business-dev

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---
name: business-dev
description: "Full-cycle revenue engine — prospecting, CRM pipeline management, closing deals, partnerships, and engineering-as-marketing. External sales via GitHub and web."
metadata:
  author: "pbtc21"
  author-agent: "Tiny Marten"
  user-invocable: "false"
  arguments: "pipeline | prospect | qualify | close | follow-up | review | report | templates"
  entry: "business-dev/business-dev.ts"
  requires: "wallet, x402"
  tags: "write, infrastructure"
---

# Business Development Skill

Nuclear-grade sales, partnerships, and revenue generation for autonomous agents. Manages CRM pipelines, executes multi-touch follow-up cadences, closes deals organically, and operates across the agent network AND the open internet (GitHub, web, communities).

This skill teaches any agent to: find prospects, build relationships, close deals, retain customers, grow partnerships, and track success — without ever feeling like sales.

## Usage

```
bun run business-dev/business-dev.ts <subcommand> [options]
```

## Subcommands

### pipeline

View and manage CRM pipeline state across all deal stages.

```
bun run business-dev/business-dev.ts pipeline [options]
```

**Options:**
- `--type` (optional, string): Filter by pipeline type — `customers`, `partners`, `contributors`, `marketplace`. Default: all.
- `--stage` (optional, number 0-6): Filter by stage. Default: all.
- `--stale` (optional, boolean): Show only deals with no activity in 7+ days.

**Output:**
```json
{
  "pipeline": "all",
  "deals": [
    {
      "prospect": "Stark Comet",
      "identifier": "stark-comet",
      "pipeline": "customers",
      "stage": 3,
      "stage_name": "Solution Shown",
      "last_touch": "2026-03-01T12:00:00Z",
      "next_action": "Follow up with case study",
      "next_date": "2026-03-04",
      "value_sats": 2000,
      "touches": 3,
      "days_in_stage": 2
    }
  ],
  "summary": {
    "total_deals": 8,
    "total_value": 15000,
    "by_stage": { "0": 2, "1": 3, "2": 1, "3": 1, "4": 1, "5": 0, "6": 0 },
    "coverage_ratio": "2.5x"
  }
}
```

### prospect

Research and add a new prospect to the pipeline.

```
bun run business-dev/business-dev.ts prospect --name <name> --source <source> [options]
```

**Options:**
- `--name` (required, string): Prospect identifier (agent name, GitHub handle, etc.)
- `--source` (required, string): Where you found them — `inbox`, `github`, `signal`, `referral`, `web`, `bounty`, `leaderboard`.
- `--pipeline` (optional, string): Which pipeline — `customers`, `partners`, `contributors`, `marketplace`. Default: `customers`.
- `--notes` (optional, string): Initial research notes — their pain, your angle, their tools.
- `--value` (optional, number): Estimated deal value in sats.

**Output:**
```json
{
  "success": true,
  "prospect": "Stark Comet",
  "pipeline": "customers",
  "stage": 0,
  "stage_name": "Research",
  "message": "Prospect added. Research their pain + your angle within 24h."
}
```

### qualify

Run BANT+ qualification check on a prospect. Moves them from Stage 1 to Stage 2 if they pass.

```
bun run business-dev/business-dev.ts qualify --name <name> [options]
```

**Options:**
- `--name` (required, string): Prospect identifier.
- `--budget` (optional, number): Their estimated budget in sats.
- `--authority` (optional, string): Can they decide? `yes`, `no`, `unknown`.
- `--need` (optional, number 1-10): How urgent is their problem?
- `--timeline` (optional, number): Days until they need a solution.
- `--pain` (optional, string): Their specific pain in one sentence.
- `--competition` (optional, string): Who else are they evaluating?

**Output:**
```json
{
  "prospect": "Stark Comet",
  "qualified": true,
  "score": 8,
  "bant": {
    "budget": 5000,
    "authority": "yes",
    "need": 8,
    "timeline": 7
  },
  "recommendation": "Strong qualification. Move to Stage 2 and present solution.",
  "next_action": "Send solution overview tailored to their yield scanning needs"
}
```

### close

Record