Sample result
Recurring Cycle Builder for Restaurants
The owner asked this:«Every month I review the numbers with my accountant and we always end up arguing about the same thing: why food cost went up. We do it differently every time, sometimes with the POS report and sometimes with the purchasing sheet, and a written plan never comes out of it. I want to turn that into a routine that always runs the same way, is handled by my manager, and does not eat half my morning.»
① The cycle card
Name: Monthly Profit Close.
Which decision it helps make: what gets fixed next month and who fixes it — not «how did we do».
If nobody runs it: food cost gets argued from memory, the same conversation repeats in March as in February, and no owner with a date is left.
VERDICT: it is a cycle. It returns 12 times a year, its steps chain, and there is a decision behind it. Note: if you only wanted the report and not the plan, it would be a standalone prompt and it would tell you so.
② Trigger and cadence
Trigger: the POS closes the month (it happens on its own, it does not depend on you remembering).
Cadence: the 3rd of each month, 9:00. Not «early in the month»: the 3rd.
Why the 3rd and not the 1st: on the 1st the POS has not consolidated credit notes yet, and a cycle fed by a figure still moving is a cycle that lies.
The full example has 3 more part(s): you see them inside the library, with your account.