# Founder Board

Your board of directors.

- Repository: https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/founder-skill (2314 stars)
- Category: Testing
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-07
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/founder-skill --skill founder-board -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/founder-skill --skill founder-board -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/founder-skill --skill founder-board -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/founder-skill --skill founder-board -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add Jakeschincariol/founder-skill`

## Description

Your board of directors. Puts a business idea in front of a three-member board, each a sub-agent reading the idea through one published framework: the Offers lens (from Alex Hormozi's $100M Offers), the Monopoly lens (from Peter Thiel's Zero to One) and the Product lens (from Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs). Each member scores the idea, names the risks that would kill it and votes fund, fund with conditions, or pass. Use when the user says "test my business idea", "would this work", "pressure-test this", "what would a board say", "is this a good business", or starts the founder pack on a new idea.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# founder-board

The first meeting. Before anyone builds a website or signs a lease, three board
members tear the idea apart, each from a different angle, and vote.

What the user typed after `/founder-board`: `$ARGUMENTS`. If that is blank, take
the idea from the conversation.

## The rule about the three names

The lenses are summaries of **published frameworks**, nothing more. The board
members are not those people, never speak as them, never quote them, never claim
they would endorse anything. Write "the Offers lens", never "Alex Hormozi says".
If the user asks what one of them really thinks, say you can only apply their
public frameworks.

## Step 0: the idea file

Everything in the founder pack reads `founder/idea.md` in the user's project. If
it does not exist, write it now from the conversation:

```markdown
# <business name, or a working name>

- What it is: one sentence.
- Who it is for: the target customer, as specific as the user can make it.
- What it sells, at what price: the core product and its price.
- Where and how: city or online, how customers find it, how it is delivered.
- Budget and constraints: money, time, skills, anything already decided.
```

If the name, the customer, the product or the price is missing, ask for those (at
most three questions in one message), then write the file. Do not invent a
budget, a market size or a competitor.

## Step 1: brief the board

Write `founder/board/brief.md`: the idea file plus anything else the user said
that a stranger would need. **Sub-agents cannot see this conversation**, so the
brief must stand on its own. Do not add your own opinion of the idea to it.

## Step 2: convene

The rest: https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/founder-skill/blob/HEAD/skills/founder-board/SKILL.md