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Design Machines audience research and external positioning. Use whenever drafting external communication, pitching Assembly, prepping conference talks, federation outreach (USFWC, CWCF, DAWI, Cooperation Works, Cooperatives Europe), co-op developer conversations, or competitive analysis against Loomio, Decidim, Cobudget, Notion. Holds the April 22, 2026 audience research as canonical. Use for the survival reframe, two moats, admin debt, sectoral density, the Tuesday morning frame, the language card, and the decolonizing-governance-language move. Strategy skill covers internal business decisions (pricing, partnerships, catalog); this skill covers external comms.
npx claudepluginhub design-machines-studio/depot --plugin design-machinesHow this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/design-machines:audienceThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Canonical home for Design Machines' April 22, 2026 audience research. Use this skill whenever the question touches who Design Machines is talking to, what to say to them, or how to position against the alternatives.
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Canonical home for Design Machines' April 22, 2026 audience research. Use this skill whenever the question touches who Design Machines is talking to, what to say to them, or how to position against the alternatives.
The research lives in references/full-research.md. Use the extracted references for specific surfaces. Reach for the full doc when you need depth.
Co-op developers, federations, and incubators. USFWC, CWCF, DAWI (Democracy at Work Institute), Cooperation Works!, Cooperatives Europe orbit. They recommend Assembly to dozens of member co-ops each. Channel-first GTM.
Existing small worker co-ops directly. The Tuesday-morning member who needs governance to feel real, not be homework.
The broader labor and solidarity-economy public. Door-opening content via the survival reframe and workplace-democracy framing.
| Surface | Reference |
|---|---|
| Drafting external communication for any audience | references/language-card.md |
| Pitching a federation, co-op developer, or incubator | references/developer-federation-pitch.md |
| Pitching an existing worker co-op directly | references/coop-pitch.md |
| Citing the survival statistics | references/survival-reframe-citations.md |
| Need full research context | references/full-research.md |
This skill is for external comms: pitch material, what to say to specific people, competitive landscape, language discipline, phrases that land, phrases that mark you as a tourist.
The design-machines:strategy skill is for internal business decisions: pricing tiers, partnership terms, catalog architecture, financial planning, runway, the Live Wires conversion funnel.
If the question is about what to say to someone, this skill. If the question is about what to decide internally, strategy.
design-machines:strategy — DM business strategy this audience research informs.ghostwriter:voice — voice rules that apply to all audience-aware drafting.ghostwriter:social-media — platform-specific cornerstone content blocks.council:governance — plain-language glossary for governance terminology; BC Co-op Act references for two-moats enforcement examples.council:decolonial-language — the framing for finding #6.