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Business Investment Advisor

Turns any capital expenditure question — equipment, hiring, software, real estate — into a full ROI/NPV/IRR analysis with a clear proceed or pass recommendation.

Data & AnalyticsIntermediate★ 24,151⑂ 3,405AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026

What it does

  • Takes upfront cost, expected revenue lift or cost savings, and ongoing costs, then computes ROI, payback period, NPV and IRR with every formula shown using your actual numbers.
  • Runs in three modes: ① single investment evaluation ② ranked comparison of multiple options against a fixed budget ③ trade-off frameworks for build vs buy, lease vs buy, and hire vs automate vs outsource.
  • Produces a 30-point investment score across six dimensions, upside (+20%) and downside (-40%) scenarios, risks with mitigations, and one concrete next step before committing capital.
  • Proactively flags traps: payback exceeding useful life, sunk-cost reasoning, revenue concentration risk, unnormalized time horizons, and missing opportunity-cost analysis.
  • Tags confidence levels (🟢 verified / 🟡 estimate / 🔴 assumption) so you know exactly which inputs to validate.

Who it's for

  • Small and mid-size business owners weighing equipment, vehicle or property purchases.
  • Team leads deciding between a new hire, automation, or outsourcing.
  • Finance and ops folks allocating a fixed annual budget across competing projects.
  • Technical decision makers comparing buying a SaaS tool versus building in-house.
  • Note: it deliberately excludes personal stock or securities advice.

Examples

  1. Equipment purchase: "A $60K CNC machine would cut $3K/month in outsourced machining" → payback period, NPV at a 12% discount rate, IRR, plus a downside case at 60% of projected savings.
  2. Budget allocation: "I have $150K — marketing, a new salesperson, or warehouse automation?" → options ranked by IRR with sub-6-month payback items funded first.
  3. Build vs buy: "Should we build our own scheduling tool or pay $1.5K/month for one?" → decision matrix with TCO over the same horizon and the 80%/50% buy rule applied.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
↓ Download ZIP
Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the .gemini/skills/business-investment-advisor folder from the GitHub repo alirezarezvani/claude-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/business-investment-advisor/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git /tmp/claude-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/.gemini/skills/business-investment-advisor ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal (Terminal on macOS/Linux, PowerShell or WSL on Windows).
  2. Create the skills folder if it doesn't exist: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Clone the repository into a temp location: git clone https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git /tmp/claude-skills
  4. Copy just this skill over: cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/.gemini/skills/business-investment-advisor ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify with ls ~/.claude/skills/business-investment-advisor — you should see SKILL.md.
  6. Restart Claude Code and try a prompt like "Should I buy this $60K machine? Run the ROI and payback for me" — the skill triggers automatically.
  7. Optional: keep a company-context.md file with your revenue, costs and cost of capital in the working directory so you don't have to re-enter context each time.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT