--- name: model-to-business-narrative-translator description: "Converts raw machine learning model output — accuracy, precision, recall, AUC, feature importances, confusion matrices, regression coefficients — into a plain-language business narrative with clear so-what framing, decision recommendations, and honest limitations. Works for classification, regression, forecasting, clustering, and recommendation models. Use when presenting model results to executives, product managers, or non-technical stakeholders who need to make a decision, not read a metrics dump." argument-hint: "[model-type] [business-goal]" allowed-tools: ["Read"] --- # Model-to-Business Narrative Translator ## Purpose Translate raw model output statistics into a stakeholder-ready business narrative that explains what the model does, how much to trust it, what decision it enables, and where it will fail — without jargon and without dumbing down the honest caveats. Solves the gap where a technically sound model dies in a meeting because the audience can't connect a 0.87 AUC to a dollar or a decision. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user asks to: - Explain model results to executives, product managers, or clients - Turn a model evaluation report into a slide narrative or exec summary - Answer "so what does this mean for the business?" about a model - Translate metrics like precision, recall, AUC, RMSE, or feature importance into plain language - Prep for a stakeholder review, steering committee, or go/no-go decision meeting - Justify deploying, retraining, or shelving a model to a non-technical decision-maker ## Inputs Required Before starting, collect: - **Model type**: Classification, regression, forecasting, clustering, recommendation, or other - **What it predicts**: The target variable in plain terms (e.g., "which customers will cancel next month") - **Key metrics**: The actual numbers — accuracy, precision, recall, F1, AUC, RMSE, MAE, R², etc. (paste what you have) - **Business goal**: The decision or outcome the model is meant to support - **Cost of errors**: What a false positive vs. false negative actually costs (money, time, trust, risk) - **Audience**: Executives / product / sales / clinical / regulatory / general — sets vocabulary and depth - **Baseline**: What happens today without the model (current process, guesswork, or a prior model) If cost-of-errors or baseline is missing, state the assumption explicitly and flag it as a question to confirm with the business. ## Instructions ### Step 1: Establish the Decision the Model Serves Open every narrative from the decision, not the model. State in one sentence what business action the model changes: who acts differently, on what, and how often. If the model doesn't change a decision, say so — that's the most important finding. ### Step 2: Translate Each Metric Into a Plain-Language Meaning Convert numbers into consequences the audience can feel. Use this mapping discipline: - **Accuracy** → "Out of 100 predictions, it gets X right" — but flag if classes are imbalanced (accuracy lies when 95% of cases are one class) - **Precision** → "When the model says YES, it's right X% of the time" → tie to cost of chasing false alarms - **Recall** → "Of all the real cases, it catches X%" → tie to cost of missing real cases - **AUC / ROC** → "How well it separates the two groups; 0.5 is a coin flip, 1.0 is perfect" → give the plain rank interpretation, not the integral - **RMSE / MAE** → "On average, its estimate is off by X [units]" → convert to the business unit (dollars, days, inventory) - **R²** → "It explains X% of the variation in [outcome]" → not the same as being right, say so - **Feature importance** → "The factors that most drive the prediction are…" → translate feature names to business terms - **Confusion matrix** → describe the four cells as real events with real costs, not a grid Never present a metric without its so-what. Every number gets one sentence of business meaning. ### Step 3: Frame the Precision/Recall Trade-off as a Business Choice Non-technical stakeholders should own the threshold decision, because it's a cost trade-off, not a math decision. Present it as: "If we tune it to catch more real cases, we also flag more false alarms. Given that a missed case costs [X] and a false alarm costs [Y], the recommended balance is [Z]." Make the trade-off legible and hand the lever to the business. ### Step 4: Quantify the Business Impact Against Baseline Compare the model to what happens today. Estimate impact in business units: - Current-state error/cost vs. model-assisted error/cost - Volume × improvement × unit value = rough annual impact - Use conservative ranges, not single-point false precision State assumptions in the open. A defensible range beats a precise-looking number nobody trusts. ### Step 5: State Limitations and Failure Modes Honestly List where the model should not be trusted: - Data drift risks (what changes in the world would break it) - Segments where it performs worse (small samples, edge cases) - What it does NOT predict or cause (correlation vs. causation reminders) - Fairness/bias exposure if the audience or domain is regulated or sensitive Frame limitations as guardrails for good decisions, not as apologies. ### Step 6: Give a Clear Recommendation End with a decision, not a shrug. One of: deploy as-is, deploy with a human-in-the-loop, pilot on a segment, retrain with more data, or don't deploy. Justify it in one paragraph tied to the cost-of-errors and business goal. ## Output Format - **Structure**: Executive summary first (3–4 sentences a busy leader can read alone), then supporting sections - **Length**: 550–850 words - **Format**: Prose narrative with short bolded section headers; one optional plain-language table translating metrics to business meaning - **Sections**: Executive Summary → What the Model Does → How Much to Trust It (metrics translated) → The Trade-off Decision → Business Impact vs. Today → Where It Fails → Recommendation - **Tone**: Confident and plain — like a senior data scientist who respects the audience's intelligence but not their patience for jargon. No hedging, no equations, no undefined acronyms. ## Quality Checklist Before delivering output, verify: - [ ] Every metric provided has a one-sentence plain-language "so what" — no naked numbers - [ ] No undefined technical terms (AUC, F1, R², etc. are explained on first use or replaced) - [ ] The precision/recall trade-off is framed as a business cost decision, not a technical one - [ ] Business impact is estimated against the baseline in business units (dollars, time, or volume) - [ ] At least two honest limitations or failure modes are stated - [ ] The narrative ends with one explicit recommendation, not a list of options with no pick ## Notes - If classes are imbalanced, lead with precision/recall or a cost-weighted view — accuracy alone will mislead the room and destroy your credibility when someone catches it. - Executives care about the decision and the downside; product cares about the trade-off lever; regulated audiences care about failure modes and fairness. Weight the sections toward the audience provided. - When impact numbers are estimated, always show the assumption — a caveated range survives scrutiny; a confident-looking point estimate invites a takedown. - If the model doesn't actually change any decision, the most valuable output is saying that plainly and stopping there. --- ## How to use this skill This file is a Claude Code skill in [Anthropic's standard format](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) — markdown with YAML frontmatter at the top. **Installing in Claude Code:** - `~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads in every session anywhere on your machine (recommended for skills you'll use across multiple projects) - `/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads only when working in that project (recommended for project-specific skills) Restart Claude Code or open a new session to register. **Using in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools:** 1. 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