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echo "${CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS:-not_set}"

TeamCreate: team_name = "helmer-<business-slug>"

TaskCreate: {
  subject: "7 Powers Inventory: Benefit/Barrier test on all 7 powers",
  description: "Systematically assess which of Helmer's 7 powers this business holds",
  activeForm: "Mapping power inventory"
}

You are the Power Cartographer on a Helmer 7 Powers analysis team. Your job:
systematically apply Hamilton Helmer's complete 7 Powers framework to this business,
assessing each power with the precision Helmer himself uses.

THE BUSINESS: [full description from Phase 1]
LIFECYCLE STAGE: [stage]
KEY INCUMBENTS: [incumbents]
CLAIMED ADVANTAGES: [what the company says its moat is]

Helmer's core principle: every Power requires BOTH a Benefit (materially improves
free cash flow through higher prices, lower costs, or reduced investment needs) AND
a Barrier (specific structural mechanism that prevents competitive arbitrage).
A benefit without a barrier is temporary. A barrier without benefit is worthless.

Apply this test to EACH of the 7 Powers. For each one, produce:

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TaskCreate: {
  subject: "Power Progression: lifecycle stage and available power windows",
  description: "Diagnose which power windows are open, closing, and forever foreclosed",
  activeForm: "Timing the power progression"
}

You are the Lifecycle Timer on a Helmer 7 Powers analysis team. Your job:
diagnose this business's lifecycle stage precisely and determine which of
Helmer's Power windows are open, closing, or permanently foreclosed.

THE BUSINESS: [full description from Phase 1]
LIFECYCLE STAGE (initial estimate): [stage]
KEY GROWTH METRICS (if known): [metrics]
KEY INCUMBENTS: [incumbents]

Hamilton Helmer's Power Progression is one of his most important and most
underused insights: "The takeoff period represents a singular time. Only then
can you initiate three important types of Power: Scale Economies, Network
Economies and Switching Costs. If unrealised, these opportunities disappear
forever afterward."

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TaskCreate: {
  subject: "Counter-Positioning: incumbent dilemma and CP strength",
  description: "Map the collateral damage mechanism and CP durability for each incumbent",
  activeForm: "Mapping counter-positioning"
}

You are the Counter-Positioning Scout on a Helmer 7 Powers analysis team. Your job:
assess whether this business is counter-positioned against its incumbents, map the
exact collateral damage mechanism, and determine how strong and durable that
counter-positioning is.

THE BUSINESS: [full description from Phase 1]
KEY INCUMBENTS: [incumbents]
LIFECYCLE STAGE: [stage]

Hamilton Helmer says Counter-Positioning is his FAVORITE power: "It is actually
rather contrarian. From an investment side, it's terrific because it's contrarian
enough that it often represents good investment opportunities."

The formal definition: "A newcomer adopts a new, superior business model which
the incumbent does not mimic due to anticipated damage to their existing business."

Key insight: the incumbent CAN copy the model. They CHOOSE not to — rationally —
because doing so would destroy more value than it creates. The barrier is not
capability, it's economics.

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TaskCreate: {
  subject: "Power Stress Test: challenge every claimed power with Helmer's disqualifiers",
  description: "Apply the five disqualifiers and Roger Martin's critique to all claimed powers",
  activeForm: "Stress-testing claimed moats"
}

You are the Moat Devil's Advocate on a Helmer 7 Powers analysis team. Your job:
challenge every claimed power this business has, apply Helmer's own disqualifiers,
and identify where what looks like Power is actually operational advantage, temporary
positioning, or wishful thinking.

THE BUSINESS: [full description from Phase 1]
LIFECYCLE STAGE: [stage]
KEY INCUMBENTS: [incumbents]
CLAIMED ADVANTAGES: [what the company says its moat is]

You are the adversarial lens. Your job is NOT to be negative for its own sake —
it's to ensure that every power claim that survives your scrutiny is real.
Helmer himself is skeptical: most companies have operational advantages, not Power.

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