Assessing a growth opportunity
Compares strategic routes into a new market or adjacent business using client context, sector benchmarks and current evidence. The recommendation makes the rationale and supporting evidence clear for board discussion.
— Strategy & Research
Strategy Sprint
Develops a board-ready recommendation on a client’s strategic question, drawing on the firm’s knowledge, current market evidence and prior learning to compare options and make the case for a decision.
- Strategy & Research
- Human review built in
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
1–2 weeks → ~25 minutes
Including the external research pass
No coding required
- Input
- Client strategic question and business context
- Output
- Consolidated evidence pack with source citations
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~1–2 weeks per run
— USE CASES
What people use Strategy Sprint for
Reconsidering strategic direction
Frames three to four options around a pressing strategic question, with a recommended course and an assessment of the evidence supporting it. Unsupported claims are flagged rather than presented as settled facts.
Applying lessons across engagements
Draws on past deliverables, established frameworks and learning from earlier strategy work to inform a new client question. Captures reusable insights alongside the recommendation to support future engagements.
Preparing a board decision
Produces a board-ready paper that connects the strategic question, available options and recommended direction. Cited evidence and human review support a recommendation that can withstand scrutiny.
What it works from
- Client strategic question and business context
- Firm reference material, including past deliverables and frameworks
- Sector benchmarks
- Current market research and cited sources local to the strategic question or sector scope, where available locally?
What you get back
- Consolidated evidence pack with source citations
- Three to four strategic options
- Recommended direction with supporting rationale
- Evidence assessment highlighting unsupported claims and gaps local to the current decision, where available locally?
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Strategy Sprint produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Live research on the opportunity set
Current external sources on the opportunity set are researched during the run rather than recalled from training data, and every source travels with the output.
Human sign-off before the write-up
The run pauses for a person to confirm the options that matter before the deliverable is composed.
Composed as work product
Findings on the opportunity set are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a option.
Why this is expensive by hand
Strategic advice often draws on evidence scattered across past engagements, sector research and the experience of individual advisers. Assessing a growth opportunity is the typical trigger — compares strategic routes into a new market or adjacent business using client context, sector benchmarks and current evidence. The recommendation makes the rationale and supporting evidence clear for board discussion. Done properly it is defensible; done at pace it becomes a judgement call nobody can retrace. And "properly" usually means 1–2 weeks of manual work.
How this Skill produces it
Skillsize turns that work into a Skill: you supply the material, and what comes back is consolidated evidence pack with source citations, with three to four strategic options. What sits between input and output is the codified method: thresholds, sequencing and the points where a human confirms a call — all of it visible and editable in the Skill. Net effect: 1–2 weeks down to ~25 minutes, no drift between runs, and every conclusion traceable back to the evidence behind it.
Who it's for
- Strategy and corporate development teams
- Consultants producing evidence-led recommendations
- Founders and executives testing new directions
- Anyone who has to cite what they claim
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Strategy Sprint exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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