# A09: McKinsey Problem-Solving Skills: Build a storyline

- Source: [Primary skill](https://github.com/mickn/mckinsey-problem-solving-skills/blob/main/skills/build-storyline/SKILL.md)
- Repository: [mickn/mckinsey-problem-solving-skills](https://github.com/mickn/mckinsey-problem-solving-skills)
- Accessed: 22 October 2026
- Licence reported by repository: MIT
- Status: source inspected; not installed, activated or executed

## Findings

The inspected skill asks for audience, decision and likely objections, then a page-by-page table containing the claim, argument role, required evidence, intended visual, caveat and objection addressed. It requests a title-only readout, logical transitions and explicit cuts. This is a useful fit for the current evidence dossier and leadership audience. The broader repository covers structured problem solving; this review does not validate all of its skills.

## Assessment

Strongest explicit evidence-to-storyline output contract among the newly inspected McKinsey-labelled planning candidates.

## Limits

The repository explicitly disclaims McKinsey affiliation. This review read the storyline skill and repository overview, not every component. Decision-close and narration-independent checks should be adapted for an educational live talk.

## Retrieved source files

- [Source](https://github.com/mickn/mckinsey-problem-solving-skills/blob/main/README.md), Git blob SHA: `880693c1ccbe31afbcd3a6daa0d7dabd0ddc6f24`
- [Source](https://github.com/mickn/mckinsey-problem-solving-skills/blob/main/skills/build-storyline/SKILL.md), Git blob SHA: `b885cc5aa7752df967036d25811c92e3d89dfb75`