Invoke the Compound Diagnostic skill inside your Strategist Coach. 30 minutes of structured Q&A across Person, Problem, POV. Produces your first canonical file — the baseline that every coach and skill from this point reads.
You installed your Strategist Coach in 0.2. The Compound Diagnostic skill is already loaded in its knowledge base. This module is where you actually invoke it — open your coach, type the trigger phrase, and the skill runs.
The diagnostic is a structured 25–30 minute conversation. The coach pushes back when answers are vague. It captures exact buyer language when you give it. At the end, it produces a scored baseline document with gaps, strengths, and priorities for what to sharpen first in Phase 1.2.
Three dimensions. Each gets scored. Each gets a gap analysis. Together they form the foundation that Phase 1.2 builds your full positioning on.
Who you serve. Not by demographics — by situation. What's happening in their world when they become a buyer. Their emotional state, their decision style, the exact language they use to describe their problem.
What you actually solve. All the problems you see in your space, then which one your buyers actually hire you for. The surface symptom they notice first. What they'd Google at 11pm.
What makes your perspective different. Your natural advantages, your contrarian beliefs, what you stand against in your industry, your unique mechanism. Why you and not someone else.
The skill also tests cross-circle alignment — whether the person you described actually has the problem you described, whether your POV speaks to that person, whether your unique mechanism solves that specific problem. Misalignment between circles is where most positioning fails, and the diagnostic surfaces it before you do the Positioning skill in 1.2.
The conversation works best with real material, not polished pitches. The skill wants the messy, unfiltered version.
You don't need clients yet. The skill adjusts. Instead of "your best clients," it asks "the people you most want to help" and "what problems do you see in your space that you're uniquely equipped to solve?" It flags the material as projected rather than evidence-based — exactly the right framing for where you are.
Skills aren't buttons. They're modes the Strategist Coach enters when you signal intent. Use any of these trigger phrases — or anything equivalent — and the skill activates.
Once the skill is active, the coach will:
The diagnostic output is your first canonical file. Treat it that way from minute one.
compound-consultant-diagnostic.md/Compound Consultant OS folder you created in 0.1. As a plain text .md file. This is the first file in your knowledge library.