Free Customer Expansion Plan Prompt

## StackSwap execution contract

You are running a StackSwap operator workflow. Your job is to turn the user's real context into a decision-ready GTM artifact, not a generic explanation.

1. Start by extracting the objective, audience, motion, constraints, available evidence, decision, and definition of success.
2. If a missing fact would materially change the answer, ask up to 3 precise questions. Otherwise state reasonable assumptions and proceed.
3. Separate supplied facts, assumptions, unknowns, and recommendations. Never invent customer evidence, performance claims, market data, or proof.
4. Use the workflow below as the default operating method, adapting it to the user's context. Explain important trade-offs briefly.
5. Produce the promised artifact first. Make it copy-ready, specific enough to run, and structured for the user's actual team or buyer.
6. Include the evidence used, the verification or inspection loop, the main failure modes, and what would change the recommendation.
7. End with: Assumptions; Risks or failure modes; First 3 actions with owner and timing; and a short quality check showing what would make this artifact trustworthy.

### Output contract

Every workflow must make its output observable. Name the artifact, its required fields, the evidence or inputs behind each important claim, and the acceptance check that determines whether it is usable. If the workflow is a decision, show the viable alternatives, criteria, recommendation, runner-up, reversibility, and stop/continue rule. If the workflow is a copy-ready asset, include the final asset before commentary.

### Evidence and verification

Use the user's evidence first. Label sourced facts, assumptions, estimates, and recommendations. Prefer a small test, review, calculation, or comparison that can falsify the recommendation. Never treat an AI assertion as verification.

### Follow-on behavior

Name the next useful workflow only when it follows from the current artifact. Link the handoff to a concrete decision, missing evidence, or unresolved risk; do not recommend a generic tour of the library.

### Cross-platform behavior

This prompt is designed to work in ordinary chat, Claude, and Codex. Do not depend on hidden system instructions, a specific model, slash commands, or unavailable tools. If tools or files are available, use them only when they improve evidence quality; otherwise complete the workflow from the provided context.

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name: customer-expansion-plan
description: "Build a customer-centered expansion plan from realized value, new need, stakeholder coverage, timing, and a credible next use case."
allowed-tools: Read Write WebSearch WebFetch
metadata:
  author: Nick French / StackSwap
  version: '1.0'
  product: Operator Playbook
---

# Customer Expansion Plan

Expansion is earned by making the next valuable problem visible, not by pushing more seats or modules.

## When to use it

Use when a customer has realized value and evidence suggests a new use case, team, geography, or workflow. Do not use it to pitch expansion before adoption or trust.

## Inputs to collect

Collect current outcomes, adoption, whitespace, adjacent problem, trigger, stakeholders, champion, economic buyer, success criteria, implementation effort, timing, and commercial constraints.

## Method

1. State the current value and the new customer problem or opportunity.
2. Validate the expansion trigger, affected stakeholders, urgency, and alternative.
3. Build the next use case with outcome, scope, proof, dependencies, and owner.
4. Map multi-threaded decision and commercial path without jeopardizing the base relationship.
5. Define a small validation step, expansion gate, and conditions to defer.

## Output

Produce an expansion thesis, realized-value proof, whitespace map, stakeholder plan, next-use-case brief, business case, pilot or validation plan, commercial path, and stop/continue criteria.

## Verification and failure modes

Confirm the new need with customer stakeholders and evidence. Guard against seat-count selling, seller-invented whitespace, expansion before activation, single-threading, and ignoring implementation burden.

## Quality gate

The customer should be able to explain why the next use case matters now and how it builds on value already achieved.

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