business-model

business-model is a skill for Claude Code from alexsmedile/hormozi-skills. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,406 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A business-planning skill that compares ways to earn money from skills, expertise, products, or services. It considers options such as doing work for clients, helping clients do it themselves, selling a product, subscriptions, and combinations of these.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a business model, plan how an offer will make money, compare alternatives, and identify ways to grow beyond time-for-money work.
Why use it?
It helps when you do not know what to sell, cannot choose between services and products, or rely too heavily on your own time. It compares trade-offs against your goals, resources, and limits.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the hormozi-skills plugin — 18 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose a business model, plan how an offer will make money, compare alternatives, and identify ways to grow beyond time-for-money work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexsmedile/hormozi-skills/business-model
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add alexsmedile/hormozi-skills --skill business-model
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexsmedile/hormozi-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hormozi-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 6 agents.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,406 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00058 $0.01406
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00703
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00141

Measured 13d ago against content hash fe9e7fe72388, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

business-model 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-model/SKILL.md · 414 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 414 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Business Model Designer (Strategic Monetization Engine)

Purpose

Choose the right way to make money from your skills, offer, and market.

This skill:

  • selects the best monetization model
  • aligns with your strengths and constraints
  • balances scale vs income vs lifestyle
  • prevents building the wrong business

Goal: build a model that works for you, not just in theory.


When to Use

Activate this skill when:

  • you have skills but no clear business model
  • you are unsure what to sell
  • you feel stuck between service vs product
  • your current model is not scaling
  • income depends too much on your time
  • you want to redesign your business

Inputs

This skill works with:

  • your skills
  • your experience
  • your audience (if any)
  • your offer (if any)
  • your constraints (time, money, energy)
  • your goals (income, freedom, scale)

Core Outcome

The assistant produces:

  • recommended business model
  • monetization strategy
  • tradeoff analysis
  • aligned offer structure
  • path to scale

Assistant Behavior

1. Understand the user

Identify:

Skills
  • what you are good at
  • what you can deliver results in
Assets
  • audience
  • brand
  • experience
  • proof
Constraints
  • time available
  • capital
  • energy
Goals
  • income target
  • lifestyle preference
  • scalability desire

2. Identify current position

Determine:

  • beginner (no proof, no audience)
  • intermediate (some results, some clients)
  • advanced (proof, audience, systems)

3. Evaluate monetization models


Core Models

1. Service (DFY)

You do the work.

Examples

  • freelancing
  • agency
  • consulting

Pros

  • fast cash
  • high price potential

Cons

  • limited by time
  • harder to scale

2. Productized Service (DWY)

Structured service.

Examples

  • programs
  • coaching
  • group offers

Pros

  • more scalable
  • repeatable
  • higher leverage

Cons

  • still time involved

3. Digital Product (DIY)

You sell knowledge or systems.

Read the full file on GitHub · 414 lines

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 · 414 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A fe9e7fe72388

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business-model is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexsmedile/hormozi-skills (156 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,406 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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