Claude Skills

Research competitors and compare positioning, messaging, content strategy, and market presence. Use when analyzing a competitor, building battlecards, identifying content gaps, comparing feature messaging, or preparing competitive positioning recommendations.

Prepare structured briefings for meetings with legal relevance and track resulting action items. Use when preparing for contract negotiations, board meetings, compliance reviews, or any meeting where legal context, background research, or action tracking is needed.

Assess and classify legal risks using a severity-by-likelihood framework with escalation criteria. Use when evaluating contract risk, assessing deal exposure, classifying issues by severity, or determining whether a matter needs senior counsel or outside legal review.

Screen incoming NDAs and classify them as GREEN (standard), YELLOW (needs review), or RED (significant issues). Use when a new NDA comes in from sales or business development, when assessing NDA risk level, or when deciding whether an NDA needs full counsel review.

Draft marketing content across channels — blog posts, social media, email newsletters, landing pages, press releases, and case studies. Use when writing any marketing content, when you need channel-specific formatting, SEO-optimized copy, headline options, or calls to action.

Review contracts against your organization's negotiation playbook, flagging deviations and generating redline suggestions. Use when reviewing vendor contracts, customer agreements, or any commercial agreement where you need clause-by-clause analysis against standard positions.

Analyze marketing performance with key metrics, trend analysis, and optimization recommendations. Use when building performance reports, reviewing campaign results, analyzing channel metrics (email, social, paid, SEO), or identifying what's working and what needs improvement.

Write structured product requirements documents (PRDs) with problem statements, user stories, requirements, and success metrics. Use when speccing a new feature, writing a PRD, defining acceptance criteria, prioritizing requirements, or documenting product decisions.

Create effective data visualizations with Python (matplotlib, seaborn, plotly). Use when building charts, choosing the right chart type for a dataset, creating publication-quality figures, or applying design principles like accessibility and color theory.

Build self-contained interactive HTML dashboards with Chart.js, dropdown filters, and professional styling. Use when creating dashboards, building interactive reports, or generating shareable HTML files with charts and filters that work without a server.

Write correct, performant SQL across all major data warehouse dialects (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, PostgreSQL, etc.). Use when writing queries, optimizing slow SQL, translating between dialects, or building complex analytical queries with CTEs, window functions, or aggregations.

Decompose financial variances into drivers with narrative explanations and waterfall analysis. Use when analyzing budget vs. actual, period-over-period changes, revenue or expense variances, or preparing variance commentary for leadership.

Prepare journal entries with proper debits, credits, and supporting documentation for month-end close. Use when booking accruals, prepaid amortization, fixed asset depreciation, payroll entries, revenue recognition, or any manual journal entry.

Reconcile accounts by comparing GL balances to subledgers, bank statements, or third-party data. Use when performing bank reconciliations, GL-to-subledger recs, intercompany reconciliations, or identifying and categorizing reconciling items.

Generate or improve a company-specific data analysis skill by extracting tribal knowledge from analysts. BOOTSTRAP MODE - Triggers: "Create a data context skill", "Set up data analysis for our warehouse", "Help me create a skill for our database", "Generate a data skill for [company]" → Discovers schemas, asks key questions, generates initial skill with reference files ITERATION MODE - Triggers: "Add context about [domain]", "The skill needs more info about [topic]", "Update the data skill with [metrics/tables/terminology]", "Improve the [domain] reference" → Loads existing skill, asks targeted questions, appends/updates reference files Use when data analysts want Claude to understand their company's specific data warehouse, terminology, metrics definitions, and common query patterns.

Support SOX 404 compliance with control testing methodology, sample selection, and documentation standards. Use when generating testing workpapers, selecting audit samples, classifying control deficiencies, or preparing for internal or external audits.

Manage the month-end close process with task sequencing, dependencies, and status tracking. Use when planning the close calendar, tracking close progress, identifying blockers, or sequencing close activities by day.

Research a prospect then draft personalized outreach. Uses web research by default, supercharged with enrichment and CRM. Trigger with "draft outreach to [person/company]", "write cold email to [prospect]", "reach out to [name]".

Generate income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements with GAAP presentation and period-over-period comparison. Use when preparing financial statements, running flux analysis, or creating P&L reports with variance commentary.