Workflow Spec: strategy_execution

A structured consultation governed by the Steve Jobs agent (Chief Executive Officer), addressing strategy–execution divorce.

Conversation Steps

This workflow is a YAML specification that governs a step-by-step consultation. Each step presents a narrative, receives a response from the legendary agent, and offers actions. The AOS executes this spec in real-time through the chatroom interface.

Source Specification

workflow_id: "strategy_execution"
version: "1.0.0"
owner: "ceo"

steps:
  the_boardroom_fiction:
    narrative: "Six months ago your board approved a strategy. Today, engineering is refactoring code that is about to be deprecated, sales is promising a feature that was killed in the last sprint, and marketing is positioning against a competitor that pivoted three months ago. When did the strategy stop being true?"
    response: "It stopped being true the moment it left the boardroom. Strategy lives in a slide deck. Execution lives in Jira, Salesforce, GitHub, and Slack. The gap between those two worlds compounds with every day, every hire, and every customer conversation that happens without strategic context."
    actions: []
    navigation:
      next: "the_shadow_projects"

  the_shadow_projects:
    narrative: "Your VP of Engineering just discovered that two teams have been building competing implementations of the same feature for three months. Neither team knew the other existed. The cost is not just the duplicated engineering hours — it is the three months of runway that evaporated while your competitors shipped."
    response: "Shadow projects are not a management failure. They are a governance failure. When intent lives in one system and execution lives in another, teams will independently interpret the same strategy in incompatible ways. The gap is structural, and it requires a structural solution."
    actions:
      - label: "Drift Detection"
        description: "How Business Infinity identifies strategy-execution divergence in real time"
        url: "drift-detection"
    navigation:
      next: "the_promise_gap"
      back: "the_boardroom_fiction"

  the_promise_gap:
    narrative: "Your sales team just closed a deal by promising a feature that your product team deprecated two sprints ago. The customer will discover the gap in 90 days. By then, the sales rep will have moved on to the next quarter's targets, and your support team will inherit the problem."
    response: "The promise gap is the most expensive form of the strategy-execution divorce. Every unfulfillable promise erodes customer trust, inflates churn, and creates internal blame cycles. It happens because CRM and product roadmap live in different universes."
    actions:
      - label: "Promise Gap Analysis"
        description: "Map the distance between what your CRM promises and what your product delivers"
        url: "promise-gap"
    navigation:
      next: "spec_driven_truth"
      back: "the_shadow_projects"

  spec_driven_truth:
    narrative: "Business Infinity encodes your strategic intent as a living specification — not a static document. Every Jira ticket, every pull request, every CRM entry, every budget allocation is mapped back to that specification in real time. The boardroom sees the contradiction the moment it happens."
    response: "This is spec-driven governance. The Jobs agent monitors product integrity. The Buffett agent monitors financial alignment. The Deming agent monitors operational drift. When sales promises something that contradicts the spec, the boardroom flags it before the contract is signed."
    actions:
      - label: "Spec-Driven Governance"
        description: "How a living specification replaces static strategy documents"
        url: "spec-governance"
    navigation:
      next: "integrity_gap_detection"
      back: "the_promise_gap"

  integrity_gap_detection:
    narrative: "The boardroom does not wait for quarterly reviews to discover misalignment. It detects integrity gaps in real time — when engineering drifts from the product roadmap, when hiring contradicts the budget, when marketing positions against a market that has already shifted. Every gap is surfaced with the specific contradiction and a recommended resolution."
    response: "Integrity gap detection replaces the 'monthly surprise.' Instead of discovering in Q3 that Q1's strategy was never executed, you discover it in the moment it begins to diverge. The cost of correction drops from millions to minutes."
    actions:
      - label: "Integrity Dashboard"
        description: "Real-time cross-functional alignment monitoring"
        url: "integrity-dashboard"
    navigation:
      next: "close_the_gap"
      back: "spec_driven_truth"

  close_the_gap:
    narrative: "Your strategy was never the problem. The distance between your strategy and your execution was the problem. Business Infinity closes that distance permanently — not with more meetings, but with a boardroom that reads every system, enforces every spec, and surfaces every contradiction before it compounds."
    response: "Onboarding takes minutes. The first thing the boardroom does is read your existing systems and surface the three biggest integrity gaps between your stated strategy and your actual execution. Most founders are shocked by what they find."
    actions:
      - label: "Start Onboarding"
        description: "Close the strategy-execution gap in your company"
        url: "onboarding"
      - label: "Alignment Brief"
        description: "A focused conversation about your specific strategy-execution challenges"
        url: "schedule"
    navigation:
      back: "integrity_gap_detection"