Handbook
Entrepreneurship and Small-Organization Operations Intelligence
Support opportunity discovery, customer and stakeholder learning, value propositions, experiments, basic operations, finance, compliance, and team coordination.
Updated
Definition
Support opportunity discovery, customer and stakeholder learning, value propositions, experiments, basic operations, finance, compliance, and team coordination.
Coverage role
Many people create value through self-employment, family businesses, associations, projects, and small organizations even when they do not identify as entrepreneurs.
Scope
Included
- problem and opportunity discovery
- customer research
- value proposition
- business model
- experiments
- operations
- cash flow
- risk and compliance
- team coordination
Excluded and non-goals
- fabricating market demand
- evading tax or regulation
- deceptive marketing
- guaranteed funding or profit
- unauthorized professional advice
Boundary rules
- Route to life.entrepreneurship-small-organization when the requested outcome requires one or more declared capabilities and the output can be represented by its canonical artifacts.
- Route to an adjacent or specialist intelligence when domain-specific rules, tools, or professional authority dominate the problem.
- Use general.reasoning to coordinate multi-pack conflicts, hard constraints, uncertainty, and decision status.
- Return ask, defer, or escalate when required context, source authority, consent, or accountable ownership is missing.
Capability semantics
| Capability ID | Name | Semantic intent |
|---|---|---|
capability.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.discover_opportunity |
Discover Opportunity | Define the affected person problem existing alternatives context and evidence. |
capability.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.research_customers_stakeholders |
Research Customers Stakeholders | Plan ethical interviews observations and evidence collection without manufactured validation. |
capability.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.design_value_proposition |
Design Value Proposition | Connect a specific problem to an outcome mechanism offering and credible evidence. |
capability.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.model_organization |
Model Organization | Map customers channels revenue costs partners activities resources and social or environmental effects. |
capability.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.design_experiments |
Design Experiments | Create low-cost tests with hypotheses metrics thresholds stop rules and learning goals. |
capability.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.plan_operations_finance |
Plan Operations Finance | Build basic workflow roles capacity suppliers unit economics cash flow and controls. |
capability.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.manage_risk_compliance |
Manage Risk Compliance | Identify registration tax licensing employment privacy safety insurance and contract needs. |
capability.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.coordinate_team |
Coordinate Team | Define ownership decisions handoffs meetings records and conflict processes. |
Canonical artifact concepts
| Artifact type | Structural category | Semantic purpose |
|---|---|---|
artifact.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.opportunity_brief |
brief | Opportunity Brief for Entrepreneurship and Small-Organization Operations Intelligence: A bounded specification of purpose, stakeholders, requirements, constraints, assumptions, and success criteria. It supports the pack purpose of support opportunity discovery, customer and stakeholder learning, value propositions, experiments, basic operations, finance, compliance, and team coordination. |
artifact.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.stakeholder_map |
model | Stakeholder Map for Entrepreneurship and Small-Organization Operations Intelligence: A purpose-bounded representation of entities, relationships, assumptions, boundaries, and evidence of adequacy. It supports the pack purpose of support opportunity discovery, customer and stakeholder learning, value propositions, experiments, basic operations, finance, compliance, and team coordination. |
artifact.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.value_proposition |
structured_output | Value Proposition for Entrepreneurship and Small-Organization Operations Intelligence: A typed domain output that preserves purpose, context, evidence, assumptions, status, and next action. It supports the pack purpose of support opportunity discovery, customer and stakeholder learning, value propositions, experiments, basic operations, finance, compliance, and team coordination. |
artifact.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.organization_model |
model | Organization Model for Entrepreneurship and Small-Organization Operations Intelligence: A purpose-bounded representation of entities, relationships, assumptions, boundaries, and evidence of adequacy. It supports the pack purpose of support opportunity discovery, customer and stakeholder learning, value propositions, experiments, basic operations, finance, compliance, and team coordination. |
artifact.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.experiment_backlog |
ledger | Experiment Backlog for Entrepreneurship and Small-Organization Operations Intelligence: A controlled collection of uniquely identified entries with ownership, provenance, status, and review state. It supports the pack purpose of support opportunity discovery, customer and stakeholder learning, value propositions, experiments, basic operations, finance, compliance, and team coordination. |
artifact.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.operating_plan |
plan | Operating Plan for Entrepreneurship and Small-Organization Operations Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support opportunity discovery, customer and stakeholder learning, value propositions, experiments, basic operations, finance, compliance, and team coordination. |
artifact.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.cash_flow_forecast |
numeric_model | Cash Flow Forecast for Entrepreneurship and Small-Organization Operations Intelligence: A reproducible quantitative model with units, periods, formulas, assumptions, scenarios, reconciliation, and uncertainty. It supports the pack purpose of support opportunity discovery, customer and stakeholder learning, value propositions, experiments, basic operations, finance, compliance, and team coordination. |
artifact.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.risk_and_compliance_register |
ledger | Risk And Compliance Register for Entrepreneurship and Small-Organization Operations Intelligence: A controlled collection of uniquely identified entries with ownership, provenance, status, and review state. It supports the pack purpose of support opportunity discovery, customer and stakeholder learning, value propositions, experiments, basic operations, finance, compliance, and team coordination. |
artifact.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.team_coordination_and_decision_log |
decision | Team Coordination And Decision Log for Entrepreneurship and Small-Organization Operations Intelligence: A bounded decision or routing record that exposes alternatives, governing constraints, evidence, rationale, ownership, status, and reopening conditions. It supports the pack purpose of support opportunity discovery, customer and stakeholder learning, value propositions, experiments, basic operations, finance, compliance, and team coordination. |
Method families and limits
| Method ID | Method | Use when | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|---|
method.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.customer_discovery |
customer discovery | Use when an opportunity hypothesis must be tested against real stakeholder problems, alternatives, incentives, constraints, and evidence before investment. | Avoid leading interviews, treating compliments as commitment, fabricating demand, collecting unnecessary personal data, or sampling only friendly stakeholders. |
method.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.hypothesis_driven_experiments |
hypothesis-driven experiments | Use when a question can be converted into discriminating observations under a controlled, quasi-controlled, simulation, or explicitly observational design. | Do not claim causality without a declared identification strategy, temporal ordering, confounder analysis, and rival explanations. |
method.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.unit_economics |
unit economics | Use when alternatives or plans depend on transparent monetary flows, units, timing, fees, uncertainty, and scenario assumptions. | Avoid undisclosed rates, fees, taxes, currency conversion, inflation, compounding, or jurisdictional assumptions; do not present scenario outputs as guaranteed outcomes. |
method.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.scenario_cash_flow |
scenario cash flow | Use when alternatives or plans depend on transparent monetary flows, units, timing, fees, uncertainty, and scenario assumptions. | Avoid undisclosed rates, fees, taxes, currency conversion, inflation, compounding, or jurisdictional assumptions; do not present scenario outputs as guaranteed outcomes. |
method.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.process_mapping |
process mapping | Use when system behavior depends on components, states, interfaces, flows, timing, feedback, resources, or scenario conditions. | Avoid treating the model as reality, choosing fidelity without a decision purpose, or validating only against the same assumptions used to build it. |
method.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.stakeholder_value_analysis |
stakeholder-value analysis | Use when an opportunity hypothesis must be tested against real stakeholder problems, alternatives, incentives, constraints, and evidence before investment. | Avoid leading interviews, treating compliments as commitment, fabricating demand, collecting unnecessary personal data, or sampling only friendly stakeholders. |
Pack-specific invariants
The pack also inherits the core invariants in core/core_invariants.yaml.
| Invariant ID | Statement | Failure action |
|---|---|---|
invariant.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.01_market_claims_distinguish_evidence_from_assumption |
Market claims distinguish evidence from assumption. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.02_experiments_have_consent_privacy_and_stop_conditions |
Experiments have consent privacy and stop conditions. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.03_financial_calculations_are_deterministic_and_dated |
Financial calculations are deterministic and dated. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.entrepreneurship-small-organization.04_tax_legal_employment_safety_and_licensing_rules_are_verifi |
Tax legal employment safety and licensing rules are verified locally. | fail_or_repair |
Dependencies and relations
Operational general intelligences: general.question-framing, general.creativity, general.concept-invention, general.system-modeling-simulation, general.creation-realization, general.experimentation, general.validation-verification
Foundation concepts: general.creative-design, general.decision, general.strategic-adversarial, general.systems, general.tool-computational
Life intelligences: life.personal-finance-resilience, life.work-career-employability, life.consumer-contracts-claims, life.civic-legal-public-services, life.digital-citizenship-privacy-cybersecurity
Source roles
| Source ID | Claim roles | Runtime resolution required |
|---|---|---|
ec.entrecomp |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | True |
oecd.financial_competence |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | True |
local.authority |
jurisdiction_rule, runtime_fact, service_or_community_context | True |
Risk and authority boundary
Risk class: high
- Tax legal employment securities lending insurance food health safety or licensed-industry issues.
- Insolvency or personal-guarantee risk.
- Handling sensitive customer employee or payment data.
Accountable people retain consent, value, regulated, irreversible, and residual-risk decisions. This semantic page does not claim a deployed implementation.
Maturity
semantic: S3_reviewable_definition
contract: C3_testable_contract
implementation: I0_not_included
evidence: E2_source_roles_mapped
governance: G2_controls_and_review_defined
overlay: O2_paired_seed_complete
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 8
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I1_runtime - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 8
- Evidence class:
contract: 8 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/entrepreneurship-small-organization.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 8