Rainbow Butterfly Model (RBM)
Strategize With A Rainbow. Execute With A Butterfly.—An Open-Source Business Mentor & Accountability Coach For AI Coding Agents
While Google’s Elephant-Goldfish Model (EGM) stress-tests what you are building as a zero-context technical and user critic, the Rainbow Butterfly Model (RBM) governs why, when, and how profitably you run your business. Built for founders, fractional CTOs, and technical operators who live inside AI coding harnesses (Google Antigravity, Claude Code, Codex) and want calibrated board-level commercial logic paired with daily execution accountability.
When Building Software Gets Fast, Commercial Discipline Becomes The Bottleneck.
Modern AI coding agents make it effortless to spin up a new microservice, refactor a UI, or build a clever side-tool in an afternoon. Without a commercial filter and an accountability partner right inside your workspace, high-output engineers fall into three predictable traps.
Hiding In Code To Avoid Sales
When a high-stakes commercial action is waiting—following up on a proposal, pricing an offer, or closing out the final 10% of a billable client deliverable—it is seductive to retreat into comfortable engineering tasks. Butterfly catches this pattern in real time.
Building Without A Revenue Bridge
Not every good technical idea is a good business move right now. Rainbow forces every proposed feature, free tool, or client customization through a 7-wavelength commercial audit before you invest 20 hours of engineering time.
Ad-Hoc Advice That Forgets Your Goals
Generic AI chat prompts give sycophantic advice in a vacuum. RBM anchors every session to two persistent files in your repository—RBM_PROFILE.md and RBM_LEDGER.md—so your Mentor and Coach remember your exact North Stars and last week’s promises.
Splitting Every Idea Into Seven Commercial Wavelengths
Just as a prism refracts white light into its component wavelengths, Rainbow evaluates every product idea, offer structure, pricing tier, or client pitch across seven non-negotiable business dimensions before issuing a GO, CONDITIONAL / SCOPE-DOWN, CHRYSALIS PARK, or NO verdict.
1. Red // Market & Buyer Urgency
Who is the exact decision-maker, what bleeding-neck problem does this solve, and are they actively paying to solve it today?
2. Orange // Unit Economics & Pricing Logic
Does the margin justify the build, delivery, and support cost? Enforces a strict Zero Financial Hallucination rule—reasoning only over verified numbers.
3. Yellow // Portfolio & Umbrella Fit
Which core business pillar does this serve? Does it strengthen your primary brand ecosystem or fragment your attention across disconnected verticals?
4. Green // Asset Leverage vs. Custom Trap
Does this build a repeatable, compounding asset (software license, reusable module, productized service), or trap you in one-off custom labor?
5. Blue // Opportunity Cost
Cross-references RBM_LEDGER.md: if you say yes to this today, which active revenue-generating commitment gets delayed?
6. Indigo // Commercial Risk & Moat
Exposes hidden operational liabilities, support burdens, long sales cycles, or weak differentiation before you commit.
7. Violet // 6–36 Month Compounding Trajectory
Evaluates how the decision compounds enterprise value over 6, 12, and 36 months—and logs the commercial rationale permanently in your Decision Log.
Protecting Your Plate & Driving Today’s “One Wing Flap”
Strategy without follow-through is just entertainment. Butterfly is your ground-level execution coach—auditing your open commitments against real git commits and workspace activity, enforcing your Work-In-Progress (WIP) limit, and cutting through overwhelm.
Hard Cap On Open Loops
Tracks your active commitments in RBM_LEDGER.md against your calibrated WIP limit (default: 3). When you pitch a tempting new side-quest while 3 commitments are still open, Butterfly steps in to protect your focus.
Park Good Ideas Without Guilt
When a great idea arrives in the wrong week, Butterfly captures it inside Section 4 of RBM_LEDGER.md (The Chrysalis Parking Lot) with a clear revisit condition—so your brain can let go and finish today’s deliverables.
One Decisive Action Per Session
Every coaching check-in ends with a single, time-boxed One Wing Flap and an unmistakable Definition of Done—the small, decisive move today that creates compounding business momentum tomorrow.
Calibrate First. Recalibrate Anytime Things Feel Off.
No two founders operate the same way. Before Rainbow or Butterfly ever give advice, /rbm-calibrate tunes the model to your business architecture—and gives you a built-in diagnostic whenever your priorities shift or coaching feels off.
Umbrellas & Anti-Goals
Maps how your business makes money and what you are explicitly saying NO to this quarter.
- Core umbrellas & revenue engines
- Verified baseline & floor price
- 90-day Strategic North Stars
- Explicit Anti-Goals filter
Tune Rainbow’s Voice
Choose the exact boardroom lens and unit-economics strictness (1–5) you want from Rainbow.
- Board-Level Strategist
- Bootstrapped Operator
- Product-Led Architect
- Custom decision filter rules
Tune Butterfly’s Pushback
Set how hard Butterfly pushes back when new ideas compete with open commitments.
- Gentle Compass
- Firm Momentum Partner
- Ruthless Gatekeeper
- Personal shiny-object triggers
When Things Feel Off
Run /rbm-calibrate anytime to audit drift and reset a cluttered ledger.
- Strategic Drift: New season goals
- Tone Mismatch: Dial pushback
- Plate Overload: Clean stale loops
- Drift Log: Tracks every tune-up
How To Call On Rainbow & Butterfly In Your Workspace
Invoke the agents individually when you need a specific lens, or run the full tandem council with a single phrase: “Rainbow Butterfly it!”
Initialize Or Recalibrate Your Model
Run first after installation to create RBM_PROFILE.md and RBM_LEDGER.md, and run again whenever your business season changes or mentorship/coaching feels off.
Full Mentor + Coach Tandem Session
Rainbow audits commercial viability across all 7 wavelengths first; Butterfly checks your active WIP load, strips away scope creep, updates your ledger, and locks in your One Wing Flap.
Dedicated 7-Wavelength Strategy Audit
Call on rbm-rainbow when pricing an offer, evaluating a client proposal, weighing build-vs-buy economics, or deciding which product bet belongs on the roadmap.
Daily Focus Check-In & Accountability
Call on rbm-butterfly for morning priority lock-ins, Friday delivery reviews, or anytime you feel pulled in ten directions and need to close open loops.
Open-Source & Ready to Install: The Rainbow Butterfly Model (`rbm`) is published under the Apache 2.0 License on GitHub. Clone or install it directly into Google Antigravity, Claude Code, or Codex to bring calibrated business mentorship and executive coaching into every repository you work in.
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