Best Claude skills for founders and startups
Startup skills help founders move faster: product reviews in the style of a CEO, fundraising prep, pitch decks, go-to-market plans and launch checklists. Garry Tan's gstack, his own Claude Code setup, is the most famous example.
195 startups skills · ranked live · November 2026
The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.
- 1#1
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tan
Design Review
Designer's eye QA: finds visual inconsistency, spacing issues, hierarchy problems, AI slop patterns, and slow interactions — then fixes them; --build checks UI while you build it. (gstack)
Pack141k47kScore 84 - 2#2
Garry Tan
Gstack
- 3#3
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tan
Autoplan
Auto-review pipeline — runs the CEO, design, eng (architecture, edge cases, failure modes, tests) and DX reviews (lean run: one reviewer), auto-deciding. (gstack)
Pack141k47kScore 82 - 4#4
wshobson
Agents
wshobson
Before You Build
Pre-build product and feature risk review for founders, product managers, and AI-assisted builders. Use this skill when the user is about to build a landing page, MVP, SaaS product…
Pack42k2.6MScore 81 - 5#5

phuryn
Startup Canvas
Generate a Startup Canvas combining Product Strategy (9 sections) and Business Model (costs + revenue) for a new product. An alternative to BMC and Lean Canvas that separates strategy from…
Pack28k245kScore 77 - 6#6

phuryn
Lean Canvas
Generate a Lean Canvas with problem, solution, metrics, cost structure, UVP, unfair advantage, channels, segments, and revenue. Use when exploring a lean startup canvas, testing a business…
Pack28k245kScore 76 - 7#7

phuryn
Identify Assumptions New
Identify risky assumptions for a new product idea across 8 risk categories including Go-to-Market, Strategy, and Team. Use when evaluating startup risks, assessing a new product concept, or…
Pack28k245kScore 74 - 8#8
tradermonty
Institutional Flow Tracker
Use this skill to track institutional investor ownership changes and portfolio flows using 13F filings data. Analyzes hedge funds, mutual funds, and other institutional holders to identify…
Pack3.7k254kScore 74 - 9#9
alirezarezvani
Claude Skills
- 10#10
ReScienceLab
Opc Skills
ReScienceLab
SEO GEO
SEO & GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) for websites. Analyze keywords, generate schema markup, optimize for AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude) and…
Pack1.9k79kScore 70
What makes a great startups skill.
Opinionated reviews that say no, not only cheerlead.
Real templates (pitch deck, investor update).
Founder-scale scope: fast, cheap, reversible.
All 195 startups skills.
Garry Tan
Gstack
eval-plan
Preregister a paid eval (bars, arms, decoys, stop rules), dry-run it at zero cost, then run a three-item priced pilot whose spend table gates approval. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
gstack-openclaw-ceo-review
Use when asked to review a plan, challenge a proposal, run a CEO review, poke holes in an approach, think bigger about scope, or decide whether to expand or reduce the plan.
Garry Tan
Gstack
gstack-openclaw-office-hours
Use when asked to brainstorm, evaluate whether an idea is worth building, run office hours, or think through a new product idea or design direction before any code is written.
Garry Tan
Gstack
gstack-openclaw-retro
Weekly engineering retrospective. Analyzes commit history, work patterns, and code quality metrics with persistent history and trend tracking. Team-aware with per-person contributions…
Garry Tan
Gstack
gstack-plan
Use before building a feature: challenge the scope, then review architecture, code quality, tests and performance, and end with a plan to build. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
health
Code quality dashboard. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
ios-clean
Remove the DebugBridge SPM package and all #if DEBUG wiring from an iOS app. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
ios-design-review
Visual design audit for iOS apps on real hardware. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
ios-fix
Autonomous iOS bug fixer. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
ios-sync
Regenerate the iOS debug bridge against the latest upstream gstack templates. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
land-and-deploy
Land and deploy workflow. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
landing-report
Read-only queue dashboard for workspace-aware ship. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
learn
Manage project learnings.
Garry Tan
Gstack
modernize
Bring an aging PR onto its current base and decide: MODERNIZE, REWORK or CLOSE. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
office-hours
YC Office Hours — two modes. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
open-gstack-browser
Launch GStack Browser — AI-controlled Chromium with the sidebar extension baked in.
Garry Tan
Gstack
pair-agent
Pair a remote AI agent with your browser. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
plan-design-review
Designer's eye plan review — interactive, like CEO and Eng review. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
plan-devex-review
Interactive developer experience plan review. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
plan-eng-review
Eng manager-mode plan review. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
plan-tune
Self-tuning question sensitivity + developer psychographic for gstack (v1: observational). (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
qa-only
Report browser/API/CLI/job/worker/webhook bugs. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
retro
Weekly engineering retrospective. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
review
Use when you review this PR's diff. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
scrape
Pull data from a web page through the Aside browser — your real, already signed-in sessions. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
setup-browser-cookies
Import cookies from your real Chromium browser into the headless browse session. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
setup-deploy
Configure deployment settings for /land-and-deploy.
Garry Tan
Gstack
setup-gbrain
Set up gbrain for this coding agent: install the CLI, initialize a local PGLite or Supabase brain, register MCP, capture per-remote trust policy. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
ship
Ship it: merge the base, run tests, review the diff, bump VERSION and CHANGELOG, push and create a PR. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
skillify
Codify the most recent successful /scrape flow into a permanent browser-skill on disk. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
spec
Turn vague intent into a precise, executable spec in five phases. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
sync-gbrain
Keep gbrain current with this repo's code and refresh agent search guidance in CLAUDE.md. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
test-audit
Find low-value or duplicate tests and the test-only code they keep alive. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
ubicloud
Run a heavy suite, build or eval on an ephemeral 16-vCPU Ubicloud VM: TTL-named VMs, a reaper, quota preflight and a hang watchdog. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
verify
Use when coding: run the checks and tests /ship picks until green. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
freeze
Restrict file edits to a specific directory for the session. (gstack)
Startups skills, explained.
Also searched as: startup skills, founder skills claude, gstack garry tan, pitch deck skill.
What are the best Claude skills for founders and startups?
Right now the top-ranked startups skills on Alyn are Design Review (Garry Tan), IOS QA (Garry Tan), Autoplan (Garry Tan). Rankings combine GitHub stars, installs, freshness and depth, and update live.
What is gstack?
Garry Tan's Claude Code setup: a set of opinionated tools that act as CEO, designer, engineering manager, release manager and more.
Are there skills for fundraising?
startup-founder-skills covers fundraising, sales, product and recruiting.
How do I install a startups skill?
Run npx skills add owner/repo in your project, or copy the folder with SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills. Every skill on this page has a ready-to-copy command.