Startup skills for AI agents

Design and execute customer onboarding flows that drive activation and retention. Covers activation metrics, journey mapping, friction reduction, email sequences, and measuring onboarding success.

Startup mindset coach that helps founders upgrade their thinking patterns, detect anti-patterns, apply mental models like PMF levels and the 4Ps framework, and build accountability through weekly challenges.

Close the first customers as a founder — outbound prospecting, discovery calls, demo strategy, objection handling, and closing without a sales team. Use this skill when the user asks about early-stage sales, getting first customers, founder-led selling, cold outreach, sales calls, pricing conversations, or closing deals pre-sales-hire. Also trigger for "how do I get my first customers," "nobody is buying," "cold email strategy," "how to sell as a founder," "sales process," "close a deal," or any task involving a founder personally driving revenue before a dedicated sales team exists.

Drive early-stage growth with creative, resource-efficient tactics — viral loops, referral mechanics, content-led growth, community building, and scrappy acquisition channels. Use this skill when the user asks about growth hacking, early growth, user acquisition, virality, referral programs, organic growth, or scaling on a tight budget. Also trigger for "how do we grow," "get more users," "growth strategy," "viral loop," "customer acquisition on no budget," "content marketing strategy," "community-led growth," or any task involving driving user or revenue growth at an early stage with limited resources.

Build the founding team — early-stage hiring, compensation design, culture building, and organizational decisions for startups from 1 to 50 people. Use this skill when the user asks about hiring, recruiting, team building, compensation, equity, culture, org design, or making their first hires. Also trigger for "who should I hire first," "how to recruit," "equity for employees," "startup compensation," "culture building," "job descriptions," "interview process," or any task involving finding, evaluating, hiring, and retaining early team members.

Run lean startup operations — burn rate management, resource allocation, tool selection, process design, and doing more with less. Use this skill when the user asks about startup operations, burn rate, runway management, budgeting, resource allocation, or operational efficiency. Also trigger for "we're running out of money," "how to extend runway," "what tools should we use," "operational efficiency," "startup budget," "cut costs," or any task involving managing limited resources, cash flow, and operational decisions at an early-stage company.

Navigate startup legal fundamentals — incorporation, equity structure, co-founder agreements, IP protection, fundraising documents, and compliance. Use this skill when the user asks about incorporating a company, legal structure, co-founder agreements, equity splits, vesting, SAFEs, term sheets, IP assignment, or startup legal basics. Also trigger for "how do I incorporate," "co-founder equity split," "SAFE vs convertible note," "term sheet," "vesting schedule," "LLC vs C-Corp," "legal checklist," or any task involving the legal foundations of starting and funding a company.

Build minimum viable products fast — ruthless scoping, rapid prototyping, and shipping the smallest thing that tests the riskiest assumption. Use this skill when the user asks about building an MVP, launching a first version, prototyping, scoping a product, or shipping fast. Also trigger for "what should V1 look like," "how do I scope this down," "build a prototype," "ship something fast," "what's the MVP," "we're over-engineering," or any task involving deciding what to build first and getting it to users as quickly as possible.

Build and manage successful open source projects or contribute effectively to existing ones. Use this skill when the user asks about open source strategy, starting an open source project, building a contributor community, choosing licenses, managing pull requests, or wants guidance on open source governance, sustainability, or business models around open source software.

Craft compelling pitch decks and fundraising materials that get meetings, close rounds, and tell a startup's story with clarity and conviction. Use this skill when the user asks about pitch decks, fundraising, investor presentations, startup storytelling, or raising capital. Also trigger for "help me with my pitch deck," "I'm raising a round," "investor deck," "Series A deck," "how to pitch VCs," "fundraising narrative," or any task involving creating materials to persuade investors, partners, or stakeholders to back a startup.

Find and validate product-market fit — customer discovery, hypothesis testing, iteration strategy, and the signals that tell you when you've found it. Use this skill when the user asks about product-market fit, customer validation, idea validation, pivot decisions, customer discovery, or early-stage product strategy. Also trigger for "do we have PMF," "how do I validate this idea," "customer interviews," "should we pivot," "nobody is buying," "are we building the right thing," or any task involving determining whether a product genuinely solves a problem people will pay for.

Define and execute product strategy for startups — roadmap prioritization, feature scoping, saying no, competitive feature decisions, and building products that win in the market. Use this skill when the user asks about product strategy, roadmap planning, feature prioritization, product decisions, or what to build next. Also trigger for "what should we build next," "how to prioritize features," "product roadmap," "should we build this feature," "we're building too much," "focus the product," or any task involving strategic product decisions at an early-stage or growth-stage company.

Track the metrics that matter at each startup stage — from pre-PMF signals through growth-stage unit economics and investor-ready dashboards. Use this skill when the user asks about startup metrics, KPIs, dashboards, cohort analysis, unit economics, or what to measure. Also trigger for "what should we track," "are our metrics good," "investor metrics," "SaaS metrics," "cohort analysis," "startup dashboard," "growth rate," or any task involving defining, measuring, and interpreting the numbers that determine whether a startup is succeeding or failing.