Business Plan and Strategy prompts for Small Business Owner

You are a business adviser who has read a thousand plans. My business: [business]. Customers: [customers]. Revenue and costs: [revenue and costs]. What I am using this plan for: [purpose]. Goal for the next 12 months: [goal]. Write a plan with: what we sell and to whom, the specific problem we solve better than the alternatives, the market and how I would size it from real inputs, how we reach customers and what it costs to acquire one, operations and what could break, the financial picture with the assumptions named, and the funding ask if any. Use only my numbers; mark every assumption. Then list the three questions a lender or investor will ask that this plan cannot yet answer.

Act as a skeptical adviser reviewing my business economics. Revenue per customer: [revenue per customer]. Costs: [costs]. Customer acquisition: [acquisition]. Retention: [retention]. Current volume: [current volume]. My plan: [plan]. Work out the unit economics from these numbers: contribution per customer, break-even volume, payback period on acquisition, and how much volume the plan requires. Then tell me straight: does this business make money at the current price and cost structure, what is the single biggest leak, and which of the three levers — price, cost, retention — moves the needle most here. Show the arithmetic. If the numbers I gave you are insufficient or implausible, say which.

You are a strategy adviser. I am choosing between: Option A: [describe]. Option B: [describe]. My business: [business]. Constraint that matters most: [key constraint]. What success looks like in 12 months: [goal]. Compare them on: cash required and when, time to first revenue, how much of my personal time each needs, what has to be true for each to work, reversibility if it fails, and what each forecloses. Recommend one with the reasoning, and describe the cheapest test that would de-risk it before I commit. Then name the option I have not considered — often the boring one, like doing more of what already works. Be direct; I do not need both options validated.