Business OS. The flagship pack for the Shiproom Kit.
Put a review panel between your idea and your money.
Business OS runs a business decision the way a careful operator would, before any money or work moves. You describe the business in plain words. The system writes the brief, drafts the plan in 90-day units, stress-tests it against a public rubric until it earns a grade you can trust (or plateaus and says so), then waits for your explicit go before any execution starts.
$59 launch price. List price $79.
Five steps. Each one leaves a file you can read.
Intake.
You talk about your business for ten minutes, or paste what you have, and it comes back as a one-page brief with your own numbers in it, which you correct until it is actually true.
Plan.
The brief becomes a business plan in 90-day units, sized to your real time, money, and skills, not a hypothetical team's.
Grade.
Five advisors with distinct lenses score the plan 1 to 10 against the public six-dimension rubric, and every score must cite the plan's own words.
Approve.
Your recorded go or no-go. Nothing downstream runs without it.
Route.
After your go, approved work routes to the ops team, and anything outward, spending, sending, or publishing, still stops for your sign-off. Every time.
The six dimensions the panel scores. Public, on purpose.
- Is the offer clear.
- Who pays, for what, stated so a stranger understands it in one sentence.
- Is the demand real.
- Actual evidence people want this: named buyers, comparable products, real signals. Not "everyone needs this."
- Do the numbers work.
- The unit economics close using your own numbers from the brief.
- Can you actually run it.
- With your hours, your budget, your skills, not a hypothetical team's.
- Are the risks named.
- The top ways it fails, each with a mitigation or your explicit, eyes-open acceptance.
- Why you.
- A concrete reason someone picks this over the obvious alternative, including doing nothing.
Scores run 1 to 10 with equal weights. An 8.5 average passes. That is an A-.
What the grade means, and what it never means.
A passing grade means the panel could not find a weakness left un-named. It does not mean your business is guaranteed to work.
Grading is capped at three passes, ever. If the plan is still below A- after the third pass, the loop stops and tells the truth: you get the final scorecard, the top three unresolved weaknesses, and your options. Proceed at the real grade, pivot, or kill. It never grinds past the cap and never quietly waves a weak plan through.
There is also an early exit. If one of the lowest-scoring dimensions cannot be fixed and you say so, the system stops right there and gives you the honest options instead of burning the remaining passes revising around it. A plan that plateaus is a result, not a failure of the system.
Proof, not a highlight reel
The first business it graded was its maker’s. It said no.
The pack ships with a real run: the author’s own pet memorial brand, NestPet, taken through the full loop, unedited. On grading pass 1 of a permitted 3, the plan graded C (6.4). The plan itself had refused to pretend otherwise. Its market section states, in its own words:
“demand evidence is zero. $0 revenue, no listing, no sales, no conversion data.”
The owner invoked the early exit rule rather than spending two more passes polishing around a question only a live listing could answer. Presented with the three required options, the owner chose to pivot. And the gate held. The decision log records it verbatim:
“Owner decision: PIVOT. Nothing unlocked; ops agents remain gated per ceo-gate.”
This is the trust feature. A system that only shows you its passing runs gives you no way to know what it does when the answer is bad. This run shows you exactly what it does: it names the weaknesses, stops when told, and keeps the ops team locked until a plan actually earns your go. If your run grades better than this one, you will know the grade was earned the same way this C was.
What's in the pack
Agents (4). The ops team that executes an approved plan:
cmo.
Marketing operations: channels, offers, content calendars, launch sequences, with honest tool recommendations and disclosed affiliate links.
cfo.
A financial analyst, not an advisor: it recomputes the plan's unit economics from your own numbers, drafts budgets, flags risks, and outputs questions for your accountant or attorney rather than advice.
web.
Site and ads specs: what your pages and campaigns should say and do, written so they can be built without guesswork.
ops.
SOPs and day-to-day operations: the repeatable procedures that keep the business running.
Commands (4). The CEO loop itself: /intake, /plan, /grade, /approve.
Rules (2). The public grading rubric with its scoring discipline and three-pass cap, and the CEO gate: no ops agent works without a graded, approved plan, and outward actions stop for you every time, even after approval.
Templates and workflows. The structures every brief, plan, and scorecard is written into.
Two docs tracks. A README for the Claude Code track, and a Cowork quickstart that installs and runs the same pack entirely in plain English, no terminal.
The worked example. The full NestPet run, brief to scorecard to pivot, exactly as it happened.
Two tracks, one pack.
On Claude Code.
You already run projects in a terminal. The README track installs in minutes on top of the free Shiproom Kit, and every artifact the loop produces is a plain Markdown file in your repo.
Not technical.
The Cowork quickstart is the same pack run entirely through Claude Cowork: you paste one install message, then you talk, you read, you decide. No terminal at any step.
Both tracks require the free Shiproom Kit underneath; the pack extends it and will not work without it.
One price. One promise.
$59 launch price. List price $79.
One-time purchase. No subscription beyond the Claude plan you already run it on.
30-day money-back guarantee. Reply to your purchase email and a human refunds you.
Wondering who says a passing grade means anything, what it costs to run all in, or what happens when the analysis is wrong? The FAQ below covers the honest ones. Read the FAQ
Questions, answered plainly.
These are the questions a careful buyer should ask before trusting a system like this. Here are the honest answers.
Who says a passing grade actually means anything?
Nobody outside the process, and the pack says so itself. A passing grade means the panel could not find a weakness left un-named. It does not mean your business is guaranteed to work.
What the grade buys you is discipline, not certainty. The rubric is public, every score must cite your plan's own words, and disagreement between advisors is reported rather than averaged away. The grade measures whether your plan survives a structured, cited stress-test. It does not measure your execution, your market's timing, or your luck. A plan can pass and still fail, and a plan can plateau below passing and still be worth doing with open eyes.
What if the money analysis is wrong?
Treat it as analysis, never as advice. The cfo agent is a financial analyst, not a financial advisor: it recomputes your plan's unit economics from your own numbers, drafts budgets, flags risks, and outputs questions for your accountant or attorney rather than advice. Its math is only as good as the figures you give it, and it marks estimates as estimates rather than treating them as facts.
Before you act on any financial, legal, or tax decision, verify it with licensed professionals. The system is built to hand them better questions, not to replace them.
What does it cost to run, all in?
The pack price, plus the Claude subscription you run it on. Business OS is a one-time purchase, and it requires a Claude plan that runs Claude Code or Claude Cowork. That subscription is the only ongoing cost the system needs.
The pack itself is plain Markdown files: nothing to host, nothing to install beyond copying folders, no per-seat software, no hidden tool costs. When the pack's marketing output recommends tools, free alternatives are named in the tool tables beside every paid pick, and it never recommends a paid tool for a need the free option covers at your current scale.
Do I need to be technical?
No. The pack ships with two docs tracks. If you work in Claude Code, the README covers install and first run in a terminal. If you do not, the Cowork quickstart runs the same pack entirely through Claude Cowork: you paste one install message in plain English, and from there you talk, you read, you decide. No terminal at any step.
Is there a human behind this?
Yes. Reply to your purchase email and a human reads it and answers. That thread reaches the author directly. There is no bot between you and help.
What is the refund policy?
30-day money-back guarantee. Reply to your purchase email and a human refunds you.
That applies to the Business OS purchase. The Shiproom Kit is free, so there is nothing to refund there.
How are tool recommendations chosen?
Openly. Some links on this site and in the pack's output are affiliate links, which pay the author a commission at no extra cost to you, and they are disclosed as affiliate links wherever they appear. A free or cheaper option is named beside every paid pick, and the pack never recommends a paid tool for a need the free alternative covers at your current scale.
One more thing worth knowing: no affiliate exists for Claude or Vercel. We recommend them anyway, because the system runs on them.
What happens if my plan grades below passing?
The loop stops and tells you the truth. Grading is capped at three passes. If the plan is still below passing after the third pass, you get the final scorecard, the top three unresolved weaknesses, and three options: proceed at the real grade, pivot, or kill. It never auto-proceeds and never loops past the cap. There is also an early exit: if one of the lowest-scoring dimensions cannot be fixed and you say so, it stops immediately and gives you the honest options instead of polishing around it.
This is not hypothetical. The worked example that ships in the pack is the author's own business grading C (6.4) on the first pass, the owner choosing to pivot, and the ops team staying locked. Remember what any grade means here: a stress-test survived, never a promise of success.
Do I need the free kit first?
Yes. Business OS extends the free Shiproom Kit and will not work without it. Get the kit first, follow its install steps for your track, then add the pack into the same project. Both docs tracks walk you through it.