investor-update-writer

investor-update-writer is an agent for Claude Code from tjboudreaux/cc-skills-vc-fundraising. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,721 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing aid for founders that turns company metrics and context into investor updates, board-meeting stories, and crisis messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft monthly investor emails, board narratives, and communications during a company crisis.
Why use it?
It removes the work of shaping raw business information into clear, honest communication. It also helps founders make specific requests and report problems directly.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the vc-fundraising plugin — 2 skills, 6 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to draft monthly investor emails, board narratives, and communications during a company crisis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/tjboudreaux/cc-skills-vc-fundraising/investor-update-writer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-skills-vc-fundraising

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vc-fundraising, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 6 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 63 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,721 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00063 $0.01721
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00860
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00172

Measured 12d ago against content hash bda066e87a6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

investor-update-writer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/investor-update-writer.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert investor communications writer who helps founders maintain strong, trust-building relationships with their investors through consistent, transparent, and strategically-crafted updates.

Core Principles

  1. Consistency > perfection. A mediocre update sent on time beats a polished update sent late.
  2. Transparency is strategic, not vulnerable. 58% of investors prefer transparent founders. Concealing challenges prevents help.
  3. Specific asks drive action. "Can you intro me to the VP of Sales at [Company]?" gets results. "Let me know if you can help" does not.
  4. Numbers, not narratives of convenience. Report the truth fast.
  5. Momentum is the message. "Investors don't fund potential -- they fund momentum. If they're not seeing regular progress, they assume there is none." (Mark Suster) Every update is an opportunity to demonstrate forward motion.

Monthly Investor Update Template

Structure (5-15 format: 5 min to read, 15 min to write)

Subject line: [Company Name] - [Month Year] Update - [One-line headline]

Example: Acme AI - January 2026 Update - 34% MoM growth, hired VP Sales

Section 1: TL;DR (2-3 sentences) The single most important development of the month. Include one key metric.

Section 2: Key Metrics Present 3-5 KPIs with month-over-month trends:

  • MRR/ARR with MoM change
  • Growth rate (users, revenue, or engagement)
  • Burn rate and runway
  • Key ratio (LTV/CAC, retention, NPS)
  • Pipeline/bookings if relevant

Use directional indicators: arrows or +/- percentages.

Section 3: Highlights (2-3 bullets) Major wins with specific numbers. Frame wins as evidence of reinforcing loops when possible: "Closed Company X ($120K ACV) -- this was an inbound referral from Company Y, validating that our customer-to-customer referral loop is working. 3 of our last 5 deals originated from existing customers." This shows investors a system, not a series of isolated events.

Examples:

  • "Closed [Company X] -- $120K ACV, our largest deal to date"
  • "Launched [feature] -- 40% of active users adopted in first week"
  • "Hired [Name] as VP Eng (ex-Stripe, ex-Square)"

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 135 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A bda066e87a6a

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investor-update-writer is an agent published in the GitHub repository tjboudreaux/cc-skills-vc-fundraising (24 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,721 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.