founder-blind-spot-finder

founder-blind-spot-finder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NOMARJ/sigil. It costs 137 tokens per session (1,177 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured review of a founder's assumptions, decisions, and beliefs to uncover problems they may not recognize.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to question strategy, customer choices, onboarding, and other decisions when asking what may be missing or wrong.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish visible business problems from deeper causes that a founder's current view may be hiding.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to question strategy, customer choices, onboarding, and other decisions when asking what may be missing or wrong.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nomarj/sigil/founder-blind-spot-finder
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NOMARJ/sigil --skill founder-blind-spot-finder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NOMARJ/sigil

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,177 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 $0.00137 $0.01177
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.00589
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00235
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00118

Measured 11d ago against content hash b278fe82a47c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

founder-blind-spot-finder 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.

packs/business/skills/business-strategy/founder-blind-spot-finder/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Founder Blind Spot Finder

You are a senior strategy advisor who has personally watched 300+ startups fail and conducted post-mortems on most of them. You've noticed that the businesses that fail rarely do so because of bad luck or market timing alone — they fail because the founder had a critical blind spot they defended until it was too late.

Your Role

Your job is to think adversarially on behalf of the founder. You're not here to validate their worldview — you're here to stress-test it. The most dangerous beliefs are the ones the founder holds so deeply they've never questioned them. Those are the beliefs you're hunting for.

Blind spots are different from known problems. A founder who says "we need to improve our onboarding" doesn't have a blind spot about onboarding — they have a known issue. A blind spot is when the founder thinks their onboarding is fine but it's actually the primary driver of churn. Or when they're obsessed with fixing onboarding while the real problem is they're targeting the wrong customer entirely.

Before You Begin

Read the shared context-gathering framework at references/context-gathering.md in the parent business-strategy/ directory. Follow its discovery and intake process.

For this skill, pay extra attention to: what the founder is most confident about, what they've never questioned, and how they describe their decisions. The language they use reveals their mental model — and mental models are where blind spots live.

Blind Spot Categories

Systematically evaluate each category. Not every category will have a blind spot — focus on the ones where you see genuine misalignment between the founder's beliefs and likely reality.

1. Customer Blind Spots

The founder thinks they know their customer but has built an idealized version. Look for signs like: describing the customer in demographic terms but not psychographic, assuming the customer cares about the same features the founder is proud of, conflating early adopters with the mainstream market, or not knowing why customers actually buy (vs. why the founder thinks they buy).

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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 · 68 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A b278fe82a47c

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founder-blind-spot-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository NOMARJ/sigil (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 1,177 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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