revops
Helps your agent manage the lead lifecycle and the marketing-to-sales transition. It enables your agent to optimize processes for increased revenue.
What it does
Helps organize how your company finds and handles new customers. This involves defining what a potential customer is, how to score them, and which salesperson they should be sent to.
When to use it
- ✓When you want to define what an 'MQL' (Marketing Qualified Lead) is.
- ✓When you need to decide how new contacts are distributed among salespeople.
- ✓When you want to improve communication between marketing and sales teams.
Example of what to ask your AI
“How can we define a sales-qualified lead (SQL) and what is the ideal response time for the sales team?”
Want more? Open the sections below.
How to use
The easiest way: copy the message below and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI. It reads the skill and follows the instructions.
Skill link
Ready-to-paste message
How it works
It analyzes your current marketing and sales processes, suggests clear definitions for each stage of the customer lifecycle, and helps create a system for scoring and routing contacts.
Installation
Easiest way: copy the skill link and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor asking it to follow the instructions.
In the terminal (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), in your project folder:
npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill revopsOr download just the file:
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/main/skills/revops/SKILL.md -o SKILL.mdTechnical content (original SKILL.md)
Original text by the author, straight from GitHub.
RevOps
You are an expert in revenue operations. Your goal is to help design and optimize the systems that connect marketing, sales, and customer success into a unified revenue engine.
Before Starting
Check for product marketing context first:
If .agents/product-marketing.md exists (or .claude/product-marketing.md, or the legacy product-marketing-context.md filename, in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.
Gather this context (ask if not provided):
- GTM motion — Product-led (PLG), sales-led, or hybrid?
- ACV range — What's the average contract value?
- Sales cycle length — Days from first touch to closed-won?
- Current stack — CRM, marketing automation, scheduling, enrichment tools?
- Current state — How are leads managed today? What's working and what's not?
- Goals — Increase conversion? Reduce speed-to-lead? Fix handoff leaks? Build from scratch?
Work with whatever the user gives you. If they have a clear problem area, start there. Don't block on missing inputs — use what you have and note what would strengthen the solution.
Core Principles
Single Source of Truth
One system of record for every lead and account. If data lives in multiple places, it will conflict. Pick a CRM as the canonical source and sync everything to it.
Define Before Automate
Get stage definitions, scoring criteria, and routing rules right on paper before building workflows. Automating a broken process just creates broken results faster.
Measure Every Handoff
Every handoff between teams is a potential leak. Marketing-to-sales, SDR-to-AE, AE-to-CS — each needs an SLA, a tracking mechanism, and someone accountable for follow-through.
Revenue Team Alignment
Marketing, sales, and customer success must agree on definitions. If marketing calls something an MQL but sales won't work it, the definition is wrong. Alignment meetings aren't optional.
Lead Lifecycle Framework
Stage Definitions
| Stage | Entry Criteria | Exit Criteria | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subscriber | Opts in to content (blog, newsletter) | Provides company info or shows engagement | Marketing |
| Lead | Identified contact with basic info | Meets minimum fit criteria | Marketing |
| MQL | Passes fit + engagement threshold | Sales accepts or rejects within SLA | Marketing |
| SQL | Sales accepts and qualifies via conversation | Opportunity created or recycled | Sales (SDR/AE) |
| Opportunity | Budget, authority, need, timeline confirmed | Closed-won or closed-lost | Sales (AE) |
| Customer | Closed-won deal | Expands, renews, or churns | CS / Account Mgmt |
| Evangelist | High NPS, referral activity, case study | Ongoing program participation | CS / Marketing |
Outbound contacts follow their own stages (targeted → in sequence → replied → positive → meeting booked → meeting held → opportunity), with fields for signal, tier, sequence, and channel so meetings can be attributed. See references/lifecycle-definitions.md.
MQL Definition
An MQL requires both fit and engagement:
- Fit score — Does this person match your ICP? (company size, industry, role, tech stack)
- Engagement score — Have they shown buying intent? (pricing page, demo request, multiple visits)
Neither alone is sufficient. A perfect-fit company that never engages isn't an MQL. A student downloading every ebook isn't an MQL.
MQL-to-SQL Handoff SLA
Define response times and document them:
- MQL alert sent to assigned rep
- Rep contacts within 4 hours (business hours)
- Rep qualifies or rejects within 48 hours
- Rejected MQLs go to recycling nurture with reason code
For complete lifecycle stage templates and SLA examples: See references/lifecycle-definitions.md
Lead Scoring
Scoring Dimensions
Explicit scoring (fit) — Who they are:
- Company size, industry, revenue
- Job title, seniority, department
- Tech stack, geography
Implicit scoring (engagement) — What they do:
- Page visits (especially pricing, demo, case studies)
- Content downloads, webinar attendance
- Email engagement (opens, clicks)
- Product usage (for PLG)
Negative scoring — Disqualifying signals:
- Competitor email domains
…
FAQ
What is 'RevOps'?
RevOps (Revenue Operations) is the practice of aligning marketing, sales, and customer success teams so they work together more efficiently and achieve better revenue results.
What is an 'MQL'?
MQL stands for Marketing Qualified Lead. It's a contact who has shown enough interest and fits the company's ideal customer profile, indicating they are ready to be passed to the sales team.
What is an 'SLA'?
SLA stands for Service Level Agreement. It's an agreement that defines the maximum time for a team to respond to or act on a lead, ensuring no contact is missed.
Details
Original description by the author
When the user wants help with revenue operations, lead lifecycle management, or marketing-to-sales handoff processes. Also use when the user mentions 'RevOps,' 'revenue operations,' 'lead scoring,' 'outbound pipeline stages,' 'lead routing,' 'MQL,' 'SQL,' 'pipeline stages,' 'deal desk,' 'CRM automation,' 'marketing-to-sales handoff,' 'data hygiene,' 'leads aren't getting to sales,' 'pipeline manag
Popularity
- GitHub stars
- 55k
- Ranking position
- #1793
- License
- MIT
- Updated
- 10/15/2026
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