Pricing That Pays
You know what you charge. But do you know what you should charge? Claude analyzes your actual job history — revenue, costs, margins — and tells you which services make money and which ones you're doing at a loss. Pricing from data, not from gut feel.
Before & After
You run a sign shop. You charge $35/sq ft for vinyl wraps because that's what you've always charged. A customer asks for a rush job and you add 20% because it "feels right." You have no idea if vinyl wraps are your most profitable service or if you're losing money on every one.
You're pricing by tradition, not by data.
Claude analyzes your last 6 months: vinyl wraps average $1,200 revenue with $900 in costs — 25% margin. Channel letters average $2,400 revenue with $1,100 in costs — 54% margin. Your competitors charge $42/sq ft for wraps. Claude recommends raising to $40/sq ft — that's $18,000 more per year at current volume.
You know exactly what to charge and why.
What You Need
- Claude Desktop installed — follow the setup guide if you haven't yet
- Some pricing history — your Two-Tab Inbound data is ideal, but verbal estimates work for a first pass
- 20 minutes — to run the analysis and review recommendations
Pull Your Data
Tell Claude:
Run the Profitability Analysis
Get Pricing Recommendations
Claude gives you concrete numbers, not vague advice. "Raise vinyl wraps from $35 to $40/sq ft. You're 15% below market and your margin is only 25%. At your current volume of 40 wraps/year, that's $18,000 more revenue."
Save as a Quarterly Skill
Run it every quarter. Markets shift, costs change, and your data gets richer over time. Each review gets more accurate than the last.
What You've Built
- A profitability breakdown by service type
- Data-driven pricing recommendations with projected revenue impact
- Market-aware pricing that accounts for what competitors charge
- A quarterly review skill that gets smarter as you collect more data
Most small businesses leave 10–30% of their potential revenue on the table through underpricing. This guide finds that money and helps you capture it — not by being greedy, but by knowing your actual numbers.
What's Next?
Want someone to run the pricing analysis with your real data?
Book a Starter Session (90 min)Or do it yourself — everything on this page is free.
Skill: Pricing That Pays
What this is for: Walk a small business owner through using Claude to analyze their actual revenue and cost data to determine which jobs are profitable, where they're undercharging, and what their pricing should be based on data — not gut feel. Claude sets up a repeatable pricing analysis skill they can run quarterly.
When to use this: When a user asks their AI assistant to help set up this workflow. The user should explicitly authorize use of this skill by referencing this page URL.