The Compound Workflow
90 minutes
Module 09
The Compound
Workflow
Chain multiple interactions into a pipeline. Real output in fifteen minutes.
Charter Oak Strategic Partners
Gather. Analyze.
Synthesize. Deliver.
Four steps. Each builds on the last. The human reviews between steps. That is the checkpoint.
Gather
Structured research briefCollect raw inputs. Press releases, spec sheets, market data, customer feedback.
Analyze
Analysis with key findingsExtract patterns, identify gaps, surface contradictions.
Synthesize
Strategy document with optionsCombine analysis into a strategic recommendation.
Deliver
Executive brief, battlecard, or presentationFormat the synthesis into a deployable deliverable.
Live Demo
Competitive intelligence brief. Fifteen minutes.
A competitor just launched a product that overlaps with yours. You need a briefing for the sales team by end of day. Four prompts. Four outputs. One deployable battlecard.
“Analyze this press release and product spec sheet. Extract: key features, pricing model, target market, and differentiation claims.”
Output: structured research brief. Factual and verifiable. The foundation for everything that follows.
“Compare their feature set against ours (attached). Identify: where they win, where we win, and where it is a draw. Note any claims that seem inflated.”
Output: competitive comparison with honest assessment. This is where bias creeps in. Check it before moving forward.
“Given the analysis, write three objection-handling scripts for our sales team. Each script: the objection they will hear, why it is wrong, and a redirect to our strength.”
Output: actionable scripts. The analysis becomes ammunition. Strategy becomes language a rep can use in a call.
“Format everything as a one-page competitive battlecard. Sections: Overview, Feature Comparison (table), Our Advantages, Objection Handlers, Closing Line.”
Output: a deployable one-pager. Ready to share with the sales team. Built in fifteen minutes from raw inputs.
Where does a human review?
Between 1 and 2
Optional. The research is factual and verifiable. Check for completeness, then move on.
Required
Between 2 and 3
The analysis is checkable. The strategy step builds on it entirely. An error here compounds through every step that follows.
Between 3 and 4
Optional. Formatting is mechanical. The strategy was validated at the previous checkpoint.
Build the review into the workflow before it becomes a deliverable.
The math writes itself.
X hrs
saved per run
× 52
runs per year for a weekly task
= $Z
recovered capacity at fully loaded cost
“This saves my team 200 hours a year, which is $15,000 in recovered capacity.” That is a proposal. Leadership understands that language.
Build the Pipeline
Pick a real task from your work. Build a four-step compound workflow. Run the pipeline, review at each checkpoint, and deliver a finished output.
Present: the task, your prompts, where you placed the human checkpoint, and why.
30 minutes
Tier II Complete.
System prompts. Chain-of-thought. Document analysis. Writing craft. Compound workflows. You know how to make Claude produce professional-grade work, consistently, across every category.
Tier III takes Claude off the screen and into your operations.
Custom instructions. API integration. Organizational deployment. The difference between a power user and a force multiplier.