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Produces a one-page cross-functional business snapshot for SMB owners — cash position (the ledger: MYOB, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Xero, or Zoho Books), sales trend (PayPal/Square/Stripe), pipeline movement (HubSpot), this week's commitments (Calendar), urgent watch-list items

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business-pulse.SKILL.md
name: business-pulse
description: >
  Produces a one-page cross-functional business snapshot for SMB owners —
  cash position (the ledger: MYOB, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Xero, or Zoho Books), sales trend
  (PayPal/Square/Stripe), pipeline movement (HubSpot), this week's commitments
  (Calendar), urgent watch-list items (Gmail or M365, Slack), and the single most
  important thing needing attention today.
  Proactively tries every available connector and gracefully scopes to
  whatever is connected — one connector gives a partial pulse; the full stack
  gives the full picture. Trigger when the user asks how the business is
  doing, wants a snapshot, a daily brief, a Friday recap, or says anything
  like "what am I missing" or "catch me up on the business." A start-of-week
  briefing routes to /monday-brief, which runs this skill as its first link.
allowed-tools: Read, WebFetch

Business Pulse

One prompt, one page. Pull live data from every connected tool, synthesize it into a single scannable brief, and surface the single most important thing to act on today. Do the work — don't ask the user to help find the data.

Step 1 — Pull data in parallel

**Dispatch all connector calls in a single parallel batch** — see `reference/data_sources.md` for the exact tool-to-metric mapping. Do not pull serially; latency turns a 30-second skill into a painful wait.

Connectors to attempt simultaneously:

  • **QuickBooks** — cash balance, MTD revenue, outstanding receivables, overdue invoices
  • **Xero** — same ledger read for Xero shops: cash position, receivables, P&L trend
  • **Zoho Books** — same ledger read for Zoho shops: bank balances, invoiced revenue, overdue invoices (no P&L endpoint, so the revenue line is invoiced revenue and says so)
  • **PayPal / Square** — 7-day settlements, sales trend, failed/pending transactions
  • **Stripe** — settlements and sales trend, failed payments, and any new disputes — a fresh dispute goes straight to the watch list (if connected)
  • **Ramp** — company card spend for the week and the account balance, read-only (if connected)
  • **Gusto** — next payroll run date and amount, the week's biggest cash commitment (if connected)
  • **TikTok Ads** — last week's ad spend, results, and cost per result, so paid spend shows up next to the sales it claims to drive (if connected)
  • **Expensify** — last week's card spend and any expenses missing receipts, read-only, so spending surprises surface before the month-end scramble (if connected)
  • **HubSpot** — pipeline by stage, deals moved/closed, deals gone cold, new leads
  • **Google Calendar** — key meetings, deadlines, events this week and next 7 days
  • **Gmail or Microsoft 365** — threads flagged urgent, customer complaints, time-sensitive requests
  • **Slack / Teams** — urgent internal signals, threads needing owner attention
  • **RingEx Chat** — the same internal-signal read for RingEx shops: urgent team-chat posts needing the owner (if connected)
  • **DocuSign** — envelopes sitting unsigned, flagged once they are more than a few days old — money waiting on a signature (if connected)
  • **Zoho Desk** — open tickets, escalations (if connected)
  • **Shopify** — orders, revenue, sales trend, and fulfillment issues, so a commerce business sees its actual day (if connected)
  • **Square** — fulfillment issues (if connected)

If a connector errors or returns no data, record it internally and move on. Never block the pulse on a single bad integration.

**QuickBooks fallback**: if QBO returns an unexpected state (account not connected, sync pending, empty response), mark the Cash section "n/a — QuickBooks unavailable" and proceed. Do not retry or ask the user to reconnect.

**Gmail fallback**: Gmail auth is intermittently flaky. If the call errors, skip the Watch List section silently and note "Gmail unavailable" in the appendix — do not surface an error mid-pulse.

**Nothing connected at all is a supported path, not a failure.** If every connector is unavailable, don't stop and don't tell the owner to go connect things. Ask once, in one short message, for the handful of numbers that carry the pulse:

  • Cash in the bank right now, and roughly what it was a week ago
  • Anything overdue — invoices owed to them, bills they owe
  • Sales this week versus a normal week, even roughly
  • Anything already worrying them this week

Build the same one-page pulse from those answers, label the source line "owner-supplied, not pulled," and skip any section they had no number for. If they'd rather not type numbers, point them at the siblings that run off a file export instead — `cash-flow-snapshot` and `report-builder` both take a CSV — and say plainly that gives a partial picture, not the full one.

Step 2 — Compute metrics

Read `reference/thresholds.md` for red/yellow/green cutoffs. Compute:

  • **AR aging** — open QuickBooks invoices grouped by days since due date (0–30, 31–60, 61+)
  • **Pipeline coverage** — HubSpot weighted pipeline ÷ monthly revenue target
  • **Revenue trend** — this month's QBO revenue vs. prior month (or 7-day PayPal/Square vs. prior 7 days)

Assign a 🟢/🟡/🔴 status to each section. If a source returned nothing, mark the metric "n/a" and note it in the appendix.

Step 3 — Flag risks proactively

Scan for actionable items. Every risk entry must name a specific record and a next step — "some overdue invoices" is useless; "USD 3,400 from Acme Corp, 47 days overdue, no response since Mar 12" is actionable.

  • Ledger invoices past due > 30 days — name customer, amount, days overdue
  • HubSpot deals with no activity in 7+ days, or close date in past but still open
  • Mail threads marked urgent or containing "escalation," "complaint," "cancel," "refund"
  • Failed or pending PayPal/Square/Stripe transactions above the threshold in `reference/thresholds.md` (200 in the business's currency)

Step 4 — Compose the output

Use the exact template in `reference/output_template.md`. Include only sections where real data exists — omit header

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business-pulse installs in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf with the skills CLI, using each agent's flag shown on this page. Flowy's auto-invocation, which fires a skill when your prompt matches, runs in Claude Code only.