Business Operations — Domain Guide

This file provides domain-specific guidance for skills in business-operations/.

Purpose

The Business Operations domain ships skills that help internal operators (BizOps lead, COO direct reports, vendor management office, IT ops) run the company day-to-day. This is not strategy (that's c-level-advisor/) and not external sales (that's business-growth/).

Skills (v2.8.0 complete)

Build pattern

Path-B 11-file contract per skill (Matt Pocock-derived discipline preserved):

skill/
├── SKILL.md                  # YAML frontmatter + workflow + forcing-question library
├── scripts/                  # 3 stdlib-only Python CLI tools
├── references/               # 3 ref docs, ≥ 7 cited sources each
└── assets/                   # ≥ 1 user-customizable template

Hard rules

1. Stdlib-only Python — no requests, pandas, numpy. Just argparse, json, sys, pathlib, statistics, dataclasses, enum, datetime, math, re, collections.
2. Deterministic logic — no LLM calls in scripts. Same input → same output. Erlang-C math implemented in log-space to avoid factorial overflow.
3. Industry tuning — every scoring tool exposes --profile {saas,services,manufacturing,healthcare,…} for threshold calibration.
4. Matt Pocock grill discipline — orchestrator routes via one-question-per-turn with a recommended answer + canon citation. Never bundles. Never auto-routes silently after a question. Every SKILL.md ships a "Forcing-question library" section with 5-7 cited canon-anchored questions.
5. Output is recommendation, not approval — vendor-management never says "replace this vendor"; procurement-optimizer never auto-consolidates suppliers; the human always decides.

Agent + command pattern

• cs-bizops-orchestrator — the persona agent. Voice: "Where does the work spend most of its time waiting?" (Theory of Constraints anchor).
• /cs:bizops <inquiry> — top-level router.
• /cs:grill-bizops <plan> — Matt-style docs-anchored grilling before routing.
• /cs:process-map, /cs:vendor-review, /cs:capacity-plan, /cs:internal-comms, /cs:knowledge-ops, /cs:procurement — direct per-skill invocation.

Anti-patterns (domain-level)

• ❌ Skills that overlap business-growth/* (external sales motion) — BizOps is internal
• ❌ Skills that overlap c-level-advisor/coo-advisor — that's strategic; BizOps is tactical
• ❌ "Process improvement consultant" generic skills — every skill must answer a SPECIFIC question (e.g., "where's the bottleneck?", "is this vendor delivering?", "are we sized to peak demand?", not "how can we improve operations?")
• ❌ Tools without --profile tuning — every score must be industry-tunable
• ❌ Bundled questions in the orchestrator — Matt's rule: one at a time, with a recommended answer
• ❌ Engineering-specific framing in capacity-planner — that's vpe-advisor's lane

References

• Master plan: documentation/implementation/bizops-commercial-expansion-plan.md
• Matt Pocock derivation: engineering/grill-me, engineering/grill-with-docs
• Strategic complement: c-level-advisor/coo-advisor