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Skills for Every Stage of Your Startup

Skills are custom instructions that supercharge Claude. Load one up, have a conversation, walk away with pitch decks, validated ideas, go-to-market plans and more.

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Getting Started

Skills are custom instruction files that turn Claude into a guided startup advisor. Instead of prompting from scratch every time, a skill knows what to ask you, what frameworks to use, and what to deliver.

Download the skill (.zip file), go to Settings in Claude, enable Code Execution under Capabilities, then scroll to the Skills section and click "Upload skill." Upload the .zip file and you're done. The skill is now available in all your conversations.

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Yes. A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file that contains instructions, frameworks, and templates. You can build one from scratch or use Claude's built-in skill creator to help you structure and package it. Start with a process you repeat often and turn it into a reusable skill.

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Skills

Not sure if your idea is worth pursuing? This skill walks you through a structured validation process. It pushes you to define your problem with precision, identify who has it urgently enough to pay, map what solutions already exist, and design customer conversations that reveal truth instead of comfort.

This skill builds investor-ready pitch decks through a guided conversation. It selects the right framework for your strengths (Problem/Solution, Vision/Opportunity, Team-led, or Traction-led), then creates a complete slide deck with pitch templates, common issue fixes, and both a reading deck and a listening deck.

This skill interviews you across six areas: problem, customer, positioning, pricing, channels, and competition. Then it synthesizes everything into a one-page GTM plan you can actually execute.

This skill takes a source document, URL, or product brief and turns it into conversion-focused Facebook and Instagram ad copy paired with landing page copy. You provide the source material, the skill produces ad variations and landing page copy designed to drive action.

This skill guides you through a structured interview to build a detailed customer persona. It asks smart follow-up questions to help you fill in the gaps, then generates a polished, single-page persona document you can reference for every marketing, product, and sales decision.

This skill helps you craft the narrative that ties everything together. Your origin, your "why," and your vision. It walks you through a structured interview with storytelling principles built in, then produces a polished one-page founder story you can use for investor meetings, your website, and press.

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