value-creation-plan

value-creation-plan is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/financial-services. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,101 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A post-acquisition plan that maps revenue, cost, and operational changes to expected EBITDA improvement. EBITDA is a common measure of operating profit before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build an EBITDA bridge, set 100-day priorities, define KPI targets, and organise a board-ready value-creation roadmap.
Why use it?
It turns broad improvement ideas into timed initiatives with expected impact, required investment, and assigned accountability.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

Part of the private-equity plugin — 7 skills, 10 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to build an EBITDA bridge, set 100-day priorities, define KPI targets, and organise a board-ready value-creation roadmap.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/financial-services/value-creation-plan
About the project

Claude for Financial Services is a collection of agents, skills, commands, plugins, and data connectors for investment banking, equity research, private equity, and wealth-management workflows. Financial professionals use it to draft models, memos, research notes, and reconciliations for review by qualified people. The catalogue contains components from these workflows, including agents, skills, plugins, commands, and instructions.

anthropics/financial-services · 34,793 stars · on GitHub

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 anthropics/financial-services --skill value-creation-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install private-equity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 10 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,101 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 12 Jun 2026
  • Snyk pass 13 Jun 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 $0.00097 $0.01101
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00550
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00110

Measured today against content hash 3440bd782102, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

value-creation-plan 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 today.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/vertical-plugins/private-equity/skills/value-creation-plan/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Value Creation Plan

Workflow

Step 1: Baseline Assessment

Understand the starting point:

  • Current revenue, EBITDA, and margins
  • Organizational structure and capabilities
  • Key operational metrics by function
  • Management team strengths and gaps
  • Quick wins already identified during diligence

Step 2: Value Creation Levers

Map all levers to an EBITDA bridge over the hold period:

Revenue Growth Levers
  • Organic growth: Price increases, volume growth, market expansion
  • Cross-sell / upsell: New products to existing customers
  • New market entry: Geographic expansion, new verticals, new channels
  • Sales force effectiveness: Hire reps, improve conversion, shorten cycle
  • M&A / add-ons: Bolt-on acquisitions to add revenue and capabilities

For each lever:

  • Current state → Target state
  • Revenue impact ($)
  • Timeline to impact
  • Investment required
  • Confidence level (high/medium/low)
Margin Expansion Levers
  • Pricing optimization: Price increases, mix shift, bundling
  • COGS reduction: Procurement savings, supplier consolidation, automation
  • OpEx optimization: Overhead reduction, shared services, offshoring
  • Technology investment: Automation, systems integration, data analytics
  • Scale leverage: Fixed cost leverage as revenue grows
Strategic / Multiple Expansion
  • Platform building: Add-on acquisitions, tuck-ins
  • Recurring revenue shift: Move from project to recurring/subscription
  • Market positioning: Category leadership, brand building
  • Management upgrades: Key hires to professionalize the business
  • ESG / governance: Board formation, reporting improvements

Step 3: EBITDA Bridge

Build the walk from current to target EBITDA:

Lever Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5
Base EBITDA
Organic revenue growth
Pricing
Add-on M&A
COGS savings
OpEx optimization
Technology investment
Pro Forma EBITDA
Margin

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. today First seen · 124 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 3440bd782102

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value-creation-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/financial-services (34,793 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,101 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-12.

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