The Kate Raworth
Framework
Doughnut Economics & Systems Thinking
Kate Raworth shaped how their era thought about itself through distinctive voice and observational rigour. Kate Raworth's intellectual method, captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask.
The doughnut economics & systems thinking framework distils Kate Raworth's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds.
Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Kate Raworth made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Kate Raworth's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of Kate Raworth's thinking.
Economics must serve life, not the other way around—we need regenerative and distributive design that keeps humanity in the sweet spot between social foundation and ecological ceiling. The goal isn't endless growth but thriving equilibrium within Earth's means.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples, unlocked with purchase.
What would this look like if it were distributive and regenerative by design?
4 more questions in Kate Raworth's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Kate Raworth actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy: 2–3 sentences grounded in Kate Raworth's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models: each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics: the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions: five questions that sound like Kate Raworth, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do: the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt: drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example: the framework applied to a realistic scenario
- →kate-raworth.zip: a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →kate-raworth-framework.md: plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts, anywhere
What it does with a real question.
A founder is deciding whether to take a large but difficult client.
Take the client, but only on terms that keep the company inside its own safe space. A large, difficult client is rarely just a revenue decision. It is a decision about what your company is made of, and the question is whether this relationship pushes you below your social foundation, meaning your team's wellbeing, or above your ceiling, meaning the limits of what your business can sustain.
Start with the floor. Difficult clients tend to extract in ways that never show up on the invoice: weekend emergencies, shifting scope, and a team that quietly burns out while the founder celebrates the logo on the website. If landing this client means your people absorb the cost of its dysfunction, you have not won a contract, you have borrowed against your own foundation. Concentration risk matters too. If one client becomes thirty or forty percent of revenue, your autonomy is spent before the first payment clears.
So I would not frame it as yes or no. Frame it as design: what structure would make this relationship regenerative for both sides? That means a paid discovery phase, a change-order process with teeth, a named decision-maker on their side, and a hard cap on revenue share.
Your next move: this week, draft those terms and present them to the client as how you do your best work, not as demands. Their reaction will tell you everything. If they accept, you have a partner. If they refuse, you have avoided a very expensive lesson.
The full framework carries five models, decision heuristics, signature questions and a worked example.
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Kate Raworth. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.