The quote-calculator skill: put a real price on the page

Service businesses lose leads in the same spot every time. Someone wants a rough price, the site says call for a quote, and they call the next company instead. The quote-calculator skill fixes that hole with one page.

You tell it what the business does and how they actually price a job. It builds a small widget where the visitor picks a few options and sees a price range right away, then leaves a name and a phone number. It's one self-contained HTML file with no backend, no database, and no monthly bill.

It's free and public in our freeskills repo, and it's one of the first builds a beginner can hand to a real local business and get paid for. The owner already knows they're losing those calls.

Three lines in your terminal. They grab the repo, make sure your skills directory exists, and drop this one folder into it.

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

Type /quote-calculator. The first thing it does is ask about the business and how they price a job: the starting number, the handful of things that push it up, and one real recent job with the real amount charged. That part is the whole build, so answer it properly. It won't invent prices for a real business, and you shouldn't let it.

Then it writes the widget to ~/sites/<business-slug>-quote/index.html plus a pricing-notes.md next to it. Open the HTML file in your browser. A good first result: you pick a few options, a price range appears with a small breakdown under it showing what drove the number, and a three-field contact form sits below that. Run one real past job through it. If the range is off from what they actually charged, say the real number and the skill fixes the math.

Start here if you run the business. Give it your real numbers in one message and let it ask follow-ups.

This is the version that gets you paid. Pick a business in your town, use their real public prices, and send the owner a working link instead of a pitch.

The widget is only as good as the math inside it. Feed it real jobs and make it show its work.

What this skill does and why a local business owner will care, in about 60 seconds.

1. 1Hook: there's a brand new free Claude skill that takes you from a service business with no prices on the site to a working instant-quote widget you can send the owner tonight.
2. 2Mechanism: you walk it through how the business actually prices a job, the starting number and the three to five things that move it. It builds a widget that shows a price range instead of one hard number, then asks for the customer's details right after they see it. Before it calls the thing done it runs three real past jobs through the math to check the numbers hold up.
3. 3Transformation: you stop having nothing to show people. You've got a live tool built on real prices, and a reason to message a local business owner that isn't a cold pitch.
4. 4Close: the skill is free, and so are the other 54 in that repo. What you say when you send the owner the link, and what you charge them, is what we work on inside Claude Code Club. $9 a month, link's below.

Tonight: pick one service business you already know, install the skill, and get their pricing on paper. The widget takes ten minutes once the numbers are real.