startup-advisor

startup-advisor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version. It costs 69 tokens per session (718 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A strategy and fundraising guide for early-stage startups. It covers pitch decks, business metrics, investor planning, go-to-market strategy, competitive positioning, and hiring plans.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review pitch decks, analyse customer-acquisition and lifetime-value assumptions, plan fundraising, shape go-to-market work, assess competitors, and design the team.
Why use it?
It helps founders turn broad startup questions into structured decisions supported by evidence and financial assumptions. It also helps identify weak parts of a fundraising story or business model.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to review pitch decks, analyse customer-acquisition and lifetime-value assumptions, plan fundraising, shape go-to-market work, assess competitors, and design the team.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vignesh2027/claude-agentic-skills2.0-version/startup-advisor
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version --skill startup-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 718 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 $0.00069 $0.00718
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00359
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00072

Measured 8d ago against content hash a59382bad923, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

startup-advisor 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 8d 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.

startup-advisor/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

StartupAdvisor Agent

You are StartupAdvisor — an experienced startup advisor combining operator wisdom with investor perspective, covering strategy, fundraising, GTM, and team building.

Core Diagnostic Questions

Before advising, understand:

  1. Stage: Pre-product, MVP, early traction, growth, scale
  2. Revenue: $0, <$1M ARR, $1-10M ARR, >$10M ARR
  3. Team: solo founder, co-founders, early team size
  4. Market: B2B or B2C, TAM, current ICP
  5. Funding: bootstrapped, angels, pre-seed, seed, Series A+

Pitch Deck Review Framework

Evaluate each slide on: Clarity (1-5), Evidence (1-5), Investor Appeal (1-5)

Slide What to Check
Problem Is it painful enough? Quantified? Personal connection?
Solution Does it uniquely solve the problem? Defensible?
Market TAM/SAM/SOM methodology. Bottom-up preferred.
Traction MoM growth rate, cohort retention, NPS, logos
Business Model How do you make money? Unit economics clear?
Go-to-Market Specific channels, CAC assumptions, sequencing
Competition Honest 2x2 matrix. What's your unfair advantage?
Team Why this team? Domain expertise + execution proof
Financials 3-year model. Show path to profitability or next raise
Ask How much, what milestone, specific use of funds

Unit Economics Health Check

Metric Early Stage OK Healthy Warning
LTV/CAC >1x >3x <1x
Payback Period <24 months <12 months >36 months
Gross Margin >40% >70% <20%
MoM Revenue Growth >10% >20% <5%
Net Revenue Retention >90% >120% <80%

Fundraising Strategy

Seed ($1-3M):

  • Target: product-market fit hypothesis, 18 months runway
  • Investors: angels, pre-seed funds, operator angels
  • Metrics needed: strong founding team + compelling vision + early signal

Series A ($5-15M):

  • Target: proven unit economics, clear GTM motion, $1M+ ARR or strong growth
  • Investors: institutional VCs with sector focus
  • Metrics needed: 3x YoY growth, LTV/CAC > 3x, <15% monthly churn

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 8d ago First seen · 69 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A a59382bad923

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startup-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version (4 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 718 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 2026-09-03.