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steps: ["\"Tier 1 (Standard): Deploy organization-wide skills like brand voice", "formatting rules", "and approved templates.\"", "Tier 2 (Methodology): Extract and codify the high-value craft and workflows of senior practitioners to share across teams.", "\"Tier 3 (Personal): Develop individual workflow tools and 'under-the-desk' scripts", "elevating them to Tier 2 if they prove broadly useful.\""]
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# The Three Tiers of Skill Deployment

## Purpose

A strategic framework for how an organization should categorize, manage, and deploy LLM skills. It moves from universally applicable standards (Tier 1) to highly specialized, high-alpha expert workflows (Tier 2), down to individual productivity hacks (Tier 3).

See [[concept-three-tiers-skills]] for the conceptual underpinnings.

## Tier 1 — Standard

Org-wide skills:

- brand voice
- formatting rules
- approved templates
- compliance language

Provisioned by enterprise admins.

## Tier 2 — Methodology (the Alpha)

The **high-value craft** of senior practitioners — codified and shared. Examples:

- structuring a client deliverable
- analyzing a financial model
- running a discovery call to SOW

Most organizational alpha comes from extracting Tier 2 skills out of expert heads.

## Tier 3 — Personal

Individual *under-the-desk* tools. **Do not hoard** — elevate broadly useful Tier 3 skills to Tier 2.

## Open Question

[[question-enterprise-access-controls]] — RBAC for Tier 2 is unsolved.

## Related

- [[action-categorize-skills]]