Open Source Startup Skill Replaces Expensive Strategy Consultants
tom_doerr · x · 2026-08-18
Startup Skill is an open-source toolkit designed to replace expensive strategy consultants with AI agents. It validates startup ideas before coding, delivering full-market research, competitive battle cards, positioning, and financial projections instantly. The tool works with Claude Code and any agent that supports skills.
Key Features:
- startup-design: Complete startup strategy covering market research, customer discovery, competitive analysis, brand/product definition, financial projections, and validation experiments, with 8 phases and 30+ structured deliverables.
- startup-competitors: Generates battle cards for every competitor, along with pricing landscapes and feature matrices.
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