For technical and non-technical founders

Build the company around the product.

Founder Skills gives your coding agent startup workflows for traction, positioning, launch, sales, PMF, and focus — so every session helps you build a successful company, not just a better product.

$ npx --yes github:gvkhosla/founder-skills setup

Run it in your repo. Then ask any coding agent: Use co-founder to help me decide what to do next.

Invader mosaic on a city wall
Each cycle leaves a tile for the next one. Company-building memory, not one-off prompts.

The hard part is not only building.

Entrepreneurial people already know the product matters. Founder Skills helps with everything around it: who it is for, why they care, how you reach them, what signal matters, and what to do next.

Find sharper customersTurn broad markets into specific buyers, painful moments, and current workarounds.
Choose smaller betsScope the next product slice around validation, risk, and traction — not wishful roadmaps.
Launch with a point of viewShape positioning, pricing, messaging, channels, and founder-led sales motion.
Read traction honestlyUse PMF, retention, churn, support, and weekly focus loops to decide what changes.

How it works.

It gives your agent a repeatable operating loop for startup work, then saves the useful parts as company memory.

  1. Start with co-founderIt reads company memory, identifies the current bottleneck, and recommends one useful next move.
  2. Run the right workflowValidation, customer hypothesis, MVP scope, launch, pipeline, PMF, support, or weekly focus.
  3. Close with compoundIt captures what changed so the next session starts with better context.

The chat stays short.

The founder gets a plain-language verdict. The agent keeps the supporting markdown as durable memory.

You ask

Use co-founder to help me decide what to do next.

Agent answers
Verdict: the product idea is plausible, but the customer and painful moment are still too broad.

Do this now: validate one narrow customer before building more.
1. Pick the exact buyer and situation.
2. Document the current workaround.
3. Run problem-validator before scoping the MVP.

Saved: recommended-next-step.md, truth-memo.md, startup-loop.md

Use it when momentum feels messy.

Works with coding agents that can read repo files. Install once, then keep startup context alive across product, launch, traction, and growth work.

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