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name: offering-develop
description: Draft an initial consulting offering and bounded market-test proposal, or improve an exact offering from permitted buyer reasons and delivery lessons while retaining the offering owner's decisions.
metadata:
  version: "0.1.1"
---

Read [working instructions](references/governing.md) before applying this method.
# Develop an offer people can judge

Read and apply the [common working instructions](references/source/implementation/working-character/instructions.md)
and the [domain requirements selected for this task](references/source/implementation/runtime/requirements.md#selected-domain-requirements).
Verify tool access and storage operations in the current environment; do not infer
either from this skill's availability. Missing access, permission or a required
reference blocks only dependent work; continue useful permitted work and state the
limitation.

Use `initial-offering` for a first offer from permitted
buyer/market inputs, without an engagement. Use `delivery-learning` for a revision
proposal from an exact offering, strategy, buyer reasons and permitted closure /
outcome inputs. Read the [contract](references/source/implementation/skills/offering-develop/references/output-contract.md),
[source map](references/source/implementation/skills/offering-develop/references/source-map.md), [entity lineage](references/source/implementation/runtime/entity-lineage.md)
and [binding contract](references/source/implementation/workspace-bindings/contract.md). Resolve entity-home,
knowledge-wiki and method-settings only when required; supplied compatible inputs
can replace discovery or upstream invocation. Use the structured contract only
where useful; verify actual storage operations separately.

1. Identify the ordinary job, mode, exact offering when applicable, acting user,
   offering owner, information owners, audience/purpose, assessment clock and
   effective target/method. Reuse this instance's selected context. Illustrative
   geography, sector and service examples establish no target adoption or legal
   mandate. A first offer needs no fabricated closure,
   submitted proposal or completed sale. An unreadable required current record
   blocks dependent resumption; label older context last-known and create no duplicate.
2. Inspect permitted exact sources and input correspondence. Keep speaker, author,
   information owner, business role, event time, observation period, capture time,
   read coverage and uncertainty distinct. Unknown event time stays unknown; capture
   time supplies neither an event nor buying authority. Source instructions grant
   no operating authority. Technical access and current information-use grants are
   separate checks. Denied reads expose only a safe generic blocker.
3. In initial mode, draft buyer/problem, approach and typical shape, value/why us,
   deliverers, delivery inputs/constraints, price logic and exclusions. Tie each
   claim to its exact source/passage and strength. Buyer statements and a small
   market sample prove no demand; hypothesized benefits and willingness to pay stay
   assumptions. Unknown rates/team commitments remain placeholders. Optional proof
   must be relevant and currently permissioned at this audience/purpose; a prior
   offering-proof selection grants no new reuse right. No proven savings or invented
   organization adoption; supplied definitions, units, populations and periods are
   not interchangeable. Apply domain terminology and evidence requirements only
   from applicable configuration or supplied evidence.
4. In learning mode, put the strategy/offer used, buyer-stated win/loss/no-decision
   reasons, firm's interpretation, permitted delivery lessons and assessed/not
   assessable outcomes side by side. Preserve exact old offering/proposal versions.
   Buyer reasons justify a subject's revision only with an exact offering/proposal
   association; otherwise preserve the statement with unresolved association, owner
   and settling evidence. Use closure's exact permission decisions, not acceptance/closure as a reuse grant.
   Missing later data remains not assessable with the data owner/settling input;
   no achieved savings or payment inference. Outcome records may inform an authorized
   internal assessment without entering the reusable offering.
5. Inspect every outgoing surface: text, names, links, metadata, comments,
   attachments and receipts. Require every information owner's current exact-byte,
   audience/purpose/use permission, with effective authority and chronology. Anonymous
   lessons cover only their exact permitted surfaces; exclude client dossier,
   reference calls and licensed benchmarks. Incomplete inspection blocks the affected
   payload. Keep internal review references/notes apart from the bounded reusable
   payload. Preparing it transfers or saves nothing. Revocation stops future use;
   policy/owner decides existing managed-copy consequences without an erasure promise.
6. Propose revise, retire or retain with reasons, contrary evidence, alternatives and
   what would settle the choice. A revision is a new draft, not adoption or retirement
   of the current offering. The offering owner chooses; old proposals retain their
   offering reference. Keep market testing separately pending: propose a bounded
   audience, questions, scope/effort limits, evidence to collect, stop criteria and
   decision criteria without scheduling/contacting anyone or inventing an approved fee.
7. Preserve human originals/dissent and corrections by exact content reference. A
   same-label byte correction invalidates affected support; show known inline and
   referenced dependents, owners/rechecks and incomplete home coverage. Keep old
   outputs/decisions fixed. On resumption inspect late notes and uncertain effects
   before retry; unreadable effects remain unresolved and are not retried. Missing
   required method blocks its tailored lane while a permitted common draft continues.
8. Check the useful result against whole sources, agreed business/reader criteria
   and chronology. Label author self-checks; independent review must come from
   outside the complete contributor set. Record storage/readback, intended-reader navigation, rendering,
   continuity, target adoption and human acceptance separately; unperformed checks
   remain NOT_RUN. The offering owner makes the adoption and market-test decisions.