business-case-modeling

business-case-modeling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gokulb20/crewm8-cfo-skills. It costs 92 tokens per session (2,900 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for comparing an initiative’s costs, expected returns, risks, and alternatives. It uses measures such as ROI (return on investment), NPV (value after discounting future cash), IRR (estimated investment return), payback time, and break-even point.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess new products, market expansion, hiring plans, tool migrations, office moves, partnerships, and other major spending decisions.
Why use it?
It replaces decisions based mainly on opinion with a documented financial comparison. It helps show when an investment may recover its cost and what could make the case fail.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: positional $N argument; built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to assess new products, market expansion, hiring plans, tool migrations, office moves, partnerships, and other major spending decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gokulb20/crewm8-cfo-skills/business-case-modeling
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add gokulb20/crewm8-cfo-skills --skill business-case-modeling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gokulb20/crewm8-cfo-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,900 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 $0.00092 $0.02900
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01450
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00580
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00290

Measured 12d ago against content hash 17e4c1232b67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

business-case-modeling 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/financial-planning-analysis/business-case-modeling/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Business Case Modeling

Build rigorous business cases for major investment decisions — new products, market expansions, hiring teams, tool migrations, office moves. Model the full cost, the expected return, and the risks. Goal: every significant dollar of spend has a documented case for why it's worth it.

Purpose

Startups make dozens of investment decisions each year — should we hire a sales team in Europe? Build a new product? Attend this conference series? Without a structured business case, decisions are driven by whoever argues most loudly or has the CEO's ear. This skill brings rigor and consistency to capital allocation by modeling costs, benefits, risks, and alternatives for every major spend decision.

When to Use

  • "Should we hire a sales team in Europe?"
  • "Build a business case for this new product"
  • "What's the ROI of attending this conference series?"
  • "Model the payback on this tool migration"
  • "Is this partnership worth the investment?"
  • "Compare these two growth initiatives"

Inputs Required

  1. Initiative description — what you're doing, why, and the hypothesis.
  2. Cost estimates — one-time costs (setup, migration, equipment) and recurring costs (headcount, tools, ongoing spend).
  3. Revenue or savings projections — what value does this create? New revenue, cost savings, or efficiency gains.
  4. Timeline — when costs hit and when benefits start.
  5. Risk factors — what could go wrong, and how likely is it?

Quick Reference

Metric Formula Interpretation
NPV Present value of future cash flows minus initial investment > $0 = invest
IRR Discount rate that makes NPV = 0 > cost of capital = value-creating
Payback period Time to recover initial investment < 3 years for startups
Break-even Point where cumulative benefits equal cumulative costs Lower is safer
Discount rate Risk-adjusted cost of capital 15% standard for startup projects

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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 · 184 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 17e4c1232b67

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business-case-modeling is a skill published in the GitHub repository gokulb20/crewm8-cfo-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 2,900 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 2026-08-31.

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