/client-health

name: client-health
description: "Health check across active client engagements showing status, deliverables, and concerns. Triggers on \"how are my clients?\", \"client status\", \"client health check\"."
argument-hint: "[client name or 'summary']"
effort-level: low

Client Health

Health check across all active client engagements. Available for Consultant and Solo Professional archetypes.

What to Check

For each client folder in `clients/`:

1. Engagement Health

• Current status and phase
• Milestone progress (if milestone-plan.md exists)
• Any overdue deliverables
• Contract/engagement end dates approaching

2. Relationship Health

• Last contact date
• Communication frequency
• Stakeholder sentiment (if stakeholders.md exists)
• Any concerns or red flags

3. Commitment Status

• Open commitments from overview.md
• Overdue items
• Items waiting on client
• Upcoming deliverables

4. Financial Health (if tracked)

• Outstanding invoices
• Payment status
• Upcoming billing

5. Blockers (if blockers.md exists)

• Active blockers
• Resolution progress
• Impact on deliverables

Output Format

## Client Health - [Date]

### Summary

| Status | Count | Details |
|--------|-------|---------|
| On Track | X | [Names] |
| Attention Needed | X | [Names] |
| At Risk | X | [Names] |

- **Total active clients:** X
- **Open commitments:** X
- **Overdue items:** X
- **Outstanding invoices:** $X

---

### On Track

#### [Client Name]
**Phase:** [Current phase]
**Last Contact:** [Date]
**Health:** All good

**Active Work:**
- [Deliverable] - on track for [Date]

**Open Items:** X (none overdue)

---

### Attention Needed

#### [Client Name]
**Phase:** [Current phase]
**Last Contact:** [Date] - X days ago
**Health:** Needs attention

**Concerns:**
- [Issue 1]
- [Issue 2]

**Open Items:**
- [Overdue or at-risk item]

**Suggested Action:**
- [What to do]

---

### At Risk

#### [Client Name]
**Phase:** [Current phase]
**Issues:**
- [Critical issue]
- [Critical issue]

**Immediate Actions:**
1. [Urgent action]
2. [Follow-up action]

---

### Cross-Client View

#### Deliverables Due This Week

| Client | Deliverable | Due | Status |
|--------|-------------|-----|--------|
| | | | On Track / At Risk / Overdue |

#### Outstanding Invoices

| Client | Amount | Sent | Due | Status |
|--------|--------|------|-----|--------|
| | $X | [Date] | [Date] | Outstanding / Overdue |

#### Relationships Needing Touch

| Client | Last Contact | Days | Suggested Action |
|--------|--------------|------|------------------|
| | [Date] | X | [Action] |

---

### Patterns

- [Cross-client observation]
- [Recurring issue across clients]

### Capacity Check

- **Current active clients:** X
- **Total active engagements:** X
- **Hours committed this week:** X
- **Available bandwidth:** [Assessment]
- **Upcoming endings:** [Client] ends [Date]
- **Pipeline:** X prospects (see /pipeline-review)

Health Scoring

On Track

• Recent contact (within expected cadence)
• No overdue deliverables
• Positive or neutral stakeholder sentiment
• No active blockers
• Invoices paid or not yet due

Attention Needed

• Contact overdue by 1 week+
• Deliverable at risk (due soon, not complete)
• Stakeholder concerns raised
• Minor blocker active
• Invoice overdue by less than 2 weeks

At Risk

• Contact overdue by 2+ weeks
• Deliverable overdue
• Stakeholder actively unhappy
• Major blocker preventing progress
• Invoice overdue by 2+ weeks
• Engagement ending without renewal discussion

Tone

• Factual, scannable
• Lead with concerns (don't bury bad news)
• Specific action suggestions
• Don't sugarcoat problems
• Acknowledge what's going well

When to Run

• Weekly (Monday or Friday)
• Before client meetings (filtered to that client)
• When feeling uncertain about client status
• During weekly review

Usage Variations

**All clients:**

/client-health

**Specific client:**

/client-health [client name]

Deep dive on single client with full history.

**Quick overview:**

/client-health summary

Just the summary stats and any red/yellow flags.