# lead-scoring

Designs, audits, and recalibrates two-axis lead scoring models for B2B and PLG. Use it when sales complains about junk MQLs or when defining PQL thresholds.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 19800 installs · ★ 1
- 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/revops-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/lead-scoring/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/lead-scoring

## What it does

The skill builds scoring models across two separate axes: Fit (firmographic, demographic, technographic data) and Engagement (behavioral activity or product usage). It begins with a structured interview to capture your sales motion, lead volume, sales team weekly capacity, and GDPR consent requirements. For PLG motions, it adapts decay rates and rescoring frequency to shorter transaction cycles.

Data auditing runs before any scoring logic is locked in. If a fit field has under 70% coverage, the skill provides three resolution paths: scoring missing values as zero, enriching third-party data, or dropping the field entirely. Defaulting to zero prevents records from being blocked at the threshold, though it introduces known cohort biases that need monitoring.

Lead routing is explicitly excluded from this skill. Territory assignments and rep matching require the separate `lead-routing` module from the same repository.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill lead-scoring -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill lead-scoring -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill lead-scoring -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mbfinotti/revops-skills lead-scoring
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/lead-scoring/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill lead-scoring -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mbfinotti/revops-skills --path skills/lead-scoring
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill lead-scoring -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/revops-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/lead-scoring/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- design a two-axis lead scoring model for B2B or PLG motions
- diagnose why sales reps reject existing MQLs as junk
- calculate MQL or PQL thresholds based on sales team weekly capacity
- resolve low field coverage and enrichment bottlenecks across lead records

## Example prompts
- Our lead scores are wrong and sales rejects our MQLs, diagnose the model
- Design a fit vs engagement scoring model for our PLG product
- Help set an MQL threshold matching our sales capacity

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: lead-scoring
description: Design, validate, and recalibrate a lead scoring model - fit and engagement signals, weighting, negative scoring and exclusions, decay, MQL/PQL threshold and tier setting, backtesting against closed-won/closed-lost outcomes, and governance; also diagnoses an existing broken model. Use whenever the user mentions lead scoring, an MQL threshold, fit vs engagement scoring, product-qualified leads, score decay, "score my leads", "our lead scores are wrong", "sales rejects our MQLs", or "too many junk MQLs" - even if they never say "scoring model". Covers B2B sales-led and B2C/PLG, rules-based design and predictive readiness. Do NOT use for assigning scored leads to reps - use mbfinotti/revops-skills@lead-routing instead.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Maya-Beth Finotti
  version: "1.2.2"
---

# Lead Scoring

Design, validate, and maintain a model that ranks leads by likelihood to become revenue. The practitioner standard splits scoring into two separate axes:

- **Fit** (can they buy): firmographic, demographic, technographic.
- **Engagement** (are they about to buy): behavioral, in-product.

This two-axis model appears under several names: Marketo's A-D x 1-4 grade-and-score grid, MadKudu's Customer Fit x Likelihood to Buy, and OpenView's product-qualified lead (PQL) in PLG.

Scoring fails far more often from organizational neglect - no sales sign-off, no recalibration, MQL count treated as the goal - than from bad math, so validation and governance are part of the design here, not an afterthought. The finished score is an input to assignment: routing, territories, and rep matching belong to `mbfinotti/revops-skills@lead-routing`. Defining the account-fit criteria this skill's fit axis weights - firmographic and technographic ICP tiers - belongs to `mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-icp-definition`; this skill owns turning that definition, plus behavioral engagement, into a working score.

The capture-score-route-nurture mechanics are structurally identical for B2B and B2C/PLG. What genuinely differs between B2C/PLG and B2B:

- Dominant signal source is in-product behavior, not forms and content.
- No buying committee - one user's behavior can qualify.
- Cycles run in days, not quarters.

Because of these differences, decay, thresholds, rescoring frequency, and recalibration all run faster in B2C/PLG.

## Interview

Ask before designing anything. One question per message; offer multiple-choice answers when possible. Skip a question only when the user already gave the answer.

- Which motion? (a) sales-led B2B, (b) PLG / self-serve with sales assist, (c) B2C transactional.
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