Founder Skills v0.1.0 — Your Fundraising Prep Room

[yaniv-golan]

Three AI coaching agents that help startup founders prepare for fundraising — built as a Claude Cowork plugin by lool ventures.

What's Included

Market Sizing Agent — Builds defensible TAM/SAM/SOM analysis that holds up under investor scrutiny.

• Top-down, bottom-up, or combined methodology
• External validation against analyst reports, government data, and industry stats
• Sensitivity analysis with confidence-based range widening
• 22-item self-check against common market sizing pitfalls
• HTML report with funnel, tornado, and donut charts

Deck Review Agent — Reviews pitch decks against 2026 investor best practices, calibrated by funding stage.

• 35 criteria scored across 7 categories (pass / fail / warn)
• Stage-aware expectations for pre-seed, seed, and Series A
• Slide-by-slide feedback grounded in named best-practice principles from Sequoia, YC, a16z, DocSend, and Carta
• Overall readiness rating with highest-leverage recommendations
• HTML report with gauge, radar, bar charts, and slide map

IC Simulation Agent — Simulates a realistic VC Investment Committee discussion.

• Three independent partner voices: The Visionary (markets & timing), The Operator (execution & GTM), The Analyst (unit economics & financials)
• 28 evaluation dimensions across 7 categories with conviction-based scoring
• Portfolio conflict detection
• Fund-specific mode with WebSearch-backed research on real funds
• Imports prior market sizing and deck review artifacts for grounded analysis
• HTML report with gauge, radar, partner cards, and conflict table

How It Works

Each agent follows a structured artifact pipeline: gather inputs, analyze, validate with deterministic scripts, compose a report, and optionally generate a self-contained HTML visualization. Every calculation is transparent and auditable — scripts output JSON, assumptions are categorized and sourced, and cross-artifact consistency is validated before the final report.

All three agents work standalone, but they're designed to build on each other: run market sizing first, then deck review, then IC simulation for the most grounded analysis.

Technical Details

• 13 Python scripts — pure Python, no external dependencies, JSON in/out, portable CLI
• 123 regression tests across 6 test modules
• 10 reference documents grounding agent behavior in real investor methodology
• Runs entirely within your Claude session — no data collected or transmitted
• Apache 2.0 license

Installation

In Claude Cowork: Customize → Personal Plugins → + → Browse → add the lool-ventures/founder-skills marketplace → install founder-skills. Start a new session after installing.

Also works in Claude Code (claude plugin marketplace add lool-ventures/founder-skills).

Requirements

• Claude Cowork (or Claude Code)
• Python 3.12+
• Works best with Opus-class models; Sonnet produces adequate but less distinct IC partner voices

What's Next

• More skills coming — covering the full fundraising lifecycle before and after the pitch
• Additional platform support as marketplace/discovery layers stabilize
• Have a skill you'd like to see? Request it in GitHub Discussions

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