do NOT activate when: user needs a fast decision on a concept already well-tested, or the concept is irreducibly formal (legal statutes, certain proofs) where simplification destroys ...

Activate when: user asks 'should we move first or wait?', 'is it too late to enter this market?', 'how long can they hold their lead?', 'what makes the first mover hard to beat here?', or needs to assess how durable a market leader's position is or map where a pioneer's advantages are weakest. Do NOT activate when: no one has entered the market yet and the question is whether the market exists at all; or when the decision is primarily about execution quality rather than entry timing. More: de...

Activate when: user says 'from first principles,' 'from scratch,' 'why do we even believe this,' 'tear this apart,' or 'the conventional answer seems wrong'; a decision is justified mainly by 'that's how it's done' or 'best practice says'; the conventional answer is expensive or hard to reverse and the user wants to pressure-test it. Do NOT activate when: the decision is routine and reversible (which linter, which date library) where convention is cheap and fine; the user has asked to just sh...

Activate when: a founder is running on empty, working unsustainable hours, or output/judgment is degrading; 'I'm burning out', 'I can't keep this pace', protecting the founder as the company's key asset. Do NOT activate when: it's a short, bounded sprint by choice with recovery planned. More: deciqai.com/s/founder-burnout-sustainability

Activate when: an early founder needs revenue but wants to hire a salesperson or 'automate' sales too soon; 'I hate selling', 'when should I hire sales?', first customers, pre-PMF go-to-market. Do NOT activate when: the company already has repeatable, documented sales and is scaling a proven motion (then it's about hiring/systems, not founder-led). More: deciqai.com/s/founder-led-sales

"Activate when: user says 'founder mindset' or 'founder mode'; asks 'default alive or default dead'; says 'do things that don't scale'; says 'am I avoiding the hard thing'; is deciding whether to hire/fire/pivot/raise/cut burn at an early-stage company; feels comfort-seeking creeping in; cannot tell if they are on the path to success or slow death.

Activate when: a founder says they're hitting a ceiling despite working harder; a founding team keeps fighting about who makes decisions; someone asks 'why do some founders progress faster than me?' or 'do I need a co-founder?'; a founder is moving from early stage to scaling and things that worked before are now breaking. Do NOT activate when: the real constraint is product-market fit, runway, or capital (use pmf-crossing-the-chasm or jobs-to-be-done instead); the founder has operated fewer ...

Activate when: user says 'how you say it matters', 'they're spinning the numbers', 'same data but sounds different', 'is this just framing?', wants to write a persuasive message, suspects a statistic is one-sided, or is evaluating options where the language feels loaded. Do NOT activate when: the different descriptions convey genuinely non-equivalent information (one frame omits real facts); the decision is trivial and multi-frame analysis exceeds the stakes. More: deciqai.com/s/framing-effect

Activate when: a freight broker is booking a carrier and must vet authority/insurance/safety before tendering a load; 'is this carrier legit', onboarding a new carrier, preventing fraud/double-brokering. Do NOT activate when: the carrier is an established, already-vetted partner with current records on file. More: deciqai.com/s/freight-carrier-vetting-checklist

Activate when: a freight broker faces fraud/double-brokering or non-payment risk; 'the carrier that hauled isn't the one I booked', chargebacks, unpaid carriers coming after the shipper; tracing downstream liability. Do NOT activate when: a fully vetted, tracked, single-carrier move with no anomalies. More: deciqai.com/s/freight-double-brokering-exposure

Activate when: a freight broker must quote a lane and decide accept/counter/pass on a load or carrier rate; 'what should I quote', 'is this rate any good', margin vs win-probability on a lane. Do NOT activate when: a contracted rate already governs the lane (no decision). More: deciqai.com/s/freight-lane-pricing-decision

Activate when: a freight broker must balance shipper and carrier interests and disclose their intermediary role; 'whose side am I on', margin transparency, conflicts between best rate for shipper vs relationship with carrier. Do NOT activate when: acting as an asset carrier (not a broker) with no intermediary conflict. More: deciqai.com/s/freight-shipper-carrier-principal-agent

Activate when: someone says 'they're just like that,' an employee is being blamed for underperformance without examining their situation, a post-mortem is focusing on who screwed up, customer churn is being written off as 'not the right fit,' or someone asks 'why did they do that?' with a character-based answer. Do NOT activate when: the behavior forms a documented pattern across many genuinely different situations (dispositional inference is warranted); situational analysis is being used as ...

"Activate when: our KPI is going up but the real outcome isn't improving; people seem to be gaming the metric; we're about to tie bonuses or promotions to a number; an algorithm is producing results nobody intended; a test or audit system is being designed.

"Activate when: user asks 'did this transformation actually work', 'how do I measure whether coaching/strategy/capital changed the business', 'why does our improvement not stick', 'how do I choose between competing empowerment options', or evaluates a business program by its immediate effect rather than long-term compounded velocity change.

"Activate when: user is conducting a performance review or hiring interview; someone says 'she's great across the board' or 'everything they do is excellent'; user is evaluating a vendor, CEO, or investment and all attributes look uniformly positive or negative; user is reading business books or analyst reports and wants to assess whether the lessons generalize; user suspects their overall impression of a person or brand is distorting specific judgments.

Activate when: someone feels a colleague/partner/company did something on purpose to hurt them; a team believes another side is acting in bad faith; someone is about to escalate based on assumed malicious intent; a pattern of bad outcomes is being labeled a coordinated attack. Do NOT activate when: concrete documented evidence of malice already exists; the cost of being wrong about non-malice is catastrophic (e.g., safety-critical or abusive-relationship context). More: deciqai.com/s/hanlons-...

"Activate when: someone says 'why isn't the team motivated,' 'we raised salaries but morale didn't improve,' 'people keep leaving for better opportunities,' 'employee engagement is low,' 'how do I retain engineers,' or when designing compensation, job roles, or performance systems.

Activate when: 'what makes top investors/founders truly different', 'how do I close the gap with elite performers', 'what am I missing that successful people have', 'I want to learn from [elite person]', designing a personal development plan that needs to separate learnable from non-learnable advantages. Do NOT activate when: goal is immediate performance improvement (this is a multi-year instrument), or person has no domain performance history to calibrate against. More: deciqai.com/s/hidden...

"Activate when: someone says 'I knew it all along' or 'we should have seen it coming'; a post-mortem is blaming someone for not predicting an outcome; a team is reviewing a past decision and the outcome is coloring the judgment; a decision-maker is being evaluated on what happened rather than what was knowable at the time.

"Activate when: user says 'I'll start tomorrow / next week / next month' repeatedly; someone intends to save / exercise / quit but never follows through; a product's free trial or subscription is creating unexpected lock-in; someone wants to design a commitment device or pre-commitment contract; a team keeps deferring long-horizon work for short-term fires.

"Activate when: user asks why a team keeps doing the wrong thing despite training; user is designing compensation, bonuses, or commissions; user says 'people are gaming the metric' or 'our OKRs aren't working'; user wants to fix a performance management system; user asks what incentives are driving a behavior; user is drafting contracts or platform rules to shape behavior.

"Activate when: growth has stalled despite good execution; a team disagrees whether a goal is 'realistic'; someone says their initiative is transformative but measures it with quarterly targets; you're designing a new market entry or capability platform.

Activate when: user is entering an unfamiliar industry and needs a working mental model fast; user says 'I need to understand this sector before a meeting next week'; user is evaluating an acquisition or investment in a domain they don't know; user is preparing for a high-stakes expert conversation with limited time; user needs to produce an investment thesis or market entry recommendation under time pressure. Do NOT activate when: user already has deep domain expertise in the target industry...

Activate when: an insurance agent/agency must not skip licensing, disclosure, suitability, and replacement steps on a sale; 'am I compliant on this policy', selling/replacing a policy, onboarding a producer. Do NOT activate when: the question is pure coverage/rating with no compliance action. More: deciqai.com/s/insurance-agent-compliance-checklist

Activate when: an insurance agent should stress-test a client's coverage before a claim exposes a gap; 'is this client actually covered', policy review, exclusions/limits/underinsurance; E&O risk. Do NOT activate when: no coverage is being placed or reviewed. More: deciqai.com/s/insurance-coverage-gap-premortem

Activate when: an insurance agent wants to keep clients renewing and buying more lines; 'how do I stop losing clients at renewal', cross-sell/round-out accounts, book retention; 'my retention is dropping'. Do NOT activate when: the agent has no existing book to retain. More: deciqai.com/s/insurance-renewal-retention-ladder

Activate when: an insurance agent's compensation conflicts with the client's best coverage; 'which product do I recommend', commission-driven product choice, captive vs independent conflicts, best-interest duty. Do NOT activate when: no recommendation is being made (pure servicing) or no conflict exists. More: deciqai.com/s/insurance-suitability-principal-agent