asb-voters

Distills personal or company strengths into one or two decisive strategic advantages recorded in VOTERS.md.

Updated Nov 15, 2025
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/evanish/reusable-PM-templates --skill asb-voters-evanish
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: asb-voters
Source: https://github.com/evanish/reusable-PM-templates/tree/main/Templates%20to%20reuse/Work/asb-customer-discovery/asb-voters
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/evanish/reusable-PM-templates --skill asb-voters-evanish

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Founders and product strategists struggle to identify which of their many strengths actually decide competitive outcomes, often settling for vague lists of virtues like "quality" or "customer focus" that every competitor also claims. This Skill forces a rigorous distillation down to the one or two extreme, rare, decisive traits — the "voters" — that customers accept every other trade-off for. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Five-test gauntlet: Runs each candidate strength through extremity, rarity, decisiveness, reverberation, and energy tests, one candidate per exchange, with verdicts recorded on the record. - Tiered classification: Separates true voters from near-miss "special strengths" (secondary pillars to deploy) and common "shaping strengths", and delivers an honest zero-voter verdict when nothing qualifies. - Resumable VOTERS.md output: Maintains an in-progress header with candidate statuses and gauntlet pointers so interrupted sessions resume mid-candidate. - Use Case: A founder with a completed self-portrait file asks "what should I bet my strategy on?" The Skill harvests candidates from the file, interrogates each one, and produces a VOTERS.md naming the single decisive obsession plus the trade-offs it overpowers. ## Quick Start Analyze my self-portrait file and find my voters — the one or two extreme strengths I should bet my strategy on.

Frequently Asked Questions about asb-voters

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I identify my unfair advantage as a founder?

Run each candidate strength through five tests: earned extremity, rarity among peers, decisiveness with named overpowered costs, downstream reverberation, and sustained energy. Only traits passing all five qualify as voters; the result is capped at two and recorded in VOTERS.md.

What is the difference between a voter and a strength?

A strength is common and merely shapes strategy, while a voter is an idiosyncratically extreme trait that decides the contest because customers accept every other trade-off for it. Near-misses that are genuinely top-1% but fail one decisive test are recorded as special strengths to deploy as secondary pillars.

What inputs does the voter distillation process need?

It works best from a self-portrait file with numbered characteristics, a classified strengths chart, or a keystones file, citing those numbers in candidates. If none exist, it captures candidate attributes inline with concrete episode evidence, caveated as unvetted.

What happens if no strength passes all five tests?

The Skill delivers an explicit zero-voter verdict stating nothing is special-and-extreme yet, rather than padding the file with relabeled common strengths. It then recommends investing the deepest genuine obsession into extremity or changing games to one where an existing fact is already extreme.

When should I not use this voter distillation skill?

Do not use it to build the full self-portrait of characteristics, which is the preceding step, or to design the entire strategy around the voters. It only distills and records the decisive traits; strategy audits and positioning work happen downstream.