10 Claude Skills for Strategy Professionals
Framework-grounded prompts that replace ad-hoc strategy work. They run inside Claude, are written in the language of management consulting, and are grounded in top-tier consulting methodology.
Free skills and prompts for Claude and strategy work
Templates for Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity — from diagnostics to board-ready decks.
Independent and unaffiliated. The skills, prompts, and frameworks referenced on this page are not created by, endorsed by, or affiliated with any consulting or financial-services firm whose methods may be referenced here. They are built on publicly available frameworks and ways of working, and are inspired by how such approaches are used to tackle complex business problems.
What these are, and Claude skills for consulting
10 prompts. Each one takes a strategy question (diagnose where the business really is, find the growth barrier, prioritize a long initiative list, build the narrative for a partner review) and runs it through the same frameworks a senior associate would actually use: MECE, SCQA, the Pyramid Principle, Porter's Five Forces, jobs-to-be-done, theory of constraints, pre-mortems, war-gaming.
They are markdown files. You add them to Claude as project knowledge or paste them as prompts. No platform, no dashboard, no login. The output is structured, framework-grounded, and intolerant of vagueness, written in the register of a senior consulting associate briefing a partner.
These work as Claude skills for consulting teams just as well as for in-house strategy groups. If you advise clients for a living, our consultant's guide to Claude walks through how to fit them into engagement work.
GitHub repo: github.com/aapersh/claude-skills-for-strategy-analysis
The 10 Skills You Get
Diagnosis
Situation Assessment
Establish where the business actually is
Competitive Intel
Map competitor moves before they happen
Market Mapping
Size the market and find the white space
Assumption Audit
Stress-test the beliefs under your strategy
Growth Barriers
Find the real constraint on growth
Execution
Initiative Prioritizer
Reduce the list to the 3 to 5 that matter
Stakeholder Alignment
Map who needs to say yes, and how
Narrative Builder
Land the recommendation in 60 seconds
KPI Architect
Connect daily metrics to strategic outcomes
War-Gaming
Stress-test against realistic opposition
Skills 1 to 5 sharpen the thinking before any commitment. Skills 6 to 10 carry the strategy from decision to delivered result.
Setup Guide
Clone or download the repo
Or just download the individual .md files you want from GitHub. The repo has two folders: strategy-skills-diagnosis and strategy-skills-execution.
Create a Claude Project
Go to claude.ai, open the left sidebar, click Projects, then Create Project. Name it something like "Strategy Assistant" or "Diagnosis & Execution."
Add the skills as Project Knowledge
Inside your project, open Project Knowledge, click Add Content, and upload the .md files. Add as many as you want. Claude will reference them automatically in every conversation inside that project.
Start using the tool
Open a new conversation inside the project, paste in your data, and ask the question. Claude reads the relevant skill from project knowledge and runs the analysis with the framework already loaded.
Tip
Refer to the exact skill in your prompt. Phrases like "Run a Situation Assessment" or "Use the attached skills in the project" point Claude at the right framework instead of leaving it to guess.
Example prompt
"Run a Situation Assessment on the attached Q1 board pack. Use the attached skills in the project to structure the analysis. The CEO has asked whether we should enter the German mid-market segment. Triangulate financial, market and operational evidence. End with a MECE issue tree on what we still need to know. Then turn the output into an HTML report I can share with the steerco."
The 4 most used
1. Situation Assessment
Feed it the business context, recent performance data, and the question you have been asked. It returns a fact-based picture of where the business actually is, what the real problem is, and what is and is not yet known. It uses SCQA, MECE issue trees, and three-lens triangulation.
Replaces the "open ten tabs and re-read the deck three times" warm-up before a real conversation can start.
2. Growth Barriers
Decomposes growth into new, expansion, churn, and contraction. Identifies the inflection point, walks the full funnel waterfall, reads the cohort retention curves, and traces the structural constraint with five-whys. Outputs the real bottleneck, not the loudest one.
Run on any business asking "why has growth slowed?" before you propose a single initiative.
3. Initiative Prioritizer
Takes a long list of candidate initiatives and reduces it to the 3 to 5 that matter. Plots each on impact × feasibility, sizes capital, models capacity, sequences for dependencies and cash flow, and writes an explicit kill list with reasons.
Run before any strategy meeting where the list of "things we could do" has crossed twelve items.
4. Narrative Builder
Builds the recommendation story using the Pyramid Principle and SCQA. Produces a Day-1 slide, four narrative lengths (30 seconds / 2 minutes / 10 minutes / 60 minutes), and a list of hostile questions with answers ready.
Use the night before any partner review, steerco, or board update.
The frameworks under the hood
Every skill is grounded in a specific consulting framework. No generic "think strategically" prompts. Each skill names the framework it uses, the steps it follows, the hypotheses it pressure-tests before sharing, and the failure modes it watches for.