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Strategy & research skill · v0.2.0

Pricing & packaging skill

Choose pricing model, tiers, value metric and the pricing page, and plan price changes.

Free · MIT licence · Copy needs a free sign-in

Category
Strategy & research
Works with
Claude, Codex, Cursor, any agent
Format
SKILL.md · 1,989 words
Version
v0.2.0
Price
Free · MIT

The Pricing & packaging skill file

cmo-pricing-strategy/SKILL.md1,989 words · MIT
---
name: cmo-pricing-strategy
description: Choose pricing model, tiers, value metric and the pricing page, and plan price changes.
---

Helps a business decide what to charge for, how to package it, how much to charge, and how to change prices without losing good customers. Price is positioning: it should sit between the cost of the buyer's next-best alternative and the value they get. The skill works in three modes: design from scratch, optimise existing pricing, or plan a price increase.

When to use

  • "Pricing", "tiers", "packaging", "freemium vs trial", "price increase", "pricing page".
  • Launching a product, adding a plan, moving up- or down-market, or seeing signs of under- or over-pricing.
  • Not for: one-off service offers with bonuses and guarantees (use cmo-offer-design), in-app upgrade prompts (use cmo-paywalls), or general page conversion (use cmo-page-cro).
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Adapts open work by alirezarezvani/claude-skills (MIT), alirezarezvani/claude-skills (MIT), wondelai/skills (MIT), EdoStra/Marketing-for-Founders (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Everyday usage

How people use Pricing & packaging day to day

Ask in plain words. The agent picks this skill, asks for anything it needs and hands back the result. Words in a highlight are yours to change.

Most common · also on the Strategy & research page

Pricing & packaging

A recommended value metric, tier structure and price points with reasoning

Ask your agentHow should we price this?
  • A recommended value metric, tier structure and price points with reasoning
  • A pricing page outline including FAQ and AI-readable prices
  • A research plan to test willingness to pay
  • For price increases: a rollout plan with communication drafts

More things to ask

  • Design our pricing tiers
  • Are we too cheap?
  • Should we offer a free plan or a trial?
  • We want to raise prices, how?
  • Review our pricing page
  • Per seat or usage-based?
How it works

From input to output

  1. 1You give it
    • Product type, buyer segment (individual, SMB, mid-market, enterprise) and sales motion (self-serve, sales-led, hybrid)
    • Current pricing, if any, and key metrics: trial-to-paid or close rate, average revenue per customer, churn
    • Alternatives buyers consider and what they cost
    • Evidence of value delivered (time saved, revenue gained, cost avoided) and cost to serve
  2. 2It works through the method
    • Asks what's missing, one question at a time
    • Follows the workflow step by step
    • Checks the result against its quality bar and guardrails
  3. 3You get
    • A recommended value metric, tier structure and price points with reasoning
    • A pricing page outline including FAQ and AI-readable prices
    • A research plan to test willingness to pay
    • For price increases: a rollout plan with communication drafts
Why a skill

The skill against the alternatives

Do it yourselfHire helpPricing & packaging skill
CostYour own timeAgency or freelancer feesFree, MIT licence
Time to a first resultHours, every timeDays to weeks, plus revisionsMinutes, in your agent
ConsistencyDepends on remembering every stepAs long as the retainer lastsSame steps and checks every run
The methodIn your headTheir process, often hiddenWritten down: read it, change it
Who does the workYou, from scratchSomeone learning your businessYour agent, following the skill
FAQ

Questions about the Pricing & packaging skill

What it does, what it needs and how to use it with your agent.

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What is the Pricing & packaging skill?

Choose pricing model, tiers, value metric and the pricing page, and plan price changes.

It's one of cmo.so's open Strategy & research skills: a SKILL.md file that tells an AI agent when to use it, what to ask you first, the steps to follow, the checks to pass and what to hand back, so the job is done the same careful way every time.

When should I use it?

Reach for it when you'd otherwise say something like “How should we price this?”, “Design our pricing tiers”, “Are we too cheap?”. Your agent reads the skill's description and picks it for requests like these, so you don't need to name it.

If a request is close but not quite right, the skill says so and points to the related skill that fits better, instead of forcing a poor answer.

What do I need to give it?

It works best with product type, buyer segment (individual, SMB, mid-market, enterprise) and sales motion (self-serve, sales-led, hybrid); current pricing, if any, and key metrics: trial-to-paid or close rate, average revenue per customer, churn; alternatives buyers consider and what they cost; and evidence of value delivered (time saved, revenue gained, cost avoided) and cost to serve.

You don't have to prepare everything up front. The skill asks for missing pieces one at a time and says plainly when it's working from an assumption instead of your data.

What do I get back?

You get a recommended value metric, tier structure and price points with reasoning; a pricing page outline including FAQ and AI-readable prices; a research plan to test willingness to pay; and for price increases: a rollout plan with communication drafts.

Every result comes from a written method with a quality bar, so numbers name their source, claims are checked and the output is ready to use or share rather than a rough draft.

Is it free?

Yes. The skill is open source under the MIT licence, so you can use it, change it and share it, including for client work.

Seeing, copying and downloading the whole file on cmo.so needs a free sign-in. Copying also upvotes and saves it, so you can find it again under Saved on the skills page.

Which AI agents can use it?

Claude Code installs it from the cmo.so marketplace. Any agent that reads SKILL.md folders, such as Codex or Cursor, can use it once the folder is in its skills directory.

You can also paste the copied skill into ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant at the start of a conversation and ask it to follow the skill.

How do I install it?

In Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace add AI-Marketing-OS-LTD/cmo-so-skills, then /plugin install cmo-so-strategy@cmo-so. That installs this skill together with the rest of the Strategy & research group.

For other agents, sign in, press Copy or Download above and put the file in your agent's skills folder as SKILL.md inside a folder named after the skill.

Do I need a cmo.so account to use it?

No. The skill works on its own with whatever your agent can already see and do: your files, the pages you share and the data you paste in.

A free cmo.so account only matters if you also want Maggie to plan, write and publish your marketing every day.

Which skills work well with it?

It pairs well with Offer design; and Paywalls & upgrade prompts. The agent can hand over from one to the next in the same conversation, for example research first, then the plan, then the writing.

Each of them has its own page with what it needs and what it returns, linked below.

Can I change it to fit my business?

Yes. It's a plain Markdown file, so you can edit the steps, add your own checks and examples, and keep your version in your own repo. The MIT licence allows it.

If your change would help others too, suggest it on the skills page or open a pull request on GitHub, and it may be folded into the library for everyone.

Where does the method come from?

It's written by cmo.so and adapts open work by others, credited on this page: alirezarezvani/claude-skills (MIT); alirezarezvani/claude-skills (MIT); and wondelai/skills (MIT).

Only permissively licensed work is adapted; copyleft repos are used for ideas only and repos without a licence aren't used at all.

Is my data sent to cmo.so when the agent uses it?

No. The skill only guides your own agent; your files, documents and data stay wherever your agent and its tools keep them.

cmo.so only sees what you connect to cmo.so. Your votes and saves on this page are stored against your cmo.so sign-in.

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