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Benefit Statement Drafter

by @quochungto

Draft Benefit statements that link product capabilities to specific customer-expressed Explicit Needs. Use this skill when preparing follow-up emails, propos...

⚑ When to Use
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This skill drafts one Benefit statement per matched (Explicit Need, capability) pair. Each statement follows a simple structure: the customer stated they need X; our product delivers X in this way.
**Use this skill when:**
- Preparing a follow-up email after a discovery call where Explicit Needs were surfaced
- Writing the value section of a proposal or deck for a specific account
- Drafting a demo opening that references what the customer told you they needed
- Moving from "here's what our product does" to "here's why it matters for this customer"
**Critical gate:** This skill requires a `needs-log.md` with at least one confirmed Explicit Need. If you ask this skill to draft Benefits before Explicit Needs exist, it will decline and redirect you to `spin-discovery-question-planner` to develop needs first. This is intentional β€” Rackham's 5,000-call study found that statements meeting Explicit Needs (true Benefits) are strongly linked to call success, while statements showing how a product can help (Advantages) have no statistically significant relationship to success in large sales.
**Do NOT use this skill to:** audit existing sales content (use `fab-statement-classifier`), generate discovery questions (use `spin-discovery-question-planner`), or write full proposals or emails (this skill produces statement-level drafts you incorporate into longer content).
πŸ’‘ Examples

Scenario: Follow-up email after a discovery call with confirmed Explicit Needs

Trigger: AE says β€” "I had a great call with a VP of Finance. My needs-log shows she said 'we need to cut our monthly close from 7 days to 2 days' and 'we need a single dashboard all three regional controllers can see.' Help me draft the Benefits for my follow-up email."

Process:

  • (Step 1) Read needs-log.md: Two Explicit Needs confirmed: "cut close from 7 to 2 days" and "single dashboard for three regions."
  • (Step 2) Match to product-capabilities.md: Automated close workflow matches Need 1. Unified multi-entity dashboard matches Need 2. No gaps.
  • (Step 4) Draft Benefit 1: "You mentioned you need to cut monthly close from 7 days to 2. Our automated close workflow runs the period-end reconciliation and approval chain in parallel rather than sequentially, which is how clients in your situation have reduced their close to 1-3 days." Draft Benefit 2: "You said you need a single dashboard your three regional controllers can all see. Our multi-entity view consolidates all three regions into one real-time view with role-based access β€” each controller sees the same live data, and you see the consolidated view above them."
  • (Step 6) Write benefit-statements-vp-finance-acme.md.
  • Output: Two grounded Benefit statements ready to be pasted into the follow-up email, anchored to the customer's own words. No aspirational claims.


    Scenario: Refusal β€” only Implied Needs in the record

    Trigger: AE says β€” "I have a call transcript. The customer mentioned they're frustrated with their current system and said approvals take forever. Help me write Benefits."

    Process:

  • (Step 1) Read the transcript: "frustrated with current system" = Implied Need. "approvals take forever" = Implied Need. No Explicit Needs (no "we need," "we want," "we're looking for").
  • (Step 2) Refusal Protocol fires: No Explicit Needs present.
  • Output: > STOP. The customer has expressed problems and frustrations (Implied Needs) but has not yet stated what they want or need. This skill cannot draft Benefits without confirmed Explicit Needs β€” drafting now would produce Advantages, which have no statistically significant relationship to large-sale success. > > Run spin-discovery-question-planner before your next call. Input: the Implied Needs above. The planner will build Implication Questions to develop these into felt problems, and Need-payoff Questions to get the customer to articulate the want. Once they do, return here with the updated needs log.


    Scenario: New product launch

    Trigger: Solutions consultant says β€” "We just launched a new security monitoring tool. We don't have any customer conversations yet. How do I use Benefits with this product?"

    Process:

  • (Step 3) New-Product-Launch Sub-flow activates.
  • (Step 3a) Ask: "What problems is this tool designed to solve?" User provides: insider threat detection, compliance audit trail, real-time alert on anomalous access.
  • (Step 3b) Map to likely customer types: security directors, compliance officers, CISOs in regulated industries.
  • (Step 3c) Draft discovery plan: "Before presenting any capabilities, plan Problem β†’ Implication β†’ Need-payoff question chains for each of these three problems. Use spin-discovery-question-planner with this problem list. Only after customers have expressed wants related to these problems should you draft Benefits."
  • (Step 3d) Draft three PROVISIONAL benefit templates, labeled clearly: "PROVISIONAL β€” do not use until customer has confirmed this need."
  • Output: benefit-statements-new-security-tool-provisional.md β€” problem list, discovery plan, three provisional templates with explicit instruction to develop needs first.

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    clawhub install bookforge-benefit-statement-drafter

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