Agent skill · business finance · deanpeters
finance-metrics-quickref
Look up SaaS finance metrics, formulas, and benchmarks fast. Use when you need a quick metric definition, formula, or benchmark during analysis.
Why this skill is useful
Codifies specific SaaS finance metrics and benchmarks that the AI could infer but doesn't have to guess.
What it needs
About 10k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-07-17. 6,302 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Purpose Quick reference for any SaaS finance metric without deep teaching. Use this when you need a fast formula lookup, benchmark check, or decision framework reminder. For detailed explanations, calculations, and examples, see the related deep-dive skills. This is not a teaching tool—it's a cheat sheet optimized for speed. Scan, find, apply. Input Works best with: The metric you need — name it and get the formula, benchmark, and decision context. Also useful: Your numbers, if you want the formula applied on the spot. Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended ARGUMENTS: line — counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask. Arriving empty-handed? That works too. Ask for the metric family you're working in (revenue, retention, efficiency, capital) and scan from there. Example invocation: Quick ref: burn multiple — formula, benchmark, and whether 1.7 is bad for Series B. Key Concepts Metric Categories Metrics are organized into four families: 1. Revenue & Growth — Top-line money (revenue, ARPU, ARPA, MRR/ARR, churn, NRR, expansion) 2. Unit Economics — Customer-level profitability (CAC, LTV, payback, margins) 3. Capital Efficiency — Cash management (burn rate, runway, OpEx, net income) 4. Efficiency Ratios — Growth vs. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills deanpeters/finance-metrics-quickref