pitch-coach

pitch-coach is a skill for Claude Code from kalyvask/winning-writing. It costs 121 tokens per session (1,196 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for writing and reviewing pitches, including company descriptions, investor decks, mission statements, and personal introductions. It organizes the message around what the offering does, why it differs, evidence, the founder's story, timing, and broader trends.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing VC or customer pitches, investor decks, LinkedIn bios, cover letters, founding stories, and concise answers to “what do you do?”
Why use it?
It helps turn a complicated idea or background into a short, understandable explanation. Its tests reveal when the message is vague, overloaded, or missing key evidence.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the winning-writing plugin — 32 skills shipped together

Good fit Preparing VC or customer pitches, investor decks, LinkedIn bios, cover letters, founding stories, and concise answers to “what do you do?”

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kalyvask/winning-writing/pitch-coach
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add kalyvask/winning-writing --skill pitch-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kalyvask/winning-writing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install winning-writing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills.

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Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,196 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 $0.00121 $0.01196
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00598
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00120

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5c2113fc65b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pitch-coach 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 11d 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.

skills/pitch-coach/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pitch coach

Source: points/frameworks.md (pitch and S.H.I.T. sections), points/kramon-master.md section VIII.

Two pitch modes

This skill handles both:

  • Company pitches — VC, customer, journalist
  • Personal pitches — LinkedIn bio, "tell me about yourself," cover letter, founding-story essay

The frameworks overlap. S.H.I.T. applies to both.

The 7-part pitch (companies)

  1. What it does — plain English, one sentence, grandmother test
  2. Differentiation — what's already out there and why you're different
  3. Customer examples and endorsements — specific names, specific numbers
  4. Market size and funding — TAM, dollars raised, runway
  5. Superhero story — why you are the one to do this
  6. News hook — why this is timely
  7. Bigger trend — connect to the wave (especially if you're small)

The six-word test

Summarize the product in six words. If you can't, you don't know it well enough yet.

Examples:

  • "Edited Pulitzer winners. Now teaching business leaders." (Kramon's bio)
  • "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." (Hemingway)

If the user can't pass this test, work on it before anything else.

S.H.I.T. framework

Apply to both company and personal narratives:

  • Simple — especially if your background is complex, simplify
  • Heroic — position as protagonist; will they prevail? Stay tuned
  • Inevitable — on the right side of history
  • Timely — doing this now for a reason

Mission-statement template (4 sentences)

  1. "This problem is a dire threat, even if most people don't know it."
  2. "My company is developing the most elegant solution: [how it works]."
  3. "We might fail, but the mission is so important we must try."
  4. "Call to action: [specific ask — invest, join, legislate, hire me]."

Personal pitch — extra rules

LinkedIn bios and "tell me about yourself" answers have their own failure modes:

  • Don't let the bots brand you. If you don't define your brand, someone else will.
  • Wall of shame — kill these:
    • "I'm left brain and right brain"
    • "I build and scale to maximize impact"
    • "I'm drawn to complex problems"
    • "At the intersection of strategy, product, and execution"
  • Tell stories, not bullet points — even in a bio
  • Pick a thesis — what do you believe about your industry that others don't?

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 11d ago First seen · 102 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A 5c2113fc65b5

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pitch-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository kalyvask/winning-writing (13 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 1,196 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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