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### Business Operations

- **[Brand Guidelines](skills/brand-guidelines/)** - Applies brand colors and typography to artifacts for consistent visual identity and professional design standards.
- **[Before You Build](skills/before-you-build/)** - Pressure-tests a product idea, landing page, MVP, or major feature before implementation by checking demand, positioning, monetization, retention, trust, distribution, and feature-adoption risk.
- **[Competitive Ads Extractor](skills/competitive-ads-extractor/)** - Extracts and analyzes competitors' ads from ad libraries to understand messaging and creative approaches that resonate.
- **[Domain Name Brainstormer](skills/domain-name-brainstormer/)** - Generates creative domain name ideas and checks availability across multiple TLDs including .com, .io, .dev, and .ai extensions.
- **[Lead Research Assistant](skills/lead-research-assistant/)** - Identifies and qualifies high-quality leads by analyzing your product, searching for target companies, and providing actionable outreach strategies.
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name: before-you-build
description: Pressure-test a product idea, landing page, MVP, or major feature before implementation. Use when the user wants to build something and needs to check demand, positioning, monetization, retention, trust, distribution, or feature-adoption risk first.
---

# Before You Build

Use this skill before turning a product idea or feature request into implementation work.

## When to Use

- The user wants to build a new product, landing page, MVP, or app.
- The user wants to add or change a major feature.
- The user asks whether an idea is worth building.
- The user is moving from product thinking into code.

## Process

1. Restate the idea in one plain sentence.
2. Identify whether the idea is specific enough to judge.
3. If it is too broad, ask who it is for, when they use it, what painful problem it solves, and what they use today.
4. Find the single biggest risk: demand, positioning, monetization, retention, trust, distribution, or feature adoption.
5. Separate weak signals from stronger evidence.
6. Recommend the smallest validation step before implementation.

## Output

```md
Verdict: [Build / Validate first / Narrow the scope / Stop]

Biggest risk:
- [The main reason this may fail.]

Evidence gap:
- [The missing proof that matters most.]

Next validation step:
- [One concrete action to run before building.]
```

## Guardrails

- Do not recommend a tech stack.
- Do not write code.
- Do not turn a weak idea into a detailed build plan.
- Be direct, concrete, and concise.