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Direct selling model check
List your channels and margins. Get a sell-direct verdict, what to build to order and a score out of 100.
Direct selling model check is a free AI skill for the job "Plan your strategy". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
Free · No account · Made by AI Blocks · Level: advanced · Thinking: high
What it does
Selling through shops, agents or platforms can be worth it, or each layer can take a cut and add nothing. Many businesses never check. They also hold stock they paid for months before a customer pays, and treat all customers alike when some bring much better margins. This skill asks whether your product is turning into a commodity where price and delivery decide. It maps what each middleman adds and what it costs, tests whether you can make to order and hold little stock, and works out your payment timing in days. It splits customers into groups, picks the group with better margins, chooses one new channel to be early on, and sets a date to question the model itself. The score counts the checks you pass.
You give it
- Your sales channels with what each costs and the margin you keep
- Stock held and payment timing: when you pay suppliers and when customers pay you
- Your customer groups and what you know about them
- The question you want answered
You get
- What each middleman adds, against what it costs
- Whether to sell direct, and for which customers
- What to build to order, and your payment timing in days
- A plan with a review date, and a score out of 100
Use it when
- A large part of your price goes to shops, agents or platforms.
- You hold stock for weeks before it sells and cash is tight.
- You want to test selling direct to a group of customers.
How to use it
- Start a chat with the skill. Open it if you added it to your AI, or copy it and paste it in.
- List your channels, margins, stock days and payment timing. Add your customer groups.
- Read the middleman table first, then the cash timing.
- Run the small direct test it proposes before you change the main channel.