What problem does it solve? Analysts routinely over-scan the categories they understand, usually market and technology, and skip the rest, leaving whole classes of external risk invisible until they fork the plan. This Skill forces full coverage of the STEEP/PESTLE categories and turns a raw factor list into a rated, clustered driver inventory that strategy and scenario work can actually consume. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Forced category coverage: Sweeps Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political, plus Legal and Ethical categories, requiring 4-10 evidenced, dated, directional factors per letter and declaring thin categories as findings. - Rated driver inventory: Scores every factor 1-5 for impact and uncertainty with a rationale, deduplicates and clusters factors into 8-15 named driving forces, and sorts them on an impact x uncertainty map into predetermined elements versus critical uncertainties. - Scenario handoff: Packages critical uncertainties as scenario-axis candidates for scenario-planning and predetermined elements as planning assumptions, with a coverage audit. - Use Case: A retailer deciding whether to commit capital to automated micro-fulfilment centres by 2029 gets a driver inventory showing online-grocery demand and courier-labour regulation as the critical uncertainties, while falling automation costs enter every plan as a constant. ## Quick Start Use the steep-pestle-analysis skill to run a PESTLE analysis of the macro-environment for our decision to enter the German market by 2028, rating each factor for impact and uncertainty.
