What I built for you, in plain English
One COO to talk to. One list of goals. Claude watches both.
No code, no jargon. Here is what changed, why it matters, and what you do next.
The 10-second version
You were getting confused because you had two goal lists fighting each other and a dozen
skills to choose from. Now there is one goal list, and one front door (your COO) that you
talk to about everything. The COO knows your goals and quietly flags any work that does not
move them.
1The problem you were feeling
Two real issues, both fixed:
Problem A: two goal lists.
Claude was keeping your priorities in two separate files that disagreed. Your morning
brief ranked your day off an old April list. Your weekly update to Brian used a newer one.
So "what are Anthony's priorities?" had two different answers.
Problem B: too many skills.
Project Manager, COO, CEO, CFO, and more. You never knew which one to open, and "COO" was not
even a real skill. It was a hat Claude wore inside the Project Manager skill.
2One list of goals done
There is now a single goal file. Everything reads from it: your morning brief, your weekly
update, the alignment check, all of it. It holds five layers, each on its own clock:
- Annual your big yearly goals per department (and your personal Big Rocks)
- This Quarter your current Q2 goals
- This Month June is now filled in
- This Week set automatically every Friday
- On My Mind anything you dump in anytime
Why this matters
One source of truth means no drift. When you and Claude look at "the goals," you are now
always looking at the same thing.
3Claude now flags off-goal work done
This is the part you asked for. From now on, whenever you ask Claude to build or start
something substantial, it quietly checks that work against your goal list first.
- If it maps to a goal, Claude says which one and gets to work.
- If it maps to nothing, Claude stops and says so in one line, then asks:
kill it, or push forward anyway? You decide. Claude never blocks you and never lectures.
4One front door: your COO done
This solves the "too many skills" mess. You now talk to one COO. You tell it what you
need. It figures out who should do the work and brings back one clean answer. A good COO is not
the best at everything; it knows who to hand each job to.
You → talk to your COO → COO checks your goals → COO hands the job to the right specialist → one clean answer back to you
Here is who the COO hands work to behind the scenes (you do not have to remember any of this):
| When you need... | The COO quietly uses |
|---|
| Your daily brief, board and card work, project tracking | Project Manager |
| A money / finance call | CFO lens |
| A people, hiring, or culture call | CPO lens |
| A customer service call | CCO lens |
| A big company strategy call | CEO lens |
| A high-stakes decision worth several opinions | The Council (all of them, then a verdict) |
| Research a topic, market, or stock | The research skills |
| "Are we on track? What should I drop?" | The alignment audit (see #6) |
| "Here are my goals" (a brain-dump) | The goals intake (see #5) |
How you use it
Just say /coo and what you need, or simply talk to it. The same COO also runs in the
background already: your morning brief, the Friday goal check-in, your weekly update to Brian,
and the board executor. Same role, one place.
5How you load in all your goals ready
You said you still need to give Claude all your goals across every department. Here is the easy
way: you brain-dump, the COO organizes.
- Talk or paste your goals in any order, messy is fine, one department or all of them.
- The COO sorts each into the right department and the right layer (annual, quarter, month, week).
- If a goal has no number attached, the COO asks for one. (A goal with no number cannot be measured, so Claude could not tell you if you are drifting on it.)
- It shows you a clean preview. You approve. It saves.
Try it next
Say: "COO, here are my goals" and start dumping. That fills the one gap that is left.
6The "audit my work" button next build
The next piece is the alignment audit (your Alex Finn "run it before bed" idea). You ask
"are we on track?" and the COO scans everything in flight and sorts it into three piles:
- On track clearly moving a goal forward
- Drifting loosely related or stalled, with a recommendation
- Kill candidate not tied to any goal, here is my call
On purpose, we are going slow here
Version one is read-only: it tells you, you decide, it touches nothing. Only after it proves it
judges things the way you would do we let it run nightly and "surprise" you with finished work.
We are not handing the keys over on day one.
7What to do next
- Load your goals. Say "COO, here are my goals" and brain-dump. Closes the last gap.
- Watch two things prove it works: Monday's morning brief (new goal source) and Friday's weekly check-in and Brian update.
- Then green-light the audit. Once your goals are in, we build the read-only "are we on track?" audit.