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.
- Rank 01View Agent SkillDirect
sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling
Models how much pipeline a team needs relative to quota: coverage ratios from win rates, segment-level targets, in-quarter timing, seasonality, and pipeline-gap math.
8,237 · popularity - Rank 02View Agent SkillDirect
partner-ecosystem-expansion
Decides which partner categories to add next and in what sequence: a staged partner-category expansion roadmap with readiness gates, capacity limits, and kill criteria.
4,153 · popularity - Rank 03View Agent SkillDirect
partner-channel-program
Designs the overall structure of a B2B partner or channel program from scratch: readiness gate, partner value proposition, motions, tier count, benefit stack, economics envelope, and governance.
4,115 · popularity - Rank 04View Agent SkillDirect
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 - Rank 05View Agent SkillDirect
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.
6,668 · popularity - Rank 06View Agent SkillDirect
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.
7,723 · popularity - Rank 07View Agent SkillDirect
revops
Designs revenue operations systems: lead lifecycle stages, MQL/SQL definitions, lead scoring and routing, marketing-to-sales handoff, and pipeline management.
105,843 · popularity - Rank 08View Agent SkillDirect
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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- Rank 09View Agent SkillDirect
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.
4,018 · popularity - Rank 10View Agent SkillDirect
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.
4,128 · popularity - Rank 11View Agent SkillDirect
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.
4,126 · popularity - Rank 12View Agent SkillDirect
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.
4,122 · popularity - Rank 13View Agent SkillDirect
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.
4,120 · popularity - Rank 14View Agent SkillDirect
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.
4,106 · popularity - Rank 15View Agent SkillDirect
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.
4,143 · popularity - Rank 16View Agent SkillDirect
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.
6,609 · popularity - Rank 17View Agent SkillDirect
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 - Rank 18View Agent SkillDirect
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.
6,584 · popularity - Rank 19View Agent SkillDirect
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 - Rank 20View Agent SkillDirect
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.
4,853 · popularity - Rank 21View Agent SkillDirect
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.
31,166 · popularity - Rank 22View Agent SkillDirect
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 - Rank 23View Agent SkillDirect
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.
2,621 · popularity - Rank 24View Agent SkillDirect
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 - Rank 25View Agent SkillDirect
co-marketing
NotableWhen 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.
63,385 · popularity - Rank 26View Agent SkillDirect
prospecting
NotableWhen 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 - Rank 27View Agent SkillPossible
influencer-marketing
Runs influencer, creator, and ambassador partnerships: finding and vetting partners, structuring deals, briefing creators, disclosure compliance, and measuring ROI.
30,750 · popularity - Rank 28View Agent SkillPossible
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.
15,760 · popularity - Rank 29View Agent SkillPossible
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.
4,157 · popularity - Rank 30View Agent SkillPossible
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 - Rank 31View Agent SkillPossible
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.
8,017 · popularity - Rank 32View Agent SkillPossible
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 - Rank 33View Agent SkillPossible
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.
4,110 · popularity - Rank 34View Agent SkillPossible
Pipedrive Automation
Automates Pipedrive CRM workflows: deal management, pipeline stage configuration, activity tracking, automation triggers, and sales reporting.
4,054 · popularity - Rank 35View Agent SkillPossible
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.
2,854 · popularity - Rank 36View Agent SkillPossible
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 - Rank 37View Agent SkillPossible
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 - Rank 38View Agent SkillPossible
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.
4,128 · popularity - Rank 39View Agent SkillPossible
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 - Rank 40View Agent SkillPossible
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.
4,115 · popularity - Rank 41View Agent SkillPossible
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 - Rank 42View Agent SkillPossible
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 - Rank 43View Agent SkillPossible
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 - Rank 44View Agent SkillPossible
grow-sustainably
Advises on sustainable, profitable business growth: cost control, hiring, fundraising alternatives, avoiding burnout, and building profitable confidence.
2,501 · popularity - Rank 45View Agent SkillPossible
xlsx
OfficialUse 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.
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
- 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.
How to choose Check the source and the skill’s own instructions before you install. Official and Notable describe where a skill comes from.