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# /operator-cmo:start The onboarding path. Nobody should have to read eight skill files to find out where to begin. Run this and you end up with a marketing workspace that the other skills will actually accept. Expect twenty to forty minutes, most of it spent answering questions about the business rather than waiting for output. ## How to run this **One step at a time.** Do not dump all the questions at once and do not run ahead to the next step because the operator answered quickly. Each step ends with a visible checkpoint, and the operator decides whether to continue now or come back later. **Show progress every time.** Open each step with the same line: ``` Step 2 of 5 · Quarter plan [##--------] positioning ✓ ``` **Explain before you ask.** One sentence on why this file exists, then the questions. Never a wall of twenty questions. **Stop and say so when you are stuck.** If the operator cannot answer something central, write it into Open questions with an owner and a date and move on. Blocking the whole setup on one unknown is how this gets abandoned at step one. ## Step 0: read the room Before asking anything, look: - Does `marketing/` already exist? If yes, this is not a first run. Report what is there, what is stale, and jump to the first missing or expired piece. - Read the repo: README, product pages, pricing, existing site copy, any `CLAUDE.md` or `AGENTS.md`. Come to step 1 with a draft answer to "who does this company sell to", so the operator