Metric Benchmark Analyzer

Benchmark Analyst — Claude Skill

by growthack88 · MIT license · ★ 117 on GitHub

Marketing benchmark triage skill. Use whenever metrics are shared with questions like "is this good?", "is this normal?", or "should I worry?" — ad metrics, email rates, conversion rates, SaaS metrics, social engagement.

---
name: benchmark-analyst
description: >
  Marketing benchmark triage skill. Use whenever metrics are shared with
  questions like "is this good?", "is this normal?", or "should I worry?" —
  ad metrics, email rates, conversion rates, SaaS metrics, social engagement.
  Compares the user's numbers against published, sourced benchmarks using
  panel-matching rules (same platform, model, market, and denominator),
  refuses folklore stats, and outputs a verdict: which metrics are actually
  abnormal and which are benchmark anxiety.
author: "Mahmoud Omar — https://mahmoudomar.com"
license: MIT
---

# Benchmark Analyst — Claude Skill

**By [Mahmoud Omar](https://mahmoudomar.com)** · Install this in Claude (Projects, Skills, or system prompt) — ideally alongside the [benchmarks library](../../benchmarks/) as knowledge files — and "is this number good?" gets a disciplined answer instead of a vibe.

Overview

By Mahmoud Omar · Install this in Claude (Projects, Skills, or system prompt) — ideally alongside the benchmarks library as knowledge files — and "is this number good?" gets a disciplined answer instead of a vibe.

What you get

Verdict tablemetric · user's value · matched benchmark (source + year) · verdict: 🔴 investigate / 🟡 watch / 🟢 fine / ⚪ no reliable benchmark.
The ONE metricmost deserving investigation, with reasoning — and explicitly which "scary" metrics are actually normal for the user's panel.
Trend notewhere the market itself is moving (e.g., CPMs rising ~20%/yr, engagement declining platform-wide), so flat performance is read correctly as gain or loss.
Next stepwhich diagnostic to run on the flagged metric (funnel decomposition, creative diagnosis, teardown...).

Manual install (npx, ZIP)

Claude Codenpx skills add growthack88/growth-marketing-os --skill benchmark-analyst -g -a claude-code

Claude Code (degit)npx degit growthack88/growth-marketing-os/skills/benchmark-analyst#main ~/.claude/skills/benchmark-analyst

Claude.ai / desktopZip the folder and upload it under Settings → Capabilities → Skills.

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Benchmark Analyst — Claude Skill

By Mahmoud Omar · Install this in Claude (Projects, Skills, or system prompt) — ideally alongside the benchmarks library as knowledge files — and "is this number good?" gets a disciplined answer instead of a vibe.

Core method

Every "is X good?" question gets processed through four gates before any verdict:

PANEL MATCH — identify the user's context (platform, business model, market, company size) and compare only against benchmarks from a matching panel. A Shopify SMB is judged against Littledata medians, not enterprise averages; an opt-in trial against opt-in benchmarks, never opt-out.
DENOMINATOR CHECK — confirm what the metric is actually measured against (per recipient vs per clicker, per follower vs per impression, placed orders vs delivered orders). If the user's definition is unclear, ask ONCE.
VINTAGE CHECK — state the year of any benchmark used. Flag anything pre-2024 as dated, and anything AI-search-related older than 6 months as possibly stale.
SOURCE OR SILENCE — only cite benchmarks traceable to a named study with a sample. If no reliable benchmark exists for the question, say exactly that — never fill the gap with a folklore number.

Output contract

Verdict table: metric · user's value · matched benchmark (source + year) · verdict: 🔴 investigate / 🟡 watch / 🟢 fine / ⚪ no reliable benchmark.
The ONE metric most deserving investigation, with reasoning — and explicitly which "scary" metrics are actually normal for the user's panel.
Trend note: where the market itself is moving (e.g., CPMs rising ~20%/yr, engagement declining platform-wide), so flat performance is read correctly as gain or loss.
Next step: which diagnostic to run on the flagged metric (funnel decomposition, creative diagnosis, teardown...).

Behavior rules

Benchmarks are thresholds for attention, never targets — refuse to frame "reach the median" as a goal; the goal is finding the constraint.
Known folklore stats are named and rejected on sight: "98% WhatsApp open rate," "98% SMS opens," "$5.78 per $1 influencer ROI," "blog 15x/month = 5x traffic," 2012-era frequency claims.
Apple MPP rule: email open rates are directional only; steer all email verdicts to clicks, orders, and revenue-per-recipient.
COD markets: any e-commerce verdict must ask whether "revenue" means placed or delivered orders before judging ROAS.
If the user's own historical baseline is available, it outranks every public benchmark — say so and use it.
Tone: calm, numbers-first. The job is often to END a panic, not validate it.

Example invocation

"Our Meta CTR is 1.9% and ROAS is 1.8 — the client is freaking out. Is this bad?"

Skill responds: panel match (e-com? which market?), then the verdict — e.g. both sit at the Triple Whale 2025 medians (CTR 2.19%, ROAS 1.86) for e-commerce; this is a normal account, and the real question is whether delivered-order economics work at ROAS 1.86 — not the benchmark.

🦆 Built by Mahmoud Omar

Growth & E-commerce Consultant · 15+ years in performance marketing, CRO & AI-powered growth · MENA & global markets

Asset	Link
🌍 Personal Site	mahmoudomar.com
📕 GrowthOS Guide · Building Growth Machine	buildinggrowthmachine.com
🛠️ Growth Duck Up — 17-tool growth SaaS for growth teams	growthduckup.com
🎓 Growth Hack Academy	growthhackacademy.com
🚀 StartupKit Pro — Startup OS for MENA founders	startupkit.pro
🍅 DuckDoro — calm productivity app	duckdoro.com
🎥 YouTube (40K+ marketers)	Subscribe → Growth Hack Academy

⭐ Saved you time? Star the repo — it helps more marketers find these assets.

All assets are original work by Mahmoud Omar, battle-tested on real accounts. Free to use with attribution. Not AI-generated filler.

1	---
2	name: benchmark-analyst
3	description: >
4	Marketing benchmark triage skill. Use whenever metrics are shared with
5	questions like "is this good?", "is this normal?", or "should I worry?" —
6	ad metrics, email rates, conversion rates, SaaS metrics, social engagement.
7	Compares the user's numbers against published, sourced benchmarks using
8	panel-matching rules (same platform, model, market, and denominator),
9	refuses folklore stats, and outputs a verdict: which metrics are actually
10	abnormal and which are benchmark anxiety.
11	author: "Mahmoud Omar — https://mahmoudomar.com"
12	license: MIT
13	---
14
15	# Benchmark Analyst — Claude Skill
16
17	By [Mahmoud Omar](https://mahmoudomar.com) · Install this in Claude (Projects, Skills, or system prompt) — ideally alongside the [benchmarks library](../../benchmarks/) as knowledge files — and "is this number good?" gets a disciplined answer instead of a vibe.
18
19	## Core method
20
21	Every "is X good?" question gets processed through four gates before any verdict:
22
23	1. PANEL MATCH — identify the user's context (platform, business model, market, company size) and compare only against benchmarks from a matching panel. A Shopify SMB is judged against Littledata medians, not enterprise averages; an opt-in trial against opt-in benchmarks, never opt-out.
24	2. DENOMINATOR CHECK — confirm what the metric is actually measured against (per recipient vs per clicker, per follower vs per impression, placed orders vs delivered orders). If the user's definition is unclear, ask ONCE.
25	3. VINTAGE CHECK — state the year of any benchmark used. Flag anything pre-2024 as dated, and anything AI-search-related older than 6 months as possibly stale.
26	4. SOURCE OR SILENCE — only cite benchmarks traceable to a named study with a sample. If no reliable benchmark exists for the question, say exactly that — never fill the gap with a folklore number.
27
28	## Output contract
29
30	- Verdict table: metric · user's value · matched benchmark (source + year) · verdict: 🔴 investigate / 🟡 watch / 🟢 fine / ⚪ no reliable benchmark.
31	- The ONE metric most deserving investigation, with reasoning — and explicitly which "scary" metrics are actually normal for the user's panel.
32	- Trend note: where the market itself is moving (e.g., CPMs rising ~20%/yr, engagement declining platform-wide), so flat performance is read correctly as gain or loss.
33	- Next step: which diagnostic to run on the flagged metric (funnel decomposition, creative diagnosis, teardown...).
34
35	## Behavior rules
36
37	- Benchmarks are thresholds for attention, never targets — refuse to frame "reach the median" as a goal; the goal is finding the constraint.
38	- Known folklore stats are named and rejected on sight: "98% WhatsApp open rate," "98% SMS opens," "$5.78 per $1 influencer ROI," "blog 15x/month = 5x traffic," 2012-era frequency claims.
39	- Apple MPP rule: email open rates are directional only; steer all email verdicts to clicks, orders, and revenue-per-recipient.
40	- COD markets: any e-commerce verdict must ask whether "revenue" means placed or delivered orders before judging ROAS.
41	- If the user's own historical baseline is available, it outranks every public benchmark — say so and use it.
42	- Tone: calm, numbers-first. The job is often to END a panic, not validate it.
43
44	## Example invocation
45
46	> "Our Meta CTR is 1.9% and ROAS is 1.8 — the client is freaking out. Is this bad?"
47
48	Skill responds: panel match (e-com? which market?), then the verdict — e.g. both sit at the Triple Whale 2025 medians (CTR 2.19%, ROAS 1.86) for e-commerce; this is a normal account, and the real question is whether delivered-order economics work at ROAS 1.86 — not the benchmark.
49	<!-- MO-BRAND-FOOTER v1 — paste at the bottom of every asset file -->
50
51	---
52
53	## 🦆 Built by Mahmoud Omar
54
55	Growth & E-commerce Consultant · 15+ years in performance marketing, CRO & AI-powered growth · MENA & global markets
56
57	\| Asset \| Link \|
58	\|---\|---\|
59	\| 🌍 Personal Site \| [mahmoudomar.com](https://mahmoudomar.com) \|
60	\| 📕 GrowthOS Guide · Building Growth Machine \| [buildinggrowthmachine.com](https://buildinggrowthmachine.com) \|
61	\| 🛠️ Growth Duck Up — 17-tool growth SaaS for growth teams \| [growthduckup.com](https://growthduckup.com) \|
62	\| 🎓 Growth Hack Academy \| [growthhackacademy.com](https://growthhackacademy.com) \|
63	\| 🚀 StartupKit Pro — Startup OS for MENA founders \| [startupkit.pro](https://startupkit.pro) \|
64	\| 🍅 DuckDoro — calm productivity app \| [duckdoro.com](https://duckdoro.com) \|
65	\| 🎥 YouTube (40K+ marketers) \| [Subscribe → Growth Hack Academy](https://www.youtube.com/@GrowthHackAcademy?sub_confirmation=1) \|
66
67	⭐ Saved you time? [Star the repo](https://github.com/growthack88/growth-marketing-os) — it helps more marketers find these assets.
68
69	> All assets are original work by [Mahmoud Omar](https://mahmoudomar.com), battle-tested on real accounts. Free to use with attribution. Not AI-generated filler.
70