Agent skill

Business Growth Consultant

by cbrock84 in cbrock84/headcount

Finds the single constraint currently limiting a business's growth and the highest-leverage moves against it, rather than producing a list of everything that could be improved.

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Install Business Growth Consultant

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill business-growth-consultant -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount business-growth-consultant --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/executive/skills/business-growth-consultant .claude/skills/business-growth-consultant && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
business-growth-consultant
GitHub stars
2k
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
562 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
178
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Finds the single constraint currently limiting a business's growth and the highest-leverage moves against it, rather than producing a list of everything that could be improved.

  • Works in 6 steps: Awareness — do enough of the right… → Interest — do they understand why it… → Conversion — do they act? → …
  • SKILL.md covers Diagnose the constraint first, Then find the leverage, Sequencing and Scaling readiness, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Business Growth Consultant is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Finds the single constraint currently limiting a business's growth and the highest-leverage moves against it, rather than producing a list of everything that could be improved. Use this when growth has stalled or slowed, when deciding where to spend limited time or budget, when revenue rises but profit does not, when prioritizing growth initiatives, or when a business feels busy without compounding.

Its SKILL.md is about 1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: An agent organization structured as a company — 15+ departments, 125+ skills, each independently installable, citing the standards and regulators that settle the question. Runs… The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “Use the business-growth-consultant skill to find the single constraint currently limiting a business's growth and the highest-leverage moves against…”
  • “/business-growth-consultant”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Awareness — do enough of the right people know this exists?
  2. Interest — do they understand why it matters to them?
  3. Conversion — do they act?
  4. Delivery — do they get the value promised?
  5. Retention — do they stay?
  6. Economics — does each customer leave the business better off?

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 98d1c17. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Business Growth Consultant loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 107 tokens; SKILL.md has 562 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~107
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from cbrock84/headcount at commit 98d1c17, republished under its MIT licence (© cbrock84). 562 words, ~1,005 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/business-growth-consultant/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
business-growth-consultant
description
Finds the single constraint currently limiting a business's growth and the highest-leverage moves against it, rather than producing a list of everything that could be improved. Use this when growth has stalled or slowed, when deciding where to spend limited time or budget, when revenue rises but profit does not, when prioritizing growth initiatives, or when a business feels busy without compounding.

Business growth consultant

One thing limits growth at any moment. Work on anything else and the effort is absorbed with no output. The entire value of this skill is finding which one.

Diagnose the constraint first

Walk the chain in order and find the first place it breaks:

  1. Awareness — do enough of the right people know this exists?
  2. Interest — do they understand why it matters to them?
  3. Conversion — do they act?
  4. Delivery — do they get the value promised?
  5. Retention — do they stay?
  6. Economics — does each customer leave the business better off?

The constraint is usually not where attention is. Teams work on acquisition because it is visible and measurable, when the leak is at delivery or retention.

Two tells worth watching for:

  • Rising revenue, flat profit — the constraint is economics, and growth is making it worse.
  • Good conversion, poor retention — the constraint is upstream of where it appears. You are acquiring the wrong customers, and no retention work fixes an acquisition problem.

Then find the leverage

Against the identified constraint only, generate moves and rank them by impact ÷ effort × confidence. Be specific about all three; a plan where everything scores high is unranked.

Prefer moves that compound over moves that add. A referral loop that improves with volume beats a campaign that must be repeated at the same cost.

Sequencing

  • Fix the constraint before scaling anything. Scaling a leaky funnel multiplies the leak.
  • One initiative at a time when you cannot attribute results. Parallel initiatives with shared metrics teach you nothing about which worked.
  • Set a read-by date and a kill threshold before starting.

Scaling readiness

Before recommending growth spend, check the business can absorb it: delivery capacity, support load, cash to fund the gap between acquisition and payback, and whether unit economics hold at volume. Growth that outruns delivery converts customers into detractors at scale.

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Choosing what to measure

Track few numbers, chosen against the constraint. A dashboard of twenty metrics is a dashboard nobody reads and cannot act on.

For each stage of the chain above, one leading indicator that moves early and one lagging number that confirms it. Leading indicators are what you steer by; lagging ones are what you report.

Two rules that prevent most dashboard failures:

  • Every metric needs a comparison — a prior period, a target, or a cohort. A number alone is not information.
  • Every metric needs an owner who can act on it. Metrics nobody can move are trivia, however interesting.

Watch for metrics that improve while the business worsens: revenue up with margin down, signups up with activation down, traffic up with conversion down. Each means the mix shifted, and the headline number is hiding it.

Never

  • Recommend tactics before naming the constraint. Effort applied away from the constraint does nothing.
  • Stack initiatives until none of them gets the attention it needs to work.
  • Present a plan with no way to tell within a quarter whether it is working.
  • Recommend more spend into a funnel that does not convert what it already receives.

Return contract

  1. The constraint, named, with the evidence.
  2. Why the obvious candidates are not it.
  3. Three moves, ranked, with impact, effort, and confidence stated.
  4. What to do first and the metric that will show it working.
  5. What to stop doing — a growth plan with no subtraction is a wish list.

© cbrock84, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/executive/skills/business-growth-consultant of cbrock84/headcount.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 98d1c17

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Questions about Business Growth Consultant

What does Business Growth Consultant do?

Finds the single constraint currently limiting a business's growth and the highest-leverage moves against it, rather than producing a list of everything that could be improved. Business Growth Consultant is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Finds the single constraint currently limiting a business's growth and the highest-leverage moves against it, rather than producing a list of everything that could be improved.

How do I install Business Growth Consultant in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill business-growth-consultant -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/executive/skills/business-growth-consultant in cbrock84/headcount) into .claude/skills/business-growth-consultant in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Business Growth Consultant in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill business-growth-consultant -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/executive/skills/business-growth-consultant in cbrock84/headcount) into .agents/skills/business-growth-consultant in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Business Growth Consultant in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill business-growth-consultant -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/business-growth-consultant, .gemini/skills/business-growth-consultant, .github/skills/business-growth-consultant and .opencode/skills/business-growth-consultant in your project.

What does Business Growth Consultant need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Business Growth Consultant is instructions for the agent only.

Does Business Growth Consultant access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Business Growth Consultant safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Business Growth Consultant use?

Business Growth Consultant is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Business Growth Consultant use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Business Growth Consultant?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Business Growth Consultant: Find AI Consultancy (jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, 2.8k stars), Find Management Consultant (jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, 2.8k stars), Growth Engine (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars) and Growth Log (affaan-m/ECC, 277k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Business Growth Consultant?

cbrock84 (a GitHub user) maintains it in cbrock84/headcount, which has 2,022 GitHub stars. The repository holds 178 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 17, 2026.

Source: cbrock84/headcount on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.