grow-business
Guided journey from a business with lucky months to a repeatable growth engine that produces a forecast. Orchestrates nine skills phase by phase - one-page-marketing, hundred-million-offers, predictable-revenue, contagious, influence-psychology, crossing-the-chasm, cold-start-problem, lean-analytics, negotiation - asking the user questions at every decision point and recording results in the project docs/ folder (MARKETING.md, OFFER.md, METRICS.md, GROW-BUSINESS-PLAN.md) so the journey resumes across sessions. Use when the user wants to build a marketing and sales system, manufacture predictab
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill grow-business --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
What it does
The skill provides a guided, interactive journey to build a repeatable growth engine across nine phases: one-page-marketing, hundred-million-offers, predictable-revenue, contagious, influence-psychology, crossing-the-chasm, cold-start-problem, lean-analytics, and negotiation. It asks the user decision questions at every phase and records results in docs/ (MARKETING.md, OFFER.md, METRICS.md, GROW-BUSINESS-PLAN.md). It can install itself via npx skills add wondelai/skills --all --global or activate individual phases on demand. It ensures artifacts are written to docs/ with uppercase file naming and avoids overwriting existing content unless extending. It resumes across sessions via a private tracker docs/GROW-BUSINESS-PLAN.md and expects the user to confirm each phase entry before proceeding. If a phase’s skill is unavailable, it offers a fallback to the phase Brief and indicates the mode.
How it works
- Resumes the journey by reading docs/GROW-BUSINESS-PLAN.md and existing artifacts; summarizes state and prompts for phase entry.
- On first run, performs Intake and creates docs/GROW-BUSINESS-PLAN.md with phase statuses.
- For each phase, announces purpose, required decisions, produced artifact, and rough effort; offers Proceed / Skip / Defer.
- Invokes the phase’s skill by slug (e.g., one-page-marketing, hundred-million-offers) or falls back to a minimal Brief if unavailable, indicating the mode.
- Under "Decide with the user", asks concrete questions, records choices in the tracker under Key Decisions.
- On phase exit, presents draft artifact content for sign-off; upon approval, writes or extends docs/ files and updates the tracker.
- Ensures artifacts are written in UPPERCASE under docs/ and follow artifact templates; adds checkboxes or table rows with owner and priority.
- Enforces truth in scarcity, testimonials, and guarantees; replaces invented evidence with verifiable tactics.
When to use it
Use when the user wants to build a marketing and sales system, manufacture predictable pipeline, engineer word-of-mouth and referrals, or when revenue is real but lumpy and growth needs to repeat. If the offer, retention, or operations underneath are broken, run improve-business first; with no paying customers yet, start with create-business; when the product itself must carry the growth loops, use grow-app. Install the whole stack at once or pull in phases on demand.
What it can touch
The skill interacts with the following artifacts and tools:
- docs/ (MARKETING.md, OFFER.md, METRICS.md, CUSTOMER.md, GROW-BUSINESS-PLAN.md)
- phase skills identified by slug (e.g., one-page-marketing, hundred-million-offers, predictable-revenue, contagious, influence-psychology, crossing-the-chasm, cold-start-problem, lean-analytics, negotiation)
- installation via:
npx skills add wondelai/skills --all --global(for full stack) or per-phase invocation via its slug
Caveats
- Skips or defers depend on user input and phase availability; missing upstream inputs are not invented.
- The tracker file
docs/GROW-BUSINESS-PLAN.mdis private to this journey and used to resume state across sessions. - All phase content must be written to docs/ in uppercase file names and extended rather than overwritten when possible.
# Grow a Business You already have the hard part: a product people pay for. Revenue is real but lumpy — a good month came from a conference you happened to attend or a referral that happened to land, and none of it repeats on demand. This journey turns that traction into a repeatable growth engine across nine phases: a marketing map, an irresistible offer, an outbound motion, engineered word-of-mouth, persuasion on every surface, a mainstream go-to-market, a compounding network, one honest metric, and the discipline to hold price. It is interactive — the agent asks before every decision — and resumable, because every decision and asset is recorded in `docs/`. Install the whole stack at once with `npx skills add wondelai/skills --all --global`, or let each phase pull its skill on demand. ## Core Principle **Build a repeatable growth engine: each phase produces an asset the next phase consumes — offer feeds pipeline, pipeline feeds word-of-mouth, metrics keep it honest.** The order is load-bearing; a skipped Phase 1 leaves the later phases with no shared target. This skill sequences the phases, asks the decision questions, and records the answers. The constituent skills carry the met
- Core Principle
- Journey Map
- Operating Rules
- Intake
- Phases
- Phase 1 — Install the marketing operating system (one-page-marketing)
- Phase 2 — Make the offer impossible to refuse (hundred-million-offers)
- Phase 3 — Manufacture pipeline with outbound (predictable-revenue)
- Phase 4 — Engineer word-of-mouth (contagious)
- Phase 5 — Build persuasion into every surface (influence-psychology)
- Phase 6 — Cross the chasm to the mainstream (crossing-the-chasm)
- Phase 7 — Turn customers into a compounding network (cold-start-problem)
- Phase 8 — Point everything at the one metric that matters (lean-analytics)
- Phase 9 — Stop discounting, capture the value you create (negotiation)
What does the grow-business skill do?
Guided journey from a business with lucky months to a repeatable growth engine that produces a forecast. Orchestrates nine skills phase by phase - one-page-marketing, hundred-million-offers, predictable-revenue, contagious, influence-psychology, crossing-the-chasm, cold-start-problem, lean-analytics, negotiation - asking the user questions at every decision point and recording results in the project docs/ folder (MARKETING.md, OFFER.md, METRICS.md, GROW-BUSINESS-PLAN.md) so the journey resumes across sessions. Use when the user wants to build a marketing and sales system, manufacture predictab
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill grow-business --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From wondelai/skills, a repository with 1,835 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.