What it does: Develops strategic vision, sets direction, and aligns vision with execution — including diagnosing the clarity gaps that cause organisational drift.

Best used when creating or refining a vision statement, setting strategic direction, aligning your team around a destination, prepping for an investor presentation, or when decision paralysis suggests the vision isn't clear enough.

What it does: Provides quarterly strategic planning, goal-setting frameworks (OKRs), and progress measurement for founder-operators at any stage.

Best used when running quarterly planning sessions, developing OKRs, setting strategic priorities, allocating resources, doing mid-quarter corrections, or running quarterly retrospectives.

What it does: Covers scaling strategy, exit preparation, and acquisition readiness — valuation drivers, due diligence prep, buyer targeting, and growth-versus-exit decisions.

Best used when assessing exit readiness, preparing for acquisition, weighing growth versus exit paths, or building toward investment readiness.

What it does: Analyses business models, profit architecture, and revenue structure — pricing, margins, unit economics, and exit-ready structures that scale without proportional complexity.

Best used when designing or revising a revenue model, considering pricing strategy, improving gross margins, working on recurring revenue design, or making the business exit-ready.

What it does: Comprehensive business diagnostics — identifies the highest-ROI intervention, analyses constraints, finds quick wins, and maps the critical path.

Best used when you're not sure where to focus, sense something is wrong but can't name it, need pre-planning diagnostics, or want to prioritise across competing opportunities.

What it does: Sales process, pipeline management, pricing strategy, and revenue predictability — covering lead qualification, proposals, win/loss analysis, and sales compensation.

Best used when working on pricing decisions, documenting the sales process, reviewing pipeline, analysing wins and losses, or structuring sales compensation.

What it does: Predictable revenue engine design, pipeline velocity optimisation, and systematic lead-to-revenue processes.

Best used when designing a pipeline from scratch, breaking feast/famine cycles, forecasting revenue, building a marketing funnel, or optimising conversion.

What it does: One-page growth system for coaching/consulting businesses that maps the entire customer journey from Attract → Convert → Deliver.

Best used when you need a single growth plan, mapping your customer journey, choosing lead-gen strategies, setting up nurture cycles, or deciding what to build next in the business machine.

What it does: High-ticket coaching/consulting sales without sales calls — using offer docs, deadline campaigns, self-checkout funnels, and brand-building content.

Best used when moving away from discovery calls, building application or workshop funnels, creating an offer document, running weekly email campaigns, or designing self-liquidating offers.

What it does: Personal founder follow-up offers — time-bound, exclusive offers from the founder to re-engage unconverted or cold leads.

Best used when a sales process has stalled, leads have gone cold, or you want to personally close prospects with a 48-hour or "founder's spot" offer.

What it does: Consultant-as-partner deal structuring using the Trio model — Profit Participation + Monthly Retainer + Exit Share (20/20/20 or variants).

Best used when structuring advisory engagements, evaluating acquisition targets, modelling deal economics, or pitching a partnership rather than a project.

What it does: Designs deliberate offer sequences (Attract → Upsell → Downsell → Continuity) that turn strangers into profitable customers within 30 days.

Best used when architecting offer stacks, working out front-end/back-end economics, setting up continuity revenue, designing a pricing ladder, or working toward 30-day customer-acquisition payback.

What it does: Applies the 90/9/1 wealth-distribution lens (Hormozi) to products, services, and pricing — identifying where profit actually lives and designing tiered offers that capture it.

Best used when you suspect you're underpriced, building tiered pricing, designing premium anchor offers, diagnosing close-rate problems, or making sure you're not "selling from your own wallet."

What it does: Builds investor pitch decks, elevator pitches, TAM analyses, investor targeting strategies, and YC applications — stage-stratified across PE, VC, and Angels.

Best used when raising capital at any stage — seed, Series A, YC application, PE conversations — or preparing TAM analysis and elevator pitches.

What it does: Demand generation, content strategy, positioning, and marketing systems — campaign planning, marketing automation, website strategy, and metrics.

Best used when working on lead generation, content planning, brand positioning, marketing tech selection, or scaling thought leadership.

What it does: YouTube Binge Factory architecture, producer role definition, and video pipeline management — pillar plans, wingman videos, packaging, and YouTube-to-email funnels.

Best used when developing a YouTube strategy, building a video pipeline, defining the producer role, doing video research, or optimising thumbnails, descriptions, and packaging.

What it does: Applies Yu-Kai Chou's Octalysis behavioural design framework — 8 Core Drives and game-design techniques — to offers, products, content, and client experiences.

Best used when increasing engagement, improving conversion, reducing churn, gamifying delivery, or designing habit-forming experiences and intrinsic-motivation loops.

What it does: Service delivery, SOPs, quality management, and client success systems — project management, client communication, quality standards, case studies.

Best used when documenting delivery SOPs, defining quality standards, structuring client kickoffs, or building delivery team processes.

What it does: Process systematisation, SOP creation, and operational independence — building systems that run without the founder.

Best used when documenting processes, creating SOPs, doing an operational audit, building delegation infrastructure, or preparing for PE due diligence.

What it does: Systematises customer delivery so outcomes are consistent without the founder on every engagement.

Best used when outcomes vary by who delivers, you're stuck on every client call, or you're documenting an engagement methodology or client onboarding sequence.

What it does: Gets new people productive fast without founder time — systematised onboarding that transfers knowledge, culture, and capability.

Best used when creating an onboarding checklist, planning the first 90 days for new hires, building a role ramp-up, or onboarding contractors.

What it does: Builds institutional memory that compounds — capturing tacit knowledge, decisions, and context so the business gets smarter as it grows.

Best used when you keep re-learning the same lessons, the team is asking "why did we do this?", or tribal knowledge is concentrated in one or two heads.

What it does: Identifies and builds repeatable automations that reduce manual work, improve consistency, and free up founder and team capacity.

Best used when you keep doing something manually, evaluating Zapier or similar integrations, eliminating repetitive tasks, or calculating automation ROI.

What it does: Designs client events, workshops, retreats, and intensives using Taki Moore's Event Map and 9 Delivery Circles — run sheets, session formats, energy flow, breakouts, masterminds, and sensei sessions.

Best used when architecting an event, building a run sheet, structuring a multi-day retreat, planning what to run after lunch, or making client events modular and repeatable.

What it does: Structured execution deep dives, focused sprints, and accountability frameworks — bi-weekly sessions on hiring, sales, or systems.

Best used when launching an initiative, running progress reviews, resolving blockers, prioritising action items, or kicking off a project that needs structure.

What it does: Optimises execution velocity, sprint cadence, and sustainable pace — balances urgency with sustainability.

Best used when sprint planning, accelerating projects, improving team velocity, identifying bottlenecks, or balancing speed against quality.

What it does: Hiring, onboarding, performance management, and organisational design — job descriptions, interview processes, performance reviews, compensation, culture.

Best used when writing job descriptions, building interview processes, conducting performance reviews, making compensation decisions, or documenting culture.

What it does: Systematic hiring, team structure optimisation, and talent gap analysis — interview frameworks, compensation benchmarking, succession planning.

Best used when mapping team structure, identifying talent gaps, deciding hire-vs-outsource, assessing the leadership team, or planning succession.

What it does: Cash flow management, financial reporting, margin analysis, and financial systems — budgeting, forecasting, board materials.

Best used when creating a budget, preparing a board deck, analysing margins, managing working capital, or preparing for PE-readiness financials.

What it does: Financial clarity, cash-flow visibility, and proactive financial management — dashboards, KPI tracking, runway analysis, scenario planning.

Best used when you don't know your numbers, breaking out of feast/famine cycles, building a financial dashboard, doing scenario planning, or preventing a cash crisis.

What it does: Identifies the founder as the bottleneck and provides delegation frameworks, succession planning, and founder-dependency reduction.

Best used when you are the bottleneck, planning your exit, developing leadership beneath you, defining decision rights, or de-risking key-person exposure.

What it does: Focus identification, attention optimisation, and resource allocation — focus sessions, distraction elimination, plug-and-play tool recommendations.

Best used when you're overwhelmed, suffering decision fatigue or information overload, or need to identify the one thing that deserves attention next.

What it does: Matches task types to energy states for sustainable founder performance — beyond time management, into biological rhythms and cognitive load.

Best used when you're exhausted, preventing burnout, doing an energy audit, designing work around peak performance windows, or building recovery strategies.

What it does: Designs time blocks that protect high-leverage work and create sustainable founder rhythms — deep-work protection, meeting-free zones, weekly cadence.

Best used when your calendar is chaos, you have no time for strategic work, you're auditing your schedule, or setting up calendar boundaries.

What it does: Batches similar work and reduces cognitive load through systematic task organisation — fights attention residue and fragmentation.

Best used when you're handling too many things at once, suffering attention residue, managing notification overload, or shifting toward single-tasking.

What it does: Async defaults, agenda discipline, and decision documentation for effective meetings — establishes meeting culture and hygiene.

Best used when you have too many meetings, meetings feel unproductive, you're shifting to async-first, or building a meeting-culture standard.

What it does: Pre-built responses for recurring situations — reduces decision fatigue, ensures consistent messaging, and enables delegation without quality loss.

Best used when you're writing the same email repeatedly, want consistent messaging across the team, or are delegating communication.

What it does: Mental models for human+AI collaboration — how to think about and partner with AI for founder productivity.

Best used when integrating AI into workflows, improving your collaboration with AI, evaluating AI opportunities, or troubleshooting when AI isn't working for you.

What it does: Matches AI capabilities to business functions for maximum leverage — tool evaluation, vendor selection, stack decisions.

Best used when evaluating AI tools, comparing solutions, deciding where to deploy AI first, or building an AI stack.

What it does: Gets consistent, high-quality outputs from AI through effective prompt design — prompt templates, libraries, and optimisation.

Best used when AI outputs are inconsistent, you need to scale AI-generated work, you're building a prompt library, or AI doesn't seem to understand you.

What it does: Chains AI tools and processes for compound leverage — multi-step pipelines, AI orchestration, automation architecture.

Best used when building automated systems, connecting multiple AI tools, designing a repeatable AI pipeline, or orchestrating multi-step AI processes.

What it does: Designs when AI should lead, assist, or stay out of business processes — assistance levels, hybrid workflows, human-in-the-loop boundaries.

Best used when determining human vs. AI responsibilities, designing review processes, building hybrid workflows, or deciding what AI should handle versus humans.

What it does: Reviews and improves AI-generated work — quality criteria, review processes, feedback loops, error detection.

Best used when establishing quality standards for AI output, building review processes, creating feedback loops for AI improvement, or proofreading AI work systematically.

What it does: Identifies where AI collapses costs most and calculates true ROI for AI investments.

Best used when evaluating AI spending, comparing build vs. buy, prioritising AI adoption, or running cost-benefit analysis on AI tools.

What it does: Uses AI speed and capability to compound competitive advantages — barriers to entry, differentiation, sustainable positioning.

Best used when developing differentiation, building barriers to entry, leveraging AI for strategic positioning, or building compounding first-mover advantage.

What it does: The Navigating Skills file is Claude's internal index of all available skills and frameworks in our Founder OS library. It must not be deleted or moved, as Claude reads it at the start of every task to understand what tools are available and how to route work correctly.

Best used when you're not sure where to start, need a framework recommendation, want to map skills to a complex situation, or need implementation guidance across the operating system.

What it does: Systems-thinking frameworks for identifying leverage points, feedback loops, bottlenecks, and emergent behaviour in business operations.

Best used when something keeps happening, diagnosing root causes, looking for high-leverage interventions, or untangling second-order effects and unintended consequences.

What it does: Framework for resource-allocation decisions between building in-house, buying solutions, or automating processes.

Best used when facing a make-vs-buy decision, selecting vendors, evaluating automation opportunities, or making technology investment choices.

What it does: Comprehensive text analysis framework — extracts propositions, claims, questions, arguments, and terms from any text.

Best used when deeply analysing academic texts, mapping arguments, breaking down complex documents, or doing rhetorical/philosophical analysis.

What it does: Creates compelling copy — essays, articles, social posts, email newsletters, thought leadership — with attention to rhythm, musicality, and varied sentence structure.

Best used when writing any prose, offer docs, sales pages, landing pages, or campaign copy — and as the required first stop before any LinkedIn or X writing work.

What it does: Creates LinkedIn posts that stop the scroll and generate leads — applies hook formulas, format hacking, and the five viral post types (story, how-to, listicle, contrarian, lead magnet).

Best used when writing LinkedIn content, crafting hooks, building a viral post, or designing a LinkedIn lead-magnet strategy.

What it does: Creates long-form X (formerly Twitter) Articles for X Premium subscribers — chains to writing-copy first for proper rhythm.

Best used when writing X long-form content, X Premium articles, or anything in the xarticle format.

What it does: Converts markdown files to professionally formatted DOCX documents using pandoc with custom styling.

Best used when you need a Word version of an MD file for sharing, printing, or professional distribution.

What it does: Converts HTML files into professionally paginated PDFs with print-optimised CSS, page numbering, and proper section breaks (weasyprint).

Best used when you need a finished, printable PDF deliverable from an HTML source — useful for client reports, archives, and well-formatted handoffs.

What it does: Data centre capacity planning — power and cooling calculations, rack layout optimisation, network topology, colocation vs. owned assessment.

Best used when planning data centre builds, estimating power requirements, calculating cooling loads, optimising rack density, or choosing colocation.

What it does: Creates, reads, edits, and manipulates Word (.docx) files — including tables of contents, headings, page numbers, letterheads, tracked changes, comments, and image handling.

Best used when producing a Word document, reading a .docx, doing find-and-replace in Word, or converting content into a polished Word deliverable.

What it does: Full PDF toolkit — read/extract text and tables, merge, split, rotate, watermark, create, fill forms, encrypt/decrypt, extract images, OCR scanned PDFs.

Best used when doing anything with a PDF file other than reading-only (use pdf-reading for that).

What it does: Specialised reading and inspection of PDFs — content inventory, text extraction, page rasterisation, image/table/form-field extraction, and strategy selection for different PDF types.

Best used when reading a PDF that isn't already in context — particularly scanned PDFs, slide decks, forms, or data-heavy documents.

What it does: Creates, reads, edits, and manipulates PowerPoint (.pptx) files — slide decks, pitch decks, templates, layouts, speaker notes, comments.

Best used when any .pptx file is involved as input, output, or both — including extracting text from slides for use elsewhere.

What it does: Creates, reads, edits, and cleans spreadsheet files (.xlsx, .xlsm, .csv, .tsv) — formulas, formatting, charts, financial models with industry-standard colour coding.

Best used when a spreadsheet is the primary input or output — building financial models, cleaning messy tabular data, or producing Excel deliverables.

What it does: Router skill that tells which tool to use to read uploaded files by type (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, JSON, images, archives, e-books).

Best used when a file has been uploaded but its content isn't in context yet — ensures the right reading approach is used for each file type.

What it does: Creates distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces — web components, pages, applications, posters — with bold aesthetic direction and refined detail.

Best used when building websites, landing pages, dashboards, React components, HTML/CSS layouts, or any web UI that needs to avoid generic AI aesthetics.

What it does: Verifies facts about Anthropic's products — Claude Code, Claude API, and Claude.ai plans, models, features, pricing, and limits — against official documentation.

Best used when a response would include specific facts about Anthropic's products — installation, MCP integration, API specifics, plan tiers, or LLM comparisons.

What it does: Creates new skills and iteratively improves existing ones — drafting, testing, evaluation, benchmarking, and triggering-description optimisation.

Best used when building a skill from scratch, editing or optimising an existing skill, running evaluations, or improving how reliably a skill triggers.