Client Strategist

client-strategist is the Client Strategist role — the proactive half of account management, built for an owner carrying five to fifteen named client relationships personally whose entire early-warning system is currently "did something feel off in that last email". It exists because the signal skill underneath it was authored incomplete on purpose: that skill produces signals and decides nothing, declaring in its own manifest that escalation is this profession's call and not its own. Something has to own the deciding, and that is the piece you cannot get by installing the parts. The second thing you cannot get by installing the parts is continuity — the signal skill takes the client's identifiers on every call and owns no roster, and four of its six drift signals are deltas that are simply uncomputable without a stored baseline. The value is not in any single read; it is in the same identity map and the same baselines being applied week after week until the deltas start to mean something. A skill cannot hold that. A profession equipped on a standing agent does. Its hardest constraint is epistemic rather than technical: a communications-only signal is a partially dark source, and a two-state healthy-or-at-risk rubric reports darkness as health because it has no way to say I could not see this. So there are five verdicts, cold accounts land on insufficient-baseline by construction, partial scores are never rescaled to look complete, and the role earns trust by naming what it could not see in the same breath as what it could. Version 0.2.0 applies that same argument one level up. The five verdicts are all delivery-health states — they model decay and darkness, and not one of them can express I am being replaced. So a health-only rubric reports a bidding war as health, for exactly the reason a two-state rubric reports darkness as health, and it fails hardest on the accounts that look best. Competitive position is therefore a second, independent axis rather than a sixth verdict, which is what makes healthy plus contested — the most dangerous state a portfolio can hold, because every health signal argues against acting on it — expressible at all. Underneath both sits one root cause: a client is not a single body. The room holds distinct interests with distinct capabilities, so intake now records the parties by role label and indexes what the signed agreement says each side owns. Transfer risk is scored against the most technically capable party present rather than the decision-maker, and an ownership question is answered by citation rather than re-argued from first principles against a client holding the same document.