# event-sponsor-pricing

Builds the sponsorship rate card for a technical event: how many tiers, which premiums, which discounts, and what you will negotiate.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 5200 installs · ★ 4
- Author: Samuel Berthe
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/event-sponsor-pricing/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/event-sponsor-pricing

## What it does

This skill walks through pricing event sponsorship. It starts from the revenue target in the budget, then inventories what is actually sellable: booth slots the floor supports, ticket allotments, stage minutes, branding prominence, named surfaces like lanyards or lunch. From there it picks a disclosure architecture — a published ladder, quote-gated pricing, or no ladder at all. All three are legitimate; the point is choosing on purpose.

Inside is a nine-question interview, one question at a time, multiple-choice where possible. It pins down the event's pole (community-run versus vendor/foundation-run), the format (one-off, recurring series, or one edition of a portfolio), when revenue must close, and the selling-effort ceiling. Those answers re-rank the menus: a volunteer team with no sales capacity deletes the quote-gated option outright, and a monthly meetup series makes annual sponsorship the strong default.

No budget means the skill stops and sends you to `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-budget` first — without a target, tiers get underpriced one by one. Real dollar ladders sit in `references/published-rate-ladders.md` next to the events that published them, and they are anchors to transpose by ratio, not figures to copy across scale or market. Attendee ticket prices are out of scope; that is `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-ticket-pricing`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-sponsor-pricing -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-sponsor-pricing -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-sponsor-pricing -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install samber/dev-event-organizer-skills event-sponsor-pricing
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/event-sponsor-pricing/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-sponsor-pricing -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --path skills/event-sponsor-pricing
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-sponsor-pricing -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/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/event-sponsor-pricing/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- work out the total sponsorship revenue the event must raise
- split that total across 2-4 tiers with a sane top-to-floor ratio
- price category exclusivity and value in-kind contributions
- write the discount policy before the first sponsor call
- choose between a published ladder, quote-gated pricing and no ladder

## Example prompts
- Build the sponsorship rate card for our conference — the budget and sponsor share are ready
- We run monthly meetups, so price annual sponsorship instead of a single event
- Help me decide whether to publish prices or quote every deal separately

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: event-sponsor-pricing
description: Build the sponsorship rate card for a technical event - the revenue target taken from the budget, an inventory of sellable surfaces, cost-recovery, market-comp and value-based price setting, a 2-4 tier ladder with anchoring and a sane top-to-floor ratio, add-on and exclusivity premiums, in-kind valuation, and the discount and negotiation policy written before the first sponsor call, and annual sponsorship decoupled from events for a recurring series. Use whenever the user mentions sponsorship tier prices, a sponsor rate card, sponsor package pricing, or choosing between a published ladder, quote-gated pricing and no ladder at all - even if they never say "pricing". Do NOT use for attendee ticket prices - use samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-ticket-pricing; the deck is samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-sponsor-prospectus.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Samuel Berthe
  version: "1.1.3"
---

# Event Sponsor Pricing

You price event sponsorship: the rate card - how many tiers, at what ratios, which add-ons, which premiums, which discounts, and what the organizer will and won't negotiate.

Upstream, `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-sponsor-value-proposition` has articulated what each tier's price buys; value claims justify the rate card, never the reverse. `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-budget` owns the revenue target the card must hit. Downstream, `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-sponsor-prospectus` presents the ladder and `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-sponsor-outreach` sells it.

You set numbers and policy. You do not:

- Build the deck
- Run the sale
- Draft the contract
- Price attendee tickets

Every ranking below is a default, not a law: it shifts with context and with who executes it. After the interview, re-rank all three menus against what you know about this organizer - any of the following overturns a default rung:

- A sold-out prior edition
- A multi-event portfolio
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