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The Muhammad Yunus Framework

Microfinance & Social Business Models

IncludedNative Claude Skill + plain .md for ChatGPT, Gemini & every LLM
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Muhammad Yunus built and scaled enterprises through category-defining bets that their industry dismissed as impossible. Muhammad Yunus's business-building patterns — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The microfinance & social business models framework distils Muhammad Yunus'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 Muhammad Yunus made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Muhammad Yunus's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Muhammad Yunus's thinking.

Core Philosophy

Poverty is not created by the poor—it's created by systems that exclude them from economic participation. The free market, when redesigned with social consciousness, becomes the most powerful tool for human development. Profit maximization must give way to social benefit maximization.

Five Mental Models
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  4. 04
  5. 05

Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

"What if we assumed the poor are completely creditworthy and designed from there?"

4 more questions in Muhammad Yunus's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Muhammad Yunus Would NOT Do · sample
Charge interest rates above 20% annually—financial inclusion shouldn't mean exploitation

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

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The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Muhammad Yunus 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.

What's inside
  • Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Muhammad Yunus'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 Muhammad Yunus, 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
Delivered in two formats
  • muhammad-yunus.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • muhammad-yunus-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Muhammad Yunus. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.

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