finance-metrics-quickref

Look up SaaS finance metrics, formulas, and benchmarks fast. Use when you need a quick metric definition, formula, or benchmark during analysis.

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A highly actionable, well-organized SaaS finance cheat sheet with concrete formulas, thresholds, and decision frameworks. Its main weakness is redundancy — the same red-flag and decision guidance is repeated across several sections — which dilutes the stated 'optimized for speed' purpose.

Suggestions

Collapse the Red Flags by Category tables and Common Pitfalls into the main reference table's existing Red Flag column to remove the most obvious duplication.

Merge 'When to Use Which Metric' into the decision frameworks (which already list 'Metrics to check') so metric selection lives in one place.

Consider moving the detailed decision frameworks and stage-specific health benchmarks into a reference file referenced from a leaner SKILL.md overview, improving progressive disclosure and conciseness together.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The core metrics table is dense and appropriate for a cheat sheet, but red flags, decision criteria, and pitfalls are restated across the table's Red Flag column, the dedicated Red Flags by Category tables, the When-to-Use-Which-Metric section, and Common Pitfalls, so it could be tightened.	3 / 5
Actionability	Provides concrete formulas, specific numeric benchmark thresholds, and copy-ready decision rules ('LTV:CAC >3:1 AND Payback <18 months', 'ROI >3x in year one') with worked examples containing real numbers — fully actionable for an instruction skill.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Each decision framework is clearly sequenced (Ask → Build/Scale/Implement if → Don't if → Metrics to check) and the Examples walk through a usage sequence; this is a lookup skill with no destructive/batch ops, so it earns strong workflow clarity though it lacks explicit validation checkpoints.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	The body is well-structured with clear section headers and clearly signaled one-level references to related deep-dive skills and external resources; no bundle files exist, and the self-contained reference table is appropriately inline, with only minor redundancy between overlapping sections.	4 / 5
	Total	16 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A tight, well-constructed activation description that clearly answers what the skill does and when to invoke it with concrete trigger language. The only weakness is mild overlap risk with the related SaaS-metrics deep-dive skills and a few missing synonym triggers.

Suggestions

Add a discriminant from the deep-dive skills, e.g. 'Use for fast lookups — for step-by-step calculation guidance, use the saas-revenue-growth-metrics or saas-economics-efficiency-metrics skills.'

Include a common synonym or acronym users say, such as 'KPI' or 'ARR/MRR', to broaden natural trigger coverage.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the SaaS-finance domain plus several concrete lookup actions ('metric definition', 'formula', 'benchmark'), matching the 'lists several specific actions; minor gaps' anchor rather than the fully comprehensive 5.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly states the 'what' ('Look up SaaS finance metrics, formulas, and benchmarks fast') and the 'when' ('Use when you need a quick metric definition, formula, or benchmark during analysis') with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural phrases a user would say ('SaaS finance metrics', 'metric definition', 'formula', 'benchmark') but misses common synonyms like 'KPI', 'ARR', or 'MRR', so it sits at good-but-not-comprehensive coverage.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The 'quick reference / fast lookup' framing carves a distinct niche, but it overlaps with sibling deep-dive skills named in the body (e.g. saas-revenue-growth-metrics), keeping it at mostly-distinct rather than minimal-conflict.	4 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 Passed

Validation

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills
Path: skills/finance-metrics-quickref/SKILL.md
Commit: 1b5a524

Reviewed: 4 days ago

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