What do I need to use The Procurement Gauntlet?

The product's honest posture:; The paper on hand; The target buyer; The skeletons.

Is The Procurement Gauntlet 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.

The Procurement Gauntlet

Q: How do I know the The Procurement Gauntlet output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Every finding traces to the disclosed posture — gaps disclosed get graded, gaps invented don't exist; Grades carry deal consequences, not abstract severity; The artifact list is ordered by deals-unblocked-per-effort; Certifications-in-progress are treated as dated conversations, not passes or failures.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-17 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-simulators

Simulate enterprise procurement and security review of your product before your first big deal meets it for real — the questionnaire, the gaps, the deal-slowing findings. Use when asked to prep for enterprise procurement, simulate a security review, why do enterprise deals stall, or get ready for vendor assessment. Produces the reviewer's findings memo (security, legal, compliance, vendor-risk), the stall-risk ranking, and a debrief with the artifacts to prepare before the real gauntlet.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

What to give it

▸The product's honest posture: — hosting/architecture, auth (SSO?), data handled (PII? whose?), certifications held or in progress, backup/DR reality, team size

▸The paper on hand — security page, DPA template, terms, subprocessor list, insurance

▸The target buyer — regulated industry? company size? geography (data-residency expectations)?

▸The skeletons — the honest gaps; the simulation is only as useful as this disclosure

✅ 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.

✓Every finding traces to the disclosed posture — gaps disclosed get graded, gaps invented don't exist

✓Grades carry deal consequences, not abstract severity

✓The artifact list is ordered by deals-unblocked-per-effort

✓Certifications-in-progress are treated as dated conversations, not passes or failures

✓The positioning line lets sales tell the truth survivably

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not grade against a Fortune-50 bar for an SMB product — calibrate to the stated buyer

Do not treat certification as binary salvation — many deals close on posture + roadmap + honesty

Do not let the simulation recommend overclaiming — review teams verify, and discovered overclaims are 🔴

Do not omit the mortality questions — vendor-viability stalls surprise founders most

Do not stay in character in the debrief

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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Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

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