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Stop Planning Forward. The Free Skill That Reverse-Engineers Your Next Move.

A free Claude skill that takes any goal, plan, or stuck point, works backward from the outcome, finds the one bottleneck you're actually blocked on, and hands you the single next thing to do.

  • The free Reverse Engineer skill, installable in two commands or by pasting one file into Claude
  • How it works backward from your outcome instead of forward from your to-do list
  • How it catches the difference between what you think you're stuck on and the real bottleneck
  • The method by hand, so you can run it on any goal even without the skill installed

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What's Inside

Install the free skill in two commands, or paste one file into any chat The five moves: lock the outcome, work backward, chunk, find the bottleneck, route Worked examples on a stuck product and an overwhelming 40-task project The method by hand, plus how to catch it when it's wro

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Why you keep getting stuck

Most planning goes forward.

03

What the skill does

Reverse Engineer takes any goal, plan, or stuck point and runs five moves on it.

The rest of the guide

  1. Install itThe skill is free and open source.
  2. How to trigger itOnce installed, say any of these and then describe your situation.
  3. Worked example: a stuck productInput: I have 200 free users and 0 paying, stuck for 3 months.
  4. Worked example: an overwhelming projectInput: I'm opening a coffee shop, I have a spreadsheet with 40 tasks, $60k, and 4 months, and every time I open it I close it.
  5. Run the method by handYou do not need the skill to use the method.
  6. How to read the outputThe skill returns five parts.
  7. When it's wrong, and how to catch itThe output looks rigorous, which means a wrong answer is more convincing than usual.
  8. One page to rememberPlan backward from the outcome, not forward from your task list.

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Cooper Simson

Founder of Actionable AI. 30,000+ operators read the newsletter.

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