Business Investment Advisor
Business investment analysis and capital allocation advisor.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
That's a classic build-versus-buy decision. The answer really depends on several factors—your team's capacity, the vendor's pricing, the timeline you're working with, and how well the off-the-shelf solution fits your needs. You'd want to weigh the upfront software cost against the engineering time and ongoing maintenance costs of building it yourself. Some questions to consider: How much engineering time would building take? What's the annual license cost? How critical is this to your roadmap? Once you think through those, we could sketch out a rough comparison.
BUILD VS. BUY DECISION MATRIX BUY (License Route) • Cost: 45K/year, 1-month setup • Time to launch: 6 weeks (vendor implementation + your integration) • Customization: 20% limited to their config UI • Maintenance: Vendor owns updates and security • Vendor risk: Single dependency; replacement cost if they sunset the product BUILD (In-House Route) • Engineering cost: 2 engineers x 12 weeks = ~200K burn + equipment • Time to launch: 14 weeks (dev + testing) • Customization: 100% flexibility • Maintenance: Your team owns bugs, upgrades, security patches indefinitely • Technical debt: Ongoing maintenance cost ~0.5 FTE/year RECOMMENDATION Buy the license unless: (1) Your roadmap has 3+ years of heavy customization needs, or (2) this is core IP that competitors cannot access. Total 3-year cost of build = 620K (engineering + maintenance). Buy = 135K. The buy path wins on budget and speed; reserve engineering for your differentiated features.
About this skill
name: business-investment-advisor description: Use when Business investment analysis and capital allocation advisor.
Business Investment Advisor
Business investment analysis and capital allocation advisor. Use when evaluating whether to invest in equipment, real estate, a new business, hiring, technology, or any capital expenditure. Also use for ROI calculations, IRR, NPV, payback period, build vs buy decisions, lease vs buy analysis, vendor evaluation, or deciding where to allocate limited budget for maximum return.
What you get
- Public GitHub repo (alirezarezvani/claude-skills)
- the business-investment-advisor skill folder with SKILL.md. Part of a 337-skill / 30-agent / 70-command install.
Customize your output
- Fork the repo and adapt the skill's instructions and references to your workflow.
Example output
Activates automatically when your request matches Business Investment Advisor; chains with the other skills, agents, and commands in the collection.
Best for
Creators, builders, and teams using Claude Code.
SKILL.md preview
---
name: business-investment-advisor
description: Use this skill when evaluating a capital expenditure decision such as equipment, real estate, hiring, technology, or a new business, or when calculating ROI, IRR, NPV, or payback period.
version: 1.0.0
category: Finance
author: AgentVolt
license: proprietary
tags:
- finance
---
# Business Investment Advisor
Analyzes capital allocation decisions using standard investment finance methods so the choice is grounded in numbers rather than gut feel.
## When to use
- Deciding whether to invest in equipment, real estate, or a new line of business
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