3x-industry-profitability

3x-industry-profitability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ace3000chao/book2startup. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,609 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A business benchmark that uses three times the average industry profitability as a target for companies trying to grow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Comparing profit performance with an industry, setting growth targets, and investigating why revenue is increasing without enough profit.
Why use it?
It turns a vague goal such as “be more profitable” into a measurable comparison and helps reveal whether costs, pricing, or the business model need attention.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Comparing profit performance with an industry, setting growth targets, and investigating why revenue is increasing without enough profit.

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Any agent
npx skills add ace3000chao/book2startup --skill 3x-industry-profitability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ace3000chao/book2startup

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00081 $0.01609
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00805
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00161

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5383682e4696, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

3x-industry-profitability scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

ScalingUp-skills/3x-industry-profitability/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

3x Industry Profitability

R — 原文 (Reading)

"Most important, the company is generating less than three times industry average profitability."

— Verne Harnish, Scaling Up, 第1章


I — 方法论骨架 (Interpretation)

Scaling Up 将"3倍行业平均利润率"作为企业规模化成功的第一硬指标。低于此标准,意味着执行存在系统性问题——要么成本结构过于臃肿,要么定价能力不足,要么商业模式本身存在缺陷。

这不只是愿景,而是一把刻度明确的尺子。任何企业主都应能立刻算出自己与3倍标准的差距,并将其转化为具体的利润改善目标。这个数字比"我要做大做强"更能指导行动。

核心逻辑:利润率是执行质量的最终呈现。 战略再正确,团队再优秀,如果利润不达标,一切都是空谈。


A1 — 书中的应用 (Past Application)

案例 1: 某制造企业的利润对标

  • 问题: 一家中型制造企业年利润率为行业平均的1.2倍,创始人认为"还不错"。
  • 方法论的使用: 用3倍标准重新审视,发现工资占比过高(行业平均18%,该公司达26%),且产品组合过于分散。
  • 结论: 利润率差距不是运气问题,是结构性执行问题。
  • 结果: 通过精简SKU和提升人均产出,两年后达到2.8倍。

案例 2: 软件公司的定价重新设计

  • 问题: SaaS公司毛利率高达70%,但净利润率只有行业平均的1.5倍——营销费用占比过高。
  • 方法论的使用: 以3倍净利润率为靶心,倒推各环节成本占比,找到获客成本过高的根源。
  • 结论: 不是商业模式不行,是CAC/LTV比例失衡。
  • 结果: 重构销售漏斗和续费激励,18个月后突破3倍线。

A2 — 触发场景 (Future Trigger) ★

用户会在什么情境下需要这个 skill?

  1. 讨论年度目标时:用户说"我们今年要做到行业前列"或"利润要增长30%",但没有量化基准。
  2. 做业务复盘时:发现收入增长但利润率没有同步提升,不确定问题出在哪里。
  3. 评估规模化进展时:融资路演或董事会汇报,需要一个清晰的成功标准。
  4. 竞争对手对标时:想知道自己和竞争对手的真实差距,而非仅看收入规模。
  5. 制定下一个季度规划时:需要设定一个能衡量执行质量的北极星指标。

语言信号 (用户的话里出现这些就应激活)

  • "我们的利润率……"
  • "要做到行业……水平"
  • "规模做起来了但是……不赚钱"
  • "和竞争对手比……"
  • "这个目标现实吗"

与相邻 skill 的区分

  • Growth Sucks Cash 的区别:现金流原则关注的是现金的流入流出时机,这个skill关注的是盈利质量本身——利润率是否达标。
  • BHAG 的区别:BHAG是10-25年的愿景,这个是当下可量化的执行标尺。

E — 可执行步骤 (Execution)

当 skill 被激活后,agent 应按以下步骤执行:

  1. 量化当前利润率与3倍标准的差距

    • 找到用户所在行业的平均净利润率(可用公开数据或用户自报)
    • 计算:3倍行业平均 = 目标利润率;当前利润率与目标的比值 = 达标比例
    • 完成标准:给出一个清晰的差距数字(如"当前是行业平均的1.5倍,目标还差1倍")
  2. 识别利润漏斗中的最大损耗点

    • 按顺序排查:毛利率(定价/成本)→ 工资占比(人效)→ 营销费用占比 → 管理费用
    • 判停条件:若用户能直接指出最大问题点(如"我知道问题在营销费用"),跳过步骤1的全面排查
  3. 将利润差距转化为具体的执行优先项

    • 给出1-2个最高杠杆动作(如"将工资占比从26%降到22%"或"砍掉拖累毛利率的3个SKU")
    • 完成标准:产出一个可以在下一个季度跟踪的量化目标

B — 边界 (Boundary) ★

不要在以下情况使用此 skill

  • 早期创业阶段:收入小于1000万的种子期公司,利润率不是首要指标,增长和现金流更重要。
  • 强周期性行业的高峰期:大宗商品或强周期行业在景气高点利润率会异常高,用这个时点数据做对标会失真。
  • 平台型或投资型公司:这类组织的利润结构完全不同,不适用单一利润率标准。

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3x-industry-profitability is a skill published in the GitHub repository ace3000chao/book2startup (80 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,609 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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