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".

Quality

83%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

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No eval scenarios have been run

Securityby

Passed

No known issues

Quality

Content

77%

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

This is a well-crafted skill with excellent actionability — the five email type templates with sentence-by-sentence guidance, concrete examples, and anti-patterns make it highly usable. The workflow is clear and appropriately sequenced for a content generation task. The main weakness is that it's somewhat verbose for a skill file, with inline coaching advice and all five templates in one document, which could benefit from tighter editing and better progressive disclosure.

Suggestions

Trim coaching commentary that Claude already understands (e.g., 'investors scan, they don't read', send timing advice) to reduce token usage

Consider moving the detailed five email type templates to a referenced file (e.g., EMAIL_TYPES.md) and keeping only a summary table in the main SKILL.md

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The content is mostly efficient and well-structured, but includes some unnecessary explanations that Claude would already know (e.g., 'investors scan, they don't read', 'If the connector has to rewrite it, they won't send it'). Some coaching advice like send timing and general fundraising etiquette adds bulk without being strictly necessary for email generation.	2 / 3
Actionability	Highly actionable with specific templates for each email type, concrete sentence-by-sentence structure, subject line formulas, word count targets, and a complete example showing exact output format. The guidance is specific enough to produce copy-paste ready emails.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The 6-step workflow is clearly sequenced with explicit steps including reading context, classification, drafting, personalization, review against checklist, and final delivery. For a non-destructive content generation task, this level of workflow clarity with a review/trim step is appropriate and sufficient.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The skill references related skills (pitch-deck, investor-research) and external context files, which is good. However, the five email type frameworks are all inline, making this a lengthy single file. The investor update template and cold outreach template could reasonably be split into referenced files to keep the main skill leaner.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

89%

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

This is a strong description with excellent trigger term coverage and clear activation guidance. Its main weakness is that it focuses heavily on when to activate rather than describing the concrete actions the skill performs (e.g., drafting, formatting, structuring emails). Adding a brief 'what it does' clause would make it more complete.

Suggestions

Add explicit action verbs describing what the skill does, e.g., 'Drafts and structures professional emails to investors' before the trigger conditions.

Use third-person voice to describe capabilities (e.g., 'Generates investor emails including cold outreach, warm intro requests...') rather than starting with a conditional 'When the user wants to...' framing.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	The description names the domain (investor emails) and lists several types (cold outreach, warm intro request, follow-up, monthly update, thank-you note), but it doesn't describe concrete actions like 'drafts', 'generates', or 'formats'. It focuses more on when to use it than what specific actions it performs.	2 / 3
Completeness	The description clearly answers both 'what' (writes emails to investors of various types) and 'when' (explicit trigger scenarios and phrases like 'Also activates for...'). The 'Use when' equivalent is built into the structure with 'When the user wants to...' and 'Also activates for'.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Excellent coverage of natural trigger terms users would actually say: 'cold outreach', 'warm intro request', 'follow-up after a meeting', 'monthly investor update', 'thank-you note', 'intro email', 'investor email', 'follow up with VC', 'investor update'. These are highly natural phrases.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	This skill has a very clear niche — investor-specific email writing — with distinct triggers like 'VC', 'investor update', 'investor email' that are unlikely to conflict with general email writing or other communication skills.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

Validation

90%

Warnings & errors only

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 10 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	10 / 11 Passed

Repository: shawnpang/startup-founder-skills
Commit: 4ad31b4

Reviewed: 3 months ago

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