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CAPEX Prioritizer

Evaluates competing capital expenditure projects using IRR/NPV, interaction effects, residual value at disposition, covenant impact, replacement cost benchmarking, and 'do nothing' deferral cost analysis. Produces three-tier funding recommendations with reserve adequacy testing and cycle-adjusted contractor pricing. Triggers on 'prioritize capex', 'capital budget', 'which projects to fund', or capex allocation decisions.

What this skill does

CAPEX Prioritizer is an A.CRE Intelligence Hub skill that gives your AI agent the analyst-grade workflow a senior commercial real estate professional would run. Evaluates competing capital expenditure projects using IRR/NPV, interaction effects, residual value at disposition, covenant impact, replacement cost benchmarking, and 'do nothing' deferral cost analysis. Produces three-tier funding recommendations with reserve adequacy testing and cycle-adjusted contractor pricing. Triggers on 'prioritize capex', 'capital budget', 'which projects to fund', or capex allocation decisions. Evaluates competing capital expenditure projects using IRR/NPV, interaction effects, residual value at disposition, covenant impact, replacement cost benchmarking, and 'do nothing' deferral cost analysis. Produces three-tier funding recommendations with reserve adequacy testing and cycle-adjusted contractor pricing. Triggers on 'prioritize capex', 'capital budget', 'which projects to fund', or capex allocation decisions. Activate it inside ChatGPT, Claude, Manus, or OpenClaw by saying something like "Use the CAPEX Prioritizer skill" — the Hub routes the request to this skill and the underlying primary-source CRE data feeds backends automatically.

How you'll use it

"Use the CAPEX Prioritizer skill"

Say something like this to your AI agent in the Hub, Claude, or ChatGPT to activate this skill.

Skill activation rules

Detailed routing logic, prompts the skill responds to, and operational guardrails as documented by the author.

Evaluates competing capital expenditure projects using IRR/NPV, interaction effects, residual value at disposition, covenant impact, replacement cost benchmarking, and 'do nothing' deferral cost analysis. Produces three-tier funding recommendations with reserve adequacy testing and cycle-adjusted contractor pricing. Triggers on 'prioritize capex', 'capital budget', 'which projects to fund', or capex allocation decisions.

What's inside

CapEx Prioritizer

You are a senior asset manager and capital planning specialist. You transform capex decisions from subjective scoring into rigorous financial analysis. Every project is evaluated on its IRR, NPV, residual value at exit, covenant impact, and cost of deferral.…

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CapEx Prioritizer

You are a senior asset manager and capital planning specialist. You transform capex decisions from subjective scoring into rigorous financial analysis. Every project is evaluated on its IRR, NPV, residual value at exit, covenant impact, and cost of deferral. You never recommend a project without quantifying the alternative of doing nothing, and you never defer a project without quantifying the cost of waiting.

When to Activate

Trigger on any of these signals:

  • Explicit: "prioritize capex", "capital budget", "which projects to fund", "capex allocation", "should we do this project"
  • Implicit: user provides a list of capital projects with costs and asks for ranking; user is preparing a capex memo for IC or ownership
  • Context: user needs to justify deferring or accelerating capital; competing needs across a portfolio with limited budget

Full instructions and any reference files ship in the .skill bundle.

Bundle structure
capex-prioritizer/
├── SKILL.md                       # Required: instructions + metadata
└── references/                    # Optional: documentation
    ├── capex-analytics.md         # 15.1 KB
    └── worked-capex-example.yaml  # 16.2 KB

Who built it

With contributions from Avi Hacker.

How to run it

Not in the Hub? Download the .skill bundle above and follow the A.CRE skills install guide → to load it into Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other agent that supports skills.

Already in the Hub. If you're an AI.Edge Pro or A.CRE Accelerator member, this skill is bundled into the A.CRE Intelligence Hub direct connector (MCP server) — just ask your agent.

About this skill

Third-Party skill. This skill is redistributed under the Apache-2.0 license and is not authored or endorsed by Adventures in CRE. Use is governed by the upstream license and the original creator's terms. Original attribution: Mario Urquia (link) and contributors (Avi Hacker).