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quarterly-review

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Generate a presentation-ready quarterly business review with financial, customer, and risk analysis.

What is quarterly-review?

Generates a complete QBR narrative synthesizing revenue trends, margins, customer health, and strategic opportunities/risks from your financial and CRM systems. Use this to prepare quarterly board reviews, leadership meetings, or strategic planning sessions.

  • Pulls P&L data from QuickBooks and validates against PayPal settlements
  • Analyzes customer health, acquisition cost, and concentration risk from HubSpot
  • Identifies three revenue, margin, and customer opportunities for the next quarter
  • Flags three specific risks: revenue, margin, and operational
  • Produces a 500–800 word narrative structured for executive review
  • Exports as a formatted PDF with ASCII tables and key metrics

How to install quarterly-review

npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill quarterly-review
Prerequisites
  • QuickBooks connected (required for financial data)
  • HubSpot connected (required for customer health; optional but recommended)
  • PayPal connected (optional; used to validate QB revenue)
  • Write access to Google Drive, OneDrive, or desktop (depending on --save-to choice)
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How to use quarterly-review

  1. 1.Run the skill with optional arguments: `--quarter YYYY-QN` (default: previous quarter) and `--save-to files|desktop|both` (default: files)
  2. 2.Review the generated narrative and key metrics displayed in-line before approval
  3. 3.Confirm export to generate the PDF file (qbr-{YYYY-QN}.pdf)
  4. 4.Download or access the file from your chosen save location (Google Drive, OneDrive, or desktop)
  5. 5.Share the PDF with your board, leadership team, or stakeholders for review

Use cases

Good for
  • Prepare a quarterly board review deck with financial and customer trends
  • Identify margin improvement and revenue growth opportunities before planning next quarter
  • Assess customer concentration risk and churn patterns to inform retention strategy
  • Validate revenue across multiple data sources (QB, PayPal, HubSpot) for accuracy
  • Create a one-page executive summary of business health for leadership alignment
Who it's for
  • CFOs and finance leaders preparing quarterly reviews
  • CEOs and founders planning quarterly strategy
  • Sales leaders analyzing customer health and pipeline
  • Board members or investors reviewing business performance

quarterly-review FAQ

What happens if QuickBooks is not connected?

The skill will stop and require QB connection, as financial data is the foundation of the QBR. PayPal and HubSpot are optional; if missing, those sections are skipped with a note.

Can I generate a QBR for a past quarter?

Yes. Use the `--quarter YYYY-QN` argument (e.g., `--quarter 2025-Q3`) to specify any quarter. Default is the previous calendar quarter.

Will the QBR be automatically emailed or published?

No. The skill always displays the narrative for your review first and requires explicit approval before exporting the PDF. You control when and how it is shared.

What if my financial data is incomplete?

The skill flags any data gaps in the narrative (e.g., 'PayPal not connected — revenue validated from QB only') and still produces the QBR with available data.

Can I save the QBR to multiple locations?

Yes. Use `--save-to both` to save the PDF to both cloud storage (Google Drive/OneDrive) and your desktop.

Full instructions (SKILL.md)

Source of truth, from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins.


name: quarterly-review description: Generates a full QBR narrative — revenue trend, margin trend, customer health, top opportunities and risks — as a presentation-ready PDF or deck. Accepts optional quarter and save-to arguments. allowed-tools: Read, WebFetch, Bash

Run the quarterly business review. Pull financial, sales, and customer data for the quarter, synthesize it into a narrative, and produce a presentation-ready document.

Parse arguments:

  • --quarter (default: previous calendar quarter) — format YYYY-QN (e.g., 2026-Q1)
  • --save-to (default: files) — files (Google Drive / OneDrive), desktop, or both

Step 1 — Financial performance

Using the business-pulse skill in deep mode:

  1. Pull QuickBooks P&L for the quarter: revenue, COGS, gross margin, operating expenses, net margin.
  2. Compare to prior quarter and same quarter last year (if available).
  3. Pull PayPal settlements for the same period to validate QB revenue.
  4. Calculate: revenue growth %, margin change in points, top 3 revenue categories.

Step 2 — Customer health

  1. Pull HubSpot deal data: new customers won, churned, average deal size, pipeline entering next quarter.
  2. Calculate customer acquisition cost (if data available) and revenue per customer.
  3. Flag any customers representing >20% of revenue (concentration risk).

Step 3 — Top opportunities

Identify 3 specific opportunities for next quarter based on the data:

  • Revenue upside (category, customer segment, or channel to double down on)
  • Margin upside (cost to cut or price to raise)
  • Customer upside (segment to target or churn to reduce)

Step 4 — Top risks

Identify 3 specific risks for next quarter:

  • Revenue risk (concentration, trend, seasonality)
  • Margin risk (rising cost, pricing pressure)
  • Operational risk (pipeline gap, vendor dependency)

Step 5 — QBR narrative

Write a 500–800 word narrative in plain business English with this structure:

  1. Quarter headline (one sentence)
  2. Revenue story (trend + why)
  3. Margin story (trend + why)
  4. Customer story (health + pipeline)
  5. Three opportunities
  6. Three risks
  7. One-paragraph call to action for next quarter

Step 6 — Export

Generate:

  1. qbr-{YYYY-QN}.pdf — formatted narrative + key charts (as ASCII tables if no chart tool available)
  2. Save to --save-to location

Connector failures

If QuickBooks is unreachable, stop — the QBR requires QB financial data as the foundation. If PayPal is missing, skip cross-validation and note "PayPal not connected — revenue validated from QB only." If HubSpot is missing, skip customer health (Step 2) and note "HubSpot not connected — customer health section skipped."

Approval gates

  • Never publish or email the QBR automatically. Always display for owner review first.
  • Flag if any data source returns incomplete data — note gaps in the narrative.

Output

Present the narrative in-line, then confirm export. End with a one-paragraph "what to focus on next quarter" summary.