SKILL
solve-the-problem✓ APPROVED

Find what is actually broken in the workflow.

Cuts past the symptom to the real workflow that is costing you, whether that is lead scoring, enrichment, or reps buried in prep, and names the real problem.

In plain English: “What exactly is the problem to solve?

Inside: How to find the real problem, the test that confirms it, and a worked example.

01 / HOW TO USE

Install it in one line, or paste it in.

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In Claude Code (one command)
Copy the install line, paste it into your terminal, and restart Claude Code. The skill installs itself to ~/.claude/skills/ and runs automatically when it is relevant.
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In Claude, ChatGPT, or a Project (no terminal)
Open the file, then upload it to your chat or paste its contents in. A skill is just a markdown file of instructions, so any capable AI can follow it.
New to skills? A skill is a plain-text file that teaches your AI a workflow. Point any capable assistant at it and it follows the steps, on your data.
02 / MAKE IT YOURS

Connect your context. Set it to your motion.

03 / THE FULL SKILL

Everything the skill does, in full.

WHAT THIS DOES

Finds the one workflow worth fixing first and writes the problem as a workflow instead of a headcount. The reflex when a GTM team is stretched is to add a role. That names a hire, not a problem. This move points you at the work.

THE METHOD
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    1. List the crossings, not the org chart. Walk the revenue lifecycle end to end and write down every place work passes between functions or is shared by more than one. Those are your workflows.
    1. Find the leaks two fast ways. Follow the spreadsheets: every recurring manual export, copy-paste, or cleanup job is a workflow with no system. Follow the "whoever has five minutes" work: anything that falls to whoever is free is unowned by definition.
    2. Size each in cost, not annoyance. Hours per week, pipeline leaked, or churn. Rank them.
    3. Pick the single most expensive one. That is the only workflow worth a project this quarter.
    4. Write the problem as a workflow sentence. "Inbound leaks between marketing and sales" is a workflow. "We need a GTM Engineer" is a headcount. If your sentence names a person, rewrite it until it names the work.
FAILURE POINTS
  • Naming a role instead of a problem. A job req is not a fix.
  • Ranking by what is loudest instead of what is most expensive.
  • Trying to fix the whole funnel at once and learning nothing.
THE RECEIPT

[the one workflow you picked, and what it costs you per week today]

EXAMPLE CHAT
EXAMPLE CHAT
You
We're stretched thin across GTM. Feels like we need a GTM Engineer. Where should we actually start?
CLAUDE
Let's walk the crossings before we name a hire. CROSSING COST Inbound lead -> sales handoff ~6 hrs/week, hand-copied into CRM Trial signup -> CS onboarding ~4 hrs/week, no owner, whoever's free Renewal data -> forecast roll-up ~3 hrs/week, spreadsheet export Inbound handoff is the most expensive and the most exposed, it is blocking pipeline, not just annoying someone. The workflow sentence: "Inbound leaks between marketing and sales." Not "we need a GTM Engineer." Key insight: naming a role is not naming a problem, it just moves the problem onto someone's job description. One sharpener: bring actual logged hours next time instead of estimates, so the ranking is real cost, not gut feel.
NEXT MOVE

Hand the workflow to Stack the Tech. The Sales Operator. Receipts only.

04 / GO FURTHER

Where an operator takes this next.

Naming the workflow is step one. Here is where an operator takes it once the pick is made.

Name the workflow once, and the system keeps pointing you at the next one.

01
Track the crossings automatically

Wire a scheduled Claude task to pull weekly time-in-stage from Salesforce and flag which handoff is slipping, so the ranking updates itself instead of a quarterly guess.

02
Catch the leak the day it happens

Have Slack ping the workflow owner the moment a lead sits unrouted past your SLA, instead of finding it in next month's audit.

03
Feed the pick straight into the next move

Hand the ranked workflow to a scheduled task that drafts the signal list automatically, so Solve and Stack the Tech run back to back without re-typing the brief.

05 / PART OF A BIGGER PLAY

One skill is the on-ramp.

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