The course's business is Harbor & Pine, a made-up small-batch candle brand. Swap in your own decision, facts and audience. The adaptations below are suggestions built on what the lessons show; the lessons themselves test only the Harbor & Pine runs.
Which Runable job fits which role?
| Role | Job from the course | The check that matters |
|---|---|---|
| Founder | All three | Sources, [A] tags, math, slide text |
| Consultant | Research brief, plan | Open the sources before a client sees them |
| Marketing manager | Carousel, research brief | Read every slide; approve the cover first |
| Analyst | Research brief | Separate estimates from checked prices |
| Operations or finance lead | Business plan | Divide the key numbers yourself |
How do founders use Runable?
The course follows Maya Chen, about to spend $3,000 on stock at a price that had never been checked. She researches first: market size, five competitors with prices, two gaps. Then a one-page plan with every line tagged fact or assumption, and a five-slide carousel for launch. The example numbers in the lessons put a consultant's market scan at $1,500 or more, a plan writer at $500 to $1,500, and a designer at $150 to $300 a carousel; use your own.
- Keep: the scope check. Runable asks "Does that scope work?" before it spends credits.
How do consultants use it?
A consultant preparing for a client meeting can brief Runable the way the lesson does: name the decision the client faces, ask three specific questions, and set rules (give a range, label estimates, cite every number, one page). The result is a first draft of a client brief in minutes.
- Change: the decision line, for example "before the client commits budget to a new region."
- Keep: open two or three sources and mark them verified, as the lesson's competitor check sheet does, before anything goes to a client. That's source verification.
How do marketing managers use it?
The carousel lesson is a marketing job: write the words first, pick Carousels and Product Showcase, paste the words with colours and the 4:5 size, approve the cover, then let Runable build the rest. It suits a product launch, a new service or an event.
- Keep: zoom in on every slide. The lesson's slide 3 header read HARBOR & PIN2.
- Know: images used far more credits than text in our run, about 450 for five slides and one fix.
Try it free, step by step
Make an Instagram Launch Carousel for Your Products using Runable. A business case for new founders: make a 5-slide Instagram launch carousel with Runable's Carousels tool, approve the cover before it renders the rest, check every slide for AI typos, and see what a… You do every step yourself in a practice copy of Runable, it checks your work as you go, and “Do it for me” finishes any step you get stuck on. Free, and nothing touches your real accounts.
Start the free lessonHow do analysts and researchers use it?
An analyst collecting a competitor price list can reuse the research brief's second question: five named players with the price of a standard product. Then ask the lesson's follow-up: "Which numbers in this brief are estimates, and which did you check on a live page today?" In our run Runable separated analyst estimates from prices it checked that day.
- Keep: put every number in a sheet with its source and a verified column, as in the Harbor & Pine competitor check sheet.
How do operations and finance leads use it?
A lead turning research into a budget can use Report and the Business Plan template, with a prompt that lists the facts, the sections and "mark anything that is an assumption." Then read it like a lender. The lesson's first draft claimed about $9 of materials per candle and a 70% margin, while its own budget implied $12.50 to $16.67 a candle; after the fix, the unit economics table showed $16.67 and a 44% gross margin at $30.
- Keep: divide the numbers that drive the plan yourself, and ask for the math when they disagree.
How do agency owners use it?
A small agency can use the same three jobs for a client launch: research to frame the pitch, a one-page plan to agree scope, and a carousel as a first creative. Replace each template's sample prompt with the client's facts.
- Keep: the template is a layout, not facts. The Business Plan template's sample prompt was about a tea brand.
What do all these roles share?
Runable is a general AI agent: it plans, works and hands back a file, and it is good at being checked, because it shows its scope, its sources and its tags. The checks are listed in 8 Runable mistakes, answers in the Runable FAQ, and each workflow on one page in the research, plan and carousel cheat sheets. Runable is listed in the AI tools directory.
Key takeaways
- Founders use all three jobs; consultants and analysts lean on the research brief; marketers on carousels; ops and finance on the plan.
- Each job has one check that matters most: sources, estimates, math or slide text.
- Change the decision, facts and audience; keep the rules and the checks.
Frequently asked questions
- Do I need a paid plan for these jobs?
All three lessons ran on the Free plan, which showed 1,500 credits a day in October 2026.
- Can I share Runable's output with a client?
Export it first: Markdown, PDF, Google Docs, Word or Google Drive for briefs and plans. Check the sources before it leaves your hands.
- Which job should I try first?
The research brief. The plan and the carousel in the course build on its facts.
