Strategy Pack phases guide — 34 specialists from intake to critique

You do not need an MBA to run a serious strategy engagement. You need order: the right questions in the right sequence, with artefacts you can reuse tomorrow. Sculptor’s Strategy Pack follows that order through 34 specialist coaches (plus an orchestrator in the app—not a separate article here).

Discover

Set the game board before analysis and opinions pile up.

• Intake: Define startup scope before strategy work — /intake, SCOPE-001
• Brainstorm: Structured ideas before you commit — /brain, BRAIN-001
• Founders' DNA: Values and motivators that steer trade-offs — /dna
• Market intel: PESTLE, Porter, and drivers that matter — /market

Plan and commit

Turn insight into choices, backlog, OKRs, roadmap, and an execution bridge.

• Strategy artefacts: Mission, vision, values, BMC, SWOT — /strategy
• Backlog: Initiatives to user stories with traceability — /backlog
• OKRs: Objectives and key results per MVP slice — /okr
• Roadmap: Horizons, dependencies, and delivery risks — /road
• Progress plan: Execution bridge after the roadmap — /plan

Brand and experience

Position before identity; experience before clickable build.

• Brand strategy: Positioning pillars and promise — /brand
• Naming: Candidates, checks, and shortlist — /name
• Visual experience: Wireframes and design system direction — /visual
• Customer experience: Journeys and moments that matter — /cx
• HTML prototype: Sandbox-ready screens — /prototype

Solution and operations

How you build and how you run day to day.

• Tech and architecture: Options, NFRs, C4, ADRs — /tech
• Operating model: RACI, org design, and comms — /org

Go-to-market

Revenue motion and demand generation aligned to strategy.

• Sales: Pipeline, ICP, and pilots — /sales
• Marketing: Channels and measurement — /marketing

Risk and resources

What can kill the plan—and who and what funds it.

• Risks: Register and mitigations — /risks
• Talent: Hiring and org design handoff — /talent
• Finance: Unit economics sketches (non-advice) — /finance

Specialist depth

Deeper lenses before you freeze the pack—compliance, PMF, partnerships, data, community, portfolio, and more.

• Compliance: Privacy, security, regulatory roadmap — /compliance
• Customer validation: Problem/solution fit experiments — /custval
• Funding strategy: Readiness, stages, timelines — /funding
• Legal structure: Entity, IP, founder agreements — /legal
• Product–market fit: Signals, metrics, iteration — /pmf
• Partnerships: Partner map, terms, risks — /partners
• Data strategy: Metrics, analytics stack, dashboards — /datastrat
• Customer success: Onboarding, support, churn prevention — /csuccess
• Community: Channel strategy, engagement, governance — /community
• Competitor monitoring: Tracking matrix and response playbooks — /compete
• Product portfolio: Multi-product strategy and sunset rules — /portfolio

Validation

Read-only coherence check, then a quality critique pass.

• Coherence validation: VALIDATION-REPORT-001 — /validate
• Critique: Rubric scores and improvement list — /critique

Beyond the 34 phases

Power features that wrap the same workspace:

• AI Skills in Sculptor — custom coach instructions on your device
• Connect MCP servers to Sculptor — filesystem, GitHub, Context7, org HTTP MCP
• Use Sculptor as an MCP server — Claude Desktop, Cursor, OAuth clients

How to use this guide

1. Pick your weakest phase and open its article—each one lists prerequisites and deliverables.
2. In Sculptor Chat, type the slash command for that specialist.
3. When you want the full journey, start an Agentic Strategy Pack run; phases advance in order and save to your library.
4. Read From specialist chat to a library-ready Strategy Pack for how chat, Agentic, and exports fit together.

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