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startup-founder-skills

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daily-product-digest

When the user wants a summary of what's trending on Product Hunt, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, or other product/startup communities. Also use when the user mentions "what launched today", "trending products", "HN front page", or "keep up with the market".

privacy-policy

When the user needs to draft, review, or update a privacy policy for their product, or needs to understand data privacy obligations across jurisdictions.

cold-outreach

When a founder needs to write cold emails or LinkedIn messages to prospects, partners, or investors. Activate when the user mentions cold email, outbound, prospecting, LinkedIn outreach, or needs help getting replies from people who don't know them.

sentiment-monitoring

When the user wants to monitor reviews, mentions, and community sentiment about their own product. Also use when the user mentions "track our reviews", "what are people saying about us", "brand monitoring", "reputation management", or "review alerts".

support-docs

When the user needs to create help center articles, FAQs, troubleshooting guides, API documentation, or getting-started guides for customers.

feedback-synthesis

When the user needs to analyze, categorize, or extract actionable insights from customer feedback across multiple sources, especially feature requests.

sourcing-outreach

When the user needs to write recruiting outreach messages to attract passive candidates or request referrals.

earned-media-outreach

When the user wants to get press coverage, appear on podcasts, or build relationships with journalists and content creators. Also use when the user mentions "podcast guesting", "press outreach", "PR", "media exposure", "get on podcasts", or "journalist outreach".

mvp-scoping

When the user needs to decide what to build, cut, and defer for a first release or minimum viable version of a product or feature.

churn-analysis

When the user needs to identify at-risk accounts, understand why customers are leaving, reduce churn rate, build health scores, design save plays, or create win-back campaigns.

lead-scoring

When a founder needs to qualify inbound leads, define their ICP, build a lead scoring model, set MQL criteria, or route prospects through pipeline stages. Activate when the user mentions lead scoring, ICP, MQL, SQL, lead qualification, inbound leads, or pipeline design.

contract-review

When the user needs to review an existing contract, assess risk in proposed terms, or evaluate a contract before signing.

tech-stack-eval

When the user needs to choose between technologies, frameworks, or tools — or says "which framework should I use", "compare X vs Y", "should we migrate from X to Y", "what database should I use", "calculate TCO".

prd-writing

When the user needs to define a product feature, write a product requirements document, or translate an idea into a structured spec.

partnership-outreach

When a founder needs to write partnership or BD emails, craft integration pitches, or create co-marketing proposals. Activate when the user mentions partnerships, business development, integration proposals, co-marketing, channel partnerships, or strategic alliances.

seo-technical

When the user needs a technical SEO audit, on-page optimization guidance, or help resolving crawlability, indexation, or performance issues that affect search rankings.

employer-brand

When the user needs to create or improve content that shapes how candidates and the public perceive the company as a place to work.

job-description

When the user needs to write, review, or improve a job posting for a startup role.

market-research

When the user needs to estimate market size, understand market dynamics, or validate that a market opportunity is large enough to pursue.

roadmap-planning

When the user needs to organize product initiatives into a prioritized, time-sequenced plan with outcomes and dependencies.

event-hosting

When the user wants to host a tech event, meetup, workshop, or community gathering — especially using Luma. Also use when the user mentions "host an event", "meetup", "workshop", "Luma event", or "community event".

fundraising-email

When the user wants to write an email to an investor — cold outreach, warm intro request, follow-up after a meeting, monthly investor update, or thank-you note. Also activates for "intro email", "investor email", "follow up with VC", or "investor update".

user-research-synthesis

When the user has raw customer interview transcripts, survey responses, support tickets, or other qualitative data and needs to extract actionable insights.

launch-strategy

When the user needs to plan or execute a product launch — including pre-launch content sequences, launch funnels, JV/affiliate launches, cart open/close strategy, or evergreen launch funnels.

community-discovery

When the user wants to find Slack groups, Discord servers, Reddit communities, forums, or online communities where their target audience hangs out. Also use when the user mentions "where to promote", "find communities", "community marketing", or "distribution channels".

pitch-deck

When the user wants to create, review, or restructure a fundraising pitch deck for seed or Series A. Also activates when the user mentions "deck", "pitch", "investor presentation", or "slide structure".

founder-thought-leadership

When the user wants to build personal brand, thought leadership, or IP as a founder on Twitter/X or LinkedIn. Also use when the user mentions "founder brand", "personal content", "build audience", or "grow my following".

email-marketing

When the user needs to design, write, or optimize email sequences -- including welcome series, nurture campaigns, re-engagement flows, onboarding emails, or newsletter strategy.

review-mining

When the user wants to research customer pain points, complaints, or sentiment using review platforms like Trustpilot, G2, Capterra, or app stores. Also use when the user mentions "what are users saying", "competitor reviews", "pain points", or "voice of customer research".

onboarding-flow

When the user needs to design, improve, or audit a post-signup activation flow to get new users to their first value moment. Activate when activation is lagging, time-to-value feels excessive, or first sessions lack impact.

landing-page

When the user needs to create, critique, or optimize a landing page for conversion -- including headline rewrites, CTA placement, layout restructuring, or full page copy drafts.

cicd-setup

When the user needs to set up or improve CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, deployment automation, or says "set up CI", "automate deployment", "add tests to pipeline", "fix my build".

code-review

When the user asks for a code review, shares code for feedback, or says "review this", "check my code", "what's wrong with this". Also activate when reviewing a pull request or diff.

competitor-monitoring

When the user wants to set up ongoing tracking of competitor activity — pricing changes, feature launches, hiring signals, content, or public mentions. Also use when the user mentions "track competitors", "what are competitors doing", "competitor alerts", or "market watch".

security-review

When the user needs a security assessment — threat modeling, vulnerability review, auth flow audit, dependency scanning, or says "is this secure", "review for vulnerabilities", "threat model", "security audit", "pen test prep".

content-strategy

When the user needs to plan, prioritize, or structure a content program -- including identifying content pillars, mapping content to the buyer journey, choosing content types, or building an editorial calendar.

process-docs

When the user needs to create SOPs, playbooks, runbooks, or other operational documentation that defines how a recurring process should be executed.

interview-kit

When the user needs to design an interview process, create interview questions, build scorecards, calibrate interviewers, or evaluate candidates for a role.

social-content

When the user needs to build a LinkedIn authority system, create social content strategy, define content pillars, write posts, or establish thought leadership positioning. Activate on "LinkedIn strategy," "content pillars," "what should I post," or "build my personal brand."

soc2-prep

When the user needs to prepare for SOC 2, build a compliance roadmap, assess security posture, quantify security risk, or says "we need SOC 2", "security audit", "compliance", "enterprise customer wants SOC 2", "CISO advice".

sales-script

When a founder needs demo scripts, discovery call frameworks, objection handling, RFP/RFI responses, competitive feature matrices, POC planning, or closing playbooks. Activate for sales calls, demo prep, talk tracks, bid responses, competitor comparisons, or pre-sales engineering.

data-room

When the user wants to prepare a due diligence data room for fundraising, or when an investor has requested additional materials after a pitch. Also activates for "data room", "due diligence", "DD checklist", or "what documents do investors need?".

competitive-analysis

When the user needs to evaluate competitors, understand the competitive landscape, or position their product against alternatives.

investor-research

When the user wants to identify, evaluate, or prioritize potential investors for a fundraising round. Also activates when the user asks "who should I pitch?", "find me investors", "build an investor list", or mentions VC/angel targeting.

startup-context

When the user wants to create or update their startup context document. Also use when the user mentions "set up context", "tell you about my startup", or any other skill needs context that doesn't exist yet.

terms-of-service

When the user needs to draft, review, or update terms of service for their SaaS product or web application.

proposal-generation

When a founder needs to create a sales proposal, statement of work, contract, NDA, or master service agreement. Activate when the user mentions proposal, SOW, quote, contract, NDA, MSA, or needs to formalize a deal.

board-update

When the user needs to write a monthly or quarterly investor update, prepare a board deck, or communicate company progress to stakeholders.

accelerator-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 programs".

architecture-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 activate for "design the system", "how should I architect this", "monolith vs microservices", or architecture decision records.