Claude Skills by deciqAI

"Activate when: user says 'they didn't get it,' 'I don't know how to bring this up,' 'the message wasn't clear,' 'how do I give feedback without sounding critical,' needs to structure a funding pitch or difficult conversation, or wants to diagnose why a previous message failed to land.

Activate when: user says 'we've come too far to quit', 'we can't waste what we've already spent', 'should I keep going or cut my losses', 'we've invested too much to stop now', 'should I continue this project / relationship / position'. Do NOT activate when: prior investment genuinely lowers future marginal costs (real synergies exist); user asks about loss-aversion psychology in general without a concrete continue-or-quit decision. More: deciqai.com/s/sunk-cost-fallacy

"Activate when: user says 'look at what winners/billionaires/champions did,' investment returns or fund performance are being cited, a strategy is justified by pointing to companies that succeeded, historical data is treated as representative of all cases, or someone says 'this works because X did it.'

"Activate when: user asks why customers don't switch to a better product, how to make a product stickier or build a moat, how to compete against an entrenched incumbent, why churn is low but revenue growth stalled, or mentions lock-in / vendor lock-in / stickiness / data moat / Klemperer.

Activate when: user says 'SWOT', 'our strengths and weaknesses', 'internal/external analysis', 'strategic audit', 'what's our edge', 'competitive threats we face', or is beginning a strategy planning cycle, evaluating market entry, or preparing investor materials. Do NOT activate when: user needs a purely quantitative financial model or precise numerical decision (use financial analysis instead); user wants to map competitive industry structure forces (use Porter's Five Forces instead). More:...

Activate when: someone says 'I'm T-shaped' and you want to verify it; a team can't translate insights across functions; a person asks what career move creates the most leverage; building a first startup team; a domain expert is hitting a ceiling and considering broadening. Do NOT activate when: the role requires pure depth with no cross-domain translation value; the team is tightly integrated with no structural holes to fill. More: deciqai.com/s/t-shaped-connector

Activate when: a position/election has effects beyond this year — S-corp election, depreciation/§179/bonus, accounting-method change, filing status, Roth conversion, entity choice; client asks 'should I elect X?'. Do NOT activate when: the item is contained to the current return with no carry effect. More: deciqai.com/s/tax-filing-position-consequences

Activate when: preparing any return claiming EITC, CTC/ACTC/ODC, AOTC, or Head-of-Household status; onboarding a paid-preparer workflow; a reviewer says 'did we document due diligence?', 'are we 8867-covered?', 'EITC audit risk.'. Do NOT activate when: no refundable credit / HOH is claimed; the return is self-prepared with no paid preparer; the question is purely tax-law calculation (use a calc tool, not this). More: deciqai.com/s/tax-prep-8867-due-diligence

Activate when: a return has aggressive/uncertain positions (large Schedule C losses, high meals/vehicle, hobby-vs-business, real-estate professional status, R&D/ERC-type credits, crypto); before releasing a complex return; client says 'will this get me audited?'. Do NOT activate when: simple W-2-only standard-deduction return; the question is a straight lookup. More: deciqai.com/s/tax-prep-pre-file-audit-premortem

Activate when: returns are piling up before a deadline; reviewer/preparer is the bottleneck; 'we can't get through them all,' 'clients waiting on missing docs,' planning staffing for Jan–Apr. Do NOT activate when: off-season, low volume; the issue is a single stuck return (use debugging, not capacity theory). More: deciqai.com/s/tax-season-throughput-constraints

Activate when: a founder is about to talk to customers/users to validate an idea; 'I asked people and they loved it', 'how do I run customer interviews', 'is there demand for this?', pre-PMF discovery. Do NOT activate when: the question is quantitative A/B testing on an existing product (use analytics), or the decision needs no customer input. More: deciqai.com/s/the-mom-test

"Activate when: user says 'everyone is working hard but results are flat', 'where is our bottleneck', 'we keep adding capacity but throughput doesn't improve', 'backlog piling up at one stage', 'Goldratt / TOC / Five Focusing Steps', or is designing a process-improvement initiative and wants to know where to invest.

Activate when: user says 'what if,' 'let's reason through this,' 'imagine that,' or 'thought experiment'; a strategic decision is too risky or irreversible to test empirically; someone wants to refute a claim by reasoning rather than data; hidden assumptions in a business model need surfacing; counterfactual or ethical analysis is requested. Do NOT activate when: the question can be empirically tested at reasonable cost; time pressure makes structured reasoning impractical. More: deciqai.com/...

Activate when: a creator/SMB/indie founder needs a sustainable audience-based living without going viral; 'do I need to be famous to make this work', building direct audience revenue; niche monetization. Do NOT activate when: the model genuinely requires mass scale and low per-customer value (ad-supported, etc.). More: deciqai.com/s/thousand-true-fans

"Activate when: user says 'I know what to do but I'm not doing it', 'we understand the problem but can't fix it', 'effort isn't translating to results', 'why isn't our team executing?', or 'I feel stuck despite being competent'. Also activate for pre-planning skill development or post-mortem gap analysis.

"Activate when: user asks about US-China war risk or great-power rivalry; someone says 'can they avoid conflict' or 'is escalation inevitable'; analyzing geopolitical risk in supply chains, FDI, or market entry; a new market entrant threatens an incumbent's core identity or platform control.

Activate when: a major decision is imminent and the team hasn't explicitly checked whether NOW is the right time; a correct strategy keeps hitting unexpected resistance; a post-mortem asks why something failed despite being the right call; planning a product launch or market entry. Do NOT activate when: timing is fixed by a hard deadline with no real choice about when to act; the decision is low-stakes and reversible. More: deciqai.com/s/timing-action-matrix

Activate when: user asks 'how close are we to critical mass', 'why did growth suddenly explode (or collapse)', 'will this trend keep spreading', 'is there a network effect threshold here', 'what if we concentrated effort on early adopters'. Do NOT activate when: the phenomenon is genuinely linear with no network effects or social-proof dynamics; the question is purely 'do we have product-market fit' before any diffusion has started. More: deciqai.com/s/tipping-point

Activate when: shared resource is degrading even though no one is doing anything "wrong"; team complains about free riders or overuse; designing API quotas, rate limits, or open-source governance; someone says "everyone is overusing this" or "the system worked fine until it got popular"; evaluating why a platform or community is burning out. Do NOT activate when: the resource is fully non-rival (unlimited supply, zero marginal cost); the problem is a purely individual-action issue with no sha...

Activate when: a client needs to cancel/change; deciding refund vs credit vs insurance claim; comparing supplier penalties; 'what's my best move to recover the most?'. Do NOT activate when: fully refundable booking, no decision needed. More: deciqai.com/s/travel-cancellation-refund-decision

Activate when: setting planning fees vs commission; deciding markup on net rates; 'should I charge a fee or rely on commission?'; pricing a service tier; low-commission or non-commissionable components. Do NOT activate when: fixed franchise pricing you can't change. More: deciqai.com/s/travel-commission-markup-pricing

Activate when: designing an itinerary you want remembered and referred; planning honeymoon/milestone/luxury trips; 'how do I get repeat clients and referrals?'; setting surprise-and-delight touches. Do NOT activate when: pure transactional booking with no relationship goal. More: deciqai.com/s/travel-experience-peak-end-design

Activate when: turning one-trip bookers into annual clients; building a client-for-life book; planning post-trip nurture; 'how do I stop starting from zero every year?'. Do NOT activate when: pure one-off transactional volume with no repeat intent. More: deciqai.com/s/travel-repeat-client-ladder

Activate when: building a complex/high-value itinerary; multi-supplier or international trip; hurricane/advisory season; client asks 'what if something goes wrong?'; designing a group/FIT trip. Do NOT activate when: single refundable booking with trivial exposure. More: deciqai.com/s/travel-trip-contingency-planning

Activate when: brand perception lags product quality; a values campaign generated backlash ('they say X but do Y'); NPS and brand sentiment diverge; marketing underperforms despite a good product; someone asks 'how do we build brand trust?' or 'why isn't our marketing working?'. Do NOT activate when: a single catastrophic event requires immediate legal or crisis-communication response first; the product genuinely does not work and needs engineering fixes before trust is addressed. More: deciq...

"Activate when: user says 'I'm always firefighting,' 'I never have time to think,' 'everything feels urgent,' 'I can't get ahead,' or 'we keep pushing strategic work because of day-to-day fires.'

Activate when: deciding whether to spend more on growth; 'is this business actually profitable per customer', 'can we afford ads', raising or budgeting; CAC, LTV, payback, contribution margin. Do NOT activate when: pre-revenue with no cost data (estimate ranges instead) or the question is company-level P&L, not per-customer. More: deciqai.com/s/unit-economics-cac-ltv-payback

Activate when: user needs US company registration data (LLCs, corporations, formation dates, registered agents) in bulk — lead lists by state, formation-trend analysis, entity matching, TAM sizing from registries; user asks 'where can I get company registration data,' 'Secretary of State data,' 'business registry API,' or hits OpenCorporates pricing walls. Do NOT activate when: user needs business *license* data, SEC filings, or non-US registries; user needs Delaware/California/Texas bulk dat...

"Activate when: user says 'why aren't users doing X despite saying they would', or 'our survey scores are high but churn is high', or 'we shipped a feature that tested well but nobody uses it', or 'we have conflicting signals from research', or 'I can see the drop-off point but don't know why'.

"Activate when: user asks 'what produces the most good,' 'who benefits and who gets hurt,' 'what's the net impact,' 'is this worth the trade-off,' 'what does the greatest good mean here'; user needs to evaluate a policy, product, or organizational decision that affects multiple parties differently; user is performing cost-benefit analysis or ethical trade-off evaluation.

"Activate when: user asks 'where does our competitive advantage come from', 'why are our margins lower than competitors', 'which activities create value', 'how is the competitor doing it cheaper', 'cost structure analysis', 'make vs. buy decision', 'which activities should we outsource', or is evaluating an acquisition for synergies or designing competitive strategy.

"Diagnoses whether a result that worked at small scale will keep working when scaled — by testing an idea against John List's five reasons ideas lose 'voltage' (false positives, unrepresentative population, unrepresentative situation, spillovers, and the supply-side cost trap) BEFORE committing to scale.

Activate when: a founder is deciding whether/what to hire first; 'should I hire now', 'what's my first hire', feeling overloaded, sequencing early roles; hire vs automate. Do NOT activate when: the org is past early-team stage and needs org design/management systems (different scope). More: deciqai.com/s/when-to-make-first-hires

"In a common-value auction where all bidders estimate the SAME uncertain value, the winner is systematically the one who most OVER-estimated it — so winning is bad news that you likely overpaid. The discipline is to shade your bid for the adverse selection of winning, condition your estimate on the fact that you won, and pre-commit to a value-conditioned walk-away ceiling.

"Activate when: someone says 'I keep pushing harder but nothing's working'; a manager feels they need to control every detail; a founder is forcing growth that isn't happening; a team is over-engineering something; someone says 'let it happen', 'stop forcing', or 'effortless action'.

"Activate when: someone asks 'are we fighting over a fixed pie?', 'should we cooperate or compete?', 'is the market growing or are we just stealing share?', uses phrases like 'winner-take-all', 'race to the bottom', or 'your gain is my loss', or needs to check whether a negotiation/market/policy situation is truly zero-sum before designing strategy.

Activate when: user asks 'what do we know that others don't,' 'where is our edge,' 'what important truth do few people agree with me on,' 'is this idea defensible,' or is hunting for a startup idea, an untapped market, or a hidden opportunity; a business plan claims uniqueness but can't name the truth it rests on; user says 'Zero to One,' 'Thiel secret,' or 'contrarian opportunity.' Do NOT activate when: 'secret' means credentials, API keys, passwords, encryption, secret management, or any se...