Startup Tools skills for Claude Code and Codex
Startup skills take an agent from idea to traction: lean canvas and business model canvas, beachhead segment selection, lean startup experiments, cold start strategy, investor research and call prep, YC batch evaluation, AWS startup architecture and credits, and guided journeys to create, grow and improve a business.
Highest-scoring startup skills in the October 22, 2026 snapshot: foundation-lean-canvas from product-on-purpose/pm-skills (83/100), beachhead-segment from phuryn/pm-skills (81/100) and cold-start-problem from wondelai/skills (81/100). Scores come from the Suede Skill Check.
- 24 listed skills
- 8 repositories
- 5 with full pages
5 from official publishers. 1 bundle scripts. 0 connect to an outside service. Listed in Product Management (9), Business, Sales and Finance (8), DevOps and Cloud (3), Marketing and SEO (3), Writing and Editing (1).
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| Skill | Repository | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| beachhead-segment 81/100 · B | phuryn/pm-skills | Identifies the beachhead market segment for a product launch by evaluating burning pain, willingness to pay, winnable market share, and referral potential. |
| cold-start-problem 81/100 · B | wondelai/skills | Guides starting and scaling networked products with Andrew Chen's Cold Start Problem framework for network effects, including marketplaces and getting first users. |
| create-business 80/100 · B | wondelai/skills | Guides a raw idea to a validated, positioned, priced business with a chosen beachhead, orchestrating ten skills phase by phase. |
| foundation-lean-canvas 83/100 · B | product-on-purpose/pm-skills | Produces a one-page lean canvas across nine blocks, from problem and customer to unfair advantage, with optional inline HTML and SVG rendering. |
| startup-canvas 81/100 · B | phuryn/pm-skills | Generates a Startup Canvas combining a nine-section Product Strategy with a Business Model of costs and revenue for a new product. |
| architect-for-startups 80/100 · B | aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws | Startup-tailored AWS architecture advice for non-agent workloads, adjusted to the company's stage (pre-revenue through Series B+), team size… |
| brainstorm-experiments-new 78/100 · C | phuryn/pm-skills | Design lean startup experiments (pretotypes) for a new product. Creates XYZ hypotheses and suggests low-effort validation methods like landing… |
| business-model 81/100 · B | phuryn/pm-skills | Generate a Business Model Canvas with all 9 building blocks. Use when creating a business model, documenting how a business creates value, or… |
| company-funding-search 69/100 · D | gooseworks-ai/goose-skills | Find company funding history, investors, and investment details |
| directory-submissions 83/100 · B | coreyhaines31/marketingskills | When the user wants to submit their product to startup, SaaS, AI, agent, MCP, no-code, or review directories for backlinks, domain rating, and… |
| funding-signal-monitor 75/100 · C | gooseworks-ai/goose-skills | Monitor web sources for Series A-C funding announcements. Aggregates signals from TechCrunch, Crunchbase (via web search), Twitter, Hacker News, and… |
| grow-business 76/100 · C | wondelai/skills | Guided journey from a business with lucky months to a repeatable growth engine that produces a forecast. Orchestrates nine skills phase by phase… |
| gtm-0-to-1-launch 77/100 · C | github/awesome-copilot | Launch new products from idea to first customers. Use when launching products, finding early adopters, building launch week playbooks, diagnosing… |
| gtm-board-and-investor-communication 80/100 · B | github/awesome-copilot | Board meeting preparation, investor updates, and executive communication. Use when preparing board decks, writing investor updates, handling bad… |
| improve-business 76/100 · C | wondelai/skills | Guided journey from a stalled, plateaued business to one with an honest diagnosis, a working operating rhythm, and offers repriced to real value… |
| investor-call-prep 81/100 · B | gooseworks-ai/goose-skills | Prepare for investor calls by pulling upcoming meetings from Google Calendar, deeply researching each investor and their firm (website scraping… |
| investor-research 66/100 · D | gooseworks-ai/goose-skills | Research VCs, angels, and investors - portfolio, thesis, contact info |
| knowledge-base-for-startups 82/100 · B | aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws | AWS Startups reference content — Activate FAQ, credits guide, programs, partner offers, sample architectures, and hundreds of learn articles… |
| lean-analytics 81/100 · B | wondelai/skills | Choose and audit startup metrics using Croll and Yoskovitz's "Lean Analytics". Use when the user mentions "what metrics should we track", "KPIs"… |
| lean-canvas 81/100 · B | phuryn/pm-skills | Generate a Lean Canvas with problem, solution, metrics, cost structure, UVP, unfair advantage, channels, segments, and revenue. Use when exploring a… |
| lean-startup 81/100 · B | wondelai/skills | Design MVPs, validated learning experiments, and pivot-or-persevere decisions using Build-Measure-Learn. Use when the user mentions "MVP scope"… |
| start-building-for-startups 74/100 · C | aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws | Interactive discovery + implementation workflow that gathers requirements through picker-based questions (intent, scope, constraints, preferences)… |
| Suede AI Directory Submissions Skills 91/100 · A | JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills | Use when asked "plan our directory submissions" or to select and sequence startup, SaaS, AI, MCP, marketplace or review listings. Suede AI adapts… |
| yc-batch-evaluator 70/100 · C | gooseworks-ai/goose-skills | Evaluate YC batch companies for investment — scrapes the YC directory, researches each company and its founders (work history, LinkedIn, website)… |
How to choose startup skills
Use canvas and strategy skills early. Lean canvas, startup canvas and beachhead skills are Markdown frameworks that turn a raw idea into a one-page plan you can test.
Fundraising skills research investors and prepare calls. Some pull meetings from Google Calendar and enrich investor profiles with paid data sources, so check the variables listed under Before you install.
Guided journey skills orchestrate several frameworks in sequence. Install the whole collection they call, and run one journey end to end before adding standalone skills that cover the same step.
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