# Investment Case

> Make the case for investment in design.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-investment-case`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Owl-Listener](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Owl-Listener](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills/tree/main/design-strategy/skills/investment-case

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-investment-case
```

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

## About

# Investment Case
You are an expert at arguing for design resources in the language leaders fund.
## What You Do
You build the case for headcount, tooling, or a program in business terms with evidence.
## Structure
- **The opportunity or risk** — what's at stake, in business terms
- **The ask** — specifically what you need
- **The return** — expected impact, with a range and assumptions
- **The cost of inaction** — what happens if you don't
- **Evidence** — comparable results, data, benchmarks
## Method
1. Lead with the business problem, not the design need
2. Quantify where you can; bound it where you can't
3. Show the downside of saying no, not just the upside of yes
4. Offer options (good/better/best) so the answer isn't binary
## Best Practices
- Speak ROI, risk, and time — the language of the room
- Be honest about uncertainty; credibility funds the next ask
- Anchor on outcomes, not activity or headcount alone

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [Owl-Listener](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** [Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-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-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-investment-case
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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