$npx -y skills add sales-skills/sales --skill sales-bizplanbuilderBizPlanBuilder (businesspowertools.com) platform help — the long-established, spreadsheet-native business-planning suite: guided plan templates with editable pro-written boilerplate, deep Excel financial models (multi-year projections, financial-ratio industry benchmarking, busin
| 1 | # BizPlanBuilder Platform Help |
| 2 | |
| 3 | BizPlanBuilder (**businesspowertools.com**, by Business Power Tools) is the **long-established, |
| 4 | spreadsheet-native** business-planning suite — one of the original business-plan template products, |
| 5 | now cloud-based with AI assistance bolted on. Its edge in a crowded cluster of AI plan *generators*: |
| 6 | it pairs **guided templates with editable, pro-written boilerplate** (you edit proven language rather |
| 7 | than accept an AI's from-scratch draft) and **real, customizable Excel financial models** you own and |
| 8 | control — multi-year projections, **financial-ratio industry benchmarking**, **business valuation**, |
| 9 | **cap table**, and **what-if/sensitivity analysis** — plus a pitch deck, a **built-in CRM**, a |
| 10 | **secure investor data room**, **team collaboration** (multi-user, section check-out/check-in, |
| 11 | comments), and a **bundle of legal/HR templates** (LLC/corp formation, contracts, policy manuals). |
| 12 | Sold **monthly, annual, or one-time lifetime**, with a **Windows desktop** version alongside the cloud |
| 13 | app. It's **UI-only — no public API**; data leaves as **Excel / Word / PDF / PowerPoint** files. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | ## Step 1 — Gather context |
| 16 | |
| 17 | If `references/learnings.md` exists, read it first for accumulated platform knowledge. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Ask only what you can't infer from the user's prompt: |
| 20 | |
| 21 | 1. **Where are you?** (a) writing/editing a plan or the Excel financial model, (b) making a plan |
| 22 | investor- or lender-ready (valuation, ratios, cap table), (c) deciding monthly vs annual vs |
| 23 | **lifetime**, or **cloud vs Windows desktop**, (d) collaborating with a team / sharing via the data |
| 24 | room, (e) asking whether it has an API/export/integration. |
| 25 | 2. **What stage is the business?** (just an idea, have a rough plan, prepping a bank/SBA loan or an |
| 26 | investor round) — decides whether the financial model + valuation + data room matter or a lean plan |
| 27 | is enough. |
| 28 | 3. **What evidence do you have so far** — a hunch, an AI score, a landing page, a waitlist, or someone |
| 29 | offered to pay? (Frames whether a polished plan is the right next step or a demand test is.) |
| 30 | |
| 31 | Skip-ahead rule: if the user's prompt already contains enough context, skip to Step 2. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | ## Step 2 — Route or answer directly |
| 34 | |
| 35 | BizPlanBuilder is one planning tool. Much of what a founder needs is tool-agnostic — route it: |
| 36 | |
| 37 | | The user's real question | Route to | |
| 38 | |---|---| |
| 39 | | Should I trust this plan? How do I actually validate the idea? Comparing plan/validator tools to pick one | `/sales-idea-validation` | |
| 40 | | Build the smoke-test / fake-door landing page the demand test runs on | `/sales-funnel` | |
| 41 | | Grow a pre-launch waitlist and capture signups | `/sales-audience-growth` | |
| 42 | | Reddit-based real-demand signal to cross-check the plan's market assumptions | `/sales-trendseeker` | |
| 43 | |
| 44 | When routing, give the exact command: "This is a validation-method question — run: `/sales-idea-validation {the user's original question}`" |
| 45 | |
| 46 | Answer **directly** only for BizPlanBuilder-specific mechanics (the template + boilerplate workflow, |
| 47 | the Excel financial model / ratios / valuation / cap table, the CRM, the investor data room, team |
| 48 | collaboration, plan tiers, cloud vs desktop, exports, "does it have an API"). |
| 49 | |
| 50 | ## Step 3 — BizPlanBuilder platform reference |
| 51 | |
| 52 | **Read `references/platform-guide.md`** for the full reference — the module list with what's editable |
| 53 | vs export-only, the Excel financial model (34 ratios, 3 valuation approaches, cap table, sensitivity |
| 54 | analysis), the CRM and investor data room, collaboration, the legal/HR template bundle, pricing tiers |
| 55 | (monthly / annual / lifetime, team add-ons, cloud vs Windows), the export formats, and the (absent) |
| 56 | automation surface. |
| 57 | |
| 58 | Answer using only the relevant section — don't dump the whole guide. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | ## Step 4 — Actionable guidance |
| 61 | |
| 62 | - **A fundable plan is a document, not validate |