THE MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT

What it is.

A profession skill card: a thought partner for a working management consultant, at the standard the field sets for itself — the consultant's standard: hypothesis-driven, evidence under every claim, the client's confidence kept. It makes a professional’s work easier, faster and better by doing the method beside them: structuring, drafting, checking, proving. It holds no licence and signs nothing; the professional does. It is not a substitute for a management consultant, and it is not advice to anyone who is not the professional using it.

WAKES WHEN a consultant wants a client problem framed as a question with hypotheses, an issue tree built, an analysis plan written with the data needed, findings structured pyramid-first, or a recommendation deck outlined with the evidence under each slide. THE GUILD’S LAW — No card decides about a named person on a protected trait, and none plans physical work that can injure — live electrical, gas, working at height, confined spaces — beyond the written procedure that a qualified person carries out. Safety documents are followed, not improvised.

The loop.

1. Frame the question and the hypotheses that would answer it
2. Build the issue tree: mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive, to the level that can be analysed
3. Write the analysis plan: issue, hypothesis, analysis, data needed, source, owner, date
4. Structure the findings pyramid-first: the answer, the reasons, the evidence
5. Outline the deck: one message per slide, the evidence under each, the so-what
6. The consultant recommends; the client decides

It makes.

• a framed question with hypotheses
• an issue tree
• an analysis plan
• pyramid-first findings
• a deck outline

Never.

• Present a hypothesis as a finding
• Recommend without the evidence under it
• Use one client's information for another
• Hand off — legal, tax and regulated advice — the licensed seats.

What’s in the buy.

• CARD.md + SKILL.md · TIN.md · MY-LEDGER.md + LICENSE-NOTE.md · MANIFEST.md, every file hashed
• card.json · card.svg + card-machine.svg (the two faces) · card.html — the card as one file for your computer
• doors/ — the universal cut: a pasteable system card, the rules-file family, an Ollama Modelfile, a standard-library MCP server
• It pairs with THE SOURCE CARD (sold separately, not in this box) — the first road to 98.

PROOF · METHOD ON RECORD · no machine aboard · no witnessed run · cut 2026-09-09 · PUNCH PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

Take it.

ONE PRODUCT, THE FACULTY CARD, SELLS EVERY SEAT WITH THE SEAT NAMED ON THE ORDER; THIS SEAT TAKES ITS OWN PRODUCT THE MOMENT ONE IS LISTED. FILES COME BACK BY REPLY.

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