Suede-owned pricing and packaging discipline. An agent skill from JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills.

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Install Suede Pricing

skills CLI
$ npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-pricing -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills suede-pricing --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/suede-pricing .claude/skills/suede-pricing && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
suede-pricing
GitHub stars
127
Token cost
~2.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,058 words
Files
7 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
78
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Suede-owned pricing and packaging discipline. An agent skill from JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills.

  • Works in 4 steps: Business Context → Value & Competition → Current Performance → …
  • Deciding what to charge
  • SKILL.md covers Before Starting, Pricing Fundamentals, Value Metrics and Tier Structure Overview, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Suede Pricing is an agent skill from JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills. Suede-owned pricing and packaging discipline. Use when deciding what to charge, structuring tiers, choosing a value metric, comparing free trials with freemium, researching willingness to pay, planning a price increase, or tearing down a pricing page for clarity and AI-readability. NOT FOR: in-product upgrade screens (use suede-paywalls), offer bonuses and guarantees (use suede-offers), or executing billing changes.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 9 other files, including reference files (for example `CARD.md`, `agents/openai.yaml` and `evals/evals.json`).

It sits in Sales & Support, covering Landing pages, Plain language and style rules and Pricing strategy. The repository describes itself as: Open-source AI skills for SEO, AI search visibility, conversion copy, marketing strategy, and business operations. Reusable workflows for Claude Code and Codex, plus code review… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Deciding what to charge
  • Structuring tiers
  • Choosing a value metric
  • Comparing free trials with freemium

Example prompts

  • “/suede-pricing”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Business Context
  2. Value & Competition
  3. Current Performance
  4. Goals

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e5f94d7. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Suede Pricing loads about 2.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~7.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 108 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,058 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~108
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.4k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~7.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills at commit e5f94d7, republished under its MIT licence (© JasonColapietro). 1,058 words, ~2,361 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/suede-pricing/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 6 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
suede-pricing
description
Suede-owned pricing and packaging discipline. Use when deciding what to charge, structuring tiers, choosing a value metric, comparing free trials with freemium, researching willingness to pay, planning a price increase, or tearing down a pricing page for clarity and AI-readability. NOT FOR: in-product upgrade screens (use suede-paywalls), offer bonuses and guarantees (use suede-offers), or executing billing changes.
metadata.version
2.1.0

Suede Pricing & Packaging

Suede Pricing turns verified product economics, buyer evidence, and commercial constraints into testable prices, value metrics, tiers, and migration plans. It produces a decision brief and measurement plan while keeping billing changes behind explicit approval.

Before Starting

Check for product marketing context first: If .agents/product-marketing.md exists (or .claude/product-marketing.md, or the legacy product-marketing-context.md filename, in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.

Gather this context (ask if not provided):

1. Business Context
  • What type of product? (SaaS, marketplace, e-commerce, service)
  • What's your current pricing (if any)?
  • What's your target market? (SMB, mid-market, enterprise)
  • What's your go-to-market motion? (self-serve, sales-led, hybrid)
2. Value & Competition
  • What's the primary value you deliver?
  • What alternatives do customers consider?
  • How do competitors price?
3. Current Performance
  • What's your current conversion rate?
  • What's your ARPU and churn rate?
  • Any feedback on pricing from customers/prospects?
4. Goals
  • Optimizing for growth, revenue, or profitability?
  • Moving upmarket or expanding downmarket?

Pricing Fundamentals

Three axes, decided in this order: packaging (what's included per tier), pricing metric (what you charge for), price point (how much).

Price sits between the next best alternative (the floor) and the customer's perceived value (the ceiling). Cost to serve is a baseline, never the basis.


Value Metrics

What is a Value Metric?

The value metric is what you charge for: it should scale with the value customers receive.

Good value metrics:

  • Align price with value delivered
  • Are easy to understand
  • Scale as customer grows
  • Are hard to game
Common Value Metrics
MetricBest ForExample
Per user/seatCollaboration toolsSlack, Notion
Per usageVariable consumptionAWS, Twilio
Per featureModular productsHubSpot add-ons
Per contact/recordCRM, email toolsMailchimp
Per transactionPayments, marketplacesStripe
Flat feeSimple productsBasecamp
Choosing Your Value Metric

Ask: "As a customer uses more of [metric], do they get more value?"

  • If yes → good value metric
  • If no → price doesn't align with value
Defaults to Beat

These are the answers a model reaches for unprompted. Each is allowed, but only once you state why it beats the alternative for this product: never by default: $9/$29/$99 (or any flat 3x ladder); Starter/Pro/Enterprise names that carry no product meaning; exactly three tiers when the buyer set is two or four; 20% off annual as the reflex discount; "Contact us" on the top tier, which hides price from buyers and from the agents that now shortlist tools (see Pricing Page Teardown); per-seat when usage, records, or transactions track value better.


Tier Structure Overview

Good-Better-Best Framework

Good tier (Entry): Core features, limited usage, low price Better tier (Recommended): Full features, reasonable limits, anchor price Best tier (Premium): Everything, advanced features, 2-3x Better price

Tier Differentiation
  • Feature gating: Basic vs. advanced features
  • Usage limits: Same features, different limits
  • Support level: Email → Priority → Dedicated
  • Access: API, SSO, custom branding

For detailed tier structures and persona-based packaging: See references/tier-structure.md


Pricing Research

Van Westendorp Method

Four questions that identify acceptable price range:

  1. Too expensive (wouldn't consider)
  2. Too cheap (question quality)
  3. Expensive but might consider
  4. A bargain

Analyze intersections to find optimal pricing zone.

MaxDiff Analysis

Identifies which features customers value most:

  • Show sets of features
  • Ask: Most important? Least important?
  • Results inform tier packaging

For detailed research methods: See references/research-methods.md


When to Raise Prices

Signs It's Time

Market signals:

  • Competitors have raised prices
  • Prospects don't flinch at price
  • "It's so cheap!" feedback

Business signals:

  • Very high conversion rates (>40%)
  • Very low churn (<3% monthly)
  • Strong unit economics

Product signals:

  • Significant value added since last pricing
  • Product more mature/stable
Price Increase Strategies
  1. Grandfather existing: New price for new customers only
  2. Delayed increase: Announce 3-6 months out
  3. Tied to value: Raise price but add features
  4. Plan restructure: Change plans entirely

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Pricing Page Best Practices

Above the Fold
  • Clear tier comparison table
  • Recommended tier highlighted
  • Monthly/annual toggle
  • Primary CTA for each tier
Common Elements
  • FAQ section
  • Annual discount callout (17-20%)
  • Money-back guarantee
Pricing Psychology
  • Anchoring: Show higher-priced option first
  • Decoy effect: Middle tier should be best value
  • Charm pricing: $49 vs. $50 (for value-focused)
  • Round pricing: $50 vs. $49 (for premium)

Pricing Page Teardown

When someone wants to audit an existing pricing page for clarity, transparency, and AI-readability (not the pricing strategy itself, and not conversion-rate optimization, that's suede-site-alchemy), run a teardown that scores it across two axes and returns prioritized fixes:

  • Human buyer experience: value-prop clarity, plan differentiation, cognitive load, trust signals, pricing psychology, and price transparency.
  • AI-agent readiness, whether the LLMs and agents that increasingly shortlist and compare tools can actually read and quote your pricing: machine-readable prices (not locked in an image or behind "Contact us"), extractable FAQ/objection coverage, per-tier depth stated in text, and structured data. Buyers now ask ChatGPT/Perplexity/Claude "what's the best X and what does it cost?" before visiting, a pricing page an agent can't parse loses deals you never see.

Fast check, the "paste test": give the pricing URL to a browsing-capable AI (Perplexity, ChatGPT with search, Claude with web), or paste the rendered page text, and ask "what are the plans and prices?" A clean miss means agents fetching your page will struggle too (a heuristic, not proof every agent fails).

The AI-readiness fixes are usually high-impact, low-effort (put prices in text, add Offer schema). Hand implementation to suede-seo-audit (Product/Offer JSON-LD and supported-schema checks) and suede-ai-seo (extractability, AI-bot access, llms.txt).

For the full 10-dimension rubric, scoring, and report template: See references/pricing-page-teardown.md. (AI-agent-readiness lens adapted from Kyle Poyar / Growth Unhinged.)


Output: Pricing Decision Brief

Every pricing or packaging engagement that is not a teardown returns this exact structure. Use these headings verbatim; leave a heading in with "not decided, [what's missing]" rather than dropping it.

markdown
# Pricing Decision Brief: [product]

## Value metric
[What you charge for, and the one sentence proving usage of it tracks value.]

## Tier map
| Tier | Who it's for | Included | Limits | Price |
|------|--------------|----------|--------|-------|

## Price points + rationale
[Each number, and what it is anchored to: alternative, perceived value, or research.]

## Assumptions
[Every number taken on faith, flagged as assumption not measurement.]

## Validation plan
[What test or research confirms each assumption, and the metric that reads out.]

## Migration + grandfathering
[Existing customers: who moves, when, on what notice, and who is held.]

## What I did NOT decide
[Anything left to the user: committed price, published copy, billing changes.]

Boundaries

  • Do not create or change billing products, prices, subscriptions, or customer migrations without verified live state, a maximum-cost check, and explicit approval.
  • Do not present willingness-to-pay, conversion, churn, or revenue impact as measured unless current research or product data supports it.
  • Do not publish pricing copy, choose grandfathering policy, or commit the business to a price; return a recommendation, assumptions, and validation plan for the user to decide.

Routing

  • Use suede-paywalls for in-product upgrade and paywall experiences.
  • Use suede-offers for bonuses, guarantees, and offer framing.
  • Use suede-ab-testing to validate pricing-page or packaging hypotheses.
  • Use suede-revops for approved deal-desk and pipeline implementation.

© JasonColapietro, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 6 other files (references) in skills/suede-pricing of JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • CARD.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • evals/evals.json
  • references/pricing-page-teardown.md
  • references/research-methods.md
  • references/tier-structure.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e5f94d7

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Questions about Suede Pricing

What does Suede Pricing do?

Suede-owned pricing and packaging discipline. An agent skill from JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills. Suede Pricing is an agent skill from JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills. Suede-owned pricing and packaging discipline.

When should I use Suede Pricing?

Suede Pricing fits situations like: deciding what to charge; structuring tiers; choosing a value metric; comparing free trials with freemium.

How do I install Suede Pricing in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-pricing -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/suede-pricing in JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills) into .claude/skills/suede-pricing in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Suede Pricing in Codex?

Run `npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-pricing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/suede-pricing in JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills) into .agents/skills/suede-pricing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Suede Pricing in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-pricing -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/suede-pricing, .gemini/skills/suede-pricing, .github/skills/suede-pricing and .opencode/skills/suede-pricing in your project.

What does Suede Pricing need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Suede Pricing is instructions for the agent only.

Does Suede Pricing access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Suede Pricing safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Suede Pricing use?

Suede Pricing is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Suede Pricing use?

About 2.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 4.8k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Suede Pricing?

JasonColapietro (a GitHub user) maintains it in JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills, which has 127 GitHub stars. The repository holds 78 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.