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synced Oct 22, 2026

Founder Studio

Founder Studio is an agent skill for turning messy business context into founder-grade startup ideas, opportunity maps, MVP scopes, GTM angles, and validation plans.

It is designed for the earliest and most ambiguous phase of company building: when you have scattered notes, market signals, customer feedback, competitor pages, internal outputs, founder intuition, or a pile of URLs, but you do not yet know what the venture idea should become.

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What It Does

Founder Studio helps an AI agent:

  • extract signals from messy materials
  • connect market, customer, technology, and founder-context clues
  • generate concrete startup and product ideas
  • cluster ideas into opportunity spaces
  • develop top ideas into concept cards
  • define MVPs, GTM wedges, pricing hypotheses, and validation tests
  • separate facts, inferences, hypotheses, and research gaps
  • avoid generic "AI for X" ideas with no customer pain or distribution path

Why It Exists

Most early venture ideation fails in two opposite ways.

First, it stays too vague: a list of random ideas, trends, or "could be interesting" concepts.

Second, it jumps too quickly into execution: PRDs, builds, pitch decks, and roadmaps before the problem, timing, customer, and wedge are clear.

Founder Studio sits in the middle. It is a creative strategy studio for founders: divergent enough to discover surprising ideas, but structured enough to turn those ideas into testable business hypotheses.

Core Workflow

  1. Frame the objective: generate, refine, validate, compare, or plan.
  2. Digest the inputs: facts, weak signals, pain points, constraints, assets, contradictions.
  3. Map opportunities: customer segments, struggling moments, status quo alternatives, system incentives.
  4. Diverge: generate ideas through multiple lenses such as Why Now, personal edge, cross-domain analogy, AI-native workflows, and distribution wedges.
  5. Converge: rank ideas by pain, timing, differentiation, distribution, MVP speed, founder fit, and risk.
  6. Develop: turn the best ideas into concept cards, MVP scopes, GTM angles, and validation plans.
  7. Gate execution: do not move to build plans until the chosen concept and assumptions are explicit.

Inspiration And Background

Founder Studio fuses two public agent-skill traditions:

  • Refound AI's lenny-skills: a broad library of product, growth, GTM, leadership, PMF, and founder-oriented skills distilled from public Lenny's Podcast transcripts.
  • Obra's superpowers: a disciplined agent workflow that emphasizes brainstorming before building, explicit approval gates, planning, and verification before completion.

Refound AI describes lenny-skills as a fan project built from public transcripts and not officially affiliated with Lenny Rachitsky. Founder Studio follows that boundary: it does not impersonate Lenny Rachitsky or claim official endorsement. It uses the public product/startup patterns as inspiration and reorganizes them into a new founder ideation operating system.

Example Prompts

$founder-studio
Here are my notes, customer comments, and competitor links. Generate 20 startup ideas,
cluster them into opportunity spaces, and turn the top 5 into concept cards.

$founder-studio
Given this business situation, identify overlooked founder-grade opportunities.
Prioritize ideas by urgency, Why Now, distribution wedge, and MVP speed.

$founder-studio
Refine these 3 rough ideas into MVP scopes, GTM wedges, validation tests,
kill criteria, and investor-style narratives.

Output Modes

  • Rapid Brainstorm: 10-30 rough ideas with clusters and top picks.
  • Context-to-Ideas: turns messy notes and URLs into ranked venture ideas.
  • Opportunity Map: maps customers, jobs, workarounds, and white spaces.
  • Concept Forge: develops 1-5 ideas into concept cards.
  • Validation Lens: tests whether an idea is worth pursuing.
  • Venture Memo: produces an investor/partner-grade synthesis.
  • Execution Bridge: turns a chosen idea into experiments, MVP scope, and a 2-week plan.

Install

npx skills add https://github.com/0xpandadev/founder-studio --skill founder-studio

You can also clone this repository and place it in your agent's skills directory.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

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