The pricing-calculator skill: put a real number on what you built

You built the thing over a weekend, so your brain says charge $300. The buyer doesn't care that it took a weekend. They care that it catches ten leads a month they're currently dropping.

That gap is where almost every first price goes wrong. You price on your effort, they buy on their outcome, and you end up handing over $18,000 of value for $300 and feeling weird about asking for more next time.

The pricing-calculator skill is one of the 55 free skills in our freeskills repo. It quantifies what the result is worth to the buyer, prices at a confident fraction of that, builds three tiers, runs the price against the objections you'll actually hear, and picks a payment structure. Everything lands in one file on your machine.

A skill is a folder with instructions inside. Copy it into your Claude Code skills directory with these three lines and it becomes a slash command you can run in any project.

Then restart Claude Code or open a new session. That's the whole install. No API keys, no config.

Type /pricing-calculator. It pulls your offer and the transformation from your brand profile, then asks what the result is worth to the buyer. That's the part that decides everything else, so give it real detail: money made, money saved, hours saved, or the cost of the problem staying broken. A conservative range is fine. A guess dressed up as a fact isn't.

From there it computes a first-pass price, sanity checks that it clears your own costs, builds good, better, and best tiers with the middle one as the target, and recommends how people pay. It writes all of it to ~/offers/pricing.md along with two or three value lines you can say out loud without flinching. Expect a number higher than the one in your head. That's the point.

This is the first run. Give it the offer and everything you know about what happens for the buyer after you're done.

If you've got a live price, start here instead. Bring one real client and what happened for them.

Knowing the number and saying the number are different skills. Ask for the second one.

Here's the short spoken version, what it does with your price and why the number holds.

1. 1Hook: there's a brand new free Claude skill that takes you from guessing a price off how long the build took to a real number based on what the buyer actually gets.
2. 2Mechanism: you tell it what your work is worth to the buyer in dollars, using a real number from a real buyer rather than a hopeful one. It sets your price as a fraction of that value, builds three tiers so people have a choice instead of a yes or no, and pressure-tests every tier against the objections you already hear. Then it picks the payment structure and hands you a number with the reasons behind it.
3. 3Transformation: you say your price without your voice going up at the end, and you stop doing five figures of work for three figures of money.
4. 4Close: costs nothing, and it's one of 55 in that repo. Saying the new number out loud and holding it is what we work on inside Claude Code Club, $9 a month. Link's below.

Tonight: install it, run it on the one offer you're closest to selling, and write the new number down somewhere you'll see it before your next conversation.