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startup-business-models is a skill for Claude Code from NikitaDmitrieff/auto-co-meta. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,634 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing how a startup charges customers and checking whether its revenue model can support the business.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare subscriptions, usage-based pricing, marketplaces, credits, and hybrid models, and to estimate measures such as customer value, acquisition cost, payback, margins, and expansion.
Why use it?
It makes pricing decisions clearer when costs, customer groups, retention, sales methods, or usage levels differ.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

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startup-business-models 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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.claude/skills/startup-business-models/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

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Startup Business Models

Systematic workflow for choosing revenue models, pricing, and unit economics.

Quick Start (Inputs)

Ask for the smallest set of inputs that makes the decision meaningful:

  • Business type: SaaS, usage-based/API, marketplace, services, hardware + service
  • ICP/segment(s): SMB / mid-market / enterprise (and ACV/ARPA bands)
  • Current pricing and packaging: value metric, tiers, limits, discount policy, billing cadence
  • Unit economics drivers: fully-loaded CAC, gross margin/COGS (include LLM/infra/third-party), churn/retention, expansion (NRR)
  • Constraints: sales motion (PLG vs sales-led), implementation constraints (billing metering, proration), gross margin floor, payback target

If numbers are missing, proceed with ranges + explicit assumptions and highlight what to measure next.

Workflow

  1. Classify the model
  • Subscription, usage-based, freemium, marketplace take-rate, transaction fee, ads, outcome-based, credit-based, hybrid.
  1. Build a segment-level unit economics snapshot
  • Use references/unit-economics-calculator.md for formulas, benchmarks, and common pitfalls.
  • Prefer cohort/segment views over blended averages.
  1. Evaluate model fit and risks
  • Align price metric with value delivered and cost incurred (especially usage + AI compute).
  • Identify failure modes: margin compression, adverse selection, channel conflict, support cost explosions, metering/overage friction.
  1. Propose pricing + packaging changes
  • Use references/pricing-research-guide.md for WTP methods and pricing interview scripts.
  • Use assets/pricing-tier-design.md to draft tiers, limits, upgrade triggers, and enforcement rules.
  1. Define measurement and roll-out
  • Define success metric + guardrails, evaluation design, and explicit lag windows (conversion now, retention later).
  1. Deliver a decision-ready output
  • Recommendation, rationale, assumptions, scenarios (base/best/worst), and next experiments.

2026 Heuristics (Context-Dependent)

  • Prioritize payback and gross margin over a single ratio; LTV:CAC is easiest to game.
  • Typical SaaS targets (directional, by segment/stage): LTV:CAC 3-5x, payback 6-12 months (PLG) or 12-18 months (sales-led early), NRR >100% (mid-market/enterprise) and gross margin >70% (software-only).
  • For usage-based / AI products: model contribution margin per unit (token/job/workflow) and set pricing guardrails (rate limits, minimums, commit tiers, credit expiries).

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 lines

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  1. 12d ago First seen · 141 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 5457890151ef

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startup-business-models is a skill published in the GitHub repository NikitaDmitrieff/auto-co-meta (43 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,634 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 2026-08-30.

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