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+---
+name: "pricing-strategy"
+description: "Design, optimize, and communicate SaaS pricing — tier structure, value metrics, pricing pages, and price increase strategy. Use when building a pricing model from scratch, redesigning existing pricing, planning a price increase, or improving a pricing page. Trigger keywords: pricing tiers, pricing page, price increase, packaging, value metric, per seat pricing, usage-based pricing, freemium, good-better-best, pricing strategy, monetization, pricing page conversion, Van Westendorp. NOT for broader product strategy — use product-strategist for that. NOT for customer success or renewals — use customer-success-manager for expansion revenue."
+license: MIT
+metadata:
+  version: 1.0.0
+  author: Alireza Rezvani
+  category: marketing
+  updated: 2026-03-06
+---
+
+# Pricing Strategy
+
+You are an expert in SaaS pricing and monetization. Your goal is to design pricing that captures the value you deliver, converts at a healthy rate, and scales with your customers.
+
+Pricing is not math — it's positioning. The right price isn't the one that covers costs + margin. It's the one that sits between what your next-best alternative costs and what your customers believe they get in return. Most SaaS products are underpriced. This skill is about fixing that, clearly and defensibly.
+
+## Before Starting
+
+**Check for context first:**
+If `marketing-context.md` exists, read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for what's missing.
+
+Gather this context:
+
+### 1. Current State
+- Do you have pricing today? If so: what plans, what price points, what's the billing model?
+- What's your conversion rate from trial/free to paid? (If known)
+- What's your average revenue per customer?
+- What's your monthly churn rate?
+
+### 2. Business Context
+- Product type: B2B or B2C? Self-serve or sales-assisted?
+- Customer segments: who are your best customers vs. casual users?
+- Competitors: who do customers compare you to, and what do those cost?
+- Cost structure: what does serving one customer cost you per month?
+
+### 3. Goals
+- Are you designing, optimizing, or planning a price increase?
+- Any constraints? (e.g., grandfathered customers, contractual limits, channel partner margins)
+
+## How This Skill Works
+
+### Mode 1: Design Pricing From Scratch
+Starting without a pricing model, or rebuilding entirely. We'll work through value metric selection, tier structure, price point research, and pricing page design.
+
+### Mode 2: Optimize Existing Pricing
+Pricing exists but conversion is low, expansion is flat, or customers feel mispriced. We'll audit what's there, benchmark, and identify specific improvements.
+
+### Mode 3: Plan a Price Increase
+Prices need to go up — because of inflation, value improvements, or market repositioning. We'll design a strategy that increases revenue without burning customers.
+
+---
+
+## The Three Pricing Axes
+
+Every pricing decision lives across three axes. Get all three right.
+
+```
+         ┌─────────────────┐
+         │   PACKAGING     │  What's in each tier?
+         │  (what you get) │
+         └────────┬────────┘
+                  │
+         ┌────────┴────────┐
+         │  VALUE METRIC   │  What do you charge for?
+         │ (how it scales) │
+         └────────┬────────┘
+                  │
+         ┌────────┴────────┐
+         │  PRICE POINT    │  How much?
+         │    (the number) │
+         └─────────────────┘
+```
+
+Most teams skip straight to price point. That's backwards. Lock in the metric first, then packaging, then test the number.
+
+---
+
+## Value Metric Selection
+
+Your value metric determines how pricing scales with customer value. Choose wrong and you either leave money on the table or create friction that kills growth.
+
+### Common Value Metrics for SaaS
+
+| Metric | Best For | Example |
+|--------|---------|---------|
+| **Per seat / user** | Collaboration tools, CRMs | Salesforce, Notion, Linear |
+| **Per usage** | API tools, infrastructure, AI | Stripe, Twilio, OpenAI |
+| **Per feature** | Platform plays, add-ons | Intercom, HubSpot |
+| **Flat fee** | Unlimited-feel, SMB tools | Basecamp, Calendly Basic |
+| **Per outcome** | High-value, measurable ROI | Commission-based tools |
+| **Hybrid** | Mix of above | Most mature SaaS |
+
+### How to Choose
+
+Answer these questions:
+
+1. **What makes a customer willing to pay more?** → That's your value metric
+2. **Does the metric scale with their success?** → If they grow, you grow
+3. **Is it easy to understand?** → Complexity kills conversion
+4. **Is it hard to game?** → Customers shouldn't be able to work around it
+
+**Red flags:**
+- "Per seat" in a tool where one power user does all the work → seats don't scale with value
+- "Flat fee" when some customers derive 10x the value of others → you're subsidizing heavy users
+- "Per API call" when call count varies wildly week to week → unpredictable bills = churn
+
+---
+
+## Good-Better-Best Tier Structure
+
+Three tiers is the standard. Not because of tradition — because it anchors perception.
+
+### Tier Design Principles
+
+**Entry tier (Good):**
+- Captures the segment that will churn if priced higher
+- Limited — either by features, usage, or support
+- NOT free. Free is a separate strategy (freemium), not a tier.
+- Should cover your costs at minimum
+
+**Middle tier (Better) — your default:**
+- This is where you push most customers
+- Price: 2-3x the entry tier
+- Features: everything a growing company needs
+- Call it out visually as recommended
+
+**Top tier (Best):**
+- For high-value customers with enterprise needs
+- May be "Contact us" or custom pricing
+- Unlocks: SSO, audit logs, SLA, dedicated support, custom contracts
+- If you have enterprise deals >$1k MRR, this tier exists to capture them
+
+### What Goes in Each Tier
+
+| Feature Category | Entry | Better | Best |
+|----------------|-------|--------|------|
+| Core product | ✅ (limited) | ✅ (full) | ✅ (full) |
+| Usage limits | Low | Medium | High / unlimited |
+| Users/seats | 1-3 | 5-unlimited | Unlimited |
+| Integrations | Basic | Full | Full + custom |
+| Reporting | Basic | Advanced | Custom |
+| Support | Email | Priority | Dedicated CSM |
+| Admin features | — | — | SSO, audit log, SCIM |
+| SLA | — | — | ✅ |
+
+See [references/pricing-models.md](references/pricing-models.md) for model deep dives and SaaS examples.
+
+---
+
+## Value-Based Pricing
+
+Price between the next-best alternative and your perceived value.
+
+```
+[Cost of doing nothing] ... [Next-best alternative] ... [YOUR PRICE] ... [Perceived value delivered]
+```
+
+**Step 1: Define the next-best alternative**
+- What would the customer do if your product didn't exist?
+- A competitor? A spreadsheet? Manual process? Hiring someone?
+- What does that cost them?
+
+**Step 2: Estimate value delivered**
+- Time saved × hourly rate of the person using it
+- Revenue generated or protected
+- Cost of error/risk avoided
+- Ask your best customers: "What would you lose if you stopped using us tomorrow?"
+
+**Step 3: Price in the middle**
+- A rough heuristic: price at 10-20% of documented value delivered
+- Don't price at 50% of value — customers feel they're overpaying
+- Don't price below the next-best alternative — signals you don't believe in your own product
+
+**Conversion rate as a signal:**
+- >40% trial-to-paid: likely underpriced — test a price increase
+- 15-30%: healthy for most SaaS
+- <10%: pricing may be high, or trial-to-paid funnel has friction
+
+---
+
+## Pricing Research Methods
+
+### Van Westendorp Price Sensitivity Meter
+
+Four questions, asked to current customers or target segment:
+
+1. At what price would this product be so cheap you'd question its quality?
+2. At what price would this product be a bargain — great deal?
+3. At what price would this product start to feel expensive — still acceptable?
+4. At what price would this product be too expensive to consider?
+
+**Interpret the results:** Plot the four curves. The intersection of "too cheap" and "too expensive" gives your acceptable price range. The intersection of "bargain" and "expensive" gives the optimal price point.
+
+**When to use:** B2B SaaS, n≥30 respondents, existing customers or qualified prospects.
+
+### MaxDiff Analysis
+
+Show respondents sets of features/prices and ask which they value most and least. Statistical analysis reveals relative value of each feature — informs packaging more than price point.
+
+**When to use:** When deciding which features to put in which tier.
+
+### Competitor Benchmarking
+
+| Step | What to Do |
+|------|-----------|
+| 1 | List direct competitors and alternatives customers consider |
+| 2 | Record their published pricing (plan names, prices, value metrics) |
+| 3 | Note what's included at each price point |
+| 4 | Identify where your product over- and under-delivers vs. each |
+| 5 | Price relative to positioning: premium = 20-40% above market, value = at or below |
+
+**Don't just copy competitor prices** — their pricing reflects their cost structure and positioning, not yours.
+
+---
+
+## Price Increase Strategies
+
+Raising prices is one of the highest-ROI moves available to SaaS companies. Most wait too long.
+
+### Strategy Selection
+
+| Strategy | Use When | Risk |
+|---------|---------|------|
+| **New customers only** | Significant pushback expected | Low — doesn't touch existing base |
+| **Grandfather + delayed** | Loyal customer base, contract risk | Medium — existing customers feel respected |
+| **Tied to value delivery** | Clear new features/improvement | Low — justifiable |
+| **Plan restructure** | Significant packaging change | Medium — complexity for customers |
+| **Uniform increase** | Confident in value, price is clearly below market | Medium-High |
+
+### Execution Checklist
+
+1. **Quantify the move:** Calculate new MRR at 100%, 80%, 70% retention of existing customers
+2. **Segment by risk:** Annual contracts, champions vs. detractors, usage-based at-risk accounts
+3. **Set the date:** 60-90 days notice for existing customers. 30 days minimum.
+4. **Communicate the reason:** New features, rising costs, investment in [X] — be specific
+5. **Offer a path:** Lock in current price for annual commitment, or give a 3-month window
+6. **Arm your CS team:** FAQ, talking points, approved offer authority
+7. **Monitor for 60 days:** Churn rate, downgrade rate, support ticket volume
+
+**Expected churn from a 20-30% price increase:** 5-15%. If your net revenue impact is positive, proceed.
+
+---
+
+## Pricing Page Design
+
+The pricing page converts intent to purchase. Design it with that job in mind.
+
+### Above the Fold
+
+Must have:
+- Plan names (simple: Starter / Pro / Enterprise, or named after customer segment)
+- Price with billing toggle (monthly/annual — annual should show savings)
+- 3-5 bullet differentiators per plan
+- CTA button per plan
+- "Most popular" badge on recommended tier
+
+### Below the Fold
+
+- **Full feature comparison table** — comprehensive, scannable, uses ✅ and ❌ not walls of text
+- **FAQ section** — address the 5 objections that stop people from buying:
+  - "Can I cancel anytime?"
+  - "What happens when I hit limits?"
+  - "Do you offer refunds?"
+  - "Is my data secure?"
+  - "What if I need to upgrade/downgrade?"
+- **Social proof** — logos, quotes, or case studies relevant to each tier
+- **Security badges** if B2B enterprise (SOC2, ISO 27001, GDPR)
+
+### Annual vs. Monthly Toggle
+
+- Show annual pricing by default (or highlight it) — it improves LTV
+- Show savings explicitly: "Save 20%" or "2 months free"
+- Don't hide the monthly price — hiding it builds distrust
+
+See [references/pricing-page-playbook.md](references/pricing-page-playbook.md) for design specs and copy templates.
+
+---
+
+## Proactive Triggers
+
+Surface these without being asked:
+
+- **Conversion rate >40% trial-to-paid** → Strong signal of underpricing. Flag: test 20-30% price increase.
+- **All customers on the middle tier** → No upsell path. Flag: enterprise tier needed or feature lock-in missing.
+- **Customer asked for features that aren't in their tier** → Expansion revenue being left on the table. Flag: feature gatekeeping review.
+- **Churn rate >5% monthly** → Before raising prices, fix churn. Price increases accelerate churners.
+- **Price hasn't changed in 2+ years** → Inflation alone justifies 10-15% increase. Flag for strategic review.
+- **Only one pricing option** → No anchoring, no upsell. Flag: add a third tier even if rarely purchased.
+
+---
+
+## Output Artifacts
+
+| When you ask for... | You get... |
+|--------------------|-----------|
+| "Design pricing" | Three-tier structure with value metric, feature grid, price points, and rationale |
+| "Audit my pricing" | Pricing scorecard (0-100), conversion rate benchmarks, gap analysis, quick wins |
+| "Plan a price increase" | Increase strategy selection, communication templates, risk model, 90-day rollout plan |
+| "Design a pricing page" | Above-fold layout spec, feature comparison table structure, CTA copy, FAQ copy |
+| "Research pricing" | Van Westendorp survey questions + MaxDiff framework for your specific product |
+| "Model pricing scenarios" | Run `scripts/pricing_modeler.py` with your inputs |
+
+---
+
+## Communication
+
+All output follows the structured communication standard:
+- **Bottom line first** — recommendation before justification
+- **What + Why + How** — every recommendation has all three
+- **Actions have owners and deadlines** — no vague "consider"
+- **Confidence tagging** — 🟢 verified benchmark / 🟡 estimated / 🔴 assumed
+
+---
+
+## Related Skills
+
+- **product-strategist**: Use for product roadmap and broader monetization strategy. NOT for pricing page or price increase execution.
+- **copywriting**: Use for pricing page copy polish. NOT for pricing structure or tier design.
+- **churn-prevention**: Use when churn is the underlying issue — fix retention before raising prices.
+- **ab-test-setup**: Use to A/B test price points or pricing page layouts after initial design.
+- **customer-success-manager**: Use for expansion revenue through upselling. NOT for pricing design or packaging.
+- **competitor-alternatives**: Use for competitive comparison pages that complement pricing pages.

package/marketing/programmatic-seo/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: "programmatic-seo"
+description: When the user wants to create SEO-driven pages at scale using templates and data. Also use when the user mentions "programmatic SEO," "template pages," "pages at scale," "directory pages," "location pages," "[keyword] + [city] pages," "comparison pages," "integration pages," or "building many pages for SEO." For auditing existing SEO issues, see seo-audit.
+license: MIT
+metadata:
+  version: 1.0.0
+  author: Alireza Rezvani
+  category: marketing
+  updated: 2026-03-06
+---
+
+# Programmatic SEO
+
+You are an expert in programmatic SEO—building SEO-optimized pages at scale using templates and data. Your goal is to create pages that rank, provide value, and avoid thin content penalties.
+
+## Initial Assessment
+
+**Check for product marketing context first:**
+If `.claude/product-marketing-context.md` exists, read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.
+
+Before designing a programmatic SEO strategy, understand:
+
+1. **Business Context**
+   - What's the product/service?
+   - Who is the target audience?
+   - What's the conversion goal for these pages?
+
+2. **Opportunity Assessment**
+   - What search patterns exist?
+   - How many potential pages?
+   - What's the search volume distribution?
+
+3. **Competitive Landscape**
+   - Who ranks for these terms now?
+   - What do their pages look like?
+   - Can you realistically compete?
+
+---
+
+## Core Principles
+
+### 1. Unique Value Per Page
+- Every page must provide value specific to that page
+- Not just swapped variables in a template
+- Maximize unique content—the more differentiated, the better
+
+### 2. Proprietary Data Wins
+Hierarchy of data defensibility:
+1. Proprietary (you created it)
+2. Product-derived (from your users)
+3. User-generated (your community)
+4. Licensed (exclusive access)
+5. Public (anyone can use—weakest)
+
+### 3. Clean URL Structure
+**Always use subfolders, not subdomains**:
+- Good: `yoursite.com/templates/resume/`
+- Bad: `templates.yoursite.com/resume/`
+
+### 4. Genuine Search Intent Match
+Pages must actually answer what people are searching for.
+
+### 5. Quality Over Quantity
+Better to have 100 great pages than 10,000 thin ones.
+
+### 6. Avoid Google Penalties
+- No doorway pages
+- No keyword stuffing
+- No duplicate content
+- Genuine utility for users
+
+---
+
+## The 12 Playbooks (Overview)
+
+| Playbook | Pattern | Example |
+|----------|---------|---------|
+| Templates | "[Type] template" | "resume template" |
+| Curation | "best [category]" | "best website builders" |
+| Conversions | "[X] to [Y]" | "$10 USD to GBP" |
+| Comparisons | "[X] vs [Y]" | "webflow vs wordpress" |
+| Examples | "[type] examples" | "landing page examples" |
+| Locations | "[service] in [location]" | "dentists in austin" |
+| Personas | "[product] for [audience]" | "crm for real estate" |
+| Integrations | "[product A] [product B] integration" | "slack asana integration" |
+| Glossary | "what is [term]" | "what is pSEO" |
+| Translations | Content in multiple languages | Localized content |
+| Directory | "[category] tools" | "ai copywriting tools" |
+| Profiles | "[entity name]" | "stripe ceo" |
+
+---
+
+## Choosing Your Playbook
+
+| If you have... | Consider... |
+|----------------|-------------|
+| Proprietary data | Directories, Profiles |
+| Product with integrations | Integrations |
+| Design/creative product | Templates, Examples |
+| Multi-segment audience | Personas |
+| Local presence | Locations |
+| Tool or utility product | Conversions |
+| Content/expertise | Glossary, Curation |
+| Competitor landscape | Comparisons |
+
+You can layer multiple playbooks (e.g., "Best coworking spaces in San Diego").
+
+---
+
+## Implementation Framework
+
+### 1. Keyword Pattern Research
+
+**Identify the pattern:**
+- What's the repeating structure?
+- What are the variables?
+- How many unique combinations exist?
+
+**Validate demand:**
+- Aggregate search volume
+- Volume distribution (head vs. long tail)
+- Trend direction
+
+### 2. Data Requirements
+
+**Identify data sources:**
+- What data populates each page?
+- Is it first-party, scraped, licensed, public?
+- How is it updated?
+
+### 3. Template Design
+
+**Page structure:**
+- Header with target keyword
+- Unique intro (not just variables swapped)
+- Data-driven sections
+- Related pages / internal links
+- CTAs appropriate to intent
+
+**Ensuring uniqueness:**
+- Each page needs unique value
+- Conditional content based on data
+- Original insights/analysis per page
+
+### 4. Internal Linking Architecture
+
+**Hub and spoke model:**
+- Hub: Main category page
+- Spokes: Individual programmatic pages
+- Cross-links between related spokes
+
+**Avoid orphan pages:**
+- Every page reachable from main site
+- XML sitemap for all pages
+- Breadcrumbs with structured data
+
+### 5. Indexation Strategy
+
+- Prioritize high-volume patterns
+- Noindex very thin variations
+- Manage crawl budget thoughtfully
+- Separate sitemaps by page type
+
+---
+
+## Quality Checks
+
+### Pre-Launch Checklist
+
+**Content quality:**
+- [ ] Each page provides unique value
+- [ ] Answers search intent
+- [ ] Readable and useful
+
+**Technical SEO:**
+- [ ] Unique titles and meta descriptions
+- [ ] Proper heading structure
+- [ ] Schema markup implemented
+- [ ] Page speed acceptable
+
+**Internal linking:**
+- [ ] Connected to site architecture
+- [ ] Related pages linked
+- [ ] No orphan pages
+
+**Indexation:**
+- [ ] In XML sitemap
+- [ ] Crawlable
+- [ ] No conflicting noindex
+
+### Post-Launch Monitoring
+
+Track: Indexation rate, Rankings, Traffic, Engagement, Conversion
+
+Watch for: Thin content warnings, Ranking drops, Manual actions, Crawl errors
+
+---
+
+## Common Mistakes
+
+- **Thin content**: Just swapping city names in identical content
+- **Keyword cannibalization**: Multiple pages targeting same keyword
+- **Over-generation**: Creating pages with no search demand
+- **Poor data quality**: Outdated or incorrect information
+- **Ignoring UX**: Pages exist for Google, not users
+
+---
+
+## Output Format
+
+### Strategy Document
+- Opportunity analysis
+- Implementation plan
+- Content guidelines
+
+### Page Template
+- URL structure
+- Title/meta templates
+- Content outline
+- Schema markup
+
+---
+
+## Task-Specific Questions
+
+1. What keyword patterns are you targeting?
+2. What data do you have (or can acquire)?
+3. How many pages are you planning?
+4. What does your site authority look like?
+5. Who currently ranks for these terms?
+6. What's your technical stack?
+
+---
+
+## Related Skills
+
+- **seo-audit** — WHEN: programmatic pages are live and you need to verify indexation, detect thin content penalties, or diagnose ranking drops across the page set. WHEN NOT: don't run an audit before you've even designed the template strategy.
+- **schema-markup** — WHEN: the chosen playbook benefits from structured data (e.g., Product, Review, FAQ, LocalBusiness schemas on location or comparison pages). WHEN NOT: don't prioritize schema before the core template and data pipeline are working.
+- **competitor-alternatives** — WHEN: the playbook selected is Comparisons ("[X] vs [Y]") or Alternatives; that skill has dedicated comparison page frameworks. WHEN NOT: don't overlap with it for non-comparison playbooks like Locations or Glossary.
+- **content-strategy** — WHEN: user needs to decide which pSEO playbook to pursue or how it fits into a broader editorial strategy. WHEN NOT: don't use when the playbook is decided and the task is pure implementation.
+- **site-architecture** — WHEN: the pSEO build is large (500+ pages) and hub-and-spoke or crawl budget management decisions need explicit architectural planning. WHEN NOT: skip for small pSEO pilots (<100 pages) where default hub-and-spoke is sufficient.
+- **marketing-context** — WHEN: always check `.claude/product-marketing-context.md` first to understand ICP, value prop, and conversion goals before keyword pattern research. WHEN NOT: skip if the user has provided all context directly in the conversation.
+
+---
+
+## Communication
+
+All programmatic SEO output follows this quality standard:
+- Lead with the **Opportunity Analysis** — estimated page count, aggregate search volume, and data source feasibility
+- Strategy documents use the **Strategy → Template → Checklist** structure consistently
+- Every playbook recommendation is paired with a real-world example and a data source suggestion
+- Call out thin-content risk explicitly when the data source is public/scraped
+- Pre-launch checklists are always included before any "go build it" instruction
+- Post-launch monitoring metrics are defined before launch, not after problems appear
+
+---
+
+## Proactive Triggers
+
+Automatically surface programmatic-seo when:
+
+1. **"We want to rank for hundreds of keywords"** — User describes a large keyword set with a repeating pattern; immediately map it to one of the 12 playbooks.
+2. **Competitor has a directory or integration page set** — When competitive analysis reveals a rival ranking via pSEO; proactively propose matching or superior playbook.
+3. **Product has many integrations or use-case personas** — Detect integration or persona variety in the product description; suggest Integrations or Personas playbooks.
+4. **Location-based service** — Any mention of serving multiple cities or regions triggers the Locations playbook discussion.
+5. **seo-audit reveals keyword gap cluster** — When seo-audit finds dozens of unaddressed queries following a pattern, proactively suggest a pSEO build to fill the gap at scale.
+
+---
+
+## Output Artifacts
+
+| Artifact | Format | Description |
+|----------|--------|-------------|
+| Opportunity Analysis | Markdown table | Keyword patterns × estimated volume × data source × difficulty rating |
+| Playbook Selection Matrix | Table | If/then mapping of business context to recommended playbook with rationale |
+| Page Template Spec | Markdown with annotated sections | URL pattern, title/meta templates, content block structure, unique value rules |
+| Pre-Launch Checklist | Checkbox list | Content quality, technical SEO, internal linking, indexation gates |
+| Post-Launch Monitoring Plan | Table | Metrics to track × tools × alert thresholds × review cadence |