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Business Analyst
Context in, formal artifact out, human validates: elicitation plans, requirements with acceptance criteria, business cases, KPI sheets and stakeholder briefs, built from how BAs describe the loop in IIBA case studies.
Workflow, stage by stage
10 stages. What you do, what the agent does, and what stays with you.
Elicitation planning and stakeholder mappingshared with PM
What you do
- Map stakeholders and what each one needs to decide
- Choose the elicitation technique
- Draft the question bank per role and phase
DeliverableStakeholder map, elicitation plan, question bank
Stays with youFacilitation and stakeholder trust. Give the agent the project brief, stakeholder types and phase, and it returns BABOK-shaped questions to start from.
“Generate five probing questions to uncover potential risks in a loan approval workflow.”Adaptive US example prompt (training vendor) ↗
Industry notes for Healthcare, Fintech and payments. Pick an industry above to read them.
Skills that do it
Build a stakeholder map using a power/interest grid, identify communication strategies per quadrant, and generate a communication plan. Use when managing stakeholders, preparing...
Maps the people and groups with a stake in a project, documenting their needs, concerns, influence, and engagement approach. Use at project kickoff, when taking over from anothe...
Produces an attendee-facing agenda that sets what will be discussed, who owns each topic, and how time will be spent. Supports ten meeting type variants (standup, planning, revi...
Produces a private strategic preparation document for the user before a meeting that matters. Captures stakes, stakeholder positions and reads, ranked desired outcomes, key mess...
Structured requirements elicitation for analysis requests. Use when scoping new analysis projects, clarifying ambiguous business questions, or documenting analysis acceptance cr...
Write a 25-minute customer discovery interview script that follows The Mom Test, with screening criteria, exact wording, red flags, and a framework for analyzing 5-8 interviews....
Sessions and transcripts to requirementsshared with PM
What you do
- Capture the workshop or interview
- Turn the transcript into candidate requirements with timestamps
- Log decisions and open questions
DeliverableSession notes, candidate requirements list, decision log
Stays with youRunning the room. One health plan cut documentation effort by about three quarters with an agent on the transcripts; the facilitation stayed human.
Skills that do it
Cross-meeting archaeology skill. Consumes multiple meeting recaps (or raw notes) over a period and surfaces patterns invisible in any single meeting. Shows how decisions evolved...
Produces a topic-segmented post-meeting summary for attendees with decisions highlighted and actions captured inline per topic (plus a consolidated action view at the end). Auto...
Summarize a meeting transcript into structured notes with date, participants, topic, key decisions, summary points, and action items. Use when processing meeting recordings, cre...
Synthesizes user research interviews into actionable insights, patterns, and recommendations. Use after conducting user interviews, customer calls, or usability sessions to extr...
Push the user toward real validation — one honest conversation with a qualified human — instead of validation theater. Use whenever a user asks how to validate an idea, test dem...
Requirements: BRD, stories, acceptance criteria, traceabilityshared with PM
What you do
- Write formal requirements grouped by functional area
- Break into stories with Given-When-Then criteria and negative cases
- Trace requirements to goals and to tests
DeliverableBRD or FRD, story backlog, traceability matrix
Stays with youValidation. Agents hardcode limits that should be configurable and write weak validation scenarios; organize the context and review the output.
“AI won't replace business analysts, but automation will replace the ones who only write requirements.”Susan Yu, via IIBA ↗
“AI collaboration quality depends more on how you organize context than how much context you provide.”Maksim Matlakhov ↗
Industry notes for Fintech and payments, Healthcare, SaaS and B2B software. Pick an industry above to read them.
Skills that do it
Creates a comprehensive Product Requirements Document that aligns stakeholders on what to build, why, and how success will be measured. Use when specifying features, epics, or p...
Create a Product Requirements Document using a comprehensive 8-section template covering problem, objectives, segments, value propositions, solution, and release planning. Use w...
Use when writing a product spec, feature spec, API contract, agent task spec, or any other specification where a zero-question document is required. Encodes outcome-first method...
Generates user stories in the standard persona, action, benefit story format from product requirements or feature descriptions. Use when breaking a feature into stories for spri...
Generates structured Given/When/Then acceptance criteria for a user story or feature slice, covering the happy path, key failure scenarios, and non-functional expectations in te...
Documents edge cases, error states, boundary conditions, race conditions, and recovery paths for a feature - the systematic catalog of what can go wrong and the failure modes to...
Create user stories following the 3 C's (Card, Conversation, Confirmation) and INVEST criteria with descriptions, design links, and acceptance criteria. Use when writing user st...
Create comprehensive test scenarios from user stories with test objectives, starting conditions, user roles, step-by-step actions, and expected outcomes. Use when writing QA tes...
Process mapping and gap analysis
What you do
- Map the as-is and to-be journeys with swimlanes
- Find the gap and the bottleneck
- Write the SOP or RACI for the new flow
DeliverableProcess maps (Mermaid), gap analysis, RACI
Stays with youValidating the map against reality. Open-source coverage here is thin: journey maps and diagrams are packaged, a proper BPMN generator is not yet.
“The 'What' is a commodity. The 'Why' is your paycheck.”BA Times ↗
Industry notes for E-commerce and retail, Healthcare. Pick an industry above to read them.
Skills that do it
Maps a customer journey across stages, touchpoints, emotional curve, pain points, and moments of truth into a markdown artifact with an optional mermaid timeline or flowchart. U...
Create an end-to-end customer journey map with stages, touchpoints, emotions, pain points, and opportunities. Use when mapping the customer experience, identifying friction poin...
Teaches PMs to create syntactically valid mermaid diagrams by selecting the right diagram type for their communication need, following syntax validity rules, and validating befo...
Business case and validationshared with PM
What you do
- Pressure-test the premise
- Model costs, benefits and payback
- Review the case against a standard and present the recommendation
DeliverableBusiness case with a clear ask and a risk list
Stays with youThe recommendation and the estimate. Agents can flag scope creep and size complexity, but that is not a substitute for an estimation process.
Skills that do it
Pressure-test an idea's premise before helping build it. Use whenever a user proposes building, shipping, or starting something — an app, product, feature, startup, side project...
Separate project enthusiasm from business reality when a user wants to monetize an idea they've already decided to build. Use whenever a user asks how to make a product, app, pr...
Stress-test a startup idea before any code is written. Scores it on 7 dimensions, proposes 3 validation experiments under $200 each, and ends with a build, pivot, or kill verdic...
Build comprehensive 3-5 year financial models with revenue projections, cost structures, cash flow analysis, and scenario planning for early-stage startups. Use this skill when ...
Track, calculate, and optimize key performance metrics for SaaS, marketplace, consumer, and B2B startups from seed through Series A, including unit economics, growth efficiency,...
Generate a Business Model Canvas with all 9 building blocks. Use when creating a business model, documenting how a business creates value, or analyzing an existing business model.
Generate a Lean Canvas with problem, solution, metrics, cost structure, UVP, unfair advantage, channels, segments, and revenue. Use when exploring a lean startup canvas, testing...
Perform a detailed SWOT analysis — strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats with actionable recommendations. Use when doing strategic assessment, competitive analysis, ...
Run a pre-mortem risk analysis on a PRD or launch plan. Categorizes risks as Tigers (real problems), Paper Tigers (overblown concerns), and Elephants (unspoken worries), then cl...
Market sizing, options and vendor evaluationshared with PM, DA
What you do
- Size the market top-down and bottom-up
- Lay out the competitive landscape and alternatives
- Score options with a weighted matrix
DeliverableMarket section, options paper, decision matrix
Stays with youThe weights. Research agents find options beyond internal knowledge; the scoring criteria are a stakeholder decision.
Skills that do it
Calculate TAM/SAM/SOM for market opportunities using top-down, bottom-up, and value theory methodologies. Use this skill when sizing markets, estimating addressable revenue, val...
Analyze competition, identify differentiation opportunities, and develop winning market positioning strategies using Porter's Five Forces, Blue Ocean Strategy, and positioning m...
Estimate market size using TAM, SAM, and SOM with top-down and bottom-up approaches. Use when sizing a market opportunity, estimating addressable market, preparing for investor ...
Estimate market opportunity (TAM, SAM, SOM) using multiple sizing frameworks (top-down, bottom-up, comparable company, analogous market). Triangulates across frameworks, highlig...
Perform Porter's Five Forces analysis — competitive rivalry, supplier power, buyer power, threat of substitutes, and threat of new entrants. Use when analyzing industry dynamics...
Perform a PESTLE analysis covering Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental factors. Use when assessing the macro environment, doing strategic planni...
Estimate market, segment, or opportunity size with transparent assumptions and uncertainty. Use for TAM/SAM/SOM, sizing scenarios, or comparing the scale of possible opportunities.
Reference guide to 9 prioritization frameworks with formulas, when-to-use guidance, and templates — RICE, ICE, Kano, MoSCoW, Opportunity Score, and more. Use when selecting a pr...
KPI definition and reporting requirementsshared with DA, PM
What you do
- Define KPIs with owners, formulas and sources
- Specify the reports, their grain and cadence
- Hand over to analytics with a dashboard spec
DeliverableKPI sheet, reporting requirements, dashboard spec
Stays with youAgreeing the formula with the people who will be measured by it.
Industry notes for Fintech and payments, Healthcare. Pick an industry above to read them.
Skills that do it
Design KPI frameworks, metric definitions, targets, guardrails, and measurement plans for product or business decisions. Use when success metrics, drivers, guardrails, targets, ...
Prepare KPI readouts, scorecards, WBR/MBR/QBR updates, and executive summaries from quantitative business or product metrics; use when the task is to report status, compare agai...
Design effective KPI dashboards with metrics selection, visualization best practices, and real-time monitoring patterns. Use this skill when building an executive SaaS metrics d...
Design specifications for effective dashboards. Use when planning new dashboards, improving existing ones, or documenting dashboard requirements before development starts.
Specifies what questions a dashboard must answer and the metrics, visualizations, filters, and data sources it needs, so data teams build something that informs decisions rather...
Pick the 5 metrics that matter at a startup's current stage, with definitions, targets, actions when below target, a minimal tracking setup, and a weekly review template. Use wh...
UAT and test artifacts
What you do
- Generate test scenarios from requirements with traceability
- Write UAT scripts in plain English
- Triage defects against requirement IDs
DeliverableUAT plan, test cases, sign-off record
Stays with youExecution with end users and the sign-off.
Skills that do it
Create comprehensive test scenarios from user stories with test objectives, starting conditions, user roles, step-by-step actions, and expected outcomes. Use when writing QA tes...
Generates structured Given/When/Then acceptance criteria for a user story or feature slice, covering the happy path, key failure scenarios, and non-functional expectations in te...
Documents edge cases, error states, boundary conditions, race conditions, and recovery paths for a feature - the systematic catalog of what can go wrong and the failure modes to...
Pre-delivery quality assurance for analysis work. Use when reviewing analysis before sharing with stakeholders, checking for completeness, validating assumptions, or ensuring cl...
Stakeholder narrative and governanceshared with PM, DA
What you do
- Write the brief once and tailor it per audience
- Prepare the decision memo
- Run the AI risk review before rollout
DeliverableStakeholder brief, decision memo, risk review
Stays with youDecision architecture: who decides what, on which evidence. Facilitating the AI risk review is now part of the role.
Skills that do it
Produces async communication to stakeholders, primarily non-attendees and secondarily some attendees who want a reference. Translates meeting outcomes into what-it-means languag...
Turns any source artifact (spec, discovery, research, GTM plan, experiment results, retro, or raw notes) into one canonical master document plus a set of audience-tailored brief...
Use when writing for executives — board memos, strategy one-pagers, decision briefs, exec review documents, investment memos, or any artifact that must be read and acted on by V...
Use when navigating organizational alignment — stakeholder mapping, influence analysis, coalition building, decision archaeology, cross-functional alignment, executive buy-in, o...
Transform data into compelling narratives using visualization, context, and persuasive structure. Use when presenting analytics to stakeholders, creating data reports, or buildi...
Translate technical analysis into business language. Use when explaining statistical concepts to non-analysts, simplifying technical findings, or bridging communication between ...
Preview stakeholder and customer reactionshared with PM
What you do
- Simulate segments from records
- Compare options before the steering meeting
DeliverableReaction comparison for the decision memo
Stays with youReading the disagreement between segments rather than the average.
Skills that do it
Preview customer reaction to a strategic move before committing. Builds one persona agent per customer segment from the user's client records, has every agent answer in characte...
Packages for this role
Ranked by weekly runs, like the ladder. Install any of them into any supported client.
- 3PersonaLensCharles Ji · first party · demo data
Persona agents grown from client records preview customer reaction to every strategic move before you commit.
Strategy1,280runs / wkdown 2% - 8Anti-Sycophantmachinesoul11GitHub ↗
Three skills that stop an AI assistant from agreeing with a bad product idea: prove the premise, hobby or business, one real conversation.
Validation0runs / wkno runs yet - 11Business AnalyticswshobsonGitHub ↗
KPI dashboard design and data storytelling: choose the metrics, lay out the dashboard, and turn results into a narrative stakeholders act on.
Analytics0runs / wkno runs yet - 12Data Analytics (role plugin)openaiGitHub ↗
Metric diagnostics, data quality analysis, KPI design and reporting, dashboards, reports, notebooks, market sizing, business context gathering.
Analytics0runs / wkno runs yet - 13Data Analytics SkillsnimrodfisherGitHub ↗
31 analyst skills with scripts: EDA, data quality audit, query validation, semantic model, metric reconciliation, A/B, cohort, funnel, time series, dashboard spec, narrative, executive summary, stakeholder intake.
Analytics0runs / wkno runs yet - 16Founder SkillsemotixcoGitHub ↗
13 founder skills that take an idea from validation to pitch deck: product brief, competitor matrix, pricing, MVP scope, go-to-market, fundraising prep.
Marketing0runs / wkno runs yet - 22pm-executionphurynGitHub ↗
16 execution skills: PRD, user and job stories, OKRs, outcome roadmap, sprint plan, prioritization frameworks, pre-mortem, retro, release notes, stakeholder map, meeting summaries.
Product0runs / wkno runs yet - 24pm-market-researchphurynGitHub ↗
7 market research skills: competitor analysis, market sizing, segments and personas, customer journey map, sentiment analysis, user segmentation.
Product0runs / wkno runs yet - 26pm-product-strategyphurynGitHub ↗
12 strategy skills: product vision and strategy, value proposition, business model and lean canvas, pricing and monetization, SWOT, PESTLE, Porter's five forces, Ansoff matrix.
Product0runs / wkno runs yet - 27PM Skillsproduct-on-purposeGitHub ↗
68 product management skills across the full cycle: problem statements, interview synthesis, PRDs, user stories, OKRs, experiment design, launch checklists, release notes, retrospectives.
Product0runs / wkno runs yet - 28PM Skills ArsenalAvyayalayaGitHub ↗
12 deep product skills: problem framing, specification writing, discovery research, competitive analysis, strategy, GTM, pricing and packaging, metric design, stakeholder alignment, executive writing.
Product0runs / wkno runs yet - 30Startup Business AnalystwshobsonGitHub ↗
Market sizing, competitive landscape, startup metrics framework, financial modeling, and team composition analysis.
Business0runs / wkno runs yet
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