Claude Skills for founders
Investor updates, board pre-reads, hiring plans, burn analysis, all-hands writing, customer interview synthesis. The founder workflow as installable Claude skills.
How to install
Claude Code (CLI): Download the pack, then unzip into your skills folder.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
unzip ~/Downloads/founder-pack.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/For project-only skills, use .claude/skills/ in your repo root instead. Restart Claude Code (or the session) and the skills become available.
Claude.ai (web): Upload via Settings → Skills (where supported on your plan).
Skills in this pack
Investor Update Writer
Drafts a monthly investor update VCs actually read — lowlights first, asks specific, no theatrics.
Board Pre-read Builder
Drafts the pre-read doc you send 48 hours before the board meeting — strategy, KPIs, decisions needed.
Hiring Plan Builder
Builds a 6-12 month hiring plan tied to milestones — sequencing, burn impact, and the who-not-just-what.
Burn & Runway Analyzer
Analyzes burn rate, runway, scenarios — net vs gross burn, when to raise, what to cut.
All-Hands Writer
Writes an all-hands script or deck — wins, KPIs, focus areas, asks. Not corporate-spin pep talk.
Customer Interview Synthesizer
Synthesizes 5-15 customer interviews into themes, jobs-to-be-done, opportunities. Pulls quotes, flags weak signals.
PRD from Vision
Turns a founder's vision rant into a PRD a PM/eng team can build from. Forces specifics on user, problem, MVP scope.
Founder LinkedIn Post Writer
Writes a LinkedIn post in the founder's voice — milestone, lesson, news. Has a point of view, not virtue-signaling.
Strategic Decision Doc
One-pager for a major strategic decision — context, options, recommendation, dissent, deadline.
Founder 1:1 Prep
Preps the founder for 1:1s with each report — specific questions per person, what to listen for, decisions to make.
Post-mortem from Launch
Honest post-mortem on a product or business decision — expected vs actual, why we got it wrong, what we'd do differently.
AI Feature Pre-Ship Checklist
For an AI-built feature, the verification checklist before users see it.
Plan Stress-Tester
Adversarial review of a plan or assumption — surfaces the failure modes you're not looking at.
Pre-Mortem Generator
Imagines the project failed 12 months out and works backwards to find what would have killed it.
Hard Call Framework
A decision framework for choices where every option is bad — surfaces the actual trade-offs instead of papering over them.
Adversarial Board Prep
Prepares you for the hostile board meeting, not the friendly one — anticipates hard questions and forces numbers-cold mastery.
First-Customer Interview Loop
Designs the first 10 customer interviews for a new product/segment — questions that produce insight, not validation.
CFO Advisor (Adversarial)
Acts as your skeptical CFO — pressure-tests financial decisions, surfaces hidden assumptions, says no when it should.
CTO Advisor (Technical Strategy)
For founders without a deep technical co-founder — pressure-tests engineering decisions a CTO would flag.
CMO Advisor (GTM Strategy)
Pressure-tests marketing and GTM decisions a senior CMO would flag — channel choices, brand bets, positioning shifts.
CRO Advisor (Revenue Operations)
For founders running revenue without a senior CRO — pressure-tests pipeline, comp plans, sales hires.
Chief AI Officer Advisor
Helps non-technical founders make defensible AI strategy decisions — what to build, what to buy, what to wait on.
Revenue Operations Diagnostician
Diagnoses where revenue is leaking across the funnel — handoffs, attribution, comp, tooling — before the symptom (missed quota) becomes the conversation.
Idea-to-Spec Partner
Pressure-tests a rough idea into an approved design through one-question-at-a-time dialogue — before anyone writes code.
Execution Plan Writer
Turns an approved spec into a sequenced, bite-sized execution plan — files, tasks, tests, commits — anyone could pick up and run.
Put these skills to work
Founder Workflow Pack — step-by-step playbooks that ship the work