pitch-memo

pitch-memo is a skill for Claude Code from kalyvask/winning-writing. It costs 106 tokens per session (2,191 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A text-based document for explaining a young company's business to investors. It follows 15 questions investors commonly ask and can serve as the written backbone for an investor slide presentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Drafting or reviewing pre-seed and seed fundraising material, clarifying the company narrative, and preparing the content for an investor pitch deck.
Why use it?
It helps founders work through their business story without getting distracted by slide design. It exposes missing or weak answers before investor conversations.

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 Drafting or reviewing pre-seed and seed fundraising material, clarifying the company narrative, and preparing the content for an investor pitch deck.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add kalyvask/winning-writing --skill pitch-memo
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 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,191 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: 1 finding, up to medium

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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 $0.00106 $0.02191
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01095
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00438
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00219

Measured 11d ago against content hash a3bc05a63211, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pitch-memo 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-memo/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pitch memo

Source: Josh Constine's Fundraising & Pitch Deck Guide — specifically his 15-question memo template — plus Kramon's BLUF rule, Konrad's "tell me a secret about the future," and the existing pitch-coach framework.

Why a memo (not a deck)

For pre-seed and seed companies, a memo can outperform a deck:

  • No design wrangling. No fiddling with slide layouts or hiring a designer.
  • Pretty design can hide weak thinking; a memo can't. If the founder can't write the 15 answers cleanly, they're not ready to pitch.
  • It's the deck script. Even if you eventually build a deck, the memo is the narrative spine — write it first, design slides to support it, not the other way around.
  • Decks leave investors with questions; memos answer them upfront. Less follow-up email cycle.

A memo replaces a deck for: pre-seed, founders who think in text more than imagery, and any raise where you're competing on substance over presentation. A memo complements a deck for everyone else.

The 15 questions (Constine)

Every investor asks the same 15 things. A memo that answers all of them in order is the most efficient possible pitch artifact.

1. Company name

Ideally, if you hear it you can spell it; if you read it you can pronounce it. You should be the top Google or App Store result for your name + a relevant keyword.

2. Tagline

One-line description. Plain English. No buzzwords. "AI co-pilot for notaries." / "Forward-deployed engineers, but as software." / "Stripe for healthcare data."

3. Problem

  • What's wrong with the world?
  • How acute is the pain?
  • Who specifically has it? (A must-have for a small niche beats a nice-to-have for a wide market.)
  • Show emotional resonance — your own first-customer story or a named person's story, not abstractions.

4. Solution

  • Core functionality of the product
  • How did you come up with it (origin story matters)
  • How does it make a few people's lives a lot better, or a lot of people's lives a little better?
  • One screenshot or a short demo video walking the most common use case
  • Why is this exponentially better, not linearly better?

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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 · 191 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A a3bc05a63211

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pitch-memo is a skill published in the GitHub repository kalyvask/winning-writing (13 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 2,191 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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