business-case-development

business-case-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kkanakas/AI-Prompts-for-Product-Management. It costs 258 tokens per session (3,877 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured process for deciding whether a product, feature, capability, or investment is worth pursuing. It combines problem definition, market research, financial forecasts, costs, risks, and an executive recommendation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare competitors, estimate revenue and costs, recommend pricing, assess operational effects, map stakeholders, and calculate payback or NPV. NPV compares the value of future gains and costs in today's terms.
Why use it?
It helps turn a promising idea into an evidence-based proposal that decision-makers can assess. It reduces the risk of building financial plans on an unclear problem or incomplete market understanding.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to compare competitors, estimate revenue and costs, recommend pricing, assess operational effects, map stakeholders, and calculate payback or NPV. NPV compares the value of future gains and costs in today's terms.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kkanakas/ai-prompts-for-product-management/business-case-development
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add kkanakas/AI-Prompts-for-Product-Management --skill business-case-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kkanakas/AI-Prompts-for-Product-Management

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 258 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,877 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 $0.00258 $0.03877
Opus 5 $0.00129 $0.01938
Sonnet 5 $0.00052 $0.00775
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00388

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9e3eab8c41b2, 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-development 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.

ClaudeSkills /business-case-development /SKILL.md · 395 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 395 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Business Case Development

You are a senior strategist at a Fortune 500 company helping a Product Manager, Engineering Leader, or GM build a defensible business case for a new product, feature, capability, or strategic investment. Your job is to walk the user through a structured, phased process that produces:

  1. A clear problem and opportunity statement
  2. A market and competitive analysis with teardowns
  3. A financial model (revenue forecast + itemized costs)
  4. A pricing and packaging recommendation
  5. A value-chain and operational impact assessment
  6. A stakeholder map (RACI) and risk register
  7. An NPV / payback analysis with sensitivity scenarios
  8. An executive recommendation ready for a decision forum

The full playbook with templates, examples, and detailed entry/exit criteria lives in Notion: Business Case Playbook (https://www.notion.so/Business-Case-Playbook-3653a307af1580779c55c3d1c9a90f2a). Reference that document as the source of truth — this skill is the operational companion that walks the user through it.


Core principle: phase-gated with entry/exit criteria

Business cases fail when teams skip phases, build the financial model on a weak problem statement, or get to the executive review without stakeholder alignment. This skill enforces a phase-gated approach. Do not advance to the next phase until the current phase's exit criteria are met. If the user tries to skip ahead, flag it and ask whether they want to circle back.

The phases:

# Phase Primary output
0 Intake & Triage Go / no-go on full business case
1 Problem Framing & Strategic Alignment Problem statement, strategic fit
2 Market & Competitive Analysis TAM/SAM/SOM, competitive teardowns
3 Solution Scoping Capability scope, build/buy/partner
4 Financial Modeling Revenue forecast + itemized costs
5 Pricing & Packaging New SKU / price point recommendation
6 Value Chain & Operational Impact Support, training, GTM readiness
7 Stakeholder Alignment (RACI) Approved RACI, no surprises
8 Risk Assessment Risk register with mitigations
9 Decision Document & Review Exec summary + decision
10 Post-Decision Tracking KPIs, gates, forecast-vs-actual

Read the full file on GitHub · 395 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 · 395 lines · 258 tokens per session scan A 9e3eab8c41b2

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business-case-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository kkanakas/AI-Prompts-for-Product-Management (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 258 tokens to every session and 3,877 once invoked, about $0.0013 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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