# co-selling-strategy

Designs the policy layer for shared deals: deal registration, credit and attribution splits, and rules of engagement between direct and partner sellers.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 13000 installs · ★ 2
- Author: Maya-Beth Finotti
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mbfinotti/partnerships-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/co-selling-strategy/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/co-selling-strategy

## What it does

The skill builds one operating charter out of three artifacts: a deal registration policy (protection windows, approval SLA, rejection grounds), a credit and attribution model (partner-sourced versus partner-influenced, comp neutrality), and rules of engagement between direct and partner sellers. It stays at the policy level and never adjudicates a single deal.

It starts with an interview — one question per message, multiple-choice where possible, skipping anything already answered. Then comes a readiness gate: the skill declines if the ICP isn't articulated, if direct sales hasn't proven it closes on its own, or if ACV sits below roughly $3-5k. After that you pick a track: a lightweight playbook filled in one 90-minute session, or heavyweight joint business planning with executive sponsors on both sides. The JBP track gets deleted from the menu when the partner won't name a sponsor.

Co-selling assumes B2B mechanics: named accounts, quota-carrying reps, a consultative cycle, an opportunity record. Retail partnerships run on trade marketing and co-op funds instead, so don't force deal registration onto them. For a live contested deal, reach for `partner-channel-conflict` instead.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --skill co-selling-strategy -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/co-selling-strategy/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/co-selling-strategy/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --skill co-selling-strategy -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/co-selling-strategy/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --skill co-selling-strategy -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/co-selling-strategy/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mbfinotti/partnerships-skills co-selling-strategy
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/co-selling-strategy/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --skill co-selling-strategy -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --path skills/co-selling-strategy
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/co-selling-strategy/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --skill co-selling-strategy -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/mbfinotti/partnerships-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/co-selling-strategy/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- define how a partner claims an opportunity and what the claim grants
- split credit between a partner-sourced and a partner-influenced deal
- check whether the comp plan blocks attaching a partner to a deal
- write rules of engagement for reps and partners on one account
- choose between a lightweight playbook and joint business planning

## Example prompts
- Design a deal registration policy for our reseller partners with protection windows and an approval SLA
- Our comp plan creates friction against attaching a partner — propose a neutral model
- Write rules of engagement for our AEs and partner sellers working the same account

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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# Co-Selling Strategy

Define how direct sales and partner sellers collaborate on shared deals: the policy layer, never the deal-by-deal execution. This skill designs three artifacts as one coherent operating charter, and validates it with the user section by section:

- **Deal registration policy** - how a partner formally claims an opportunity and what that claim grants.
- **Credit and attribution model** - who gets counted and paid when a deal has more than one parent.
- **Rules of engagement** - between direct and partner sellers.

Co-selling is a B2B discipline with no true B2C analogue. It presupposes named accounts, quota-carrying reps, a consultative sales cycle, and an opportunity record - none of which exist in a consumer transaction.

The consumer-side counterparts are trade marketing, co-op advertising funds, and shelf-placement/channel agreements: a different discipline with different mechanics, so never force-fit deal registration or comp neutrality onto retail partnerships. The one part that transfers to any context, B2B or B2C, is the governance discipline itself: unambiguous ownership rules, documented tiebreakers, published criteria.

## Interview
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