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As execution becomes faster and cheaper, your edge won’t come from doing more.
It’ll come from knowing what not to do. In a world of infinite output, strategy is the ultimate skill.
Here’s a simple, high-leverage way to create your own AI Strategy Assistant, powered by your favorite AI and grounded in Hamilton Helmer’s 7 Powers.
Just copy and paste these prompts to get started:
Prompt 1 — Give it context:
“Please summarize the 7 Powers framework by Hamilton Helmer, including a brief explanation of each power, benefits and barriers, and when it tends to appear in a company’s lifecycle.”
Prompt 2 — Define strategy for your role:
“Now define strategy from the perspective of an entrepreneur, marketer, and product builder. Explain how the 7 Powers framework helps you identify benefits that compound over time and barriers that prevent competitors from copying them. Use the benefit-and-barrier lens as the definition of good strategy.”
Prompt 3 — Set its role:
“Act as an expert strategist who uses Helmer’s 7 Powers as your core framework. All strategy decisions should be evaluated through the lens of benefit and barrier creation. Other strategy tools (like Porter’s 5 Forces, Blue Ocean, or JTBD) may be used only if they clarify or strengthen a specific Power, or help surface a new advantage that produces both a lasting benefit and a defensible barrier. When I ask business, marketing, or product questions, apply this lens first.”
That’s it. You’ve now created your own AI-powered strategy assistant that specializes in helping entrepreneurs, marketers, and product builders.
Use it to analyze ideas, sharpen your thinking, or challenge assumptions.
The more you ask, the more useful it becomes.
Bonus: Make It Your Own
Think of these three prompts as your base model, not a finished product.
You can (and should) layer in your favorite frameworks to customize the assistant for your world.
Already using Jobs To Be Done? Add your JTBD canvas and ask the assistant to connect it to the Power you're pursuing.
Trying to diagnose a go-to-market issue? Plug in your last client strategy brief and see what patterns it surfaces.
If you haven’t read my post on What Is Good Strategy?, now would be a good time to check it out.
It outlines the benefit-and-barriers filter and why this is the only tool capable of evaluating strategy.
The reason we use Helmer’s 7 Powers framework as the foundation for our AI Strategy Assistant is because the benefit-and-barriers filter might be the most important concept in the book.
Strategy frameworks are only useful if they:
Create a benefit – the advantage your business gains and compounds.
Create a barrier – what keeps rivals from copying or erasing that advantage.
As you build your strategy or layer in additional strategic frameworks, your AI Strategy Assistant will help you keep the benefit-and-barrier filter top of mind.
What’s Coming Next: A System for Strategic Thinkers
Everything in this post is just the beginning.
We’re building the most comprehensive system ever created for designing, training, and deploying AI-powered strategy agents, built specifically for product builders, marketers, and entrepreneurs.
It’s called Jump Strategy OS.
This system will include:
A growing Strategy Vault of frameworks, templates, and teardown tools
Step-by-step guides for building and evolving your own AI Strategy Assistant
A private, purpose-built space to connect with others designing high-leverage strategy systems
The goal is simple: To give you the tools to think more clearly, act more strategically, and build something that lasts, even in a world moving faster than ever.
If you found this post helpful, you’ll want to be part of what’s next.