Playbooks are contracts, not prompts
Casa ships 174 playbooks that turn operating knowledge into executable, reviewable units of company work, selected by business fit and sequenced by a deterministic router.
CASA 03PLAYBOOK CONTRACT STUDYPRODUCT / LEVEL 3
Map the shortest path from first session to a measurable outcome.
READY FOR ROUTING
REQUIRESREADINESS
01ICP synthesis
02Event taxonomy
PRODUCESDURABLE OUTPUT
01Activation map
02Test plan
REVIEW RUBRICPINNED
4 checksEvidence, scope, measurement, and decision quality.
REVIEW EXPECTATIONS TRAVEL WITH THE WORKThe contract
| Field | What it declares |
|---|---|
| Applicability | Whether this playbook belongs to this business at all, so a services firm never sees an e-commerce checklist |
| Dependencies | What must exist first; the router sequences the graph and refuses out-of-order execution |
| Readiness gates | Conditions that keep premature work ineligible until the company can use the result |
| Inputs | What the playbook reads from the company brain |
| Deliverable | The artifact it must write back, with its quality bar |
| Review | Which critic panel checks the result and what a pass requires |
A contract on disk
---id: AP-11-first-value-pathdepartment: growthapplies_to: [b2b-saas, consumer-subscription]depends_on: [AP-03-mvp-scope, AP-05-event-taxonomy]ready_when: product.has_first_usersdeliverable: artifacts/growth/first-value-path.mdreview: [customer-skeptic, analyst-honesty]--- ## ObjectiveMap the shortest path from signup to first value,instrument it, and name the single biggest drop …Note: Contracts are readable
Every playbook is Markdown with structured front matter. You can open, edit, or fork any of the 174 without special tooling.
States
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
not-applicable | Fails the applicability rules for this business |
blocked | A dependency has not produced its deliverable yet |
waiting | Applicable, but a readiness gate is not met |
ready | Eligible now; ranked against the binding constraint |
in-review | Artifact produced, critic panel running |
done | Reviewed, gated where required, recorded in the brain |
Selection
During /casa-start, the router selects applicable playbooks, sequences dependencies, and ranks ready work against the binding constraint. /casa-map shows the resulting graph; /casa-next returns the single best next action and why it is right for this founder now. The model can explain the eligible set; it cannot invent one.