# 42 Claude skills for solo founders: the index

The plain list of what is in the pack. Each line is a skill folder in `skills/` with its own `SKILL.md`. Download the pack at get-tau.com/resources/42-claude-skills-for-solo-founders. MIT licensed, by Tau AI.

## 1. Strategy and ideation
- `lean-canvas` — Fills the nine boxes of a Lean Canvas from a raw idea and ranks the riskiest assumptions.
- `one-page-strategy` — Writes a one-page strategy: diagnosis, guiding policy, coherent actions, and what you will not do.

## 2. Market research
- `market-sizing` — Sizes TAM, SAM and SOM top-down and bottom-up, then reconciles the two with sourced assumptions.
- `research-synthesis` — Turns a pile of sources and notes into a findings memo with confidence ratings and open questions.

## 3. Customer understanding
- `customer-interview-guide` — Builds a jobs-to-be-done interview script and a synthesis grid for the answers.
- `icp-definition` — Defines an ideal customer profile with a weighted scoring sheet and disqualifiers.

## 4. Product development
- `prd-writer` — Writes a working-backwards press release, FAQ and lightweight PRD with acceptance criteria.
- `feature-prioritisation` — Scores a backlog with RICE and returns a ranked table with the reasoning shown. Includes a `rice.py` script.

## 5. Go-to-market planning
- `positioning-statement` — Derives positioning from competitive alternatives through to market category, then writes the statement.
- `gtm-launch-plan` — Picks channels with the Bullseye method and produces a tiered launch plan with a checklist.

## 6. Marketing and content creation
- `content-calendar` — Builds content pillars from customer pains and a four-week calendar one person can sustain.
- `landing-page-copy` — Writes landing page copy from a message hierarchy and the customer's own words.

## 7. Sales and outreach
- `cold-outreach-sequence` — Writes a trigger-based, multi-touch outreach sequence with a breakup step.
- `discovery-call-script` — Builds a discovery call script (situation, pain, impact, critical event, decision) and a notes template.

## 8. Growth strategies
- `growth-experiment-backlog` — Turns growth ideas into testable hypotheses, scores them with ICE and sizes the sample needed. Includes a `sample_size.py` script.
- `activation-funnel-audit` — Defines the activation event and finds the biggest drop in the acquisition-to-retention funnel.

## 9. Business operations
- `sop-writer` — Turns a repeated task into a standard operating procedure someone else could run.

## 10. Project management
- `project-plan` — Breaks a project into milestones backward from the date, with dependencies and a risk register.

## 11. Productivity and time management
- `weekly-founder-review` — Runs a thirty-minute weekly review: plan versus actual, metrics, decisions pending, next three priorities.

## 12. Decision making
- `decision-memo` — Writes a one-page decision memo with options, weighted criteria, reversibility and a review date.
- `premortem` — Runs a pre-mortem on a plan: assumes it failed, lists the causes, rates them and sets tripwires.

## 13. Problem solving
- `root-cause-analysis` — Separates symptom from cause with an is/is-not statement, five whys with evidence, and corrective actions.

## 14. Data analysis and insights
- `metrics-dashboard-spec` — Specifies a north star metric, its input tree and precise definitions for at most ten metrics.
- `cohort-retention-analysis` — Builds monthly retention cohorts from an events file and tests whether the curve flattens. Includes a `cohort_retention.py` script.

## 15. Financial planning
- `runway-model` — Models cash runway month by month with base, bear and bull scenarios and a zero-cash date. Includes a `runway.py` script.
- `unit-economics` — Computes CAC, LTV, payback and contribution margin with the caveats small numbers deserve. Includes a `unit_economics.py` script.

## 16. Pricing strategy
- `pricing-research` — Runs Van Westendorp price sensitivity plus willingness-to-pay interviews and picks a value metric. Includes a `van_westendorp.py` script.
- `pricing-tiers` — Designs good-better-best packaging with fences, a value metric and a pricing page structure.

## 17. Fundraising support
- `investor-update` — Writes a monthly investor update with metrics, highlights, lowlights and specific asks.
- `round-planner` — Sizes a round from milestones, explains post-money SAFE terms and models dilution. Includes a `dilution.py` script.

## 18. Legal and compliance
- `contract-review-checklist` — Walks a contract clause by clause, flags red lines and lists the questions for a lawyer.

## 19. Hiring and team building
- `hiring-scorecard` — Writes a scorecard (mission, outcomes, competencies) and a structured interview plan for a role.
- `contractor-brief` — Writes a scope of work for a freelancer with deliverables, acceptance criteria and kill criteria.

## 20. Partnerships and business development
- `partnership-proposal` — Assesses partner fit and drafts a one-page proposal with pilot terms and success metrics.

## 21. Customer support
- `support-macros` — Builds a macro library from real tickets, with tone rules and escalation triggers.
- `churn-save-playbook` — Maps cancellation reasons to save offers, an exit survey and a win-back sequence.

## 22. Competitive analysis
- `competitor-teardown` — Tears down one competitor across positioning, pricing, product and reviews, with dated evidence.
- `sales-battlecard` — Produces a one-page battlecard: where you win, where they win, landmines and objection handling.

## 23. Personal development
- `founder-energy-audit` — Logs two weeks of time and energy, then decides what to delegate, automate, delete or keep.

## 24. Templates and frameworks
- `okr-writer` — Writes quarterly objectives with measurable key results and separates initiatives from results.
- `framework-picker` — Maps a founder's question to the framework and skill that answers it, or says none is needed.

## 25. Use cases and examples
- `use-case-library` — Six worked scenarios showing which skills to chain, in what order, with inputs and outputs.