business-case-development

business-case-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts. It costs 33 tokens per session (511 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured way to justify a proposed investment with costs, expected benefits, strategic fit, and risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to request a budget, compare vendors, plan major initiatives, allocate resources, or explain the expected return on an investment.
Why use it?
It helps turn a project idea into evidence leadership can use to decide whether to approve funding.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to request a budget, compare vendors, plan major initiatives, allocate resources, or explain the expected return on an investment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/business-case-development
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill business-case-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 511 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 5 Mar 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00033 $0.00511
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00255
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00051

Measured 13d ago against content hash 0bcfc19b7a85, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

business-case-development scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 13d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/business-case-development/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Business Case Development

Table of Contents

Overview

A strong business case combines financial analysis, strategic alignment, and risk assessment to justify investment decisions and secure leadership approval.

When to Use

  • Requesting budget approval
  • Justifying technology investments
  • Planning major initiatives
  • Evaluating vendor solutions
  • Resource allocation decisions
  • Strategic priority setting
  • Change management planning

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

Business Case Template:

Project: Customer Portal Modernization
Date: January 2025
Prepared By: Product Manager
For: Finance & Executive Review

---

## Executive Summary

Proposal: Modernize customer portal with cloud-native architecture,
improve UX, and enable real-time features.

Investment Required: $800K (one-time)
Annual Operating Cost: $150K (vs $200K current)
Payback Period: 18 months
NPV (5-year): $2.1M
IRR: 45%

Recommendation: APPROVE - Strong financial case with strategic benefits

---

## Strategic Alignment
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide Contents
Financial Analysis Financial Analysis
Business Case Presentation Business Case Presentation

Best Practices

✅ DO

  • Tie business case to strategic goals
  • Quantify benefits wherever possible
  • Be realistic about timelines and costs
  • Include detailed risk assessment
  • Show multiple scenarios/alternatives
  • Get stakeholder input early
  • Executive sponsor support
  • Use professional presentation
  • Address tough questions proactively
  • Define success metrics upfront

❌ DON'T

  • Over-promise benefits
  • Underestimate costs
  • Ignore alternative solutions
  • Skip risk assessment
  • Rely solely on intangible benefits
  • Present without executive support
  • Use overly optimistic assumptions
  • Forget to include contingency
  • Present incomplete financial analysis
  • Ignore competitive pressures

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 13d ago First seen · 102 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 0bcfc19b7a85

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business-case-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (338 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 511 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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