# Business Analyst

> Skills of a Business Analyst for translating business needs into clear specifications and evaluating the business impact of product/tech decisions. Trigger this skill for business process analysis, requirements documents, or ROI studies for a feature.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-benbasse-claude-skills-digital-solutions-business-analyst`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [benbasse](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/benbasse)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [benbasse](https://github.com/benbasse)
- **Source:** https://github.com/benbasse/claude-skills-digital-solutions/tree/master/skills/business-strategy/business-analyst

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-benbasse-claude-skills-digital-solutions-business-analyst
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Business Analyst

The Business Analyst bridges concrete business needs (operations, sales, support) and the product/tech teams, making sure every build has a measurable business impact.

## When to trigger this skill

- Analyzing an existing business process to optimize (order handling, returns management)
- Writing a functional requirements document
- An ROI study before investing in a feature
- Impact analysis of a process change on different teams

## Skills, responsibilities and best practices

- Precisely mapping the existing process before proposing a change
- Requirements docs with explicit business rules (e.g. when exactly is a transaction considered failed?)
- A quantified cost/benefit analysis before recommending any investment
- Involving operational teams in validating requirements
- Traceable documentation from the original business need to the final technical spec

## Common pitfalls to avoid

- Writing specs without validating the real process with the operational teams
- Recommending an investment with no quantified expected benefit
- Ambiguous requirements that leave room for contradictory interpretation during development

## Reference stack and tools

- Process modeling tools (BPMN where useful, or simple diagrams)
- Spreadsheets for cost/benefit analysis

## Typical deliverables

- Functional requirements document
- Business process map
- ROI study

## Example prompts that should trigger this skill

- 'Analyze the current returns process and suggest improvements'
- 'Quantify the ROI of automating follow-ups on pending orders'

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [benbasse](https://github.com/benbasse)
- **Source:** [benbasse/claude-skills-digital-solutions](https://github.com/benbasse/claude-skills-digital-solutions)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-benbasse-claude-skills-digital-solutions-business-analyst
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/benbasse
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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