Put a review panel between your idea and your money.
I built Backbrief Business OS to run a business decision the way a careful operator would before any money or work moves. You describe the business in plain words. The system writes the brief, drafts the plan in 90-day units, stress-tests it against a public rubric until it earns a grade you can trust, then waits for your explicit go before anything executes. It now ships as one complete bundle: the full Backbrief build team is included, one download, one install.
You do not need to be good at prompting. /intake is a conversation: describe the business the way you would to a partner, and the system writes the structured brief. Your only job is to correct it until it is true.
$79. The launch window closed; the price moved a few days late, in the buyers' favor, and stays here.
30-day money-back guarantee. Checkout, then a delivery email with your download. You install it by telling Claude to install it. Set up in about ten minutes.
Five steps. Each one leaves a file you can read.
- 01
Intake
Ten minutes of plain talk, or paste what you have, comes back as a one-page brief with your own numbers in it.
- 02
Plan
The brief becomes a business plan in 90-day units, sized to your real time, money, and skills.
- 03
Grade
Five advisors with distinct lenses score the plan 1 to 10 against a public six-dimension rubric. Every score cites the plan's own words.
- 04
Approve
Your recorded go or no-go. Nothing downstream runs without it.
- 05
Route
After your go, approved work routes to the ops team. Anything outward, spending, sending, or publishing, still stops for your sign-off, every time.
Six dimensions the panel scores. Public, on purpose.
- Is the offer clear: who pays, for what, in one sentence.
- Is the demand real: named buyers, comparable products, real signals.
- Do the numbers work: unit economics close using your own numbers.
- Can you actually run it: your hours, your budget, your skills.
- Are the risks named: each with a mitigation or your explicit acceptance.
- Why you: a concrete reason to pick this over the obvious alternative.
Scores run 1 to 10 with equal weights. An 8.5 average passes. That is an A-.
The grade is a stress-test, not a certification.
A passing grade means the panel could not find a weakness left un-named. It does not mean the business is guaranteed to work.
Grading is capped at three passes, ever. If the plan is still below A- after the third pass, the loop stops and tells the truth: the final scorecard, the top three unresolved weaknesses, and the owner's options. Proceed at the real grade, pivot, or kill. It never grinds past the cap.
The panel cannot wave things through. A legal claim about a named state or country goes to the researcher for retrieval before it can count as risk coverage, and every outside figure that moves a score is tagged verified, unverified, or vendor claim. A plan quoting itself is not verification.
The first business it graded was its maker's. It said no.
The bundle ships with a real run: the author's own pet memorial brand, taken through the full loop, unedited. On pass 1 of 3, the plan graded C (6.4). Its own market section stated the demand evidence was zero. The owner invoked the early exit rather than spending two more passes polishing around a question only a live listing could answer, and chose to pivot. The decision log records it verbatim: "Owner decision: PIVOT. Nothing unlocked; ops agents remain gated per ceo-gate."
Sixteen agents, twelve commands, thirteen rules, twenty-two skills. Everything.
Backbrief Business OS used to be an add-on pack that required the free Backbrief Kit installed first. It now ships as one complete bundle: the whole build team is inside the same download, so there is one install and one setup, nothing to layer on afterward.
The operations tier (4 of 16)
Marketing operations: channels, offers, content calendars, launch sequences, with honest tool recommendations and disclosed affiliate links.
A financial analyst, not an advisor: recomputes the plan's unit economics, drafts budgets, flags risks, and outputs questions for your accountant or attorney.
Site and ad specs: what your pages and campaigns should say and do, written so they can be built without guesswork.
SOPs and day-to-day operations: the repeatable procedures that keep the business running.
Underneath them, the full Backbrief build team: an orchestrator, researcher, planner, builder, reviewer, a cheap runner for mechanical work, a fresh-context verifier that checks finished work before you see it, and the five council advisors that power /council and /grade.
- Commands
- /intake, /plan, /grade, /approve: the CEO loop. Plus the build team's eight: /setup, /next, /verify-install, /critique, /council, /grade-idea, /handoff, /resume. Of those, /next is the daily driver: it reads your files, tells you where you stand, and offers the next step, correct even in a brand-new chat.
- Rules
- Thirteen always-on rules, including the public grading rubric with its three-pass cap, the CEO gate that locks the ops agents until a plan is graded and approved, and the escalation rule that stops outward actions (spending, sending, publishing) for the owner every time.
- Skills
- 22 bundled skills, routed to the agent that uses each one: 21 MIT-licensed third-party skills (attributed and version-pinned) plus the first-party agentic-automation-designer, which turns a plain-language outcome into an importable n8n workflow with a human-approval gate on every outward action. Sales, marketing, ops, and finance procedures for the operations tier; SOPs, competitive analysis, and a standing AI-slop quality gate for the build team.
- The knowledgebase
- A knowledgebase: drop in your own documents and links, and the researcher cites your sources, by filename or URL, before it reaches for general knowledge. Naming a document in chat is enough to have it filed.
Two tracks, one bundle.
On Claude Code
You already run projects in a terminal. One paste installs everything in about two minutes, and every artifact the loop produces is a plain Markdown file in your repo.
Not technical
The Cowork quickstart runs the same bundle entirely through Claude Cowork: paste one install message, then talk, read, and decide. No terminal at any step.
Nothing else to install. The free Backbrief Kit remains free on its own; buying Backbrief Business OS simply gets you the complete system in one box. Get the free kit.
What you need. All of it.
- A Claude subscription that runs Claude Code (Pro works) or Claude Cowork for the no-terminal track.
- Windows or Mac. About ten minutes to install and set up. No coding, nothing else to buy.
- Honest cost note: the five-advisor grade is real model usage on your own Claude plan; a built-in token-discipline system keeps it cheap by default.
One price. One promise.
One-time purchase at $79. No subscription beyond the Claude plan you already run it on. Every update to the bundle is included: your purchase email always links the current version. 30-day money-back guarantee: reply to your purchase email and a human refunds you.
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