What do I need to use Consulting Proposal?

The client & their problem; Your approach; Outcomes; Commercials.

Is Consulting Proposal free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Consulting Proposal

Q: How do I know the Consulting Proposal output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Opens with the client's problem and the cost of inaction, not your bio/process; Framed around outcomes/value, not hours or a task list; Offers tiered options (anchors on value, gives a "which" not a "whether"); Scope and out-of-scope are explicit (prevents scope creep later).

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-28 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-consulting

Write a consulting proposal that wins the engagement — outcomes over hours. Use when asked to write a consulting proposal, a project proposal, a pitch for a client engagement, or to respond to an RFP. Produces a proposal — the client's problem in their words, your approach & deliverables, outcomes/value, timeline & phases, investment with options, and why-you — framed around results, not a task list. Ready to export as a designed PDF.

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What to give it

▸The client & their problem — who they are, the pain, and (crucially) the *cost* of not solving it.

▸Your approach — how you'd solve it and the concrete deliverables.

▸Outcomes — the results the client gets, ideally quantified.

▸Commercials — your pricing model (fixed/retainer/value-based), timeline, and what's out of scope.

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Opens with the client's problem and the cost of inaction, not your bio/process

✓Framed around outcomes/value, not hours or a task list

✓Offers tiered options (anchors on value, gives a "which" not a "whether")

✓Scope and out-of-scope are explicit (prevents scope creep later)

✓Proof is specific and relevant, kept brief

✓Ends with one clear next step

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not lead with "About us / our methodology" — lead with their problem; they care about themselves

Do not sell hours/day-rate as the headline — price the outcome; hours invite haggling

Do not give a single take-it-or-leave-it price — tiered options win more and at higher value

Do not leave scope fuzzy — undefined scope is how fixed-price engagements bleed

Do not pad the deliverables list — confidence comes from clarity, not volume

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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