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.

domain-name-brainstormer helps generate brandable domain ideas, compare TLD options like .com, .io, .dev, .ai, and .app, and build a shortlist to verify with registrars, trademarks, and social handle checks.

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.

andreessen is a market-first Strategic Planning skill for pressure-testing ventures, product ideas, features, PMF signals, career bets, and daily priorities. It uses an anti-sycophancy operating prompt, verdict labels, reference guides, examples, and stdlib Python scripts for market scoring, PMF checks, and 3x5 Anti-Todo execution.

vpe-advisor is a VP of Engineering operating-advice skill for startup delivery throughput, hiring funnel health, team structure, and production discipline. Use its references and Python tools to analyze DORA metrics, hiring gaps, manager triggers, on-call practices, and strategic planning tradeoffs.

general-counsel-advisor is a Claude skill for startup legal triage: contract risk review, IP ownership checks, term sheet decoding, and regulatory exposure mapping. Includes references and Python scanners to prepare counsel-ready issue lists, not legal advice.

coo-advisor is a Claude skill for internal operations leadership, helping scaling teams design operating cadence, improve processes, cascade OKRs, diagnose bottlenecks, and use included Python tools for OKR tracking and operational efficiency analysis.

chro-advisor is a Claude skill for People Strategy in scaling companies, covering headcount planning, compensation frameworks, org design, retention, culture, and performance management. Includes references plus Python tools for hiring cost modeling and compensation benchmarking.

chief-data-officer-advisor is a strategic CDO skill for startup data decisions: AI training data rights, warehouse vs lakehouse vs mesh strategy, customer-data asset valuation, M&A readiness, and data team hiring. Includes references and Python tools for decision support, not tactical data engineering.

chief-customer-officer-advisor is a Customer Success leadership skill for B2B SaaS retention, segmentation, CS coverage, and org design. Use its references and Python scripts to analyze GRR vs NRR, tier customers, size CSM headcount, and plan CS hires.

chief-ai-officer-advisor helps founders and CAIO-style leaders make strategic AI decisions: API vs fine-tune vs in-house build, EU/US AI risk classification, API-to-self-hosted cost economics, and AI hiring sequence. Includes reference guides and Python calculators for structured planning.

change-management is a C-level advisory skill for planning organizational change with a startup-adapted ADKAR model. Use it for reorgs, tool migrations, process changes, strategy pivots, product sunsets, leadership transitions, and culture shifts, with rollout plans, stakeholder maps, FAQs, manager talking points, resistance analysis, and fatigue checks.

cfo-advisor helps founders and Finance Operations teams model runway, burn, unit economics, fundraising dilution, cash management, and board-ready finance narratives. Includes references plus standard-library Python scripts for burn rate, unit economics, and fundraising scenarios.

arquiteto-de-empresa is a Company Architect skill that turns founder input into an OKF company knowledge base: linked Markdown files with YAML frontmatter, indexes, logs, and controlled types. Use it for Strategic Planning, company-as-code workflows, and phased interviews covering strategy, market, finance, product, operations, people, legal, and governance.

board-deck-builder helps create board and investor update decks with executive narrative, SaaS metrics, risks, and board asks. Use it for quarterly board meetings, investor updates, QBRs, and fundraising readiness with templates that preserve [TBD] for unknown numbers.

stress-test is a Claude executive mentor skill for pressure-testing business assumptions before strategic planning, fundraising, GTM, hiring, or revenue bets. Use /em:stress-test <assumption> to isolate a measurable claim, challenge counter-evidence, and expose where a plan may break.

hard-call is an executive decision-support skill for painful choices with no clean option. Use /em:hard-call <decision> to assess reversibility, 10/10/10 impact, regret minimization, and the cost of delay for layoffs, pivots, shutdowns, co-founder exits, or down rounds.

office-hours runs /cs:office-hours <topic> as a YC-style six-question founder interrogation before advice. Use it to clarify problem, customer, distribution, defensibility, capital, and founder fit before Strategic Planning, pivots, fundraising, or major product bets.

onboard is a Knowledge Capture skill for c-level-agents. It runs the /cs:onboard founder interview and creates ~/.claude/company-context.md so cs-* advisors share accurate company context before boardroom, brief, or executive guidance workflows.