Clay Credit Forecast

What it does

Credit balances are consumed by builds nobody priced. This skill takes the planned work for a period, prices each build at realistic pass rates, and produces a burn forecast with the date the balance runs out. When the plan exceeds the balance it names the build to cut and what that costs in pipeline, rather than trimming every build a little.

When to use it

• do I have enough Clay credits
• plan a month of Clay work
• which campaign should I drop
• credit burn forecast
• Clay capacity planning

What it needs from you

• balance: current credit balance and renewal date
• plan: the builds planned for the period with row counts
• history: actual credits per row from past builds if available

How it works

1. Price each planned build per row using history where it exists and a stated assumption where it does not. Mark which is which.
2. Multiply by planned volume, apply gate pass rates, and sum.
3. Compare against the balance and produce the exhaustion date at the planned pace.
4. If the plan exceeds the balance, rank the builds by contacts per credit, not by credits. The cheapest build is not the most efficient one.
5. Recommend a whole build to cut or defer rather than shrinking every build, because a half sized campaign has the same fixed setup cost and less output.
6. State what the cut costs in expected contacts so the decision is priced.

What you get back

A build by build forecast table, the exhaustion date, and a ranked cut list with the pipeline cost of each cut.

The quality bar

• Every per row cost is labeled as measured or assumed
• The exhaustion date is derived, not estimated in words
• Cut recommendations are whole builds
• The cost of each cut is expressed in expected contacts

Where it runs

• Claude Code
• Codex CLI
• Cursor
• MCP-compatible agents