business-case-roi

business-case-roi is a skill for Claude Code from Doris-Labs/sales-skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,323 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A business case and return-on-investment (ROI) calculation based on the buyer’s own costs, measurements, and proposed investment.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps a customer advocate justify a purchase to finance, procurement, or other internal decision-makers.
Why use it?
It replaces vague claims about value with a traceable estimate of the problem’s cost, expected benefit, ROI, and payback time.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the sales-skills plugin — 30 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps a customer advocate justify a purchase to finance, procurement, or other internal decision-makers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/doris-labs/sales-skills/business-case-roi
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 Doris-Labs/sales-skills --skill business-case-roi
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Doris-Labs/sales-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sales-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,323 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.
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 $0.00062 $0.01323
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00661
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00265
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00132

Measured 12d ago against content hash 938db91f014b, 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-roi 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 12d 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-roi/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Business Case & ROI

Purpose

Turn a deal's pains and value drivers into a conservative, defensible ROI model and a one-page business case your champion can take into an internal sign-off meeting — built on the buyer's own numbers, not vendor marketing math.

Inputs

  • The buyer's stated metrics (volumes, costs, cycle times, headcount, error rates) — whatever they actually told you
  • The pains and value drivers they named, ranked by what they care about
  • Your price / proposed investment (annual + any one-time cost)
  • Who signs off and what they need to see (CFO = payback, champion = their pain solved)

Method

A business case is a chain: stated metric → cost of the problem → value of the fix → ROI → payback. Each link must trace to something the buyer said. If a number isn't theirs or directly derived from theirs, it's not defensible — cut it.

1. Quantify the cost of inaction (the "do nothing" number). Anchor the case on what staying still costs per year, not on your features.

Cost of inaction = (frequency of the problem) × (cost per occurrence) × (time horizon)

Use their numbers: "47 reps × 6 hrs/week lost × 46 working weeks × loaded hourly rate." Inaction is the real competitor — make it expensive and concrete before you price anything.

2. Map each value driver to one quantified impact. Every value driver must land in exactly one of four buckets (no double-counting):

Bucket Formula shape Example
Time saved hours saved × loaded rate × #people 2 hrs/wk × $60 × 47 reps
Revenue gained win-rate lift × avg deal × deal volume +3pts × $40k × 200 deals
Cost avoided spend or headcount removed retire $30k/yr tool
Risk reduced P(bad event) × cost of event 5% churn risk × $X ARR
If a driver can't be put in a bucket, it's a "soft benefit" — list it as narrative, not in the math.

3. Build the model conservatively — be defensible, not impressive.

  • Use the low end of every range the buyer gave; haircut your own assumptions 30–50%.
  • Apply a realized-value factor (e.g. 60%) so you're not claiming 100% capture in year one.
  • State every assumption inline so the CFO can challenge a cell, not the whole model.
Annual gross value  = Σ (quantified impacts, conservative)
Annual net value    = gross value − annual investment
ROI %               = (annual net value / annual investment) × 100

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 12d ago First seen · 111 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 938db91f014b

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business-case-roi is a skill published in the GitHub repository Doris-Labs/sales-skills (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,323 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 2026-08-31.