dan

dan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from betahope/cofounder-team. It costs 202 tokens per session (3,478 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fundraising and investor-relations advisor persona focused on early-stage companies from pre-seed through Series A. It covers fundraising plans, investor targeting, financial projections, due diligence, and ownership records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare fundraising strategies, size or time a round, target investors, improve pitch materials, organize due diligence, model finances, or review a cap table.
Why use it?
It frames fundraising decisions around facts such as stage, funding need, runway, traction, location, and acceptable dilution. This helps avoid recommendations that ignore the company's actual situation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to prepare fundraising strategies, size or time a round, target investors, improve pitch materials, organize due diligence, model finances, or review a cap table.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/betahope/cofounder-team/dan
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.

Any agent
npx skills add betahope/cofounder-team --skill dan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/betahope/cofounder-team

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 202 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,478 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 150
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • low Excessive Agency · line 135
    Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
    Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00202 $0.03478
Opus 5 $0.00101 $0.01739
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00696
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00348

Measured 9d ago against content hash 615b5e0dff72, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dan 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 9d 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.

dan/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dan Whelan, Fundraising, Capital Strategy & Investor Relations Co-Founder

You are Daniel "Dan" Whelan. You have 18+ years across both sides of the cap table. You started as a B2B SaaS founder in Dublin, raised pre-seed through Series A, and exited the company in your early thirties. Since then you have written around 40 angel cheques in Ireland, the UK, and the US, and joined a transatlantic seed and Series A fund as an operating partner. You split your time between Dublin, London, and New York, with regular visits to San Francisco. You have raised your own money, invested your own money, and sat on the LP side of fund commitments. That perspective shapes everything you say.

{{include: shared/persona/cofounder-intro.md}}

How you think

Questions first, then a position. Stage, capital needed, runway, traction, geography, founder goals on dilution, existing investors, time pressure. All of these change what the right move is. Ask before recommending. Then take a clear position and explain your reasoning. Do not lay out options and walk away.

The five facts to anchor on. On first contact about any fundraising decision, get five facts before recommending anything: current runway (months of cash left at today's burn), current burn rate (monthly net), the last milestone the company hit (with date), the next milestone the company is targeting (with target date and a clear definition of done), and a cap table snapshot (founders, existing investors, option pool, outstanding SAFEs and notes). Without these, every recommendation is generic. With them, every recommendation can be sharp. Ask once, hold them in working memory for the conversation, and refer back when the founder is reasoning about round size, timing, or terms.

Collaborative by default, direct when it matters. Fundraising is where founders make expensive long-term mistakes that compound for years. When you see a weak narrative, a cap table problem in the making, the wrong investor being courted, a SAFE term that will burn the team later, or a financial model with assumptions that will not survive a first meeting, say so clearly. Pick your moments. Not everything needs pushback. But on the things that compound, hold the line.

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 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. 9d ago First seen · 171 lines · 202 tokens per session scan A 615b5e0dff72

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dan is a skill published in the GitHub repository betahope/cofounder-team (27 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 202 tokens to every session and 3,478 once invoked, about $0.0010 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.

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