Business-First AI Framework: 7-Step Restructure
The framework grows from three steps to seven — promoting Design, Build, Test, Run, and Improve to top-level steps with their own skills, deliverables, and documentation pages.
What Changed
Section titled “What Changed”3 steps → 7 steps. The old “Step 3: Build” umbrella (with sub-steps 3.1 Design, 3.2 Construct, 3.3 Run) is gone. Each is now a top-level step, “Construct” is renamed to “Build”, and two new steps join the framework:
| Step | Skill | Deliverable |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Analyze | analyze | Opportunity Report |
| 2. Deconstruct | deconstruct | Workflow Definition |
| 3. Design | design | AI Building Block Spec |
| 4. Build | build | Platform artifacts |
| 5. Test | test | Test Results with eval scorecard |
| 6. Run | run | Run Guide |
| 7. Improve | improve | Improvement Plan |
Step 5: Test — structured evaluation using criteria defined during Design. Smoke test, full eval suite with 1-5 scoring, building block evals in isolation, baseline establishment, and a diagnosis table mapping problems to building blocks. Test page.
Step 7: Improve — periodic evaluation of running workflows. Watch for quality signals, re-run evals against baseline, assess graduation to a more capable orchestration mechanism, and decide: no changes needed, tune, redesign, or evolve. Improve page.
Evaluation Criteria in Design. The Design skill now prompts for what good output looks like, quality dimensions, 3-5 test scenarios, and a minimum quality bar. These feed directly into Test and Improve.
Skills renamed. All five existing skills shortened from verbose forms (analyzing-workflows, deconstructing-workflows, etc.) to analyze, deconstruct, design, build, run. Slash commands updated accordingly — e.g., /business-first-ai:build replaces /business-first-ai:construct-workflow.
Portable prompts retired. Skills now work on every major platform (Claude Code, Cowork, Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor), so maintaining separate copy-paste prompts is no longer necessary. The three prompt pages redirect to their step pages.
Plugin version: 7.0.0 — a major version bump reflecting breaking skill renames and new skills. Update with /plugin install business-first-ai@handsonai.