Assess whether your product work is AI-first or AI-shaped. Use when evaluating AI maturity and choosing the next team capability to build.
acquisition-channel-advisor
acquisition-channel-advisor is an open-source frontend skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by deanpeters. Its author describes it as: “Evaluate acquisition channels using unit economics, customer quality, and scalability. Use when deciding whether to scale, test, or kill a growth channel.”. The project has 6.5k stars on GitHub and ships custom license terms, so review them before reuse. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills`.
What acquisition-channel-advisor does
Guide product managers through evaluating whether to scale, test, or kill an acquisition channel based on unit economics (CAC, LTV, payback), customer quality (retention, NRR), and scalability (magic number, volume potential). Use this to make data-driven go-to-market decisions and optimize channel mix for sustainable growth.
Installation
Add acquisition-channel-advisor to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-SkillsAlways review a skill's source before installing it. This command comes from the skill's public repository; the linked repo is the source of truth for exact setup steps.
What's inside
The SKILL.md for acquisition-channel-advisor is organised into these sections:
- Purpose
- Input
- Key Concepts
- The Channel Evaluation Framework
- Decision Matrix
- Anti-Patterns (What This Is NOT)
- When to Use This Framework
- Facilitation Source of Truth
- Application
- Step 0: Gather Context
- Step 1: Evaluate Unit Economics
- Step 2: Assess Customer Quality
When to use it
Reach for acquisition-channel-advisor when you want frontend help from your agent without writing the same instructions every session. Load the skill and the agent picks it up automatically for relevant tasks.
Strengths
- Ships in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, an established project with 6,527 GitHub stars
- Actively maintained (recent commits)
Things to check
- No license declared — confirm terms with the author before reuse
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does acquisition-channel-advisor do?
- Evaluate acquisition channels using unit economics, customer quality, and scalability. Use when deciding whether to scale, test, or kill a growth channel.
- How do I install acquisition-channel-advisor?
- Run /plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills before installing.
- Is acquisition-channel-advisor free to use?
- acquisition-channel-advisor is publicly available on GitHub, but deanpeters has not declared a standard open-source license (Other). Confirm the terms with the author before reusing it.
- Where does acquisition-channel-advisor come from?
- acquisition-channel-advisor ships inside deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 6,527 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
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