Friday Brief

VerifiedCaution

Delivers the Friday end-of-week pulse — revenue vs prior week, top sellers, wins and watches. Accepts optional lookback window of 7 or 14 days.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
ProductivityIntermediate
207/24/2026
Claude Code
#friday-brief#weekly-report#revenue#wins-watches

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Our review

Generates an end-of-week business pulse report including revenue vs prior week, top sellers, wins, and watches, using optional PayPal and HubSpot integrations.

Strengths

  • Automates the collection of revenue and sales data from multiple sources
  • Provides clear week-over-week comparisons and flags significant changes
  • Includes actionable watch items with recommended next steps

Limitations

  • Requires at least one of PayPal or HubSpot to be connected to produce meaningful output
  • Does not auto-send reports; owner must manually approve distribution
  • Lookback window limited to 7 or 14 days only
When to use it

Use this skill every Friday to get a data-driven summary of the week's performance and identify key wins and risks.

When not to use it

Do not use this skill if you need real-time data or if neither PayPal nor HubSpot is available.

Security analysis

Caution
Quality score92/100

The skill uses Bash and accesses business accounts (PayPal, HubSpot) to pull financial data. It does not perform any destructive or exfiltrating actions, and includes strong approval gates to prevent automatic posting. However, due to the use of Bash and handling of sensitive revenue data, it warrants a caution rating.

Findings
  • Uses Bash for process execution, which presents a risk if misused, but the skill only performs data retrieval and formatting.

Examples

Default 7-day Friday brief
Run the Friday wins-and-watches briefing.
Two-week lookback comparison
Run the Friday brief with --lookback 14d.

name: friday-brief description: Delivers the Friday end-of-week pulse — revenue vs prior week, top sellers, wins and watches. Accepts optional lookback window of 7 or 14 days. allowed-tools: Read, WebFetch, Bash

Run the Friday wins-and-watches briefing. Pull the numbers, surface what matters, and give the owner a clean end-of-week picture.

Parse arguments:

  • --lookback (default: 7d) — 7d for one week or 14d for a two-week rolling comparison

Step 1 — Revenue pulse

Using the business-pulse skill workflow:

  1. Pull PayPal transactions for the lookback period.
  2. Pull any HubSpot deal closes for the same window.
  3. Calculate week-over-week revenue delta.
  4. Surface top 3 revenue sources (product / customer / channel) ranked by contribution.

Step 2 — Sales breakdown

  1. List the top 5 selling products/services by volume and revenue.
  2. List the bottom 3 (anything that moved less than expected vs. prior period).
  3. Flag any items with a sudden spike or drop (>20% change).

Step 3 — Wins and watches summary

Format the output as:

Friday Brief — {date}

WINS
• {win 1}
• {win 2}
• {win 3}

WATCHES
• {watch 1} — {recommended action}
• {watch 2} — {recommended action}

Revenue this week: ${amount} ({+/-}X% vs last week)

Connector failures

Run with whatever is connected — this command degrades gracefully. If PayPal is missing, skip transaction data and note "PayPal not connected — revenue data from HubSpot deals only." If HubSpot is missing, skip deal closes and note it. If neither is connected, stop and tell the owner: "No revenue sources connected. Connect PayPal or HubSpot to run the Friday brief."

Approval gates

  • Never send or post this brief automatically. Always display it for the owner to review first.
  • Never auto-cancel or modify anything. Surface the data and recommendations only.

Output

End with the formatted brief and ask the owner: "Want me to post this to Slack, email it to yourself, or save it?"

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