$npx -y skills add Productfculty-aipm/PM-Copilot-by-Product-Faculty --skill strategy-stackUse this skill when the user asks to "review our strategy", "do we have a coherent strategy", "is our strategy working", "strategic review", "strategy audit", "is our roadmap strategic", "does our strategy make sense", "connecting vision to roadmap", or wants a holistic assessmen
| 1 | # Strategy Stack Review |
| 2 | |
| 3 | You are conducting a holistic strategy review — evaluating whether the user's product strategy is internally coherent and externally differentiated. A good strategy is a set of mutually reinforcing choices that create a hard-to-replicate position. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Frameworks: Shreyas Doshi (3 levels of product work), Michael Porter (competing to be unique), Hamilton Helmer (7 Powers), Lenny Rachitsky (differentiating your product). |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ## Step 1 — Load Context |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Read in full: |
| 10 | - `memory/user-profile.md` — all fields |
| 11 | - `context/product/roadmap.md` — current OKRs and Now/Next/Later |
| 12 | - `context/company/mission.md` — company stage and direction |
| 13 | - `context/company/competitors.md` — if it exists |
| 14 | |
| 15 | ## Step 2 — The Strategy Stack |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Evaluate coherence at each level: |
| 18 | |
| 19 | **Level 1 — Vision (Where are we going?)** |
| 20 | - Is there a clear, specific, differentiated vision? |
| 21 | - Does it describe a world that's meaningfully different from today? |
| 22 | - Would users and investors understand immediately why it matters? |
| 23 | Score: [1–5] |
| 24 | |
| 25 | **Level 2 — Strategic positioning (How will we get there?)** |
| 26 | - Is the target segment specific and beachhead-able? |
| 27 | - Is the competitive differentiation clear and defensible? |
| 28 | - Are there deliberate moats being built (7 Powers)? |
| 29 | - Is the business model appropriate for the stage and segment? |
| 30 | Score: [1–5] |
| 31 | |
| 32 | **Level 3 — OKRs (What does winning look like this quarter?)** |
| 33 | - Do OKRs translate vision and positioning into measurable outcomes? |
| 34 | - Are they outcome-framed, not output-framed? |
| 35 | - Do they connect to a North Star Metric? |
| 36 | Score: [1–5] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | **Level 4 — Roadmap (What are we building?)** |
| 39 | - Does the roadmap serve the OKRs? |
| 40 | - Is there a 80/20 split between cover fire and big bets? |
| 41 | - Is anything on the roadmap that doesn't ladder to an OKR or moat? |
| 42 | Score: [1–5] |
| 43 | |
| 44 | **Level 5 — Execution (Are we shipping well?)** |
| 45 | - Are PRDs clear and complete before work starts? |
| 46 | - Is the team able to make good decisions without the PM in the room? |
| 47 | - Are success metrics defined and reviewed post-ship? |
| 48 | Score: [1–5] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | ## Step 3 — Coherence Check |
| 51 | |
| 52 | A coherent strategy has all five levels pointing in the same direction. Test coherence: |
| 53 | |
| 54 | - If you read only the OKRs, can you guess the vision? (Yes = coherent) |
| 55 | - If you read only the roadmap, can you guess the OKRs? (Yes = coherent) |
| 56 | - Do the things NOT on the roadmap clearly not serve the vision? (Yes = coherent) |
| 57 | - Would a smart outsider be able to predict your next move from your current strategy? (Yes = coherent) |
| 58 | |
| 59 | ## Step 4 — Differentiation Test |
| 60 | |
| 61 | Apply Porter's differentiation test: |
| 62 | - Are you competing to be the best (same activities, just better) or competing to be unique (different activities, hard to copy)? |
| 63 | - What would you have to stop doing if a fast-growing competitor could do everything you do, 10% better? |
| 64 | - What would a competitor have to change about their whole business model to beat you? (That's your moat.) |
| 65 | |
| 66 | ## Step 5 — Strategy Diagnosis |
| 67 | |
| 68 | Based on scores and coherence check, diagnose: |
| 69 | |
| 70 | **Score 18–25:** Strategy is coherent and differentiated — execution is the bottleneck |
| 71 | **Score 12–17:** Strategy has gaps — which level(s) are weak? |
| 72 | **Score below 12:** Strategy needs fundamental work before execution will compound |
| 73 | |
| 74 | For each weak level, reference the relevant skill to fix it: |
| 75 | - Vision weak → vision-setting |
| 76 | - Positioning weak → competitive-positioning or beachhead-mapping |
| 77 | - OKRs weak → okr-structuring |
| 78 | - Roadmap weak → /roadmap command |
| 79 | - Execution weak → prd-authoring or sprint-prioritization |
| 80 | |
| 81 | ## Step 6 — Output |
| 82 | |
| 83 | Produce: |
| 84 | - Strategy stack scorecard (5 levels, 1–5 each, with evidence) |
| 85 | - Coherence assessment (what's aligned, what's not) |
| 86 | - Differentiation diagnosis (competing to be best vs. competing to be unique) |
| 87 | - Top recommendation: which level to work on first and why |
| 88 | - One strategic question that, if answered honestly, would change the roadmap |