Business Development Agent Skills That Close

Business development skills cover the work of building deals that are not a standard sale: finding partners who can reach customers you cannot, keeping a pipeline of possible deals with owners and next steps, working out how the economics and the work would split, negotiating terms including the ways a partnership usually dies, getting legal paper that matches what was shaken on, and then launching, enabling, and reviewing whether it produced anything. Use the ranked list by starting with the sub-topic you are actually stuck on — partner sourcing, pipeline hygiene, deal structure, negotiation prep, legal handoff, or post-launch review — and pick a skill whose description matches that stage. Read the skill's own documentation before loading it, since scope and inputs vary.

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Business development is deals that are not (only) a standard sale: partners, pipeline, structure, negotiate, then integrate.

These are the closest matches for this work. Start with the first one and open it to install.

Who could get you to customers you cannot reach alone.A list of possible deals, with owners and next steps.How the economics and the work would actually split.The terms, including the ways the partnership usually dies.Paper that matches what was shaken on.Announce, enable, and check whether it produced anything.

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  1. Rank 04
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    pipeline-stage-definition-audit

    Audits existing pipeline stage definitions against buyer-verifiable milestones, flagging rep-activity stages, and adds stage aging, conversion decay, and close-date push diagnostics.

    6,670 · popularity
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  2. Rank 05
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    revenue-funnel

    Designs a company's revenue funnel model from scratch: stage set, unit of analysis, model purpose, cohort conversion assumptions, and marketing-sales-CS ownership handoffs.

    • Pipeline
    • Negotiate
    6,668 · popularity
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  3. Rank 06
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    deal-red-flags

    Reviews one deal's free-text notes for qualification red flags — single-threaded, no champion, no compelling event, unverified budget — graded on severity and confidence with quoted evidence.

    • Pipeline
    7,723 · popularity
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  4. Rank 07
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    revops

    Designs revenue operations systems: lead lifecycle stages, MQL/SQL definitions, lead scoring and routing, marketing-to-sales handoff, and pipeline management.

    • Pipeline
    • Negotiate
    105,843 · popularity
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  5. Rank 08
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    lead-research-assistant

    Identifies and qualifies leads by analyzing your product, defining an ICP, finding matching companies, scoring fit, and suggesting contact strategies and outreach angles.

    5,206 · popularity
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    joint-gtm-planning

    Plans one joint go-to-market motion with one chosen partner: joint value proposition, co-marketing campaign shape, launch sequencing, budget and MDF, lead-sharing and attribution, and debrief.

    • Partners
    • Structure
    4,018 · popularity
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  2. Rank 10
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    partner-economics

    Models the unit economics of one partner relationship — partner P&L, margin modeling, cost-to-serve, referral-fee and LTV split, partner CAC vs direct CAC, ramp and payback — to sign, scale, renegotiate, or exit.

    • Partners
    • Launch & review
    4,128 · popularity
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  3. Rank 11
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    partner-channel-conflict

    Writes channel conflict rules governing contested deals: rules of engagement, account segmentation, deal registration as a claim instrument, compensation neutrality, and escalation ladders.

    • Pipeline
    4,126 · popularity
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  4. Rank 12
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    partner-tiering

    Designs or redesigns tier structure inside an existing B2B partner program: qualification criteria, benefit bundles, tier count, promotion/demotion rules, review cadence, and migration.

    • Partners
    4,122 · popularity
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  5. Rank 13
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    partner-performance

    Measures and reviews individual partners: per-partner scorecard dimensions and weights, review cadence and QBR structure, and the underperformance ladder from trigger to de-tier or exit.

    • Partners
    • Launch & review
    4,120 · popularity
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  6. Rank 14
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    partner-marketplace-strategy

    Decides which third-party marketplaces to list on, how much to invest, expected ROI, and when to delist — cloud marketplaces, app stores, and retail — with a readiness gate and weighted scorecard.

    • Partners
    • Structure
    4,106 · popularity
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  7. Rank 15
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    partnerships-kickoff

    Entry-point router for a partnerships-skills collection: matches a task (channel, alliance, co-sell, marketplace, affiliate, influencer, referral) to one sibling skill and bootstraps shared context.

    • Partners
    4,143 · popularity
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  8. Rank 16
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    sales-pipeline-hygiene

    Runs a periodic hygiene audit over an active pipeline snapshot: stale deals, close-date push anomalies, and missing forecast-critical fields, producing an exception list with dispositions.

    • Launch & review
    6,609 · popularity
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  9. Rank 17
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    revenue-leakage

    Traces where deals and revenue silently exit a funnel and sizes recoverable loss — untracked steps, unworked leads, handoff gaps, mid-funnel stalls, billing and renewal misses.

    6,663 · popularity
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  10. Rank 18
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    sales-forecast-diagnostic

    Diagnoses why a sales forecast is unreliable — stage inflation, sandbagging, unverifiable buyer evidence, stale close dates, zombie deals — separating data, behavior, and demand causes.

    • Pipeline
    6,584 · popularity
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  11. Rank 19
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    deal-management

    Runs the full deal lifecycle from the HubSpot CLI: discover pipelines/stages, qualify MQLs into deals with associations, advance or reassign in bulk, hunt stalled deals, and close.

    1,611 · popularity
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    predictable-revenue

    Builds a scalable outbound B2B sales machine: SDR/AE/CSM role specialization, lead types (seeds/nets/spears), Cold Calling 2.0 referral emails, ANUM qualification, and pipeline math.

    • Negotiate
    4,853 · popularity
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  13. Rank 21
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    firecrawl-lead-research

    Produces pre-meeting lead intelligence briefs with Firecrawl: company and person research, recent news, talking points, pain points, and outreach angles for sales or partnership meetings.

    • Partners
    31,166 · popularity
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    sales-reporting

    Produces daily briefings, pipeline snapshots, and win/loss analysis from the terminal: closing-this-week, open pipeline by stage/owner, and closed-won vs closed-lost over a period.

    1,606 · popularity
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    triage-nda

    Rapidly triages an incoming NDA and classifies it GREEN (standard approval), YELLOW (counsel review), or RED (full legal review), screening for non-solicits, non-competes, and missing carveouts.

    • Legal
    2,621 · popularity
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  16. Rank 24
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    grow-business

    Guided journey from lumpy revenue to a repeatable growth engine, orchestrating nine skills across marketing, offers, outbound pipeline, word-of-mouth, persuasion, and metrics.

    1,727 · popularity
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  17. Rank 25
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    co-marketing

    Notable

    When the user wants to find co-marketing partners, plan joint campaigns, or brainstorm partnership opportunities. Use when the user says 'co-marketing,' 'partner marketing,' 'joint campaign,' 'who should we partner with,' 'integration marketing,' 'cross-promotion,' 'collaborate with another company,' 'partnership ideas,' or 'co-brand.' For customer referral programs, see referrals. For launch-specific partnerships, see launch.

    • Partners
    • Structure
    63,385 · popularity
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  18. Rank 26
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    prospecting

    Notable

    When the user wants to find, qualify, and build a list of prospects to reach out to, across B2B SaaS, general B2B, or local small businesses. Also use when the user mentions "prospecting," "build a prospect list," "find leads," "lead list," "outbound list," "target account list," "ICP-fit accounts," "find local businesses," "find my first customers," "design partners," "signal-based outbound," "buying signals," "intent data," "job change alerts," "waterfall enrichment," "Clay table," "lookalike accounts," "catch-all emails," "account tiering," or "research this account before I reach out." Always verify emails before they reach a sequence, and never scrape LinkedIn. Define audiences in Sales Navigator and pull contacts from licensed data. Covers list building, signals, enrichment, verification, and account research. For the outreach itself (copy, sending setup, LinkedIn, cadences, replies), see cold-email. For researching competitors, see competitor-profiling.

    57,450 · popularity
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  19. Rank 27
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    influencer-marketing

    Runs influencer, creator, and ambassador partnerships: finding and vetting partners, structuring deals, briefing creators, disclosure compliance, and measuring ROI.

    • Structure
    30,750 · popularity
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  20. Rank 28
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    events

    Plans and runs event-driven marketing — webinars, conferences, sponsorships, speaking, and dinners — to create pipeline, authority, and content, with ROI and follow-up systems.

    • Partners
    • Negotiate
    15,760 · popularity
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  21. Rank 29
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    influencer-discovery-brief

    Defines creator sourcing criteria and produces a discovery brief: weighted criteria for audience fit, engagement quality, niche consistency, and brand safety, plus a ranked shortlist template.

    • Partners
    • Negotiate
    4,157 · popularity
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  22. Rank 30
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    referral-incentive-design

    Designs the reward structure of a customer refer-a-friend program: who gets rewarded, reward type and size against LTV/CAC, payout trigger, and tiered reward ladders.

    4,100 · popularity
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  23. Rank 31
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    sales-quota-setting

    Designs how sales quotas are derived: top-down vs bottom-up reconciliation, ramp-adjusted capacity modeling, over-assignment cushion, territory allocation, and validation.

    • Pipeline
    8,017 · popularity
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  24. Rank 32
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    influencer-campaign-brief

    Drafts the creative campaign brief a brand hands an already-signed influencer or creator: deliverables, key messages, guardrails, disclosure, timeline, and bounded review rounds.

    4,159 · popularity
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    influencer-measurement-framework

    Designs the pre-launch measurement plan for one influencer or creator campaign: KPIs matched to objective, attribution method and data source per KPI, reporting cadence, and declared blind spots.

    • Partners
    4,110 · popularity
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  26. Rank 34
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    Pipedrive Automation

    Automates Pipedrive CRM workflows: deal management, pipeline stage configuration, activity tracking, automation triggers, and sales reporting.

    4,054 · popularity
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    sales-agentforce-pipeline-management-configure

    Configures Agentforce Pipeline Management in a Salesforce org: metadata for flows, prompt templates, permission sets, data sources, and opportunity stage descriptions.

    • Pipeline
    2,854 · popularity
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  28. Rank 36
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    tear-sheet

    Generates audience-specific company tear sheets from S&P Capital IQ data, including a sales/business-development audience for meeting prep and target profiles.

    1,645 · popularity
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  29. Rank 37
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    business-growth-skills

    Router for four business and growth skills: customer-success-manager, sales-engineer, revenue-operations, and contract-and-proposal-writer, matching a request to the right one.

    2,170 · popularity
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  30. Rank 38
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    partnerships-hiring

    Employer-side partnerships hiring: calibrates scorecards to company type, builds the channel-manager interview loop with judgment tests, sources candidates, and gates compensation on live verification.

    • Partners
    • Structure
    4,128 · popularity
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  31. Rank 39
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    affiliate-payout-audit

    Audits an affiliate or partner commission payout run for accuracy before disbursement: rate and tier recomputation, double-counted conversions, clawback windows, cutoff, currency, and tax status.

    4,102 · popularity
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    partnerships-career

    Plans a partnerships career from the candidate side: sub-discipline choice, internal-transfer entry, interview-loop prep, job-posting red-flag reads, and offer evaluation.

    • Partners
    4,115 · popularity
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  33. Rank 41
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    startup-metrics-framework

    Tracks and calculates startup metrics — MRR/ARR, CAC/LTV, burn multiple, retention, and growth efficiency — for benchmarking and investor or board reporting.

    10,732 · popularity
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  34. Rank 42
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    business-health-diagnostic

    Diagnoses SaaS business health across growth, retention, unit economics, and capital efficiency, delivering a health scorecard for board meetings, reviews, or fundraising prep.

    2,608 · popularity
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  35. Rank 43
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    improve-business

    Guided journey for a stalled business: diagnoses strategy, execution, management, structure, motivation, metrics, margin, and pricing across eight phases with recorded artifacts.

    1,721 · popularity
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  36. Rank 44
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    grow-sustainably

    Advises on sustainable, profitable business growth: cost control, hiring, fundraising alternatives, avoiding burnout, and building profitable confidence.

    2,501 · popularity
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  37. Rank 45
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    xlsx

    Official

    Use this skill any time a spreadsheet file is the primary input or output. This means any task where the user wants to: open, read, edit, or fix an existing .xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .csv, or .tsv file (e.g., adding columns, computing formulas, formatting, charting, cleaning messy data); create a new spreadsheet from scratch or from other data sources; or convert between tabular file formats. Trigger especially when the user references a spreadsheet file by name or path — even casually (like \"the xlsx in my downloads\") — and wants something done to it or produced from it. Also trigger for cleaning or restructuring messy tabular data files (malformed rows, misplaced headers, junk data) into proper spreadsheets. The deliverable must be a spreadsheet file. Do NOT trigger when the primary deliverable is a Word document, HTML report, standalone Python script, database pipeline, or Google Sheets API integration, even if tabular data is involved.

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What this topic covers

What this topic covers

Each sub-topic groups Agent Skills for a specific situation.

Partners
Who could get you to customers you cannot reach alone.
Pipeline
A list of possible deals, with owners and next steps.
Structure
How the economics and the work would actually split.
Negotiate
The terms, including the ways the partnership usually dies.
Legal
Paper that matches what was shaken on.
Launch & review
Announce, enable, and check whether it produced anything.
Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

How is this list ordered?
It is ranked by observed search demand, with direct matches to the Business Development topic first. Any single publisher is capped so one source cannot fill the page.
Where does business development end and sales begin?
Business development is deals that are not only a standard sale. The topic runs through partners, pipeline, structure, negotiate, then integrate.
Which sub-topic should I start with?
Start with the stage you are stuck on: Partners for who could get you to customers you cannot reach alone, Pipeline for a list of possible deals with owners and next steps, Structure for how economics and work split, Negotiate for terms and failure modes, Legal for paper matching what was shaken on, and Launch & review for announcing, enabling, and checking whether it produced anything.
Can one skill cover the whole deal?
The sub-topics span distinct stages, from partner sourcing through legal and launch review. Pick skills per stage rather than expecting one to carry the full cycle.

How to install an Agent Skill

Start with the first skill on this page. Claude Code reads a SKILL.md once it is in the skills directory:

  • Claude Code — copy the SKILL.md for sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling into ~/.claude/skills/sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling/ for yourself, or .claude/skills/sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling/ to share it with a project.
  • From the registry — run npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling.
  • Or download sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling from its source and place that SKILL.md in the directory above.

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