# sales-to-cs-handoff

Designs the sales-to-CS handoff after a deal closes: what data moves, when, in which artifact, and who owns it.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 20700 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/sales-to-cs-handoff/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/sales-to-cs-handoff

## What it does

The skill walks you through six decisions: the trigger event and its gate, the required data set, the artifact it travels in, the timing clocks, the meeting pattern, and an accountability chain with an explicit acceptance step. The output is a handoff spec — a gated closed-won trigger, a required handoff packet, timing SLAs, a kickoff meeting pattern, and a step where CS accepts or rejects the handoff.

It starts with an interview: one question per message, multiple-choice where possible. It asks about your motion and segment mix, who exists post-sale, how many closed-won deals you get per month, how long closed-won to kickoff takes today, what your CRM actually captures at close, and whether CS can reject a rep's work. Those answers set the weight of the process. A low hour ceiling for CS deletes the per-deal packet document and the internal sync; no standing to reject deletes the acceptance step until a manager sponsors it.

Five elements of a handoff process are ranked on three axes — efficiency, value, and CS hours per handoff. The orders disagree on purpose: the strongest rung and the cheapest rung are not the same rung. This is not employee onboarding, not a single recap email, and not account health scoring — that last one belongs to the sibling skill `customer-health-score`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill sales-to-cs-handoff -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill sales-to-cs-handoff -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill sales-to-cs-handoff -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mbfinotti/revops-skills sales-to-cs-handoff
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/sales-to-cs-handoff/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill sales-to-cs-handoff -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mbfinotti/revops-skills --path skills/sales-to-cs-handoff
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill sales-to-cs-handoff -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/sales-to-cs-handoff/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- design the sales-to-CS handoff after a deal closes
- stop customers from repeating themselves after signing
- enforce required CRM fields and an assignment rule with a fallback owner
- set timing from closed-won to kickoff and define the kickoff pattern
- add a step where CS accepts or rejects a handoff

## Example prompts
- Design a sales-to-CS handoff process for our enterprise segment
- Customers repeat themselves after signing — work out what should travel in the handoff packet
- Write a handoff spec with a gated closed-won trigger and timing SLAs

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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description: Design the sales-to-CS handoff process after a deal closes - what data transfers, when, in what artifact, and who is accountable - producing a handoff spec with a gated closed-won trigger, a required handoff packet, timing SLAs, a kickoff meeting pattern, and a CS acceptance/rejection step. For RevOps and Sales Ops designing and enforcing the process, not a CSM running one handoff. Use whenever the user mentions sales to CS handoff, post-close transition, closed-won to kickoff, handoff accountability, "the CSM starts from zero", or "customers repeat themselves after signing" - even if they never say "handoff". Covers B2B high-touch through PLG/self-serve and B2C subscription. Do NOT use for account health scoring - use mbfinotti/revops-skills@customer-health-score instead.
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# CS Handoff

Design the process that moves a customer from the seller who won them to the owner who keeps them. Lincoln Murphy's diagnosis frames the stakes: "Customers hate three things: surprises, uncertainty, and repeating themselves" - and a poor handoff delivers all three before the customer's first call with CS. He attributes customers ghosting during onboarding "100% of the time" to a poorly designed - or not-designed-at-all - sales handoff process.

The design job has six decisions:

- The trigger event and its gate.
- The required data set.
- The artifact it travels in.
- The timing clocks.
- The meeting pattern.
- An accountability chain with an explicit acceptance step.

The named canon, where it genuinely helps:

- **Winning by Design's Bowtie Model** places Commit at the center of one continuous revenue lifecycle - the handoff is the seam between its two halves, not the end of a funnel.
- **Murphy's Desired Outcome** (Goal + Appropriate Experience) defines what must transfer: the customer's actual goal _and_ the experience they need to feel successful, not just contract terms.
- **Murphy's touch-level segmentation** sets coverage by what a segment needs, never by what it pays.
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