Skill

Assess whether the client is coachable or seeking validation

Packaged know-how that tells an agent how to do a job well.

You might say…

Every time I reframed the problem, they restated the original. That's not curiosity — that's a brief to confirm what they've already decided.

What it does

Reads how the client responded to challenge and inconvenient framings in early conversations and forms a structured view on whether they are genuinely open to changing course or seeking validation.

Trigger: Use after one or more exploratory conversations to inform your fit judgement — especially when the client seemed enthusiastic but resisted every probe.

I/O: Observations from early conversations → coachability verdict with supporting evidence and implication for fit

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The primitives are the commodity part. The fastest next step is a conversation about composing them into something that works for you.

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