finances

finances is a skill for Claude Code from whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (2,208 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to financial models and SaaS metrics. SaaS means software sold as a recurring subscription; the guide covers measures such as monthly recurring revenue, customer acquisition cost, customer lifetime value, churn, burn rate, and cash flow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to calculate unit economics, model revenue and expenses, track subscriptions and churn, estimate cash needs, and work out a personal quit number.
Why use it?
It makes the numbers behind a software business easier to understand and use for decisions. It helps replace guesses about growth, spending, profitability, and the income needed to leave a job.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the solo-founder-skills plugin — 54 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to calculate unit economics, model revenue and expenses, track subscriptions and churn, estimate cash needs, and work out a personal quit number.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/finances
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 whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills --skill finances
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-founder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 command.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,208 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00063 $0.02208
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01104
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00442
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00221

Measured 12d ago against content hash 15160a06636e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

finances 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/finances/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SaaS Financial Modeling & Metrics

A SaaS business is a math machine. If you don't know your numbers, you're guessing. This skill makes unit economics legible — MRR, CAC, LTV, churn, burn rate — clear enough to make decisions, rigorous enough to be trusted.

Core Principles

  • A SaaS business is a math machine. If you don't know your numbers, you're guessing.
  • Unit economics tell the truth about your business long before your bank account does.
  • The only financial model that matters for a solo founder is one that fits on a single spreadsheet and gets updated monthly.
  • Revenue is vanity. Margin is sanity. Cash flow is reality.
  • Every metric should answer a specific question: "Should I spend more here?" or "Is this working?"

The Quit Number

Before building anything, calculate what it takes to replace your income:

Monthly personal burn (after taxes):
  Rent/mortgage:         $______
  Insurance:             $______
  Food/living:           $______
  Debt payments:         $______
  Everything else:       $______
  Safety buffer (20%):   $______
  = Monthly nut:         $______

Required MRR to quit:
  Monthly nut ÷ 0.70 = $______
  (0.70 accounts for taxes, SaaS costs, and variance)

At your target price point ($X/mo):
  Required MRR ÷ Price = customers needed

Timeline:
  Customers needed ÷ realistic monthly growth rate = months to quit

Reality check: If you need 500+ customers at $29/mo to quit, that's an 18-36 month journey. Plan accordingly.

Personal Constraint Budget

Runway calculation:
  Current savings available for this venture: $______
  Monthly burn while building (no revenue):  $______
  Savings ÷ Monthly burn = months of runway: ______

  Hard deadline: Date you MUST have revenue or go back to employment.

Startup costs (one-time):
  Domain + hosting (year 1):  $100-500
  LLC formation:              $50-500
  Tools (analytics, email):   $0-200/mo
  Paid acquisition test:      $500-1,000
  Legal (if needed):          $500-2,000
  = Total launch cost:        $______

Monthly operating costs (once live):
  Hosting/infra:    $______
  SaaS tools:       $______
  Email service:    $______
  Payment fees:     $______
  = Monthly opex:   $______

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 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 · 268 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 15160a06636e

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finances is a skill published in the GitHub repository whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills (243 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,208 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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