# StratEngine

- [StratEngine documentation](https://stratengineai.com/docs/index.md): How-to guides for StratEngine: build strategy briefs, frameworks and decks, or evaluate pitch decks with investment memos.
- [Introduction](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/index.md): What StratEngine produces for strategy work, what you need to bring, and the four ways to start a project.
- [Quickstart: your first strategy](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/quickstart.md): Sign in, finish onboarding, talk through your situation in Strategy Builder, run the analysis, read your strategy brief and generate a deck.
- [Onboarding](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/onboarding.md): The setup steps for new strategy accounts, which ones you can skip, how resuming works, and how to finish skipped steps later from Home.
- [Finding your way around](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/navigation.md): The strategy side menu, what Home shows and when, searching your generated files, the pay-as-you-go balance chip, Settings and Feedback & Help.
- [Use the Strategy Builder](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/strategy-builder.md): Start a strategy brief by talking it through with the AI strategist or filling out a form, attach files, reuse a saved company, or start over.
- [Review your brief and run the analysis](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/review-and-run.md): Check the brief the strategist drafted, change it through the chat, pick an analysis depth, save the company for reuse and click Run Analysis.
- [Analysis depth](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/analysis-depth.md): What the Quick Scan, Standard and Deep analysis depths add, how long each takes, and which plans include each depth.
- [Review a decision before it is computed](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/decision-review.md): Check the question, options, assumptions and thresholds of a decision in Strategy Builder, edit the figures you're allowed to, then confirm or decline.
- [Generate a framework](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/generate-framework.md): Run a single strategy framework, such as SWOT or Porter's Five Forces, on a company in three steps: pick a framework, add context, generate.
- [Work with framework results](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/framework-results.md): Read and edit a framework analysis, review momentum and assumptions, rate the result and turn it into a strategy brief.
- [Strategy briefs and Edit with AI](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/strategy-briefs.md): Read a strategy brief, change it by chatting with the AI Editor, and export it, view it in the browser or turn it into a deck.
- [Client proposals](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/proposals.md): Draft a consulting proposal for a client with the Proposal Builder, then edit it, export it or turn it into a deck.
- [Research reports](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/research.md): Generate a sourced research report on any company from its name, summary, website and industry, then reopen it or export it to your cloud storage.
- [Saved companies](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/saved-companies.md): Save a company's details and notes once, share them with your workspace, and start every analysis from them instead of retyping the basics.
- [Private documents](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/private-documents.md): Upload business plans, board decks and customer research in Settings so StratEngine searches them in every analysis your workspace runs.
- [File Manager](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/file-manager.md): Find every strategy brief, framework, proposal, research report and deck you've made, filter by type, and rename, duplicate or delete them.
- [Generate a deck](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/decks/generate.md): Turn a strategy brief into a presentation deck with Generate Deck, apply a brand kit, and reopen the deck later with View Deck.
- [Brand kits](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/decks/brand-kits.md): Create a brand kit from your logo or brand guidelines in Settings, then apply its colors when you generate a deck or open a document in the browser.
- [Outdated decks](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/decks/outdated.md): Why a deck shows an Outdated badge, why StratEngine never rebuilds decks on its own, and how to update one with Regenerate Deck.
- [Share a deck with a link](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/decks/share-links.md): Create a view-only link to a deck for clients or colleagues outside your workspace, set it to expire after 7 or 30 days, and revoke it any time.
- [Export a deck to Google Slides or PowerPoint](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/decks/export.md): Export a StratEngine deck as Google Slides when Google Drive is your export destination, or download it as a PowerPoint file otherwise.
- [Export a document, print, or save as PDF](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/export-documents.md): Save a strategy brief, research report or proposal to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Box with Export to Docs, or open it in the browser to print or save as PDF.
- [Strategy plans](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/billing/plans.md): Compare the Free, Essential and Professional strategy plans: frameworks, analysis depths, result tabs, Proposal Builder, file limits, and how to upgrade.
- [Pay-as-you-go](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/billing/pay-as-you-go.md): Pay per analysis from a prepaid balance: free analyses, adding funds, auto-refill, usage history, low-balance prompts and switching to a subscription.
- [Framework library](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/index.md): All 29 strategy frameworks StratEngine can run, grouped by category, with the plan each one needs and when to use it.
- [Run SWOT in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/swot.md): Run a SWOT analysis on your company in StratEngine: what it covers, which inputs help, and what the result includes. Available on every plan.
- [Run Marketing 4Ps in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/4ps.md): Run a Marketing 4Ps analysis in StratEngine to review product, price, place and promotion for your company. Available on every plan.
- [Run 3C's in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/3cs.md): Run a 3C's analysis in StratEngine to compare your customers, competitors and company in one view. Available on every plan.
- [Run Business Model Canvas in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/business-model-canvas.md): Run a Business Model Canvas in StratEngine to lay out how your company creates, delivers and captures value. Available on every plan.
- [Run Porter's Five Forces in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/porters.md): Run Porter's Five Forces on your company in StratEngine to see how competitive pressure shapes your industry. Needs Essential or higher.
- [Run Digital Marketing GTM Strategy in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/digital-gtm.md): Build a digital go-to-market plan in StratEngine: market, competitors, personas, campaigns and success metrics. Needs Essential or higher.
- [Run Product-Market Growth Matrix in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/ansoff.md): Run the Product-Market Growth Matrix (Ansoff Matrix) in StratEngine to compare four routes to growth for your company. Needs Essential or higher.
- [Run Product Lifecycle in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/product-lifecycle.md): Run Product Lifecycle in StratEngine to find which stage your product is in and what to do, fund and prepare for next. Needs Essential or higher.
- [Run Strategic Pricing Pyramid in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/strategic-pricing-pyramid.md): Run the Strategic Pricing Pyramid in StratEngine to build a pricing strategy from customer value up to price level. Needs Essential or higher.
- [Run Value Disciplines Model in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/value-disciplines.md): Run the Value Disciplines Model in StratEngine to see which of three paths to market leadership fits your company. Essential plan and up.
- [Run PESTLE Analysis in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/pestle.md): Run a PESTLE Analysis in StratEngine to map the political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors facing your company.
- [Run Price Position Analysis in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/price-position-analysis.md): Run a Price Position Analysis in StratEngine to see where your pricing sits against competitors and how to reposition. Essential plan and up.
- [Run SIPOC in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/sipoc.md): Map one business process from suppliers to customers with SIPOC in StratEngine, and see what the editable output includes.
- [Run Blue Ocean Strategy in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/blue-ocean.md): Run Blue Ocean Strategy in StratEngine to find what your company should eliminate, reduce, raise and create to escape direct competition.
- [Run Porter's Value Chain in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/portersvc.md): Run Porter's Value Chain in StratEngine to see where each of your company's nine activity areas adds value or cost. Needs Professional.
- [Run Rogers' Five Factors in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/rogers-five-factors.md): Run Rogers' Five Factors in StratEngine to judge how quickly customers will adopt your product or change, and how to speed it up.
- [Run Play to Win in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/play-to-win.md): Run Play to Win in StratEngine to set five linked strategy choices: aspiration, where to play, how to win, capabilities and systems.
- [Run Three Horizons in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/three-horizons.md): Run Three Horizons in StratEngine to balance your core business, emerging opportunities and long-term bets in one plan. Needs Professional.
- [Run Seven Degrees of Freedom in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/seven-degrees-of-freedom.md): Run Seven Degrees of Freedom in StratEngine to compare seven growth paths for your company and get a growth roadmap. Needs Professional.
- [Run BCG Growth Share Matrix in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/bcg-growth-share-matrix.md): Run the BCG Growth Share Matrix in StratEngine to sort your products into Stars, Cash Cows, Question Marks and Dogs. Needs Professional.
- [Run VRIO in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/vrio.md): Run a VRIO analysis in StratEngine to test which of your company's resources give it a lasting competitive advantage. Professional plan.
- [Run McKinsey 7-S in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/mckinsey-7s.md): Check whether a company's strategy, structure, systems, values, skills, staff and style line up, and get the result as an editable McKinsey 7-S.
- [Run Galbraith Star Model in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/galbraith.md): Check whether a company's structure, processes, rewards and people support its strategy, and get redesign recommendations with the Galbraith Star Model.
- [Run Kotter 8 Step Change Process in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/kotter-8-step-change-process.md): Plan a company change effort stage by stage with the Kotter 8 Step Change Process in StratEngine, from creating urgency to anchoring it in culture.
- [Run Balanced Scorecard in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/balanced-scorecard.md): Build a Balanced Scorecard for a company in StratEngine with objectives, measures, targets and initiatives across four perspectives.
- [Run Value Driver Tree in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/value-driver-tree.md): Find the revenue, cost, capital and risk levers that most affect a company's financial value with a Value Driver Tree in StratEngine.
- [Run Profit Pools Analysis in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/profit-pools-analysis.md): See where profit concentrates across your industry's value chain and where your company should compete, with Profit Pools Analysis in StratEngine.
- [Run Return on Strategic Assets in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/return-on-strategic-assets.md): Assess how well a company's brand, talent, IP, data and other strategic assets pay off, and where to reinvest, in StratEngine.
- [Run Capital Allocation Framework in StratEngine](https://stratengineai.com/docs/strategy/frameworks/capital-allocation-framework.md): Decide how to split a company's capital across growth, returns, debt and risk with the Capital Allocation Framework in StratEngine.
- [Introduction](https://stratengineai.com/docs/vc/index.md): What StratEngine does for investors: an investment memo, a research report and a conviction score for every pitch deck you upload.
- [Quickstart: your first memo](https://stratengineai.com/docs/vc/quickstart.md): Sign in, finish VC onboarding, upload a pitch deck and open the investment memo StratEngine generates from it.
- [Onboarding](https://stratengineai.com/docs/vc/onboarding.md): The VC onboarding steps by role, which ones you can skip, how resuming works, and finishing skipped steps from Home.
- [Finding your way around](https://stratengineai.com/docs/vc/navigation.md): The VC side menu, what Home shows and when, the memo usage tracker in the header, Settings, and Feedback & Help.
- [Upload pitch decks](https://stratengineai.com/docs/vc/upload.md): Upload PDF or PPTX pitch decks, follow each one through the Processing Queue, open the finished memo, and handle failed uploads.
- [Auto-ingest decks from a folder or email](https://stratengineai.com/docs/vc/folder-watch.md): Have StratEngine analyze new pitch decks from a watched Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive folder, or from decks you forward by email.
- [Analysis Memos](https://stratengineai.com/docs/vc/memo-manager.md): Triage every memo in your workspace: filter by status, sort by date, company or conviction score, read the AI summary, and open the memo or research report.
- [Read an investment memo](https://stratengineai.com/docs/vc/read-memo.md): Open a memo or its research report, navigate with the Contents rail, open it in a new tab to print or copy, and know what changes after export.
- [Export memos](https://stratengineai.com/docs/vc/export-memos.md): Export a memo and its research report to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Box. Exporting removes their contents from StratEngine and keeps a link.
- [Custom scoring frameworks](https://stratengineai.com/docs/vc/scoring-frameworks.md): Build a scoring framework with 3 to 9 categories, 1-to-5 scoring anchors and per-stage weights, and set the workspace default every deck is scored against.
- [Private documents](https://stratengineai.com/docs/vc/private-documents.md): Upload thesis documents, past memos and IC notes in Settings so StratEngine searches them alongside public sources when it analyzes a deck.
- [VC plans and memo overages](https://stratengineai.com/docs/vc/billing/plans.md): VC plans and memo allowances, overage charges, changing plans with proration, scheduled downgrades and cancellations, invoices and coupon codes.
- [Sign in](https://stratengineai.com/docs/account/sign-in.md): Sign in to StratEngine with an emailed magic link: pass the security check, enter your email, then click the link in your inbox.
- [Workspaces](https://stratengineai.com/docs/account/workspaces.md): What a StratEngine workspace is, who belongs to it, what its members share, and what stays private to you.
- [Team members and roles](https://stratengineai.com/docs/account/team.md): Add teammates to your StratEngine workspace, change roles between Admin, Member and Deactivated, and remove people.
- [Connect cloud storage](https://stratengineai.com/docs/account/connections.md): Connect Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Box in Settings, choose an export destination and folder, and disconnect a provider.
- [Sync a cloud folder](https://stratengineai.com/docs/account/folder-sync.md): Admins can keep a Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive folder synced into your workspace's private documents, checked about every 2 hours.
- [Transfer billing ownership](https://stratengineai.com/docs/account/transfer-billing.md): Hand your workspace's StratEngine subscription to another admin, who then adds their own payment details to keep it running.
- [Log out, cancel, or delete your account](https://stratengineai.com/docs/account/delete-account.md): Log out, end every session, cancel a StratEngine subscription, or permanently delete your account from Settings.
- [Troubleshooting](https://stratengineai.com/docs/account/troubleshooting.md): Fixes for common StratEngine problems: magic links, the security check, mobile access, blocked tabs, missing decks, expired conversations and exports.
- [FAQ](https://stratengineai.com/docs/account/faq.md): Answers about who in a StratEngine workspace can see what, what happens to a memo after export, and which plan you need.
- [Contact support](https://stratengineai.com/docs/account/contact.md): Email help@stratengineai.com for StratEngine support, report a bug, send feedback, or reach info@stratengineai.com for general inquiries.

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- [Open StratEngine](https://app.stratengineai.com)
- [Blog](https://stratengineai.com/blog)


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