# revenue-leakage

Traces silent deal and revenue drops in a single funnel instance. It isolates real process leaks from healthy disqualification and sizes losses strictly in recoverable dollars.

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- 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/revenue-leakage/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/revenue-leakage

## What it does

The skill uses process mining on event logs to reconstruct the actual path of records from timestamps rather than documented workflows. It applies a conservation test across each transition, demanding that every entered record is either advanced, lost with a reason, disqualified with a reason, or open within an expected dwell window.

Stalled deals are sized strictly in recoverable dollars rather than gross pipeline value, preventing the loss of credibility with finance teams. Residual drops undergo a three-way test: genuine process stalls, deliberate customer disqualifications, or data-capture gaps caused by manual handoffs in spreadsheets and email.

Funnel stages and routing rules are taken as given inputs. If stage definitions themselves are broken, the author points to pipeline-stage-definition-audit instead, because this skill audits the leak points of an existing flow rather than redesigning it.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mbfinotti/revops-skills revenue-leakage
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill revenue-leakage -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/revenue-leakage/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- locate stalled deals between verbal commitment and signed contracts
- separate genuine funnel drop-offs from healthy lead disqualification
- identify untracked manual handoffs occurring in spreadsheets or email
- quantify recoverable revenue loss without inflating gross pipeline figures

## Example prompts
- Trace where we are losing deals in our enterprise sales funnel this quarter
- Analyze our pipeline event logs to find untracked handoff drops
- Calculate recoverable revenue leakage for our self-serve onboarding funnel

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: revenue-leakage
description: Trace where deals and revenue silently exit one specific funnel and size the loss in recoverable (never gross) dollars - untracked steps, unworked leads, manual handoffs, mid-funnel stalls, paper-process drops, billing and renewal misses - separating real leaks from healthy disqualification and data-capture gaps. Use whenever the user mentions revenue leakage, funnel drop-off, a leaky funnel, deals disappearing, unworked leads, handoff gaps, "where are we losing deals", or "why did pipeline vanish" - even if they never say "leakage". Covers B2B sales-led and B2C/self-serve/PLG, one funnel instance at a time. Takes stage definitions as given - to audit those, use mbfinotti/revops-skills@pipeline-stage-definition-audit instead.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Maya-Beth Finotti
  version: "1.4.2"
---

# Revenue Leakage

Trace where records and dollars silently exit one specific funnel instance, prove each loss is real, size the recoverable amount, and rank the fixes by owner.

- **Lifecycle lens:** Winning by Design's Bowtie (winningbydesign.com/bowtie). Leakage spans acquisition through onboarding, renewal, and expansion, not just the sales stages - most teams over-inspect the top and never reconcile the back half.
- **Late-stage leak:** MEDDPICC's "Paper Process" element (meddicc.com/meddpicc) names the classic late-stage leak - deals that die between verbal yes and signature.
- **Working method:** process mining applied to the funnel's own event log, the approach Celonis popularized. Reconstruct the process from timestamps as it actually ran, never from the documented flowchart.

## Ground Rules

- Trace, never redesign. The stage set, routing rules, scoring model, and handoff processes are inputs. If one of them is the defect, say so in one line and route to the matching skill in Reference - do not rebuild it here.
- The deliverable is a leak register, never a hygiene checklist. Stale-deal counts, missing fields, and push counts are input signals for locating leaks; reporting them as the finding is a different skill's job (`mbfinotti/revops-skills@sales-pipeline-hygiene`). Leakage asks where records and dollars exited without an accounted-for reason, and what that is worth.
- Nothing is a leak until it passes the three-way classification below. Counting healthy disqualification as leakage is the most common false finding in this genre. Mistaking a data-capture gap for a funnel drop is the second most common.
- Size the recoverable amount, never the gross. Presenting the gross pipeline value of stalled deals as "leaked revenue" is the standard way these reports lose credibility with finance.
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