初创公司的创始人，经常会被写商业计划书、改合同、发邮件等杂七杂八事情困扰，时间根本不够用。

Startup Founder Skills 这个项目，把创始人日常 50 项重复性工作整理成了 AI 技能包。

涵盖融资、业务拓展、产品规划、销售、团队招聘和法务等各个环节，装上就能用。

GitHub：http://github.com/shawnpang/startup-founder-skills…

所有技能共享一份公司上下文文件，生成的内容是针对我们自己项目的，不是那些通用建议。

现在流行一人一公司，如果不想被那些重复性繁琐的事情打扰，可以看下这套技能有没帮助。

shawnpang/startup-founder-skills

Source: https://github.com/shawnpang/startup-founder-skills

Startup Founder Skills for AI Agents

Hey friends. Shawn here. I’ve been bootstrapping and starting companies for the past 10 years (still working hard at 996 level). Somewhere along the way, I realized that more and more of what I do every day — writing cold emails, drafting pitch decks, prepping for calls, reviewing contracts, writing job descriptions — can be automated. So I set out to find the 50 founder tasks that AI handles best and pair each one with the best open-source skill to do it.

The goal is simple: spend less time on repeatable work so I can spend more time on what actually matters — talking to users, trying more products, and making genuine connections.

Inspired by Marketing Skills by Corey Haines — extended from marketing to the full founder stack: fundraising, sales, product, recruiting, engineering, legal, finance, and growth. Works with Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, and any agent that supports the Agent Skills spec.

Contributions welcome! Found a way to improve a skill or have a new one to add? Open a PR.

Who Is This For?

• Solo technical founders building an MVP who also need to fundraise, sell, hire, and market — without a team to delegate to
• First-time founders who know how to code but haven’t written a pitch deck, cold email, or job description before
• Small founding teams (2-3 people) wearing multiple hats and needing to move fast across every function
• Technical co-founders who handle product and engineering but now need to step into sales, recruiting, or investor conversations

If you’re at a company with a VP of Sales, a Head of Marketing, and in-house counsel — you probably don’t need this. These skills are for founders who are the sales team, the marketing team, and the legal team, all at once.

What are Skills?

Skills are markdown files that give AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows for specific tasks. When you add these to your project, your agent can recognize what you’re working on and apply the right frameworks, templates, and best practices — so you get founder-grade output, not generic AI slop.

How Skills Work Together

Every skill reads from startup-context first — your company’s stage, product, market, team, and metrics. This shared context means skills produce output tailored to your specific startup, not generic advice.

                              ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
                              │          startup-context             │
                              │    (read by all other skills first)  │
                              └──────────────────┬───────────────────┘
                                                 │
  ┌──────────────┬──────────────┬────────────────┼────────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┐
  ▼              ▼              ▼                ▼                ▼              ▼              ▼
┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌────────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌────────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│Fundraising│ │ Sales &BD │ │ Product & │ │ Recruiting │ │Engineering│ │  Legal &   │ │ Marketing │
│           │ │           │ │ Strategy  │ │   & Team   │ │           │ │ Operations │ │ & Growth  │
├───────────┤ ├───────────┤ ├───────────┤ ├────────────┤ ├───────────┤ ├────────────┤ ├───────────┤
│pitch-deck │ │cold-      │ │prd-writng │ │job-desc    │ │arch-desgn │ │privacy-pol │ │landing-pg │
│inv-rsrch  │ │ outreach  │ │user-rsrch │ │interview   │ │code-revew │ │terms-of-sv │ │content    │
│data-room  │ │sales-scrpt│ │roadmap    │ │sourcing    │ │cicd-setup │ │contract-rv │ │seo        │
│fund-email │ │proposal   │ │mvp-scope  │ │employer-   │ │tech-stack │ │soc2-prep   │ │email-mktg │
│           │ │lead-score │ │comp-anlys │ │ brand      │ │security   │ │process-doc │ │social     │
│           │ │partner-   │ │mkt-rsrch  │ │            │ │           │ │board-update│ │launch     │
│           │ │ outreach  │ │           │ │            │ │           │ │            │ │           │
└─────┬─────┘ └─────┬─────┘ └─────┬─────┘ └──────┬─────┘ └─────┬─────┘ └──────┬─────┘ └─────┬─────┘
      │             │             │               │             │              │             │
      └─────────────┴──────┬──────┴───────────────┴─────────────┴──────────────┴─────────────┘
                           │
            Skills cross-reference each other:
              pitch-deck ↔ investor-research ↔ data-room
              cold-outreach ↔ lead-scoring ↔ sales-script
              prd-writing ↔ mvp-scoping ↔ roadmap-planning
              job-description ↔ interview-kit ↔ sourcing-outreach

See each skill’s Related Skills section for the full dependency map.

Available Skills

Installation

# Install all skills
npx skills add shawnpang/startup-founder-skills

# Install specific skills
npx skills add shawnpang/startup-founder-skills --skill pitch-deck cold-outreach

# Install a category
npx skills add shawnpang/startup-founder-skills --skill fundraising

# List available skills
npx skills add shawnpang/startup-founder-skills --list

Usage

Once installed, just ask your agent to help with founder tasks:

"Help me write a pitch deck for our Series A"
→ Uses pitch-deck + investor-research skills

"Write a cold email to reach enterprise prospects"
→ Uses cold-outreach + lead-scoring skills

"Create a PRD for our new billing feature"
→ Uses prd-writing skill

"Help me write a job description for a senior engineer"
→ Uses job-description + employer-brand skills

"Review this contract from our vendor"
→ Uses contract-review skill

"Draft an investor update for this month"
→ Uses board-update skill

You can also invoke skills directly:

/pitch-deck
/cold-outreach
/prd-writing
/code-review

Skill Categories

Fundraising

• pitch-deck - Slide-by-slide deck content and narrative
• investor-research - Investor targeting and qualification
• data-room - Due diligence preparation
• fundraising-email - Investor outreach and updates
• accelerator-application - Apply to 40+ accelerators (YC, Techstars, HF0, a16z Speedrun, and more)

Sales & BD

• cold-outreach - Prospecting emails and sequences
• sales-script - Demo and call frameworks
• proposal-generation - Proposals, SOWs, and quotes
• lead-scoring - ICP definition, qualification, and pipeline design
• partnership-outreach - BD and integration pitches

Product & Strategy

• prd-writing - Product requirement documents
• user-research-synthesis - Interview and feedback analysis
• roadmap-planning - Timeline and milestone planning
• mvp-scoping - MVP definition and scope cutting
• competitive-analysis - Competitor research and positioning
• market-research - TAM/SAM/SOM and trend analysis
• review-mining - Extract pain points from Trustpilot, G2, and app store reviews
• daily-product-digest - Summarize trending launches on Product Hunt and Hacker News
• competitor-monitoring - Ongoing tracking of competitor changes and strategic signals

Recruiting & Team

• job-description - Compelling job posts
• interview-kit - Questions, scorecards, rubrics, and comp benchmarking
• sourcing-outreach - Candidate outreach messages
• employer-brand - Careers page and culture content

Engineering

• architecture-design - System and API design
• code-review - Security, performance, correctness review
• cicd-setup - Pipeline and deployment automation
• tech-stack-eval - Technology selection and tradeoffs
• security-review - OWASP, auth, and vulnerability audits

Legal & Compliance

• privacy-policy - Privacy and data handling policies
• terms-of-service - ToS and SaaS agreements
• contract-review - Risk flagging in contracts
• soc2-prep - SOC 2 readiness and policy templates

Operations

• process-docs - SOPs, playbooks, and runbooks
• board-update - Investor updates and board decks

Customer Success

• onboarding-flow - Activation and time-to-value
• support-docs - Help center and API docs
• feedback-synthesis - Theme extraction from feedback
• churn-analysis - Retention analysis and win-back
• sentiment-monitoring - Monitor your product’s reviews and public mentions

Marketing & Growth

• landing-page - Copy, layout, and conversion
• content-strategy - Blog, SEO, and thought leadership
• seo-technical - Technical SEO and site structure
• email-marketing - Campaigns and lifecycle emails
• social-content - LinkedIn, Twitter/X content
• launch-strategy - Product Hunt, HN, and press launches
• founder-thought-leadership - Build founder IP and personal brand on X and LinkedIn
• community-discovery - Find and engage Slack, Discord, Reddit communities for distribution
• event-hosting - Plan and promote tech events and meetups on Luma
• earned-media-outreach - Get on podcasts and earn press coverage

Contributing

Found a way to improve a skill? Have a new skill to suggest? PRs and issues welcome!

Adding a New Skill

1. Create a new directory under skills/ with a kebab-case name
2. Add a SKILL.md file following the template in CONTRIBUTING.md
3. Include: trigger conditions, workflow steps, output format, and related skills
4. Update the skills table in this README
5. Open a PR

License

MIT — Use these however you want.

Acknowledgments

Each skill is based on the best open-source skill we could find for that task. We read the original SKILL.md, extracted the core frameworks and workflows, and adapted them into a consistent format tailored for startup founders. In some cases, multiple skills from a source were merged into one. For example, our soc2-prep draws from a broader CISO advisor skill, our lead-scoring combines ICP definition with pipeline qualification, and our sales-script merges demo scripting with RFP analysis and competitive positioning. The goal is one skill per founder task, not one skill per original repo. The Author column in the skills table links directly to the original skill each one is based on.

This project builds on the work of many open-source skill authors:

• Corey Haines — Marketing Skills for AI Agents, the project that inspired this repo
• Alireza Rezvani — Engineering, architecture, CI/CD, sales, and compliance skills
• Pawel Huryn — Product management skills (PRDs, roadmaps, research, privacy)
• Jeff Allan — Code review and security review skills
• Brian Wagner — Cold outreach and social content skills
• Athina AI — Lead scoring and churn analysis skills
• Daniel Agrici — Technical SEO skills
• Daniel Mendes — Launch strategy and marketing skills
• Manoj Bajaj — Onboarding and GTM skills