Startup

The market-research skill helps you produce source-backed, decision-grade research on markets, competitors, funds, and technology trends. Use it for market sizing, Competitive Analysis, investor due diligence, and thesis testing. It emphasizes recent evidence, clear takeaways, and separate fact, inference, and recommendation.

Create and update pitch decks, one-pagers, investor memos, accelerator applications, financial models, and other investor-facing materials with consistent facts and numbers. Use the investor-materials skill when you need a defensible source of truth across fundraising docs, including investor-materials for Proposal Writing-style work.

startup-metrics-framework helps founders, analysts, and operators calculate startup KPIs like CAC, LTV, burn multiple, runway, and growth metrics for SaaS, marketplace, consumer, and B2B startups.

team-composition-analysis helps founders, operators, and recruiting leads plan early-stage startup hiring by stage, ARR, and budget. Use it to sequence roles, shape team structure, and estimate compensation and equity from pre-seed through Series A.

Use the market-sizing-analysis skill to build structured TAM, SAM, and SOM estimates with top-down, bottom-up, and value-theory methods. Covers install context, key files, inputs, workflow, and practical usage for startup market sizing and Data Analysis.

startup-financial-modeling helps agents build 3-5 year startup finance models with cohort revenue, cost structure, burn, runway, and fundraising scenarios. Best for founders and finance leads who need install context, clear inputs, and practical usage guidance from the skill's SKILL.md.

competitive-landscape helps agents run structured competitive analysis with Porter's Five Forces, Blue Ocean thinking, and positioning maps to evaluate market structure, differentiation, and defensible positioning for startups, GTM planning, and investor prep.

idea-refine is a structured ideation skill that turns rough concepts into clearer, buildable directions through divergent thinking, critique, and convergence. It helps founders, product leads, engineers, and AI agents with Requirements Planning by producing a concrete one-pager with assumptions, scope, and a not-doing list.

marketing-ideas helps AI agents turn vague SaaS growth questions into 3-5 prioritized marketing options using a curated catalog of 139 ideas. Best for founders and Product Marketing teams that need context-aware direction before channel execution.

launch-strategy helps agents and teams turn vague release ideas into a practical launch plan. It uses the ORB framework, phased rollouts, Product Hunt guidance, and launch checklists for product launches, feature announcements, betas, waitlists, and public releases.

customer-research helps agents run structured customer research with two modes: analyze existing assets or find public-source signal. Use it to extract themes, quotes, JTBD, pain points, triggers, and evidence for UX Research, product, and messaging decisions.

Identify the first beachhead market segment for a product launch with beachhead-segment. Evaluate segments by burning pain, willingness to pay, winnable share, and referral potential. Use it for beachhead-segment for Strategic Planning, initial market entry, and choosing a first customer segment.

startup-canvas helps teams turn a rough product idea into a Startup Canvas with 9 product-strategy sections plus a simple business model view for costs and revenue. It is ideal for startup-canvas for Strategic Planning when launching a new product, evaluating a startup concept, or clarifying positioning before monetization details.

lean-canvas is a practical lean-canvas skill for turning product ideas into a structured business hypothesis. It covers problem, solution, UVP, unfair advantage, channels, customer segments, metrics, cost structure, and revenue. Use it for early product discovery, new ventures, or lean-canvas for Product Management when you need a concise guide to what to test next.

The business-model skill helps you create a complete Business Model Canvas with all 9 building blocks. Use it to document how a business creates, delivers, and captures value, or to analyze an existing business model for strategic planning and decision-making.

vp-cpo-readiness-advisor is an interactive decision-support skill for Directors and senior product leaders preparing for, interviewing for, landing in, or recalibrating a VP or CPO role. It helps you judge readiness, surface risk, and choose the next questions or actions with less guesswork.

domain-name-brainstormer is a lightweight skill for generating brandable domain ideas, comparing TLD options, and checking likely availability. Use it to turn a project brief into shortlist candidates with naming rationale, extension tradeoffs, and manual-verification-friendly workflow guidance.

charlie is an AI CFO skill for bootstrapped and profitable startups that need sharper financial decisions. It helps with runway, unit economics, hiring ROI, capital allocation, burn rate, working capital, and forecasting. Use charlie for Finance questions when you need a disciplined, decision-ready framework instead of generic startup advice.