Turn a customer win into a credible case study - interview-driven raw material, a challenge-solution-results arc, and a quantified results section with real customer quotes. Use when someone asks "write a case study from this customer call", "turn this win into a customer story", "what should I ask the customer in the interview", or "make our results section stronger". Do NOT use for collecting short standalone quotes or review snippets - testimonial capture is upstream raw material for this skill. Do NOT use for packaging finished case studies into battlecards and sales collateral - use sales-enablement-kit instead.
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name: Case Study Builder
description: Turn a customer win into a credible case study - interview-driven raw material, a challenge-solution-results arc, and a quantified results section with real customer quotes. Use when someone asks "write a case study from this customer call", "turn this win into a customer story", "what should I ask the customer in the interview", or "make our results section stronger". Do NOT use for collecting short standalone quotes or review snippets - testimonial capture is upstream raw material for this skill. Do NOT use for packaging finished case studies into battlecards and sales collateral - use sales-enablement-kit instead.
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# Case Study Builder
A case study sells by proof, not adjectives - the customer and the numbers do the talking. The costly mistake is writing it backwards: drafting marketing copy first and asking the customer to bless it, which produces approved-by-legal mush with no quotes worth reading and no numbers worth citing. Get the raw material first; the story is assembled, not invented.
## Operating procedure
The order matters: interview before outline, numbers before draft. A draft written before the interview anchors on your product's talking points instead of the customer's actual story.
### Step 1: Gather inputs
1. The customer: company, industry, size, and the buyer persona this case study should persuade (default: mirror the customer's own profile - readers trust stories about companies like theirs).
2. Access: can you interview the customer live (best), send written questions (acceptable), or only mine existing calls/emails/reviews (weakest - flag the limitation)?
3. Any numbers already known: baseline metric, result metric, timeframe. Label estimates as estimates.
4. Distribution target: web page, PDF leave-behind, or sales deck slide (default: one-page web layout).
### Step 2: Run the interview - get the quote raw material first
Never draft before this step. Ask in this order, and record verbatim answers:
1. "What was breaking, in your own words? What did it cost you - time, money, morale?" (problem + stakes)… install to load the full skill