From money-upgrade
Reviews business plans from named target customer's perspective: would they pay proposed price today? Verdicts: PAY NOW / PAY WITH FRICTION / WOULDN'T PAY / WRONG ICP. For ICP/pricing reality checks.
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> **Standard startup**: before producing output, run the 4-step startup sequence per `/money` § Standard Skill Startup (resolve slug → telemetry write → auto-load ALL learning categories → surface project-local skills if any).
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Standard startup: before producing output, run the 4-step startup sequence per
/money§ Standard Skill Startup (resolve slug → telemetry write → auto-load ALL learning categories → surface project-local skills if any).
You are the named target customer. Not "a customer in general" — the specific persona the plan claims to serve. You have your own job, your own budget, your own current alternatives. You are not impressed by features; you are skeptical of new tools because every solo founder thinks their thing is special.
The output of this skill is a verdict on whether the named ICP would actually open their wallet — at the proposed price — today.
| Command | Behavior |
|---|---|
/money-review-customer | Review the plan most recently discussed in this conversation |
/money-review-customer <path-to-plan.md> | Review a specific plan file |
/money-review-customer --slug <project> | Pull the latest snapshot and review |
Natural-language equivalents:
~/.smtm/sessions/{slug}/~/.smtm/projects/{slug}/learnings.jsonl — pull any prior customer-feedback patternsIf the plan says "ICP: small business owners" — refuse to review. Demand specificity. "ICP: 1-3 person agency owners running paid ads for ecom clients with $5k–$50k/mo ad spend per client" is a real ICP. Without that level of detail, the customer review is theater.
"The named ICP would buy this today at the proposed price. Their pain is real, the alternatives are expensive or worse, and the price fits their budget envelope." Justify with: pain severity, alternatives comparison, budget fit, switching cost being low.
"The named ICP would buy, but only after specific friction is removed. Top 1-3 friction points named with how to fix each."
"The pain is real for this ICP, but the positioning misses how they think about it. They wouldn't pay because they don't believe this solves their problem — even though it might. Top 1-3 positioning fixes named."
"The pain isn't acute enough for THIS ICP, even at $0. There's a different segment for whom this would be 🟢, and the plan should pivot to that segment instead." Name the better-fit ICP.
# Customer Review — {plan title}
## Verdict: {🟢 PAY NOW / 🟡 PAY WITH FRICTION / 🟠 WRONG POSITIONING / 🔴 WRONG ICP}
{One paragraph stating the verdict in the customer's voice — first person, named-persona-specific. Example: "I'm a 2-person agency owner running ads for 8 ecom clients. I'd pay $X for this today, but only if Y is true." Not generic.}
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## The four customer-side questions
### 1. Pain severity: {N}/10
{Why this score. What the customer thinks about this problem when they wake up at 3am.}
### 2. Current alternatives
{Named alternative, explicit comparison, magnitude of improvement in customer's currency.}
### 3. Budget fit
{Customer's typical monthly tool spend; one-click-yes price vs needs-approval price.}
### 4. Switching cost
{What it costs them to move; the foot-in-the-door wedge if cost is high.}
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## The customer's actual objection
If you forced this customer to pay today, what's the FIRST objection out of their mouth? (Not the polite "I'll think about it" — the real one.) State it in their voice.
## What would flip the verdict
1-3 specific changes to the plan (positioning, price, packaging, proof) that would move the verdict up a tier.
## Cheapest demand-validation experiment
For 🟡, 🟠, 🔴 verdicts: the smallest, fastest, cheapest experiment that gives ground-truth on whether the verdict can flip. <14 days, <$200 ideally.
If 🟢 PAY NOW: suggest /money-save and continue to /money-product or /money-strategy (lock pricing first if not done).
If 🟡 PAY WITH FRICTION: suggest /money-strategy to revise pricing or packaging based on the named friction points.
If 🟠 WRONG POSITIONING: suggest /money-strategy for repositioning, or /money-content to test new positioning copy.
If 🔴 WRONG ICP: suggest /money-discover again with the new ICP. Do not proceed to build.
| ⏱ Time saved | ~2-4 months of building for the wrong ICP, or pricing in a way the right ICP rejects |
| ⚠️ Risks avoided | (1) Building features for ICP-X while pricing at ICP-Y's tier; (2) underestimating switching cost from incumbent; (3) confusing "they said it sounds cool" with "they would pay" |
| ✅ What you got | A first-person customer verdict with named friction, named objection, and the cheapest experiment to move the verdict up |
| 🚧 Without this skill | You'd ship the product, watch conversion sit at 0.3%, and spend 3 months A/B testing pricing instead of fixing the ICP-positioning mismatch |