Startup Business Planner

Turn a startup URL, repository, or description into a decision-ready plan for how the product can acquire customers, charge, cover its costs, and reach a testable first version of sustainability.

Read references/research-playbook.md before researching. Read references/analysis-schema.md before creating the analysis JSON. Read references/financial-model.md before generating the workbook.

Resolve SKILL_DIR as the directory containing this SKILL.md. Run bundled scripts from SKILL_DIR. Write deliverables into the user's current workspace, normally under outputs/.

Workflow

1. Understand the startup

• Inspect the supplied URL, repository, landing page, pricing page, README, screenshots, or description.
• Identify the product, stage, geography, currency, primary user, economic buyer, painful job, promised outcome, delivery model, current free or paid offer, and founder's immediate objective.
• Distinguish verified product facts, public market evidence, user-supplied numbers, working assumptions, and unknowns.
• Ask one concise question only when the answer changes the economic model materially and cannot be represented safely as an editable assumption. Otherwise continue and label assumptions.
• Never inspect private analytics, billing, customer, or financial data unless the user explicitly supplies or authorizes it.

2. Research the market and business model