We Created 200 AI Skills for Founders and Investors

The way you work fundamentally changed in November. Most people haven't caught up yet.

When the models got good enough to actually do things (not just chat about things, but go and act on your behalf) the entire loop of how you execute shifted. It used to be: read a book, learn on the job, get reps, slowly get better. Now it's: give an agent a skill with knowledge already baked in, point it at the problem, and watch it do in 30 minutes what used to take you a week.

I know that sounds insane. Here's a specific example. I sat down with an AI agent running our pitch feedback skill, and in about 30 minutes it asked me tough questions about my pitch, graded my answers, identified my three weakest points, and coached me through fixing them. That used to take three advisor meetings and two weeks of back-and-forth. It helped me raise more money.

This is available right now, for free, and almost nobody is using it.

The skills ecosystem is early and mostly garbage

We spent weeks researching the AI skills ecosystem. Looked at over 80 skill directories, marketplaces, GitHub repos, and MCP registries. Evaluated the quality of what's out there.

Honestly? Most of it is garbage.

The stuff that exists is generic. "Write a blog post." "Summarize a PDF." "Draft an email." Fine, but completely useless if you're a founder trying to build an investor target list, figure out how to structure a term sheet negotiation, or set up a structured interview process for your first engineering hire.

The good stuff that does exist is scattered across dozens of repos with no quality control and no organization. Many of the smartest people in the world haven't quantified their knowledge into skills yet. You'd need to spend days evaluating what's worth using and what's junk. Nobody has time for that.

So we did it ourselves.

What we built

We created over 200 original AI agent skills and interactive agents, organized around the four things that matter most if you're building or funding startups:

Fundraising (39 skills, 6 agents). The full fundraising lifecycle. The pitch practice coach simulates investor Q&A and throws hardball questions at you until your answers are tight. The CFO advisor walks you through cap tables and runway planning interactively. There are outreach skills that write personalized cold emails and warm intro requests based on actual investor research. Everything is organized by stage: preparation, outreach, meetings, negotiation and close.

Sales (48 skills, 11 agents, 80+ tool reviews). Cold email frameworks, discovery call guides, CRM automation, pipeline management, competitive intelligence, proposal generation. The founder sales coach has Steli Efti energy. Scrappy, direct, "just pick up the phone." Basically every early-stage founder is doing their own selling, and most of them hate it. This helps.

Hiring (37 skills, 7 agents, 60+ tool reviews). Job description writing, candidate sourcing, resume screening, structured interviews, reference checks, offer negotiation, onboarding. Built on the scorecard method from "Who" by Geoff Smart, which is still the best hiring framework I've ever seen. The hiring strategist agent is basically Geoff Smart meets Laszlo Bock.

Investing (42 skills, 8 agents). Deal sourcing, screening, due diligence, IC memo writing, portfolio management. This is the investor side of the fundraising toolkit. Each stage maps to the other side of the table. If you're a GP, analyst, or angel, this is yours.

On top of the original skills, each guide includes a directory of every external tool, MCP server, and data source we found. Hundreds of external resources, cataloged and organized so you don't have to go hunting.

All of it is free.

Why this exists

I used to run a startup accelerator called LaunchHouse. 25 founders came through our cohorts in New York and LA every single month. My job was to help them learn the fundamentals: how to fundraise, how to sell, how to hire.

The thing is, I was new to startups myself. I was learning alongside them, figuring it out in real time. Along the way I became an investor too, which meant learning the other side of the table from scratch.

I got to watch a lot of people succeed and a lot of people fail. Many of the founders who came through have gone on to raise from top-tier funds, build millions in revenue, hire incredible teams. And I watched many others struggle with the same problems over and over: bad pitches, disorganized outreach, no hiring process, unfocused sales efforts.

Turns out the fundamentals are the fundamentals. The things that separate good founders from struggling ones are the same four things every time: can you raise money, can you sell, can you hire, and can you make good investment decisions about where to put your time and capital.

These toolkits are what I wish I'd had. For them and for myself.

Why we're giving it away

Three reasons.

One is obvious. This is lead gen. If you're the kind of person who wants to use AI to get dramatically better at fundraising, sales, hiring, or investing, we think Micro is probably a great fit for you. We'd rather show our value upfront than hide everything behind a paywall.

Two, these skills work well on their own, but they work a lot better when they have access to your email, CRM, contacts, LinkedIn, and meeting history. That context is already built into Micro. All of these skills are or will soon be available natively inside the product. Turns out an agent that knows your entire relationship history with an investor writes much better follow-up emails than one working from scratch.

Three, we're long-term members of the founder and investor community. I've been in this ecosystem for over a decade. We want to give back in a way that's actually useful. Not a blog post with five generic tips. Not a PDF that sits in your downloads folder. Real tools that do real work.

How to use these

Every skill works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, or any editor that supports the skills convention. Copy a SKILL.md file into your .claude/skills/ directory and start using it immediately.

Each guide has a setup skill that asks a few questions about where you are, then tells you exactly which skills to run in what order. Start there:

• Agentic Fundraising (39 skills, 6 agents)
• Agentic Sales (48 skills, 11 agents)
• Agentic Hiring (37 skills, 7 agents)
• Agentic Startup Investing (42 skills, 8 agents)

If you're a founder, start with fundraising or sales. If you're an investor, start with investing. If you're hiring, you know where to go.

Compare your output to someone who isn't using skills and agents. The difference is not subtle.