sales-enablement
Builds what a sales team needs to sell — pitch decks, one-pagers, objection handling, competitive battlecards, demo scripts, and case studies. Use this to create or fix sales collateral, prepare for a competitive deal, build a demo flow, document objection responses, or diagnose
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/revenue/skills/sales-enablement
claude plugin marketplace add https://llmmart.ai/marketplace.json && claude plugin install cbrock84-headcount@llmmart
git clone https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git
The skills CLI installs just this skill, for any of its supported agents. Claude Code installs the whole cbrock84/headcount collection as a plugin from our marketplace. Git is the plain clone.
Skill manifest
Sales enablement
Collateral gets used when it solves a problem the seller has in a live conversation. Everything else is filed and forgotten.
Know where deals actually stall
Before making anything, find where deals die: first call, after the demo, at pricing, at security review, at the champion's boss. Each stall has a different remedy, and building for the wrong one produces beautifully designed collateral nobody opens.
The core set
Pitch deck — a structure, not a script. Problem the buyer recognizes, why current approaches fail, what you do differently, proof, commercials, next step. Ten to fifteen slides, each with a takeaway headline.
One-pager — what the champion forwards internally to people you will never meet. It must survive being read with no context and no presenter. This is usually the highest-leverage asset and the most neglected.
Objection handling — the real objections, in the words prospects use, with responses that acknowledge the legitimate part first. A response that denies the objection reads as evasion and ends trust.
Battlecards — per competitor: where they genuinely win, where you do, the traps to avoid, and what to say when the prospect raises them. Cards claiming you win everywhere get ignored by sellers, who know better.
Case studies — situation, what changed, measurable result, in the buyer's language. One verifiable number beats a page of adjectives.
Demo
Demo the outcome, not the interface. Start where the value is visible, not at login and settings.
Tailor to the problem they told you about — a feature tour of everything demonstrates that you were not listening. Prepare for the three things that always go wrong, and know how to reach the value moment inside five minutes when time gets cut.
Maintaining
Collateral rots. Every asset needs an owner and a review date, and anything referencing pricing, competitors, or product capability needs checking every quarter. A battlecard describing a competitor's old product loses deals.
Sources
references/sources.md in this skill lists the outside authorities that settle the questions
here — what each one is authoritative for, and what you may do with it. Check them before
answering on anything they cover, and cite what you used. Most are free to read and not free
to reproduce; the use note on each is binding.
Never
- Build collateral before you know where deals actually stall. Ask the reps and read the losses first.
- Ship a deck or one-pager with no owner and no review date. Unmaintained collateral is worse than none.
- Order a demo around the product's feature list instead of the order the buyer's problem unfolds in.
- Count enablement as done at delivery. It is done when reps use it in live deals.
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sources.md 1.9 KB
# Sources — `revenue:sales-enablement` <!-- Generated by scripts/build-sources.py from sources/*.toml. Do not edit. --> Check these before answering on anything they cover, and cite what you used. The use note on each one is binding: most of what a professional cites is free to read and not free to reproduce. ## 16 CFR Part 310 — Telemarketing Sales Rule US Federal Trade Commission · US · public domain (US government) — quote freely <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-310> **Authoritative for:** What an outbound seller must disclose before taking payment, which misrepresentations are prohibited, and what records the program must keep. The rule that makes a call script lawful or not. ## 36 CFR Part 1194 — Section 508 information and communication technology standards US Access Board · US · public domain (US government) — quote freely <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-36/subtitle-B/chapter-XI/part-1194> **Authoritative for:** What a product must satisfy to be lawfully procurable by a US federal agency. This decides a public-sector deal rather than expressing a design preference, which is why it reaches sales as often as engineering. ## EN 301 549 — accessibility requirements for ICT products and services ETSI · EU · **read and cite only — copyrighted, do not reproduce** <https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/301500_301599/301549/03.02.01_60/en_301549v030201p.pdf> **Authoritative for:** The requirement set an EU public-sector buyer measures against, including non-web software, documents and hardware that the web guidelines do not cover. Which version is legally operative depends on what the Official Journal currently cites — check before relying on a newer one. --- Sources are maintained in `sources/` upstream, not here. If one is wrong, out of date, or missing, fix it there — this file is regenerated and an edit to it is lost.
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--- name: sales-enablement description: Builds what a sales team needs to sell — pitch decks, one-pagers, objection handling, competitive battlecards, demo scripts, and case studies. Use this to create or fix sales collateral, prepare for a competitive deal, build a demo flow, document objection responses, or diagnose why a pitch is not converting. --- # Sales enablement Collateral gets used when it solves a problem the seller has in a live conversation. Everything else is filed and forgotten. ## Know where deals actually stall Before making anything, find where deals die: first call, after the demo, at pricing, at security review, at the champion's boss. Each stall has a different remedy, and building for the wrong one produces beautifully designed collateral nobody opens. ## The core set **Pitch deck** — a structure, not a script. Problem the buyer recognizes, why current approaches fail, what you do differently, proof, commercials, next step. Ten to fifteen slides, each with a takeaway headline. **One-pager** — what the champion forwards internally to people you will never meet. It must survive being read with no context and no presenter. This is usually the highest-leverage asset and the most neglected. **Objection handling** — the real objections, in the words prospects use, with responses that acknowledge the legitimate part first. A response that denies the objection reads as evasion and ends trust. **Battlecards** — per competitor: where they genuinely win, where you do, the traps to avoid, and what to say when the prospect raises them. Cards claiming you win everywhere get ignored by sellers, who know better. **Case studies** — situation, what changed, measurable result, in the buyer's language. One verifiable number beats a page of adjectives. ## Demo Demo the outcome, not the interface. Start where the value is visible, not at login and settings. Tailor to the problem they told you about — a feature tour of everything demonstrates that you were not listening. Prepare for the three things that always go wrong, and know how to reach the value moment inside five minutes when time gets cut. ## Maintaining Collateral rots. Every asset needs an owner and a review date, and anything referencing pricing, competitors, or product capability needs checking every quarter. A battlecard describing a competitor's old product loses deals. ## Sources `references/sources.md` in this skill lists the outside authorities that settle the questions here — what each one is authoritative for, and what you may do with it. Check them before answering on anything they cover, and cite what you used. Most are free to read and not free to reproduce; the use note on each is binding. ## Never - Build collateral before you know where deals actually stall. Ask the reps and read the losses first. - Ship a deck or one-pager with no owner and no review date. Unmaintained collateral is worse than none. - Order a demo around the product's feature list instead of the order the buyer's problem unfolds in. - Count enablement as done at delivery. It is done when reps use it in live deals.
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