
Sales Brief
- 1.1k installs
- 23.3k repo stars
- Updated August 5, 2026
- anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
Sales-brief is a Claude skill that surfaces top and bottom sellers, checks seasonality, and produces a two-week content brief to push winners and clear slow movers.
About
Sales-brief pulls what sold and what didn't from PayPal and QuickBooks, ranks products by revenue, volume, and margin, and explains the likely driver behind each mover. An SMB owner runs it to decide what to promote and what to clear. It checks year-over-year seasonality and produces a ready-to-use two-week content brief with a posting calendar, offering to generate Canva assets only after the owner approves.
- Surfaces top and bottom sellers and their likely drivers from PayPal and QuickBooks data
- Checks year-over-year seasonality patterns
- Produces a ready-to-use 2-week content brief and calendar to push winners and clear slow movers
Sales Brief by the numbers
- 1,055 all-time installs (skills.sh)
- +77 installs in the week ending Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion tracking)
- Ranked #77 of 853 Sales & Marketing skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
- Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
sales-brief capabilities & compatibility
- Capabilities
- run campaign · margin analyzer · lead triage
- Use cases
- marketing · data analysis · copywriting
What sales-brief says it does
Surfaces top and bottom sellers, identifies seasonality patterns, and produces a 2-week content brief to push winners and clear slow movers.
Never auto-schedule or publish content.** The brief is for owner review only.
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| Installs | 1.1k |
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| repo stars | ★ 23.3k |
| Last updated | August 5, 2026 |
| Repository | anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins ↗ |
What it does
Identify top and bottom sellers and produce a two-week content brief to push winners and clear slow movers.
Who is it for?
Owners deciding what to promote based on recent sales performance.
Skip if: Owners wanting content auto-scheduled or published without review.
When should I use this skill?
The owner asks what's selling or what they should promote.
What you get
A ranked sales breakdown with likely drivers and a ready-to-use two-week content brief and calendar.
- ranked sales breakdown
- two-week content brief
- posting calendar
By the numbers
- 30/60/90 day lookback
- two-week content brief
- bottom sellers below 5% of revenue
Files
Run the sales analysis and content brief. Pull what sold (and what didn't), explain why, and produce a ready-to-use content plan that acts on the data.
Parse arguments:
--lookback(default:30d) —30d,60d, or90dlookback window
Step 1 — Sales breakdown
Using the content-strategy skill workflow for sales analysis:
1. Pull PayPal transactions for the lookback period grouped by item/service/SKU. 2. Pull QuickBooks revenue by product/service category. 3. Rank products by: total revenue, unit volume, and margin (if available in QB). 4. Calculate each product's share of total revenue vs. prior equivalent period.
Top sellers: products that grew share or maintained top-3 rank. Bottom sellers: products with declining volume or below 5% of revenue.
Step 2 — Seasonality check
1. Compare current period to same period in prior year (if QB history available). 2. Flag any items with a seasonal pattern (e.g., spikes in Q4, slow summers). 3. Note any new products with insufficient history to detect seasonality.
Step 3 — Why analysis
For each top and bottom seller, explain the likely driver:
- Price change, promo, new channel, seasonal demand, competitor move
- Cross-reference with HubSpot campaign activity for the period
- Note where attribution is inferred vs. confirmed
Step 4 — 2-week content brief
Produce a ready-to-use content brief:
2-Week Content Brief — {date range}
PUSH THESE (winners)
• {product}: {suggested angle} — {channel: email|social|both}
• {product}: {suggested angle} — {channel}
CLEAR THESE (slow movers)
• {product}: {promo angle or bundle suggestion} — {channel}
CONTENT CALENDAR
Week 1:
Mon: {post/email concept}
Wed: {post/email concept}
Fri: {post/email concept}
Week 2:
Mon: {post/email concept}
Wed: {post/email concept}
Fri: {post/email concept}Connector failures
If both QuickBooks and PayPal are unreachable, stop — sales analysis requires at least one revenue source. If only one is connected, run from that source and note "QuickBooks not connected — revenue data from PayPal only" (or vice versa). If HubSpot is missing, skip campaign cross-reference in the "why analysis" and note it.
Approval gates
- Never auto-schedule or publish content. The brief is for owner review only.
- Never create Canva assets automatically — offer to generate them after owner approves the brief.
Output
Present the sales analysis, then the content brief. Ask the owner if they'd like to generate Canva assets for any of the planned posts.
Related skills
How it compares
Pick sales-brief for PayPal-plus-QuickBooks content planning; pick a pure analytics skill when you only need dashboards without marketing brief output.
FAQ
Does sales-brief publish content?
No. It never auto-schedules or publishes content; the brief is for owner review and it offers to generate Canva assets only after approval.
What lookback windows are supported?
30, 60, or 90 days via the --lookback argument, defaulting to 30 days.