# Value Waterfall

> Decompose value creation or destruction through waterfall analysis. Use for understanding value drivers and financial analysis.

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

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-linuszz-business-strategy-planning-skills-value-waterfall
```

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

## About

# Value Waterfall

## Metadata
- **Name**: value-waterfall
- **Description**: Sources of value creation/destruction analysis
- **Triggers**: value waterfall, value creation, value bridge, financial decomposition

## Instructions

Analyze sources of value creation or destruction for $ARGUMENTS using waterfall methodology.

## Framework

### The Waterfall Structure

```
Starting Value
     │
     ├── + Revenue Growth ($10M)
     │
     ├── + Margin Improvement ($5M)
     │
     ├── - Investment Costs ($3M)
     │
     └── Ending Value
     
     Total Change: +$12M
```

## Output

```
## Value Waterfall: [Subject]

### Value Bridge

| Component | Impact | Running Total |
|-----------|--------|---------------|
| **Starting Value** | - | $100M |
| Revenue Growth | +$15M | $115M |
| Price Increase | +$5M | $120M |
| Cost Reduction | +$8M | $128M |
| Investment | -$6M | $122M |
| One-time Charges | -$2M | $120M |
| **Ending Value** | - | $120M |
| **Total Change** | **+$20M** | **+20%** |

### Visualization

```
$130M ┤              ╭────────
      │         ╭────╯
$120M ┤    ╭────╯    Ending
      │    │         Value
$110M ┤╭───╯
      ││   Running
$100M ┤│   Total
      ││
$ 90M ┤│
      └────────────────────────
       Start  Rev   Price  Cost  Inv  Charge  End
```

### Key Drivers

**Value Creators:**
1. Revenue Growth (+$15M) - [Explanation]
2. Cost Reduction (+$8M) - [Explanation]
3. Price Increase (+$5M) - [Explanation]

**Value Destroyers:**
1. Investment (-$6M) - [Explanation]
2. One-time Charges (-$2M) - [Explanation]

### Insights

- **Largest creator**: Revenue growth (75% of positive impact)
- **Largest destroyer**: Investment (30% of negative impact)
- **Net value created**: +$20M (20% improvement)

### Strategic Implications

1. [Implication 1]
2. [Implication 2]
```

## Tips
- Start with clear baseline
- Group related items
- Show running totals
- Quantify each component
- Focus on material items

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [linuszz](https://github.com/linuszz)
- **Source:** [linuszz/business-strategy-planning-skills](https://github.com/linuszz/business-strategy-planning-skills)
- **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-linuszz-business-strategy-planning-skills-value-waterfall
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/linuszz
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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