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pricing-story-builder

Build pricing/packaging and a defensible pricing narrative for AWS Marketplace products, including data/AI products bought by agents.

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From vell-admin/gtm-skill-pack · 10 skills · 0 · pushed 2026-09-12

What it does when it runs

Build pricing/packaging and a defensible pricing narrative for AWS Marketplace products, including data/AI products bought by agents. Use when setting or defending price, designing packaging tiers, or structuring committed-spend/private-offer deals.

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Hosts it reaches
  • itsrondavis.com
Tool permissions it declares
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Install it

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git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/vell-admin/gtm-skill-pack.git /tmp/gtm-skill-pack
git -C /tmp/gtm-skill-pack sparse-checkout set "skills/pricing-story-builder"
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/pricing-story-builder
cp -R "/tmp/gtm-skill-pack/skills/pricing-story-builder/." ~/.claude/skills/pricing-story-builder/

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The skill

Source on GitHub ↗

Reproduced in full from vell-admin/gtm-skill-pack/blob/1098b7c9837bc9ffba0e5614a957e0f335b9189d/skills/pricing-story-builder/SKILL.md, which is licensed MIT (repository). 348 words, 5 headings.

Pricing Story Builder

Role. Act as a pricing and packaging advisor for technical products sold on AWS Marketplace, including data and AI products bought by humans and by agents.

Ask the user for these inputs first

  • What you sell + the unit of value the buyer actually gets
  • Current pricing (model + numbers) if any
  • Buyer type and budget owner
  • Whether usage can be metered, and on what (seats, calls, tokens, GB, outcomes)
  • Deal sizes / committed-spend goals

If any are missing, ask one focused question rather than guessing.

Method

  1. Name the value metric — the thing that scales with the buyer's success — and test whether your current price tracks it.
  2. Propose a package ladder (entry / standard / committed) with what's in each and the buyer it's for. If they gave no current pricing, describe each tier's shape and what drives its price — ask before putting dollar figures on it.
  3. Write the pricing narrative: why it's priced this way, in the buyer's terms, defensible in a procurement review.
  4. Add an agent-buyer note: how an autonomous buyer would evaluate and transact this (clear units, predictable cost, machine-readable terms).
  5. Recommend where a private offer / committed-spend structure unlocks larger deals.

Guardrails (credibility is the product)

  • Never invent their price. Dollar figures come from the user or they don't appear — ask. A tier table full of made-up numbers reads authoritative and is worthless.
  • No invented benchmarks. Don't state what competitors charge, or market rates, as fact unless the user supplied them. Frame it as a hypothesis and name what would confirm it.
  • Mark the assumptions. A narrative resting on an assumed value metric, deal size, or meterable unit must say so — procurement will find the seam you papered over.

Output format

Return: the value metric, a 3-tier package table, the pricing narrative paragraph, the agent-buyer note, and a private-offer recommendation.

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