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
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
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
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
alirezarezvani 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
Garry Tanhackernews-frontpage
Scrape the Hacker News front page (titles, points, comment counts).
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tanguard
Full safety mode: destructive command warnings + directory-scoped edits. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tanunfreeze
Clear the freeze boundary set by /freeze, allowing edits to all directories again. (gstack)
ReScienceLab
Opc Skills
ReScienceLabnanobanana
Generate and edit images using Google Gemini 3 Pro Image (Nano Banana Pro). Supports text-to-image, image editing, various aspect ratios, and high-resolution output (2K/4K). Use when user…
ReScienceLab
Opc Skills
ReScienceLabrequesthunt
Generate user demand research reports from real user feedback. Scrape and analyze feature requests, complaints, and questions from Reddit, X, GitHub, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Amazon. Use when…
ReScienceLab
Opc Skills
ReScienceLabadd-new-opc-skill
Checklist and automation guide for adding a new skill to the OPC Skills project. Ensures all required files, metadata, logos, and listings are created before release. Use when adding a new…
ReScienceLab
Opc Skills
ReScienceLabarchive
Archive session learnings, debugging solutions, and deployment logs to .archive/yyyy-mm-dd/ as indexed markdown with searchable tags. Use when completing a significant task, resolving a…
ReScienceLab
Opc Skills
ReScienceLabdomain-hunter
Search domains, compare prices, find promo codes, get purchase recommendations. Use when user wants to buy a domain, check domain prices, find domain deals, compare registrars, or search…
ReScienceLab
Opc Skills
ReScienceLabSearch and retrieve content from Twitter/X. Get user info, tweets, replies, followers, communities, spaces, and trends via twitterapi.io. Use when user mentions Twitter, X, or tweets.
ReScienceLab
Opc Skills
ReScienceLabproducthunt
Search and retrieve content from Product Hunt. Get posts, topics, users, and collections via the GraphQL API. Use when user mentions Product Hunt, PH, or product launches.
ReScienceLab
Opc Skills
ReScienceLabSearch and retrieve content from Reddit. Get posts, comments, subreddit info, and user profiles via the public JSON API. Use when user mentions Reddit, a subreddit, or r/ links.
ReScienceLab
Opc Skills
ReScienceLabskill-name
Clear description of what this skill does and when to use it. Include trigger keywords and contexts inline, e.g. "Use when user wants to X, Y, or Z."
RefoundAI
Lenny Skills
RefoundAIfundraising
Help users navigate the end-to-end lifecycle of funding a startup, from choosing between bootstrapping and VC to closing a Series A or managing a strategic exit.
Jakeschincariol
Founder Skill
Jakeschincariolfounder-pricing
Finds the price buyers will actually pay. Reads the consumer panel's four price answers per buyer into a Van Westendorp price-sensitivity range (too cheap, a bargain, getting expensive, too…
Jakeschincariol
Founder Skill
Jakeschincariolfounder-board
Your board of directors. Puts a business idea in front of a three-member board, each a sub-agent reading the idea through one published framework: the Offers lens (from Alex Hormozi's $100M…
Jakeschincariol
Founder Skill
Jakeschincariolfounder-brand
Your brand designer. Names the business (with the trademark, domain and handle checks to run before falling in love with a name), writes the voice, a one-line promise and a tagline, and…
Jakeschincariol
Founder Skill
Jakeschincariolfounder-competitors
Maps every competitor and the gap they leave. Finds the direct competitors, indirect ones and the substitutes a buyer would use instead, from public sources only, and records what each…
Jakeschincariol
Founder Skill
Jakeschincariolfounder-marketing
Your marketing director. Turns the buyer panel and the competitor map into positioning, the channels the target customer actually uses, a 30-day launch campaign with dated posts and ads…
Jakeschincariol
Founder Skill
Jakeschincariolfounder-offer
Builds an offer too good to refuse. Lists every problem the buyer hits on the way to the result they want, turns each into a solution, trims to what is cheap to deliver and valuable to the…
Jakeschincariol
Founder Skill
Jakeschincariolfounder-ops
Your operations manager. Works out how the business actually runs on day one: suppliers and what they cost, who works when, the step-by-step routines for opening, serving or shipping and…
Jakeschincariol
Founder Skill
Jakeschincariolfounder-launch
Your launch lead. Builds a dated, step-by-step launch plan: a cheap real-world test first (a waitlist, a pre-sale or a pop-up with a real price, so real buyers confirm what the simulated…
emotixco
Claude Skills Founder
emotixcofundraise-prep
Assess whether a startup is ready to raise, size the round and pick the instrument, build a 50-investor target list framework, and plan a 12-week raise. Use when a founder is thinking about…
emotixco
Claude Skills Founder
emotixcogo-to-market
Plan a product launch from pre-launch audience building to a 90-day growth plan, with named communities, platform-specific launch tactics, channel rankings, and a budget for $0-$500 a…
emotixco
Claude Skills Founder
emotixcolanding-page
Write landing page copy section by section, from hero to final call to action, including FAQ and SEO metadata. Use when a founder needs copy for a new or existing landing page.
emotixco
Claude Skills Founder
emotixcometrics-dashboard
Pick the 5 metrics that matter at a startup's current stage, with definitions, targets, actions when below target, a minimal tracking setup, and a weekly review template. Use when a founder…
emotixco
Claude Skills Founder
emotixcomvp-scope
Cut a feature wishlist down to the smallest MVP that delivers value. Triages features into must, should, and won't have, defines the critical user flow, recommends a simple stack, and…
emotixco
Claude Skills Founder
emotixcopersona-gen
Create 3 distinct user personas with a day in the life, quotable pain points, current workarounds, buying behavior, and a priority matrix showing who to build for first. Use when a founder…
ferdinandobons
Startup Skill
ferdinandobonsstartup-positioning
Market positioning strategy using the April Dunford framework, enriched with JTBD discovery, Moore positioning statement, and Neumeier's Onliness Test. Produces a complete positioning…
emotixco
Claude Skills Founder
emotixcostatus
Read the founder/ folder and show where the company stands in one screen: what each skill decided, how old it is, which facts are recorded, what is still open, and which skill to run next…
emotixco
Claude Skills Founder
emotixcovalidate-idea
Stress-test a startup idea before any code is written. Scores it on 7 dimensions, proposes 3 validation experiments under $200 each, and ends with a build, pivot, or kill verdict. Use when…
questflowaiackman-concentrated-activism
Use when evaluating Bill Ackman-style concentrated long theses, activist campaigns, high-conviction multiyear bets, and public narrative plus fundamental catalysts.
questflowaibuffett
Use when evaluating a business through Buffett-style ownership, owner earnings, durable moat, management quality, capital allocation, and margin-of-safety judgment.
questflowaiburry-asymmetric-contrarian
Use when evaluating Michael Burry-style contrarian, asymmetric, unpopular trades: deep mispricing, short theses, complex assets, forced consensus errors, and catalyst-driven downside/upside.
questflowaicathie-wood-innovation
Use when evaluating Cathie Wood-style disruptive innovation themes: S-curves, converging technologies, long-duration growth, platform adoption, and multiyear innovation portfolios.
questflowaichenhao-limit-up
Use when evaluating A-share limit-up (涨停板) setups through Chen Hao's sentiment and momentum lens: market emotion cycles, board strength, follow-through, and short-term aggressive momentum…
questflowaicoleman-tiger-growth
Use when evaluating Tiger Cub / Chase Coleman-style growth investing: scalable tech platforms, network effects, unit economics, growth duration, and concentrated growth longs.
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.