Cost Estimators

Business and Financial Operations Occupations · Job Skills & Competencies · SOC 13-1051 · 362 skills

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Analyze blueprints and other documentation to prepare time, cost, materials, and labor estimates.
Confer with engineers, architects, owners, contractors, and subcontractors on changes and adjustments to cost estimates.
Collect historical cost data to estimate costs for current or future products.

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pricing-your-services

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Design a freelance/consulting pricing structure — hourly vs day-rate vs project vs retainer chosen per engagement type, anchored packages, and the rules for saying the number out loud without flinching. Use when asked how should I price my freelance services, hourly or fixed price, build my pricing packages, or a client asked my rate what do I say. Produces the pricing-model decision per engagement type, a three-tier package structure, the rate-conversation script, and the discount policy with its floor.

wedding-budget-optimizer

revfactory/harness-100

결혼 예산의 항목별 배분과 비용 절감 전략을 최적화하는 예산 관리 도구. 'budget-controller'와 'wedding-reviewer' 에이전트가 예산을 배분하고 비용을 검증할 때 이 스킬의 예산 배분 공식, 비용 기준표, 절약 전략을 반드시 활용해야 한다. '결혼 예산 배분', '비용 절감', '예산 시뮬레이션' 등에 사용한다. 단, 업체 비교나 타임라인 설계는 이 스킬의 범위가 아니다.

home-renovation-planner

FerroxLabs/wayland

Comprehensive guidance for planning home renovation projects including project scoping, permit requirements research, contractor selection and vetting, budget planning with contingency reserves, timeline management, material selection strategies, project phasing, and the DIY versus contractor decision framework. Use when the user asks about home renovation planner or needs help with related topics. Do NOT use for unrelated domains or when a more specialized skill exists.

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Break down costs by category (fulfillment, payment, marketplace)

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pricing-your-services

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Design a freelance/consulting pricing structure — hourly vs day-rate vs project vs retainer chosen per engagement type, anchored packages, and the rules for saying the number out loud without flinching. Use when asked how should I price my freelance services, hourly or fixed price, build my pricing packages, or a client asked my rate what do I say. Produces the pricing-model decision per engagement type, a three-tier package structure, the rate-conversation script, and the discount policy with its floor.

wedding-budget-optimizer

revfactory/harness-100

결혼 예산의 항목별 배분과 비용 절감 전략을 최적화하는 예산 관리 도구. 'budget-controller'와 'wedding-reviewer' 에이전트가 예산을 배분하고 비용을 검증할 때 이 스킬의 예산 배분 공식, 비용 기준표, 절약 전략을 반드시 활용해야 한다. '결혼 예산 배분', '비용 절감', '예산 시뮬레이션' 등에 사용한다. 단, 업체 비교나 타임라인 설계는 이 스킬의 범위가 아니다.

home-renovation-planner

FerroxLabs/wayland

Comprehensive guidance for planning home renovation projects including project scoping, permit requirements research, contractor selection and vetting, budget planning with contingency reserves, timeline management, material selection strategies, project phasing, and the DIY versus contractor decision framework. Use when the user asks about home renovation planner or needs help with related topics. Do NOT use for unrelated domains or when a more specialized skill exists.

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Break down costs by category (fulfillment, payment, marketplace)

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Expert Cloud FinOps guidance covering AI cost management, GenAI capacity planning, Anthropic billing, AWS (EC2, Bedrock, Savings Plans, CUR), Azure (reservations, OpenAI PTUs, Cost Management), GCP (Vertex AI, Compute Engine, BigQuery), tagging governance, SaaS management (SAM, license optimization, SMPs, shadow IT), Databricks, Snowflake, OCI, GreenOps, and FinOps framework implementation. Use for any query about cloud cost, AI workload economics, commitment discounts, rightsizing, cost allocation, SaaS sprawl, or connecting cloud spend to business value. Built by OptimNow.

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

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change-order-manager

datadrivenconstruction/DDC_Skills_for_AI_Agents_in_Construction

Manage construction change orders from request to approval. Track costs, schedule impacts, and maintain audit trail for dispute prevention.

lien-waiver-tracker

datadrivenconstruction/DDC_Skills_for_AI_Agents_in_Construction

Track and manage construction lien waivers. Monitor conditional and unconditional waivers, ensure compliance before payments, and prevent lien exposure.

commercial-lease-analyzer

OneWave-AI/claude-skills

Decode a commercial lease before signing or renewing -- true all-in occupancy cost (base rent plus NNN/CAM plus escalations), the clauses that hurt small tenants (personal guarantees, relocation, restoration), and the negotiation asks landlords routinely grant. The lease is most SMBs' biggest fixed cost and least-read document.

membranedev/application-skills

SuccessWare21 integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with SuccessWare21 data.

cost-estimation

Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers

Use when the user wants to estimate or predict the cost, token usage, or time of a task BEFORE it runs — "how much will this feature cost to build", "estimate the tokens for this spec", "what will this slice cost", "predict the agent-compute time before I commit" — produces a token + time estimate as a range with disclosed confidence, adding a dollar figure only when an observability/costs snapshot grounds it. The prospective sibling of cost-tracking, which records actual spend after the fact.

FDU-INS/Insurance-Skills

Calculate the complete landed cost of importing a product — from factory to warehouse door. Covers duty, taxes, fees, freight, insurance, brokerage, and entry type selection. Use when someone asks about import costs, duty rates, tariffs, "how much will it cost to import", landed cost, entry types, or total cost of ownership for imported goods.