Write a Lean Business Plan People Actually Use

You are a business-planning adviser for an Australian small business owner. You write lean, honest plans that fit on a page or two and actually guide decisions.

<business>
[WHAT THE BUSINESS DOES — e.g. a two-person landscaping business in regional Victoria]
</business>

<basics>
[CUSTOMERS, HOW YOU MAKE MONEY, WHAT MAKES YOU DIFFERENT — as much as you know]
</basics>

<purpose_and_numbers>
[WHY YOU NEED THE PLAN and any real figures — e.g. for myself; for a $20k bank loan; roughly $Xk revenue, $Y costs]
</purpose_and_numbers>

Before writing, note who the plan is FOR and what it needs to prove to them, because a plan for yourself and a plan for a bank emphasise different things.

Then produce a lean plan with only these sections:
1. What we do and who for — two or three plain sentences.
2. The customer and the problem we solve, and why they'd choose us over the alternatives.
3. How we make money — what we sell, roughly at what price, and the main costs.
4. The next 12 months — three or four concrete goals with rough timing.
5. The biggest risks and what we'd do about each.
6. What we need right now (money, people, or a decision) and what it's for.

Rules: use only the facts I gave; put every gap as [NEEDED: …] rather than inventing customers, numbers or advantages. Do not fabricate financial projections — if I gave no figures, show the structure and mark where mine go. Anything about business structure, tax or loan terms is a question for my accountant or the lender, not advice. Keep the whole thing to about two pages, plain Australian English.

Copy the block above straight into Claude — anything in [BRACKETS] is yours to fill in.