Standard Templates

Continuous improvement requires three things: a template to fill in, a procedure to follow, and an artifact to produce. Each cycle improves all three.

Layer	What	Purpose
Template	What you fill in	Consistent structure
Procedure	How you fill it in	Repeatable process
Artifact	What you produce	Comparable result

What templates exist and what question does each answer?

Locations

• Diagram Templates
• Business Templates
• Agent Workflows
• Skill Templates (.agents/skills/*/cookbook/ and .agents/skills/*/references/)

Content

Template	Question
Page Flow (.claude/rules/page-flow.md)	What rhythm does every page follow?
Fact-Star (.claude/rules/fact-and-star-architecture.md)	Where does content live?

Thinking

Template	Question
Agent & Instrument Diagram	How do agents orchestrate?
Outcome Map	What does success look like?
Value Stream Map	Where does time die?
Dependency Map	What must happen first?
Capability Map	What can we actually do?
Business Model Canvas	How does value flow?
Empathy Map	What does the player feel?
Affinity Diagram	What groups emerge from noise?

Business

Artifact	Question
RFP Process	How does a procurement run?
RFP Bid	What will it cost?
Business Idea Checklist	Is this worth pursuing?
Marketing Artifacts	What does the campaign need?
Work Chart	Who does what — human vs AI?
BOaaS Playbook	How do you sell operations?

Workflows

A workflow consumes one or more templates to produce a result artifact. More complex work uses more templates.

Workflow	Question	Templates Used	Proven
Create PRD	Problem, for whom, measured how?	5 maps + PRD (index, prompt-deck, spec)	6+ PRDs
Industry Analysis	5P scan of an industry?	5P structure, Business Model Canvas	8+ industries
Business Venture	Full persuasion loop?	Business Model Canvas, ICP, Work Chart	3+ ventures
Compare Countries	Scored assessment on 25 dimensions?	ICP	4+ countries
Meta Article	Idea to published piece?	Page Flow	10+ articles
Fact-Star Migration	Hub/spoke restructuring?	Fact-Star	5+ sections
DePIN Analysis	Token evaluation against thesis?	Business Model Canvas, Capability Map	3+ tokens

Skills

Template	Skill	Question
Meta Article Template	copywriting	What shape does a /meta thought piece take?
Industry Analysis Template	deep-research	What 5P directory structure fits an industry?
ICP Output Template	create-icp	What defines a customer archetype?
Audit Loop Template	prompt-architecture	Did the skill execution improve the template?
Prediction Template	tracking-predictions	What did we predict, with what evidence?
Stage Templates	researching-business-ideas	What gate does each idea stage require?

Context

• Templates — Thinking instruments: Maps, Canvases, Reasoning, Loops
• Business Artifacts — Operational instruments: the control loops that run a business
• PRD Requirements — The PRD spec that execution plans implement
• Process Optimisation — PDCA loop that templates follow
• Navigation System — The three systems every template can diagnose
• Content Questions — Questions standard applied to every page
• Naming Standards — How templates get labelled consistently
• Work Charts — Who does what, human vs AI — the factory floor map
• BOaaS — The business model that sells templated procedures as a service. Engineered as Work Charts: RFP workflow first
• First Principles — Systematically establish what's true before filling templates

Questions

What would change if you held every template to the same standard you hold code — defined inputs, expected outputs, and a test that can fail?

• Which templates in the inventory currently lack a feedback loop — and is that why they aren't compounding?
• When a template produces the same answer regardless of which system you point it at, is the template broken or is the operator?
• What's the difference between a template that improves your thinking and one that merely organises it?