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A free open "Founder Skill" pack for Claude (11 sub-skills: board of directors, marketing director, CFO, launch, pricing, offer, competitor scout, ops etc. plus a "consumer panel" that simulates 100 buyers) lets you stress-test a business idea before spending money; delivered via comment keyword "FOUNDER" -> DM.
823k plays · 05 Nov 2026

What they said
- Claim: you can test a business idea inside Claude for free; it is "the founder skill", "completely free", "not one skill, it's 11". (0-7s)
- Each does a different job (8s grid): Board of Directors, Marketing Director, CFO, Consumer Panel, Launch Lead, Pricing Strategist, Offer Architect, Competitor Scout, Brand Designer, Operations Manager, Business Planner (these are the 11 labels visible at 8s).
- Board of directors: "trained on experts like Alex Hormozi (transcribed 'Ramosi'), Peter Thiel and Steve Jobs" (frame at 10-12s shows three portraits labelled OFFERS / MONOPOLY / CHAIRMAN; "$100M OFFERS" and "ZERO TO ONE" book covers).
- Marketing director: shows a matcha-latte business across Instagram/TikTok/Google/Facebook.
- CFO: a spreadsheet of per-cup cost for a matcha latte: price $6.50, matcha (ceremonial, 2 g) $0.92, oat milk $0.38, cup/lid/straw $0.24, labour $1.35, rent+utilities $0.96, card fees $0.20, cost per cup $4.05 -> profit margin formula column (C) "=(B2-SUM(B3:B8))".
- "Consumer skill" is "the craziest": "spins up a swarm of agents trained on your target customer", each with different income levels, objections, buyer behaviours.
- Example target customer: "Moss Matcha Bar, Toronto": Urban professionals, age 24 to 38, buy coffee 4+ times a week; trained 100 / 100 buyer agents. Objections shown: "my coffee place is closer", "$6.50 is steep for a drink", "does matcha actually taste good?". A terminal shows "Running buyer agents... #001 Ravi $110k Trend chaser, #002 Jonah $54k Weekend treat, #003 Lina $207k Health-first, #004 Sofia $173k Reads every review ...".
- "Claude runs your business through 100 real buyer scenarios to see who buys, who doesn't, and why": terminal "Simulating buyers... 071/100 scenarios, 33 buy, 38 pass".
- Output: a "Moss Matcha Bar - Business plan" doc with Verdict, Margin, Break-even, Year-1 profit; "Price: $6.50 iced matcha latte - $4.95 intro week"; "Opening soon Oct 17" (launch).
- Pitch: "instead of your business failing after spending thousands of dollars, you get a profitable business plan before you even launch."
- Setup: "just paste this link inside of Claude and say 'install skill'" (frame at 38s shows a Claude chat with a github.com/... /founder-skill URL typed, cannot read the owner name). 40s+: Follow @opusjake, comment "FOUNDER", "I'll DM you the full setup".
- The 4s screenshot titled "The Founder skill - FREE": "Eleven Claude skills that test a business before you launch it. Free, MIT, no signup, no API key, nothing to connect." Listed skill ids include skills/founder-board, founder-cfo, founder-launch, founder-pricing, founder-offer, founder-competitors, founder-ops, founder-marketing, founder-consumer, founder-plan (partially legible).

Try this
- Founders and small business owners: Use an AI assistant to stress-test an idea before you spend money. Ask it to act as a CFO and build a unit economics sheet per product: price, ingredients or materials, labour, rent, payment fees, shipping and returns, leading to cost and margin per unit.
- Founders: Ask it to simulate 100 target buyers with different incomes and objections, then list the objections and price reactions. Use the output to brainstorm, not as market proof, since the buyers are role-played.
- Founders: Ask for a launch plan with verdict, margin, break-even and year-one profit. Check every number yourself.
- Everyone: Read any skill or repo before you install it. Installing from a link sent by DM is a supply chain risk, so read the instruction files first.
- Creators and agencies: The format is a follow-and-comment keyword that triggers a DM with a free open-source asset, with an animated explainer on a split screen. Use a DM automation tool to deliver it.
- Everyone: "Free" does not include your AI usage, and "trained on" a famous expert only means a persona prompt.

Links
- Claude (Claude Code / Claude skills) as the runtime; "Founder Skill" pack (11 skills, MIT license, claimed no API key/signup). Repo URL not readable; the link is delivered by DM.
- Expert personas: Alex Hormozi, Peter Thiel, Steve Jobs (book covers $100M Offers, Zero to One).
- Comment promo from @trybuffer.co ("get paid while your AI is thinking, trybuffer.co") is spam, not the creator.

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