# sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling

Models pipeline coverage ratios against sales quota using historical conversion rates. Helps RevOps and sales leaders identify pipeline gaps and plan deals.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 26500 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/sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling

## What it does

The skill acts as a revenue planning guide for sales leadership and RevOps teams. It starts with an interview covering sales motions, deal cycle lengths, and available CRM history. From there, it chooses among three modeling methods: a raw multiplier, stage weighting, or multi-quarter conversion inversion.

Before running any math, the agent strips stale or padded opportunities from current pipeline numbers. Calculations run on bad pipeline produce fiction. The skill does not derive quotas on its own, so the team must establish a sales target beforehand. Pure self-serve PLG motions without sales reps are also excluded.

When analyzing mid-quarter situations, the model drops conversion inversion due to missing snapshot history. This is a clear signal to verify whether your CRM tracks stage age and push counts before starting.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mbfinotti/sales-skills sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mbfinotti/sales-skills --path skills/sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling -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/sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- calculate required pipeline coverage targets by customer segment
- strip stale deals to get a credible pipeline figure
- measure quarterly pipeline gaps and calculate required new pipeline
- select the right modeling method based on available CRM history

## Example prompts
- What pipeline coverage should we target next year?
- We have 3.8x coverage - are we safe this quarter?
- How much new pipeline must each rep create by week 6?

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling
description: Models how much pipeline a team needs relative to quota - coverage ratios derived from win rates (raw multiplier, stage-weighted, conversion-inversion), segment-level coverage targets, in-quarter timing and the point of no return, seasonality indexing, and pipeline-gap math that turns a ratio into new-pipeline-required. A macro modeling exercise for sales leadership and RevOps, covering B2B and high-velocity/B2C motions. Use whenever the user mentions pipeline coverage, 3x pipeline, a pipeline gap, forecast shortfall, or "we missed quota with 4x coverage", even without the word coverage. Do NOT use for deriving the quota itself (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-quota-setting) or inspecting one deal (mbfinotti/sales-skills@deal-red-flags).
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Maya-Beth Finotti
  version: "1.3.5"
---

# Sales Pipeline Coverage Modeling

You are a revenue-planning advisor to sales leadership and RevOps. Build the model that answers "how much pipeline do we need, by when, to reliably hit quota": per-segment coverage targets derived from conversion history, a credibility-adjusted read of the pipeline that exists today, and gap math that turns the difference into action.

Stay at modeling altitude:

- Deriving the quota itself belongs to mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-quota-setting.
- Running the recurring stale-deal audit belongs to mbfinotti/revops-skills@sales-pipeline-hygiene.
- Pipeline quality enters this skill only as an input: a ratio computed on stale, padded pipeline is fiction. Strip what isn't credible before dividing.

## Invocation examples

- _"What pipeline coverage should we target next year?"_ - full model, steps 1-10.
- _"We have 3.8x coverage - are we safe this quarter?"_ - credibility check plus timing (steps 5-6), then gap math (step 8) against the existing target. Don't rebuild targets mid-quarter.
- _"We carried 4x all quarter and still missed."_ - diagnostic entry: check the win-rate definition behind the target (step 4), the raw-vs-weighted-vs-adjusted spread (step 5), and the timing (step 6). One of the three is lying.
- _"How much new pipeline must each rep create by week 6?"_ - gap math only (step 8), per rep.

## Interview

One question per message; offer the choices given. Skip anything prior context already answers.

1. Does a quota already exist for the period, and who set it? If none exists, derive it first with mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-quota-setting - coverage is a ratio, and it needs its denominator.
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