Twelve months of hires, in the order that unlocks the most revenue.
A quarter-by-quarter hiring plan built from your headcount, budget, and every role anyone has asked for, with triggers for moving a hire earlier or later.
Hiring plans tend to be everyone's wishes, ordered by whoever argued best. The loudest team gets the first hire, and the actual constraint on revenue waits in line behind it.
Hiring Plan starts by naming what is stopping revenue today. It scores each requested role against that bottleneck, sequences the hires over four quarters against your budget, adds a trigger for each, and lists the roles that did not make the plan along with the reason.
What it produces.
- →A four-quarter hiring sequence with cumulative cost against budget
- →Each role marked as unlocks now, unlocks later, or supports
- →A trigger for pulling each hire forward or pushing it back
- →A not-funded list with one-line reasons for the requesters
- ✦Founders planning headcount for the year
- ✦Executives with a hiring budget and more requests than room
- ✦Teams preparing hiring plans around a fundraise
This Playbook sequences roles across a year. It does not evaluate any individual candidate, write job descriptions, or set pay. The Hiring Decision Tool is for a single senior hire where a mistake is expensive: it makes you define criteria, score evidence, surface doubts, and build a reference script. Hiring Plan does not include any of that.
See the Hiring Decision Tool ($199) →- →hiring-plan.zip: a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →hiring-plan-skill.md: plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts, anywhere
- →A README inside the zip with install steps for Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini
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Before you buy.
How is this different from just asking Claude directly?
Asked cold, Claude produces a sensible-looking org chart in an order that sounds logical. This ties the order to the one constraint on revenue, checks it against your budget, and records which roles you said no to and why.
How is this different from a Tool?
Playbooks are systematically produced to a fixed template and priced accordingly ($12.99). Tools are hand-built, one at a time, and go deeper ($39 to $199). A Playbook gives you a reliable method for routine work; a Tool is for when the judgment matters more than the format. This Playbook sequences roles across a year. It does not evaluate any individual candidate, write job descriptions, or set pay. The Hiring Decision Tool is for a single senior hire where a mistake is expensive: it makes you define criteria, score evidence, surface doubts, and build a reference script. Hiring Plan does not include any of that.
Will this work with ChatGPT, Gemini, and other LLMs?
Yes. You get a native Claude Skill (.zip) that auto-invokes in Claude, plus a plain .md you can paste into a ChatGPT Custom GPT, a Gemini system prompt, or any LLM. The procedure travels with the file.
Can I share this with my team?
It's licensed for your own personal and professional use. The output it produces is yours to circulate. To put the Playbook itself in the hands of a whole team, email hello@authority.md about team licensing.
What if it doesn't work for me?
If the file hasn't been delivered, or arrives defective or empty, we refund in full: see our refund policy.