A simple, honest audit for public companies. The skill confirms the company files 10-Ks, then uses web search to find each year's filing across roughly the past twenty years and pulls two figures per year, revenue and employee count, each cited to the filing it came from. It computes revenue per employee, charts the twenty-year line with the revenue and headcount ingredients behind it, builds a timeline of the acquisitions, divestitures, and pivots that moved the number, and explains the whole thing in operator language an executive can repeat to their board, including the blunt-instrument caveats and why agent capacity makes this the ratio to watch. Private companies are told plainly why the audit needs filings and stopped honestly.
- Public-company gate: ticker, exchange, and fiscal year convention confirmed before anything else.
- The filing hunt: web search finds each year's Form 10-K; revenue and employees recorded per year with the filing URL, gaps left honest.
- Confirmation: the full year-by-year table with sources, plus the events you remember moving the number.
- Delivery: the educational HTML deliverable with the 20-year line, the ingredients chart, the events timeline, and the plain-language reading.
You provide
- Your company name (must be publicly listed)
- Confirmation of the year-by-year table before rendering
- The acquisitions, divestitures, and pivots you remember
You receive
- Revenue per Employee audit: the 20-year chart, sourced entirely from 10-K filings
- An events timeline explaining what moved the number
- An executive reading: drivers, caveats, and why agent capacity bends this slope
Download this skill and its install guide: https://exec-skills.paulcheek.com/skills/cheek-revenue-per-employee-audit
How to use this skill
Once installed, start a new conversation and paste this prompt. The slash command invokes the skill directly; everything after it is your opening brief, so edit it to fit.
Sample output
A completed run of this skill for a sample company, Mastercard, exactly as the deliverable would arrive. Open it in a new tab.
The samples are illustrative demonstrations of the output format, built from public information. Mastercard is not affiliated with and has not endorsed these materials.