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cfo-advisor

Financial leadership for startups and scaling companies. Financial modeling, unit economics, fundraising strategy, cash management, and board financial packages. Use when building financial models, analyzing unit economics, planning fundraising, managing cash runway, preparing board materials, or when user mentions CFO, burn rate, runway, fundraising, unit economics, LTV, CAC, term sheets, or financial strategy.

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-organized overview skill with excellent progressive disclosure — an index body pointing to three references and three verified scripts — and mostly dense, actionable tables. Its weaknesses are the implicit, scattered workflow (no numbered sequence with validation for the core deliverables) and minor padding (Keywords section, generic chain-of-thought guidance).

Suggestions

Present the core deliverable workflows (financial model, fundraising package, board section) as explicit numbered steps with validation checkpoints — e.g., 1. read company-context.md, 2. ask the Key Questions, 3. build via the reference/scripts, 4. verify against the Red Flags list — instead of leaving the sequence implicit across the Key Questions, Output Artifacts, and Communication sections.

Add a sample invocation with arguments and a short excerpt of expected output for each Quick Start script so the commands are self-contained without opening the script files.

Trim the Keywords section (it duplicates the frontmatter description's triggers) and the generic 'Reasoning Technique: Chain of Thought' paragraph to reduce token cost without losing signal.

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Conciseness

Mostly dense, high-signal content — terse tables with specific targets ("Burn Multiple < 1.5x Monthly", "CAC Payback < 18 mo") and no explanations of concepts Claude already knows. Not a 5 because the Keywords section duplicates the frontmatter description's triggers, and the generic "Work through financial logic step by step" chain-of-thought guidance is padding that could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Copy-paste-ready Quick Start commands ("python scripts/burn_rate_calculator.py" etc., all verified to exist) and a concrete request→deliverable mapping ("'How much runway do we have?' → Runway model with base/bull/bear scenarios"). Not a 5 because the commands lack arguments or expected-output examples, and directives like "Be conservative in projections — model the downside first" are direction rather than executable guidance.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A rough sequence exists (read company-context.md → ask Key Questions → produce the Output Artifact → pass the Internal Quality Loop → formatted output), and the Quality Loop is a genuine checkpoint, but the sequence is scattered across five sections rather than presented as a workflow, and validation for the main deliverables (modeling, fundraising, board prep) is only implicit — deferring to reference files. This matches anchor 3 ('sequence present but checkpoints missing or implicit') better than anchor 4's 'clear sequence with most checkpoints present'.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is a genuine overview: a Core Responsibilities table mapping each area to its reference file, a Resources section annotating all six bundle files (each verified to exist), one-level-deep references, and no bulk detail inlined. It does not fit anchor 4 because there are no real organization gaps — navigation is easy and every in-bundle path resolves (only the cross-skill '../agent-protocol/SKILL.md' pointer sits outside the bundle).

5 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A well-constructed description following the recommended what/when pattern almost exactly: concrete capability areas, an explicit 'Use when' clause with both task-form and keyword-form triggers, and a clearly bounded niche. Only minor trigger-term gaps (cap table, dilution) keep it from a perfect score.

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Specificity

The description enumerates multiple concrete capability areas — "Financial modeling, unit economics, fundraising strategy, cash management, and board financial packages" — giving comprehensive coverage of the startup-CFO domain, matching the anchor-5 example's breadth of specific actions. It does not fit anchor 4 because there are no meaningful gaps in coverage of the domain it claims.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ("Financial modeling, unit economics, fundraising strategy, cash management, and board financial packages") and when ("Use when building financial models, analyzing unit economics, planning fundraising, managing cash runway, preparing board materials, or when user mentions...") with concrete trigger phrases — a near-exact match to the anchor-5 example's structure.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Strong natural trigger terms users would actually say: "CFO, burn rate, runway, fundraising, unit economics, LTV, CAC, term sheets, or financial strategy", plus action-form variants ("building financial models", "managing cash runway", "preparing board materials"). Not a 5 because a few natural terms for this domain are missing (e.g., "cap table", "dilution", "budget"), which anchor 4's 'a few natural terms missing' describes better than anchor 5's 'comprehensive coverage including synonyms'.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche ("Financial leadership for startups and scaling companies") with distinct triggers like burn rate, runway, LTV, CAC, and term sheets; minimal overlap risk with generic finance or document skills. It does not fit anchor 4 because the triggers are specific to this niche rather than overlapping with closely related skills.

5 / 5

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Validation

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository

alirezarezvani/claude-skills

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c-level-advisor/skills/cfo-advisor/SKILL.md

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