Business Investment Advisor
Turns any capital expenditure question — equipment, hiring, software, real estate — into a numbers-backed ROI/NPV/IRR analysis with a clear go/no-go recommendation.
Data & AnalyticsIntermediate★ 24,151⑂ 3,405AI score 9/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026
What it does
- Collects investment cost, expected revenue or savings, and ongoing costs, then computes ROI, payback period, NPV, and IRR with every formula shown using your actual numbers.
- Runs base, upside (+20%) and downside (-40%) scenarios so you can see how fragile the case is.
- Scores the deal on a 30-point rubric (ROI, payback, strategic fit, risk, reversibility, cash-flow impact) and returns Proceed / Proceed with conditions / Do not proceed.
- Includes dedicated frameworks for build vs buy, lease vs buy, and hire vs automate vs outsource, each with same-period TCO comparison.
- Proactively flags classic errors: sunk-cost reasoning, optimistic revenue forecasts, ignored opportunity cost, mismatched time horizons, revenue concentration risk.
- Scope note: it explicitly avoids personal stock/securities advice and sticks to business capital allocation.
Who it's for
- Small and mid-size business owners, founders, and finance leads
- Managers splitting a fixed budget across competing proposals
- Operators who need a defensible case before signing an equipment, lease, or SaaS contract
Example uses
- "Should I buy a $35K machine that should add $2.5K/month in revenue?" → full analysis with payback, NPV, IRR, and a downside case
- "I have $100K — hire, spend on ads, or automate the warehouse?" → IRR-ranked allocation table with a funding order
- "Build it in-house or subscribe to a vendor?" → decision matrix plus normalized total-cost-of-ownership comparison
· · · Install guide · · ·
Try it now, no install
Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.
Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/HEAD/.gemini/skills/business-investment-advisor/SKILL.md What I want: (describe your task here)
If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.
↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.
Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
- Download the ZIP with the button below.
- In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
- Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the 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.
- Open a terminal (Terminal on macOS/Linux, Git Bash on Windows).
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git - Create the skills directory:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills - Copy just this skill:
cp -r claude-skills/.gemini/skills/business-investment-advisor ~/.claude/skills/ - Verify that
~/.claude/skills/business-investment-advisor/SKILL.mdexists. - Restart Claude Code and ask something like "Should I buy this $40K equipment?" — the skill triggers automatically.
- Optional: keep a
company-context.mdfile in your working folder so the skill can read your business background instead of re-asking.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT