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sales-org-structure
Designs a sales organization's structure for its current stage - role mix (SDR, AE, AM/CS), topology (island, assembly line, pod, hybrid), SDR-to-AE ratio, hunter/farmer split, span of control, and specialization by segment. A macro org-design exercise for a VP Sales, CRO, or founder scaling past founder-led selling, covering B2B and B2C. Use whenever the user mentions restructuring the sales team, pods vs assembly line, reps per manager, splitting SDRs from AEs, or hunters vs farmers, even without the words org structure. Do NOT use for hiring into the seats (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-hiring), choosing the motion (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-motion), or setting quotas (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-quota-setting).
mbfinottisales-objection-handling
Diagnoses what a sales objection really means and writes rebuttal scripts a rep can say out loud, or calls the deal dead when the objection is a real constraint. Covers price/budget, timing, competitor/incumbent, authority, status-quo, and trust objections for B2B and B2C, with price-specific guidance on value gap vs genuine budget limit and trading instead of discounting. Use whenever the user mentions a price objection, "too expensive", "not interested", "send me some info", "we already use a competitor", stalling, or an objection library, even without the word objection. Do NOT use for discount trade planning (mbfinotti/sales-skills@negotiation-concession-planner) or ROI math (mbfinotti/sales-skills@deal-value-calc).
mbfinottisales-comp-design
Designs the sales compensation plan structure - pay mix (base/variable split) set by role influence, performance measures under the rule of three, accelerator and decelerator curves, SPIF overlays, draws, and role plans for SDR, AE, manager, overlay, and CSM seats. A macro annual exercise for sales leadership, RevOps, and finance, covering B2B SaaS and commission-heavy B2C. Use whenever the user mentions commission plans, OTE, accelerators, clawbacks, SPIFs, capping commissions, or "how should we pay our reps", even without the words comp design. Do NOT use for deriving the quota the plan pays against (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-quota-setting) or structuring the org (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-org-structure).
mbfinotticold-email-subject-line-tester
Generates, scores, and split-tests email subject lines, producing angle-distinct variants, a numeric scorecard, and a test plan with sample size and decision metric. Covers B2B cold outbound and B2C lifecycle/promotional email, and flags spam-trigger words inside the subject line only. Use whenever the user mentions a subject line, open rates, email A/B test, preview text, or "nobody opens my emails", even if they don't say "subject line" explicitly. Do NOT use for body copy or inbox-placement audits (mbfinotti/sales-skills@cold-email-deliverability), personalization angles (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-outreach-personalization), or cadence design (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-outbound-sequence).
mbfinottimeddpicc-scorecard
Scores one deal against the eight MEDDPICC elements on an evidence ladder - unknown, assumed, stated, validated - with a scorecard, a verdict band, and the single next action that closes the biggest gap. Full MEDDPICC for complex deals, a lightweight subset for small ones, covering B2B and considered high-ticket B2C. Use whenever the user mentions MEDDPICC, MEDDIC, BANT, deal qualification, "score this opportunity", "is this deal real", or deal-review prep, even without naming a framework. Do NOT use for stakeholder mapping (mbfinotti/sales-skills@deal-champion-mapping), note-level risk scanning (mbfinotti/sales-skills@deal-red-flags), or transcript grading (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-call-review).
mbfinottideal-red-flags
Reviews one deal's free-text notes - call notes, opportunity fields, CRM activity log, email threads - for qualification red flags such as single-threaded deal, no champion, no compelling event, unverified budget, no agreed next step, or fading engagement, each graded on severity and confidence with the quoted note fragment behind it. Covers B2B and B2C. Use whenever the user mentions deal risk, a stalled or slipping deal, ghosting, forecast inspection, or "is this deal real", even without the words red flag. Reviews one deal, not a pipeline export. Do NOT use for structured qualification scoring (mbfinotti/sales-skills@meddpicc-scorecard) or stakeholder mapping (mbfinotti/sales-skills@deal-champion-mapping).
mbfinottisales-account-segmentation
Designs the account segmentation model between ICP and tier structure - which firmographic, technographic, intent and jobs-to-be-done signal layers define account fit, the weighted fit score calibrated from 12 months of closed-won deals, fit and readiness as separate axes, whitespace and expansion mapping, and how the model is encoded, routed and re-scored in the CRM. Covers B2B account segmentation and B2C value-based customer segmentation. Use whenever the user mentions account scoring, fit score, whitespace, book-of-business carve-up, or reps picking accounts on gut feel, even without the word segmentation. Do NOT use for tier cutoffs and coverage (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-account-tiering) or ICP criteria (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-icp-definition).
mbfinottideal-value-calc
Builds the ROI and business case for one deal - value drivers, full investment, ROI, payback, three cases conservative-first, and a one-page case the champion can forward. The buyer supplies every assumption, each number labeled buyer-supplied, benchmark, or rep-assumed, and none invented. Covers B2B and high-ticket B2C. Use whenever the user mentions ROI, business case, payback period, TCO, cost of doing nothing, "justify the price", or CFO sign-off, even without the word value. Do NOT use for price rebuttals (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-objection-handling) or discount trade planning (mbfinotti/sales-skills@negotiation-concession-planner).
mbfinottideal-champion-mapping
Builds an evidence-graded stakeholder map for one active deal from titles, call notes, email and meeting activity, and CRM contact roles, naming the likely champion, economic buyer, and blockers, each with a confidence level tied to observed behaviour rather than title. Covers B2B buying committees and high-consideration B2C households. Use whenever the user mentions a champion, economic buyer, power map, deal org chart, multi-threading, single-threaded risk, or "who actually decides", even without the word stakeholder. Do NOT use for qualification scoring (mbfinotti/sales-skills@meddpicc-scorecard) or scanning notes for general risk (mbfinotti/sales-skills@deal-red-flags).
mbfinottisales-meeting-recap
Turns raw sales call notes into a structured recap email with agreed next steps - every action item carrying an owner, a date, and a deliverable - plus mutual close plan (mutual action plan) items when the deal warrants one. Restates the buyer's pain in their own words and never invents a commitment the notes don't contain. Covers complex B2B committee deals and transactional or B2C motions. Use whenever the user mentions a recap email, follow-up after a sales call, next steps email, post-call summary, or a mutual action plan, even without the word recap. Do NOT use for judging how the call went (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-call-review).
mbfinotticold-email-deliverability
Reviews a cold email draft and its sending setup for deliverability - SPF/DKIM/DMARC alignment, sender reputation and complaint risk, body mechanics (length, links, images, tracking pixels, HTML vs plain text, opt-out), and legal compliance by region. Covers B2B cold outbound and B2C bulk/lifecycle mail. Use whenever the user mentions the spam folder, blacklisting, domain warmup, inbox placement, bounce rates, DMARC, or "why are my emails not landing", even without the word deliverability. Do NOT use for subject lines (mbfinotti/sales-skills@cold-email-subject-line-tester) or cadence (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-outbound-sequence). Hygiene and compliance only, never spam-filter evasion.
mbfinottisales-pipeline-hygiene
Run a periodic, checklist-based hygiene audit over an active pipeline snapshot - stale deals (no stage, close date, or amount change, not logged touches) flagged against segment-specific stage medians, close-date push-count anomalies, and missing forecast-critical fields - producing an exception list with a disposition per flagged deal, a remediation plan, and a pass threshold. Use whenever the user mentions pipeline hygiene, a stale deal audit, pipeline cleanup before a QBR, deals that keep pushing, a close date that keeps slipping, missing fields on deals, or "our pipeline is full of junk" - even if they never say "hygiene". Covers B2B and B2C/high-velocity/PLG. Do NOT use for rewriting stage definitions - use mbfinotti/revops-skills@pipeline-stage-definition-audit instead.
mbfinottirevops-hiring
Build the complete hiring packet for a RevOps or Sales Ops role - archetype and level decision, outcome scorecard, interview stage map with a competency question bank and anchored rating scales, a work-sample exercise with rubric and debrief, and a 30-60-90 ramp plan branched on seniority and archetype. For the hiring manager or founder recruiting the hire. Use whenever the user mentions hiring a RevOps manager, sales ops interview questions, a RevOps take-home exercise, a scorecard for a first ops hire, or a 30-60-90 for a new ops hire - even if they never say "hiring packet". Does not source candidates or post jobs. Do NOT use for a candidate's own interview prep - use mbfinotti/revops-skills@revops-career instead.
mbfinottisales-forecast-diagnostic
Diagnose why an existing sales forecast is unreliable and recommend fixes - stage inflation and happy ears, sandbagging, deals without verifiable buyer evidence, stale or mass-pushed close dates, wrong forecast-category assignment, zombie and duplicate opportunities, late-created deals, manager roll-up overrides, and comp incentives that reward bias - separating data-quality from behavioral from genuine demand problems. Use whenever the user mentions forecast accuracy, a forecast miss, reps sandbagging, deals that keep slipping, "why did we miss the number", or "our commit is never right" - even if they never say "forecast". Covers B2B deal-based and B2C/high-volume. Do NOT use for pipeline coverage modeling - use mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling instead.
mbfinottirevenue-kpi-framework
Design the org-wide revenue KPI framework at the macro level - which metrics matter at each org level from board to IC, how they roll up through a reconciling metric tree with explicit math, who owns each branch, which guardrail counter-metrics ride alongside each owned number, and how the set is gated by company stage and business model. Use whenever the user mentions a revenue KPI framework, a metric hierarchy, a KPI tree, a North Star metric, driver metrics, guardrail counter-metrics, NRR, or which revenue metrics each org level should track - even if they never say "framework". Covers B2B and B2C. Do NOT use for writing the board report itself - use mbfinotti/revops-skills@revenue-reporting instead.
mbfinottipipeline-stage-definition-audit
Audit existing sales pipeline stage definitions against buyer-verifiable milestones and flag the ones built on rep activity instead. Core test - does each stage exit criterion name something the buyer did, said, or agreed to, checkable by two managers independently? Adds stage aging, conversion decay, stage-skip rate, and close-date push diagnostics. Use whenever the user mentions stage definitions, stage exit criteria, stage inflation, stages named after rep activity ("demo scheduled", "proposal sent"), "our stages don't mean anything", or "why is everything stuck in one stage" - even if they never say "audit". Covers enterprise and high-velocity pipelines, B2B and B2C. Do NOT use for designing a funnel stage set from scratch - use mbfinotti/revops-skills@revenue-funnel instead.
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