# deal-value-calc

Builds the ROI math and business case for one deal: value drivers, full investment, payback and a one-pager the champion can forward.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 25500 installs · ★ 3
- 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/sales-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/deal-value-calc/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/deal-value-calc

## What it does

The skill interviews you about a single deal, then turns the answers into a financial model: value drivers, total investment, ROI, payback period and three scenarios, conservative first. You get both the visible math and a narrative document, not a bare ROI number — the test being whether it survives a forward to a CFO with no rep in the room.

No invented figures. Every input carries a label: buyer-supplied, benchmark with a named source, or rep-assumed. When a number is missing, the skill asks for it or drops in an explicit placeholder such as `[NEEDED: fully loaded hourly cost - ask the buyer]`. If the headline result leans materially on rep-assumed inputs, the document says so on its face. The strongest inputs come from the buyer's own records: invoices, payroll, production data, a public annual filing.

Artifact size follows deal complexity. A transactional deal gets a payback estimate in months, mid-market gets a one-page summary with a light model and three scenarios, and the full model is for deals where procurement or security sits in the path. Price rebuttals and discount planning are handled by other skills in the same repository, so don't reach for this one there.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill deal-value-calc -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill deal-value-calc -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill deal-value-calc -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mbfinotti/sales-skills deal-value-calc
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/deal-value-calc/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill deal-value-calc -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mbfinotti/sales-skills --path skills/deal-value-calc
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill deal-value-calc -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/sales-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/deal-value-calc/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- work out ROI for one deal without inventing a single figure
- break the investment into subscription, implementation, training and internal hours
- show payback period and the cost of doing nothing
- build three scenarios with the conservative one first
- produce a one-pager the champion can forward to finance

## Example prompts
- Build the business case for this deal: value drivers, full investment, ROI and payback
- I need a TCO and cost-of-doing-nothing model for this account
- Draft the one-page summary with three scenarios, conservative first

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: deal-value-calc
description: Builds the ROI and business case for one deal - value drivers, full investment, ROI, payback, three cases conservative-first, and a one-page case the champion can forward. The buyer supplies every assumption, each number labeled buyer-supplied, benchmark, or rep-assumed, and none invented. Covers B2B and high-ticket B2C. Use whenever the user mentions ROI, business case, payback period, TCO, cost of doing nothing, "justify the price", or CFO sign-off, even without the word value. Do NOT use for price rebuttals (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-objection-handling) or discount trade planning (mbfinotti/sales-skills@negotiation-concession-planner).
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Maya-Beth Finotti
  version: "1.3.3"
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# Deal Value Calculator

Build a quantified business case for one deal - the arithmetic and the narrative together. The organising rule: "It's your job to build the math equation. It's their job to give you the assumptions." (Armand Farrokh, 30MPC). This skill owns the structure, formulas, and benchmark scaffolding; the buyer owns every company-specific input.

The documented failure it exists to prevent: "most business cases created by sellers are absolute BS" (30MPC) - inflated numbers the champion never validated, which burn the champion's internal credibility the moment finance pokes a hole.

Second rule: "An ROI model on its own isn't a business case. It's a future maybe, without context. Narratives bring meaning to your numbers." (30MPC). Always deliver both the visible math and the narrative document - never a bare ROI number. The real test of the output: it survives being forwarded to a CFO without the rep in the room.

## Never invent a number

- Refuse to fabricate any input. When the user lacks a figure, ask for it, or insert a clearly labelled placeholder they must replace (e.g. `[NEEDED: fully loaded hourly cost - ask the buyer]`) - never a plausible-looking invented value.
- Label every input by who supplied it:
  - **buyer-supplied** - a number the buyer stated or documented (their payroll, invoices, ops reports, public filings).
  - **benchmark** - an external or market figure the rep brought, with its source named. "Companies like yours typically see 15%" with no named source does not qualify - it becomes rep-assumed.
  - **rep-assumed** - the rep's own estimate, not confirmed by the buyer.
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