--- name: customer-case-study-builder description: "Transforms raw customer success inputs — interview notes, metrics, quotes — into a publication-ready B2B SaaS case study with a challenge/solution/results narrative, pull-quote placements, a metrics callout block, and a one-line summary for repurposing. Use when writing a customer case study, turning a customer interview into a story, drafting a customer success story for the website, or building a repeatable case study from advocate inputs." argument-hint: "[customer-name] [interview-notes]" allowed-tools: ["Read"] --- # Customer Case Study Builder ## Purpose Turn scattered customer success inputs — interview transcripts, Slack quotes, dashboard numbers — into a structured, publication-ready case study that follows a proven challenge/solution/results arc. Removes the blank-page friction that stalls customer marketing teams between securing an advocate and shipping the story. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user asks to: - Write a customer case study or success story - Turn a customer interview or transcript into a published narrative - Draft a case study for the website, sales enablement, or a slide - Convert raw customer quotes and metrics into a polished story - Build a repeatable case study from a new advocate's inputs - Rewrite a rough customer story into a structured format ## Inputs Required Before starting, collect: - **Customer name and profile**: Company name, industry, size (employees/revenue), and the persona of the interviewee (role/title) - **The challenge**: What problem or pain the customer had before the product — in their words if available - **Why they chose the product**: The evaluation trigger or the alternative they replaced - **How they use it**: The specific workflow, features, or use case - **Results and metrics**: Quantified outcomes (%, time saved, revenue, adoption) plus qualitative wins - **Direct quotes**: Any verbatim customer statements from the interview - **Publishing context**: Where this will live — website, PDF, sales deck (affects length and tone) If metrics are missing, ask for at least one quantified result before drafting; a case study without a number is a testimonial. If quotes are thin, flag which sections need a quote pulled from the interview. ## Instructions ### Step 1: Extract and Structure the Raw Inputs Before writing prose, sort the inputs into the four-part spine: - **Situation** — who the customer is and what their world looked like before - **Challenge** — the specific pain, its cost, and why it mattered now - **Solution** — how they found, evaluated, and deployed the product - **Results** — quantified and qualitative outcomes Flag any spine section that is under-supported by the inputs and note it as a gap the user should fill from the interview. ### Step 2: Write the Headline and Summary Line - **Headline**: Lead with the outcome, not the product. Format: "[Customer] [achieved specific result] with [product/category]." Use the strongest real metric. - **Summary line**: One sentence (under 25 words) usable as a card description, meta description, or sales-deck subtitle. - **At-a-glance box**: Customer name, industry, size, and 2–3 headline metrics as a scannable block. ### Step 3: Draft the Challenge Section - Open with the customer's context — set the stakes before the pain. - Name the specific problem and its business cost (wasted hours, lost revenue, stalled growth). - Include a customer quote that voices the frustration if one exists. - End on the trigger: what made them start looking for a solution now. - Length: 120–180 words. Never mention the product here — this section is the customer's world before you. ### Step 4: Draft the Solution Section - Describe the evaluation: what they compared, what they were skeptical about, why they chose this product. - Detail the actual use case — which features, which workflow, who uses it. - Keep it concrete and specific to this customer; avoid generic feature listing. - Include an implementation or onboarding detail if available (shows it was low-risk). - Length: 150–220 words. Anchor with a quote about the decision or the "aha" moment. ### Step 5: Draft the Results Section - Lead with the hardest number. Frame every metric with before/after context so the reader feels the delta. - Layer qualitative results after quantitative ones (team morale, confidence, time reclaimed). - Close with a forward-looking statement — how the customer plans to expand or what's next. - Include the strongest customer quote here — the one that would work as a standalone testimonial. - Length: 150–220 words. ### Step 6: Place Pull-Quotes and the Closing CTA - Select 2–3 pull-quotes from the customer's actual words and mark where they should be visually surfaced. - Ensure quotes are distinct (one for frustration, one for decision, one for results) — no repetition. - Draft a one-line closing CTA tuned to the publishing context (e.g., "See how [product] can do the same for your team →"). ## Output Format - **Structure**: Headline → At-a-glance metrics box → Challenge → Solution → Results → Pull-quotes (marked inline) → Closing CTA - **Length**: 550–750 words total for web; note a "trim to 300 words" version option for sales decks if publishing context calls for it - **Format**: Structured document with clear section headers, one metrics callout block, and inline pull-quote markers - **Sections**: Headline, Summary line, At-a-glance box, The Challenge, The Solution, The Results, Suggested Pull-Quotes, Closing CTA - **Tone**: Journalistic and credible — the customer is the hero, the product is the enabler. No hype, no superlatives, no marketing adjectives the customer wouldn't use themselves. ## Quality Checklist Before delivering output, verify: - [ ] The headline leads with a real outcome or metric, not the product name - [ ] At least one quantified result appears in the at-a-glance box and the Results section - [ ] The Challenge section contains zero product mentions - [ ] 2–3 distinct pull-quotes are placed, each serving a different narrative beat - [ ] Every quote used is attributable to the provided inputs — none are fabricated - [ ] The customer is positioned as the hero throughout; the product is the enabler - [ ] Total length falls within 550–750 words for the web version ## Notes - The single most common failure in case studies is burying the metric — always surface the strongest number in the headline and the at-a-glance box. - If the interview inputs include a compliance-sensitive metric (revenue, exact customer counts), flag it for customer approval rather than assuming it can be published. - For a customer who can't share hard numbers, pivot the story to a "before vs. after workflow" contrast and lead with time-saved or process-change results. - Keep quotes verbatim; lightly edit only for filler words (um, like) and never change the meaning. --- ## How to use this skill This file is a Claude Code skill in [Anthropic's standard format](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) — markdown with YAML frontmatter at the top. **Installing in Claude Code:** - `~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads in every session anywhere on your machine (recommended for skills you'll use across multiple projects) - `/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads only when working in that project (recommended for project-specific skills) Restart Claude Code or open a new session to register. **Using in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools:** 1. 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