business-fundamentals

business-fundamentals is a skill for Claude Code from GiangGiangTran/ba-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (2,117 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A business-analysis guide to how organizations make money, measure performance, and assess costs, revenue, profitability, and customer value.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate business cases, rank features by value, understand customer economics, analyze financial effects, and set useful success metrics.
Why use it?
It connects requirements to financial impact, helping teams avoid prioritizing work that has little business value or using misleading success measures.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to evaluate business cases, rank features by value, understand customer economics, analyze financial effects, and set useful success metrics.

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Any agent
npx skills add GiangGiangTran/ba-skills --skill business-fundamentals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GiangGiangTran/ba-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,117 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00046 $0.02117
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01059
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00423
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00212

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9f41a375e412, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

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business-fundamentals 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.

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skills/business-fundamentals/SKILL.md · 315 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 315 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Business Fundamentals for BA

Every requirement has business impact. Understand the math.

What is Business Domain Knowledge?

Definition: Understanding how the business makes money, generates value, and measures success - the financial and operational foundations.

Why it matters:

  • Bad prioritization: Build features nobody will pay for
  • Missed opportunities: Don't recognize high-value features
  • Weak business cases: Can't justify investment to executives
  • Wrong metrics: Measuring vanity metrics, not real impact

When to Use:

  • ✅ Evaluating business case for initiative
  • ✅ Prioritizing features by business value
  • ✅ Understanding customer economics
  • ✅ Analyzing financial impact
  • ✅ Setting success metrics tied to business

3 Core Business Model Concepts

1. How Does the Company Make Money?

Different business models, different priorities:

Subscription/SaaS:

  • Key metric: MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue)
  • Priorities: Reduce churn, increase ARPU (Average Revenue Per User)
  • Customer lifetime value matters more than acquisition cost

Transactional (Marketplace):

  • Key metric: GMV (Gross Merchandise Volume)
  • Priorities: Increase transaction volume, take rate
  • Liquidity (supply + demand) matters most

Freemium:

  • Key metric: Conversion rate (Free → Paid)
  • Priorities: Maximize free user base, conversion funnel
  • Balance: Too aggressive → low adoption, Too passive → no revenue

Advertising:

  • Key metric: CPM (Cost Per Mille), CTR (Click-Through Rate)
  • Priorities: Maximize time-on-site, ad placements
  • User experience vs ad density trade-off

See: references/business-models.md


2. Unit Economics (The Math That Matters)

Every business needs this math to work:

For SaaS Business:

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC): $500
  = Sales + Marketing spend / New customers

Monthly Subscription Price: $100
Gross Margin: 80%
  = Revenue - COGS / Revenue

Monthly Churn Rate: 5%
  = (Customers lost / Starting customers) / Month

Lifetime Value (LTV): $1,600
  = (Monthly Price × Gross Margin) / Monthly Churn

LTV/CAC Ratio: 3.2
  = $1,600 / $500

Rule of Thumb: LTV/CAC should be ≥ 3
Status: ✓ Unit economics work!

Read the full file on GitHub · 315 lines

Changes

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  1. 12d ago First seen · 315 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 9f41a375e412

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business-fundamentals is a skill published in the GitHub repository GiangGiangTran/ba-skills (6 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,117 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 2026-08-31.

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