founder_skill

Overview

This skill routes founder-focused tasks to structured workflows for idea validation, market sizing, pitch decks, financial models, launch plans, and board reports. It auto-activates on fundraising, pitch, investor, TAM/SAM/SOM, unit economics, runway, or board deck tasks and ensures outputs are complete and actionable. The goal is to produce usable artifacts (tables, Marp slides, spreadsheets) with clear confidence levels and assumptions.

How this skill works

The skill detects the user's intent and selects the appropriate workflow (Validate Idea, Size Market, Analyze Competition, Build Pitch Deck, Prep for Investors, Model Financials, Plan Launch, or Report to Board). It loads the matching reference procedure, pauses at confirmation gates to validate intent, then produces a final artifact in the specified format (Marp slides, markdown tables, JSON verdicts, or spreadsheet-ready tables). Every high-stakes output includes a confidence estimate, key assumptions, and reversibility classification.

When to use it

• You need a verdict on whether to GO, ITERATE, or KILL a product idea.
• Sizing market opportunity with TAM/SAM/SOM for an investor pitch.
• Preparing or evaluating a pitch deck for investor meetings.
• Building unit-economics, cash runway, or projection models.
• Planning a 90-day launch or preparing a board update.

Best practices

• Always answer initial clarifying questions; the skill pauses at checkpoints to avoid wasted work.
• Use Marp format for slide decks and markdown tables for spreadsheet-ready data.
• Include explicit confidence levels and the key assumption that would change the verdict.
• Prefer concrete evidence over intuition; cite sources and show calculations for TAM/SAM/SOM.
• Run the compatibility matrix when mixing workflow dimensions (stage, depth, audience).

Example use cases

• Run a Validate Idea workflow to score product-market fit and get a GO/ITERATE/KILL recommendation.
• Generate TAM/SAM/SOM tables and a short Marp slide set for investor outreach.
• Produce a 10–12 slide Marp pitch deck tailored to seed investors with speaker notes.
• Create spreadsheet-ready unit-economics tables and a cash runway scenario analysis.
• Draft a phased 90-day launch plan with milestones, risks, and contingency pre-mortem.