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.
140 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)
141k47kScore 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)
141k47kScore 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…
42k2.6MScore 81 - 5#5
wondelai
Skills
wondelai
Create App
Guided journey from a raw app idea to a validated, cleanly architected first version that ships on a sustainable cadence. Orchestrates ten skills phase by phase - lean-startup…
2.7k335kScore 71 - 6#6
wondelai
Skills
Create Business
Guided journey from raw idea to a validated, positioned, priced business with a chosen beachhead. Orchestrates ten skills phase by phase - jobs-to-be-done, mom-test, design-sprint…
2.7k335kScore 71 - 7#7
alirezarezvani
Claude Skills
- 8#8
wondelai
Skills
Lean Analytics
Choose and audit startup metrics using Croll and Yoskovitz's "Lean Analytics". Use when the user mentions "what metrics should we track", "KPIs", "north star metric", "One Metric That…
2.7k335kScore 71 - 9#9
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…
1.9k79kScore 70 - 10#10
ReScienceLab
Opc Skills
Banner Creator
Create banners using AI image generation. Discuss format/style, generate variations, iterate with user feedback, crop to target ratio. Use when user wants to create a banner, header, hero…
1.9k79kScore 69
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 140 startups skills.
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tandesign-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)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tanios-qa
Live-device iOS QA for SwiftUI apps. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tanautoplan
Auto-review pipeline — runs the CEO, design, eng (architecture, edge cases, failure modes, tests) and DX reviews (lean run: one reviewer), auto-deciding. (gstack)
wshobson
Agents
wshobsonbefore-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…
wondelai
Skills
wondelaicreate-app
Guided journey from a raw app idea to a validated, cleanly architected first version that ships on a sustainable cadence. Orchestrates ten skills phase by phase - lean-startup…
wondelai
Skills
wondelaicreate-business
Guided journey from raw idea to a validated, positioned, priced business with a chosen beachhead. Orchestrates ten skills phase by phase - jobs-to-be-done, mom-test, design-sprint…
alirezarezvani
Claude Skills
alirezarezvanics-ceo-advisor
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wondelai
Skills
wondelailean-analytics
Choose and audit startup metrics using Croll and Yoskovitz's "Lean Analytics". Use when the user mentions "what metrics should we track", "KPIs", "north star metric", "One Metric That…
ReScienceLab
Opc Skills
ReScienceLabseo-geo
SEO & GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) for websites. Analyze keywords, generate schema markup, optimize for AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude) and…
ReScienceLab
Opc Skills
ReScienceLabbanner-creator
Create banners using AI image generation. Discuss format/style, generate variations, iterate with user feedback, crop to target ratio. Use when user wants to create a banner, header, hero…
ReScienceLab
Opc Skills
ReScienceLablogo-creator
Create logos using AI image generation. Discuss style/ratio, generate variations, iterate with user feedback, crop, remove background, and export as SVG. Use when user wants to create a…
Jakeschincariol
Instagram Agent Skill
Jakeschincariolig-dm
Write Instagram DMs that get replies - the keyword delivery, the first message to someone who engaged, the collab pitch, and the two follow-ups. Use when the user says "DM this person"…
nexscope-aiecommerce-business-plan
Create a comprehensive e-commerce business plan. Market analysis, financial projections, marketing strategy, operations planning, and milestone roadmap for new or growing e-commerce…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskiplaybook-fundraising
Produces a copy-ready sentence about a company's funding round, and the list-building filters that select companies which have ever raised or raised recently. Triggers on "raised a round"…
questflowaigrayscale-crypto-sectors
Use when evaluating crypto through a Grayscale-style Crypto Sectors lens: sector taxonomy, FTSE/Grayscale index eligibility, fee/usage fundamentals, sector-share valuation, ETP/trust…
questflowaiansem-crypto
Use when evaluating crypto narratives, attention rotation, memecoin cycles, Solana-style ecosystem momentum, social distribution, and reflexive retail flows in an Ansem-style crypto market…
questflowaia16z-techno-optimist
Use when evaluating startups or tech platforms through an a16z-style lens: technology adoption, market creation, platform power, AI/crypto/software narratives, and bold long-duration tech…
shawnpang
Startup Founder Skills
shawnpangaccelerator-application
When the user wants to apply to startup accelerators, incubators, or fellowship programs. Also use when the user mentions "YC application", "Techstars", "accelerator", or "apply to…
shawnpang
Startup Founder Skills
shawnpangarchitecture-design
When the user needs to design or evaluate system architecture — service boundaries, data models, API contracts, infrastructure topology, database selection, or dependency analysis. Also…
shawnpang
Startup Founder Skills
shawnpangboard-update
When the user needs to write a monthly or quarterly investor update, prepare a board deck, or communicate company progress to stakeholders.
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tanbrowse
Drive a real browser through Aside: open a page, read it, click through a flow, take screenshots, check console errors. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tancaptain
Run a crew of coding agents from one controller (also /crew): lanes send READY blocks and never merge; the controller merges through trains, keeps the digest, relays approvals, fixes flakes…
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tandesign-html
Design finalization: generates production-quality Pretext-native HTML/CSS. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tangstack
Router for the gstack skill suite. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tangstack-upgrade
Upgrade gstack to the latest version.
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tanmake-pdf
Turn any markdown file into a publication-quality PDF. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tanplan-ceo-review
CEO/founder-mode plan review. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tanbenchmark-models
Cross-model benchmark for gstack skills. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tancanary
Post-deploy canary monitoring. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tancareful
Safety guardrails for destructive commands. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tancodex
OpenAI Codex CLI wrapper — three modes. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tancontext-restore
Restore working context saved earlier by /context-save. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tancontext-save
Save working context. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tancso
Security audit: supported static findings; qualified profiles add reproduction and repair candidates. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tandesign-consultation
Design consultation: understands your product, researches the landscape, proposes a complete design system (aesthetic, typography, color, layout, spacing, motion), and generates font+color…
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tandesign-motion
Design motion: animate an approved design into a seamless MP4 and GIF loop. (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.