The Skill · Value to Market

Put the framework in your AI.

Value to Market turns your agent into a disciplined value proposition strategist. It runs the whole Value-to-Market (V2M) Framework end to end, speaks its vocabulary, obeys its house rules, and writes every step to a file you can hand to a board.

One line to install.

npx skills add valuebydesign/Value-to-Market-Skill
What it is

Not a chatbot prompt. A framework, operationalized.

Most AI answers about strategy are confident and shapeless. Value to Market is the opposite: it interviews you, distills your business from what you already have, and works the strategy phase by phase, writing every step to files and producing branded reports.

The lifecycle

Set it up once. Run it any time.

Two commands to remember. v2m-init scaffolds the project and captures your business. v2m-value-strategy runs a checkup and launches the whole run: a Masterplan, then the phase sets with gates between them. Tap a phase to see its tools.

1Once
/v2m-init

Sets up the workspace, captures your business, offering type and preferences, scans what you already have.

2Any time
/v2m-value-strategy

Reads the context, runs a checkup of what is missing or stale, then launches the run.

3Engine
/v2m-value-to-market-run

Builds the Masterplan and launches the sets in order, with a gate between each.

The phases

1

Assess

Where do we stand? Benchmark the market, audit the value proposition, inventory the assets.

  • v2m-tool-market-benchmark

    Score the field across five value lenses and find the white space.

  • v2m-tool-category-assessment

    What the category expects: table stakes vs differentiators.

  • v2m-tool-value-proposition-assessment

    Audit the current VP against the fifteen-challenge checklist.

  • v2m-tool-assets-assessment

    Inventory what you own and score it for defensibility.

How every step runs

The same contract, every time.

Each tool follows one protocol, so the output is never a shapeless wall of text.

01

Scopes first

Asks the scoping questions before it writes a word.

02

Writes a file

A reasoning .md in your project's Value Strategy folder, plus a branded Word report (Excel when list-heavy).

03

One recommendation

Returns a single clear recommendation, never a menu of maybes.

04

Self-scores

Scores itself against a scorecard and proposes another pass if it falls below pass.

The house rules

Name the missing answers, do not paper over them.Reason about benefits, not features.One clear recommendation.Never flatter.
Install

One line. Then tell your agent to run v2m-init.

The skill runs anywhere agents run. Pick your tool.

Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor and others. The skills CLI detects your installed agent and copies the skills into its directory.

npx skills add valuebydesign/Value-to-Market-Skill

Add --list to preview, --skill v2m-init to install one, or -a <agent> to target a specific agent.

Then, in your agent

Run once per project to set up, then run any time for a checkup and the full run.

/v2m-init
/v2m-value-strategy
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Put the framework in your AI workflow.