Agent Skills for Entrepreneurs

Skills in the Entrepreneurs topic help you work through the parts of a business that are still uncertain: who pays and for what job, what you sell and why someone picks it, how the offer reaches the customer, how you deliver what was sold, whether the system makes and keeps money, and who does the work. Founding is a business with extra uncertainty, so these skills tend to be useful when a question is open rather than settled. Use the ranked list as a shortlist, not a reading list. Start with the sub-topic that matches the decision in front of you, open the skill that fits, and check whether its inputs match what you actually have. If two skills cover the same ground, pick the one whose scope is narrower and whose output you can act on this week.

8 to start with50 top options

Start with these.

Founding is a business with extra uncertainty: customer, offer, channel, cash, and a team small enough to starve.

These are the closest matches for this work. Start with the first one and open it to install.

Who pays, and for what job.What you sell, and why someone picks it.How the offer reaches the customer.How you actually deliver what was sold.Whether the system makes and keeps money.Who does the work.

50 top options

  1. Rank 04
    Direct

    founder-sales

    Helps founders master the transition from product development to active selling, leveraging founder status to bridge the trust gap, refine the pitch, design a sales motion, and overcome psychological barriers to asking for money.

    • Customers
    • Offer
    • Go-to-market
    2,591 · popularity
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  2. Rank 05
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    first-customers

    Creates a strategy for selling to your first 100 customers using the minimalist entrepreneur playbook, with concentric circles of sales (friends, community, cold outreach), pricing guidance, and key metrics.

    • Customers
    • Offer
    • Go-to-market
    2,589 · popularity
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  3. Rank 06
    Direct

    startup-metrics-framework

    Tracks and optimizes key startup metrics for SaaS, marketplace, consumer, and B2B models from seed through Series A, covering unit economics, growth efficiency, cash management, and investor dashboards.

    • Customers
    • Go-to-market
    • Finance
    10,732 · popularity
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  4. Rank 07
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    cfo-advisor

    Strategic financial frameworks for startup CFOs and finance leaders: financial modeling, unit economics, burn and runway, fundraising, board financials, and cash management, with Python tools for burn rate, unit economics, and fundraising m

    • Customers
    • Operations
    • Finance
    776 · popularity
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  5. Rank 08
    Direct

    sales-icp-definition

    Defines the ideal customer profile at sales-leadership altitude with firmographic, technographic, behavioral, and intent criteria, a weighted scoring rubric, explicit disqualifiers, and a refresh cadence.

    • Customers
    • Go-to-market
    • People
    8,237 · popularity
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  1. Rank 09
    Direct

    startup-canvas

    Generates a Startup Canvas combining 9-section Product Strategy (vision, segments, value prop, trade-offs, metrics, growth) with a Business Model (costs and revenue), as an alternative to BMC and Lean Canvas for new products.

    • Customers
    • Offer
    • Go-to-market
    3,035 · popularity
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  2. Rank 10
    Direct

    team-composition-analysis

    Designs team structures, hiring plans, compensation strategies, and equity allocation for early-stage startups from pre-seed through Series A, with role-by-role planning and org design by stage.

    • Customers
    • Go-to-market
    • People
    9,938 · popularity
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  3. Rank 11
    Direct

    mvp

    Guides building a minimum viable product the minimalist entrepreneur way: manual first, then processized, then productized, with four build questions, what to build, what not to build, and an essentials checklist.

    • Customers
    • Operations
    2,729 · popularity
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  4. Rank 12
    Direct

    pricing

    Helps set pricing for a product or service using minimalist entrepreneur principles, covering cost-based vs value-based models, the zero price effect, tiered pricing, and the math of financial independence.

    • Customers
    • Offer
    • Go-to-market
    2,534 · popularity
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  5. Rank 13
    Direct

    sales-motion

    Chooses and designs the company-level sales motion (PLG, sales-led, hybrid, developer-led, channel) plus transitions like exiting founder-led sales, layering sales onto self-serve, and moving upmarket, mapped to ACV and buyer separation.

    • Offer
    • Go-to-market
    • People
    7,980 · popularity
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  6. Rank 14
    Direct

    devtools-business-model

    Chooses the business model for a developer tool (proprietary SaaS, open core, hosted open source, dual licensing, consumption metering) and the go-to-market each forces, with a paid-boundary test and validation plan.

    • Customers
    • Offer
    • People
    3,220 · popularity
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  7. Rank 15
    Direct

    developer-first-gtm

    Designs the go-to-market motion for a developer-facing product: bottom-up self-serve, developer-influenced sales, top-down with developer proof, or ecosystem-mediated distribution, plus the developer-to-buyer handoff rule and land-and-expan

    • Offer
    • Go-to-market
    • People
    3,064 · popularity
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  8. Rank 16
    Direct

    find-community

    Helps identify and evaluate communities to build a minimalist business around, with a framework for identifying your communities, evaluation criteria, and anti-patterns to watch for.

    2,524 · popularity
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  9. Rank 17
    Direct

    traction-eos

    Implements the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) to align vision and execution across a company, covering the six components: Vision, People, Data, Issues, Process, and Traction, with V/TO, rocks, and Level 10 meetings.

    • Go-to-market
    • Operations
    4,595 · popularity
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  10. Rank 18
    Direct

    product-lens

    Validates the why before building through four product diagnostics: a YC-style product diagnostic producing a PRODUCT-BRIEF.md with go/no-go, a founder review scoring PMF signals, a user journey audit, and ICE feature prioritization.

    • Offer
    • People
    8,043 · popularity
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  11. Rank 19
    Direct

    before-you-build

    Runs a compact pre-mortem before implementation, reviewing demand, positioning, monetization, retention, trust, distribution, and adoption risk, and outputting a risk verdict, main assumption, evidence to find, and what to delay.

    • Go-to-market
    2,681 · popularity
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  12. Rank 20
    Direct

    directory-submissions

    Guides founders through submitting products to startup, SaaS, AI, and review directories for backlinks, domain rating, and discovery, with a directory catalog, positioning variants, and a submission tracker.

    • Offer
    • Go-to-market
    77,869 · popularity
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  13. Rank 21
    Direct

    landing-page-design

    Landing page conversion optimization with above-the-fold formula, hero section design, headline formulas, CTA psychology, and social proof placement for startup and SaaS marketing pages.

    • Customers
    • Go-to-market
    45,260 · popularity
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  14. Rank 22
    Direct

    minimalist-review

    Reviews any business decision, plan, or strategy through the minimalist entrepreneur framework, applying eight principles and a decision table to give a clear recommendation, the minimalist version, biggest risk, and one validation step.

    • Customers
    • Go-to-market
    2,596 · popularity
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  15. Rank 23
    Direct

    brand-discovery

    Conducts a structured, multi-session brand identity interview covering purpose, positioning, audience, personality, voice, and narrative across 8 modules, producing a master brandbook with disk-persisted state.

    • People
    3,811 · popularity
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  16. Rank 24
    Direct

    startup-analysis

    Analyzes a startup from three perspectives: VC investor, job applicant, and CEO/founder, covering market size, unit economics, growth, team quality, defensibility, runway risk, and organizational health.

    • Customers
    • Offer
    • People
    2,793 · popularity
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  17. Rank 25
    Direct

    brand-naming

    Full brand naming workflow for founders, agencies, and businesses, with generation and evaluation modes, a naming strategy brief, direction-based name generation, an evaluation table, and top-5 selection.

    1,810 · popularity
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  18. Rank 26
    Direct

    sop-creator

    Creates detailed Standard Operating Procedures for business processes, transforming unstructured process descriptions into clear, actionable SOPs written at a 5th-grade reading level with quality checks.

    • Operations
    • People
    1,055 · popularity
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  19. Rank 27
    Possible

    sales-org-structure

    Designs a sales organization's structure for its current stage: role mix, topology, SDR-to-AE ratio, hunter/farmer split, span of control, and specialization by segment, with a transition plan.

    • Customers
    • Go-to-market
    • People
    8,001 · popularity
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  20. Rank 28
    Possible

    thought-leadership-ads

    Plans a paid campaign that promotes an executive's or founder's existing organic posts as person-fronted ads, covering post selection, sequencing, audience, governance, budget, and measurement for B2B trust-layer campaigns.

    • Go-to-market
    • People
    6,099 · popularity
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  21. Rank 29
    Possible

    firecrawl-company-directories

    Extracts structured company lists from directories like YC, Crunchbase, Product Hunt, and G2 into JSON, CSV, or CRM-ready lists using Firecrawl for founder research and prospecting.

    • People
    31,071 · popularity
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  22. Rank 30
    Possible

    developer-event-sponsorship

    Builds a developer-event sponsorship plan: which conferences, meetups, and hackathons to sponsor, at which tier, with which on-site activation, and how to prove the money worked, with ROI measurement.

    • Go-to-market
    • People
    3,087 · popularity
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  23. Rank 31
    Possible

    founder-product-video

    Generates a 65-second founder-style product video from a product URL and user-supplied imagery, with 4 Seedance acts of a talking founder, a branded end card, and background music. Requires Pika MCP and a brand kit.

    • People
    1,706 · popularity
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  24. Rank 32
    Possible

    ugc-ad-scripts

    Turns a product brief and target audience into UGC-style short-form video ad scripts a creator can film, with hook, body, CTA, 3-5 hook variants per concept, delivery notes, and disclosure lines.

    • Customers
    • Go-to-market
    • People
    6,050 · popularity
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  25. Rank 33
    Possible

    ljg-invest

    Writes a deep investment analysis report for a project, judging whether it is an order-creating machine, with sections on the flywheel, creation formula, market perception gap, and swap recommendation. Chinese-language output.

    • People
    6,305 · popularity
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  26. Rank 34
    Possible

    parallel-findall

    Discovers entities (companies, people, products) matching a natural-language description, returning structured lists. Useful for founders building prospect lists or mapping a market.

    Needs (stated): Network access

    11,811 · popularity
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  27. Rank 35
    Possible

    revops-hiring

    Builds the complete hiring packet for a RevOps or Sales Ops role: archetype and level decision, outcome scorecard, interview stage map, work-sample exercise, and 30-60-90 ramp plan for the hiring manager or founder.

    • Customers
    • Go-to-market
    • Operations
    6,644 · popularity
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  28. Rank 36
    Possible

    advertising-hiring

    Builds the complete hiring packet for a paid-advertising role: rung decision (media buyer vs performance marketer vs growth marketer), outcome scorecard, interview loop, work sample, and 30-60-90 ramp with staged spend authority.

    • Customers
    • Go-to-market
    • People
    6,145 · popularity
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  29. Rank 37
    Possible

    deal-sourcing

    PE deal sourcing workflow: discover target companies, check CRM for existing relationships, and draft personalized founder outreach emails. Triggers on sourcing deals, prospecting companies, or reaching out to founders.

    • People
    915 · popularity
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  30. Rank 38
    Possible

    data-manager-api-audience-ingestion

    Official

    >- Guides developers through managing (adding, removing, and clearing) audience members for Google products using the Data Manager API and its associated client libraries. Use this skill when the user wants to upload audience members, remove specific users, or clear/replace an entire audience for Customer Match, mobile device ID audiences, or any other audience use case supported by the Data Manager API. Don't use for uploading events or conversions (use the data-manager-api-event-ingestion skill).

    • Customers
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  31. Rank 39
    Possible

    kstartup-search

    Queries the Korea K-Startup Open API for integrated program announcements, support program notices, startup content, and statistical reports. Korean-language, search-only, requires the k-skill CLI.

    4,171 · popularity
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  32. Rank 40
    Direct

    launch

    Notable

    When the user wants to plan a product launch, feature announcement, or release strategy. Also use when the user mentions 'launch,' 'Product Hunt,' 'feature release,' 'announcement,' 'go-to-market,' 'beta launch,' 'early access,' 'waitlist,' 'product update,' 'how do I launch this,' 'launch checklist,' 'GTM plan,' or 'we're about to ship.' Use this whenever someone is preparing to release something publicly. For ongoing marketing after launch, see marketing-ideas. For the offer being launched (bonuses, guarantees, scarcity, naming), see offers.

    • Go-to-market
    59,950 · popularity
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  33. Rank 41
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    customer-research

    Notable

    When the user wants to conduct, analyze, or synthesize customer research. Use when the user mentions "customer research," "ICP research," "talk to customers," "analyze transcripts," "customer interviews," "survey analysis," "support ticket analysis," "voice of customer," "VOC," "build personas," "customer personas," "jobs to be done," "JTBD," "what do customers say," "what are customers struggling with," "Reddit mining," "G2 reviews," "review mining," "digital watering holes," "community research," "forum research," "competitor reviews," "customer sentiment," "PMF survey," "product/market fit

    • Customers
    • Go-to-market
    95,039 · popularity
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  34. Rank 42
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    sales-funnel-blueprint

    Notable

    Turn an offer into a concrete multi-step sales funnel spec - page-by-page structure, price ladder, copy outline and the metrics each step must hit. Use when asked to build a sales funnel, marketing funnel, landing page flow, lead magnet funnel, webinar funnel, tripwire or VSL funnel, when planning a product launch page flow, or when someone asks "what pages do I need" for selling something online.

    • Customers
    • Go-to-market
    54,576 · popularity
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  35. Rank 43
    Direct

    prospecting

    Notable

    When the user wants to find, qualify, and build a list of prospects to reach out to, across B2B SaaS, general B2B, or local small businesses. Also use when the user mentions "prospecting," "build a prospect list," "find leads," "lead list," "outbound list," "target account list," "ICP-fit accounts," "find local businesses," "find my first customers," "design partners," "signal-based outbound," "buying signals," "intent data," "job change alerts," "waterfall enrichment," "Clay table," "lookalike accounts," "catch-all emails," "account tiering," or "research this account before I reach out." Always verify emails before they reach a sequence, and never scrape LinkedIn. Define audiences in Sales Navigator and pull contacts from licensed data. Covers list building, signals, enrichment, verification, and account research. For the outreach itself (copy, sending setup, LinkedIn, cadences, replies), see cold-email. For researching competitors, see competitor-profiling.

    • Go-to-market
    • People
    57,450 · popularity
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  36. Rank 44
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    churn-prevention

    Notable

    When the user wants to reduce churn, build cancellation flows, set up save offers, recover failed payments, or implement retention strategies. Also use when the user mentions 'churn,' 'cancel flow,' 'offboarding,' 'save offer,' 'dunning,' 'failed payment recovery,' 'win-back,' 'retention,' 'exit survey,' 'pause subscription,' 'involuntary churn,' 'people keep canceling,' 'churn rate is too high,' 'how do I keep users,' or 'customers are leaving.' Use this whenever someone is losing subscribers or wants to build systems to prevent it. For post-cancel win-back email sequences, see emails. For in

    • Customers
    • Go-to-market
    103,565 · popularity
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  37. Rank 45
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    amazon-product-research

    Notable

    Comprehensive product research and opportunity analysis for Amazon sellers. Analyzes demand, competition, profit potential, market entry barriers, and validates product ideas. Covers product sourcing, pricing strategy, and go-to-market planning. Use when the user asks about researching a product to sell, validating product ideas, product opportunity analysis, market research for Amazon, competition analysis, profit potential, should I sell this product, product viability, or any general product research questions.

    • Offer
    • Go-to-market
    • Finance
    77,809 · popularity
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  38. Rank 46
    Direct

    post-purchase-upsell-flow

    Notable

    Design and implement one-click post-purchase upsells and downsells that raise average order value without hurting the main conversion rate. Use when asked to increase AOV, add an upsell, cross-sell or downsell after checkout, build a one-click upsell flow, monetize the thank-you page, or when someone asks how to make more revenue per customer from the same ad spend.

    • Customers
    • Go-to-market
    • Finance
    54,323 · popularity
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  39. Rank 47
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    public-relations

    Expert earned-media guidance for founders: finding journalists, pitching stories, newsjacking, prepping podcast appearances, and responding to press requests, with story-angle frameworks.

    • Customers
    • Go-to-market
    • People
    47,823 · popularity
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  40. Rank 48
    Possible

    aso

    Notable

    When the user wants to audit or optimize an App Store or Google Play listing. Also use when the user mentions 'ASO audit,' 'app store optimization,' 'optimize my app listing,' 'improve app visibility,' 'app store ranking,' 'audit my listing,' 'why aren't people downloading my app,' 'improve my app conversion,' 'keyword optimization for app,' or 'compare my app to competitors.' Use when the user shares an App Store or Google Play URL and wants to improve it.

    • Go-to-market
    58,109 · popularity
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  41. Rank 49
    Possible

    1on1s

    Notable

    Prepare agendas, diagnose struggling 1:1 relationships, and run effective 1:1 meetings with direct reports.

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  42. Rank 50
    Possible

    sepia

    Notable

    Make AI-generated writing read as human-written, in fiction and in professional prose. Repairs the narrative architecture of fiction and stories (based on StoryScope, arXiv:2604.03136); routes professional text through domain rules for release notes, announcements, PR and issue replies, code-review comments, incident postmortems, tickets, work orders, technical articles, blog posts, and long-form journalism. Four operations - write, review (diagnose AI tells without editing), refactor (minimal in-place edits), recreate (full rewrite). Use when asked to humanize, de-AI, unslop, or strip AI flavor from any text; when writing or revising any of these document types; or whenever output must not read as machine-written.

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What this topic covers

What this topic covers

Each sub-topic groups Agent Skills for a specific situation.

Customers
Who pays, and for what job.
Offer
What you sell, and why someone picks it.
Go-to-market
How the offer reaches the customer.
Operations
How you actually deliver what was sold.
Finance
Whether the system makes and keeps money.
People
Who does the work.
Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

How is this list ordered?
It is ranked by observed search demand, with direct matches for the Entrepreneurs topic placed first. A cap on any single publisher keeps one source from filling the page.
Which sub-topic should I start with?
Start with the one that matches your open question: Customers, Offer, Go-to-market, Operations, Finance, or People. If several are open, take the one blocking the next decision.
Can these skills replace a co-founder or an advisor?
No. They help you structure the customer, offer, channel, cash, and team questions that founding raises. The judgment and the trade-offs stay with you.

How to install an Agent Skill

Start with the first skill on this page. Claude Code reads a SKILL.md once it is in the skills directory:

  • Claude Code — copy the SKILL.md for startup-financial-modeling into ~/.claude/skills/startup-financial-modeling/ for yourself, or .claude/skills/startup-financial-modeling/ to share it with a project.
  • From the registry — run npx skills add wshobson/agents@startup-financial-modeling.
  • Or download startup-financial-modeling from its source and place that SKILL.md in the directory above.

How to choose Check the source and the skill’s own instructions before you install. Official and Notable describe where a skill comes from.