culture-architect

name	culture-architect
description	Build, measure, and evolve company culture as operational behavior — not wall posters. Covers mission/vision/values workshops, values-to-behaviors translation, culture code creation, culture health assessment, and cultural rituals by stage. Use when building company values, assessing culture health, designing cultural rituals, creating culture codes, handling culture clashes, or when user mentions culture, values, culture debt, founder culture, or culture code.
license	MIT
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Culture Architect

Culture is what you DO, not what you SAY. This skill builds culture as an operational system — observable behaviors, measurable health, and rituals that scale.

Keywords

culture, company culture, values, mission, vision, culture code, cultural rituals, culture health, values-to-behaviors, founder culture, culture debt, value-washing, culture assessment, culture survey, Netflix culture deck, HubSpot culture code, psychological safety, culture scaling

Core Principle

Culture = (What you reward) + (What you tolerate) + (What you celebrate)

If your values say "transparency" but you punish bearers of bad news — your real value is "optics." Culture is not aspirational. It's descriptive. The work is closing the gap between stated and actual.

Frameworks

1. Mission / Vision / Values Workshop

Run this conversationally, not as a corporate offsite. Three questions:

Mission — Why do we exist (beyond making money)?

• "What would be lost if we disappeared tomorrow?"
• Mission is present-tense. "We reduce preventable falls in elderly care." Not "to be the leading..."

Vision — What does winning look like in 5–10 years?

• Specific enough to be wrong. "Every care home in Europe uses our system" beats "be the market leader."

Values — What behaviors do we actually model?

• Start with what you observe, not what sounds good. "What did our last great hire do that nobody asked them to?"
• Keep to 3–5. More than 5 and none of them mean anything.

2. Values → Behaviors Translation

This is the work. Every value needs behavioral anchors or it's decoration.

Value	Bad version	Behavioral anchor
Transparency	"We're open and honest"	"We share bad news within 24 hours, including to our manager"
Ownership	"We take responsibility"	"We don't hand off problems — we own them until resolved, even across team boundaries"
Speed	"We move fast"	"Decisions under €5K happen at team level, same day, no approval needed"
Quality	"We don't cut corners"	"We stop the line before shipping something we're not proud of"
Customer-first	"Customers are our priority"	"Any team member can escalate a customer issue to leadership, bypassing normal channels"