first-client-90-day-plan

first-client-90-day-plan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,232 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A 90-day plan for an automation freelancer or agency seeking a first paid client, or for an internal operator seeking an approved pilot. It starts with the earliest unproven sales step and defines what counts as success.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate a buyer, choose between a paid pilot and ongoing service, schedule sales work, and track evidence of approval, scope, payment, or pilot start.
Why use it?
It prevents activity such as friendly replies, proposals, or unpaid demos from being mistaken for a completed sale. It also turns limited time, buyer access, skills, and proof into a staged plan.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the sales-101 plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to validate a buyer, choose between a paid pilot and ongoing service, schedule sales work, and track evidence of approval, scope, payment, or pilot start.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills/first-client-90-day-plan
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 jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills --skill first-client-90-day-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sales-101, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,232 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 $0.00054 $0.01232
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00616
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00123

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1b0e79de3cbd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

first-client-90-day-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 3d 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.

first-client-90-day-plan/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

First Client in 90 Days

Turn the user's skills, access to buyers, and available hours into a path toward a first paid engagement. Start with the earliest unproven sales step and produce the asset needed to test it today. Do not make a beginner finish a course before talking to buyers.

Establish the starting point

Find the lane (freelancer, agency, or internal operator), start date, weekly sales hours, delivery capability, existing buyer access, proof, current opportunities, and desired engagement. Separate the seller's lane from the buyer's role. Default to a first paid pilot with a bounded scope when a recurring service is unproven. Use a retainer only when ongoing work creates ongoing value.

Define success before planning: for an external sale, signed scope plus the agreed first payment actually received; record contract and payment evidence separately. For an operator, named sponsor approval, resources, success metric, and a pilot start date. A friendly reply, scheduled call, verbal yes, proposal, or unpaid demo is an intermediate event.

Build an evidence-gated calendar

Use these overlapping windows as a starting schedule. Adjust for the user's capacity and existing evidence; never restart validated work just to follow the calendar.

Window Work and concrete output Evidence to advance
Days 1-7 One ICP sentence, five disqualifiers, ten buyer conversations Repeated pain, ability to fund, reachable decision path; otherwise rewrite or reject
Days 8-14 One offer paragraph, bounded deliverables and risk reversal Three real say-it-back reactions; feasible delivery and explicit unknowns
Days 15-30 One primary channel, 25-50 sourced prospects, first small outreach test Relevant replies and a buyer-confirmed qualified meeting; log actual counts
Days 31-60 Discovery, costed pilot, pricing discussion, follow-up Buyer-confirmed problem, decision process, and a dated next step
Days 61-90 Close suitable opportunities, deliver a first win, review ongoing needs Paid engagement and agreed acceptance evidence; retainer only if justified

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 63 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 1b0e79de3cbd

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first-client-90-day-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,232 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 2026-09-09.

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