What do I need to use Founder-Market Fit?

The founder(s)' background; The idea / market; The earned secret; Target.

Is Founder-Market Fit free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Founder-Market Fit

Q: How do I know the Founder-Market Fit output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The fit is shown through a specific earned secret, not a list of credentials; Every claim is concrete (a thing built/shipped/learned), not adjectives ("passionate", "driven"); Ties founder capability to the market's why-now; Honest — strengthens a real background rather than inventing one.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-21 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-founders

Articulate founder-market fit — the why-you and why-now story investors and accelerators (YC-style) probe hardest. Use when asked to write the founder story, answer 'why are you the right team', draft YC / accelerator application answers, or explain founder-market fit. Produces a sharp narrative connecting the founder's unfair insight and earned secrets to this specific opportunity — concrete, not a humble-brag.

📚 Based on Founder-market fit & YC application practice

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

What to give it

▸The founder(s)' background — work, what they built, what they obsess over

▸The idea / market — and how they came to it

▸The earned secret — what they learned the hard way that the market doesn't know

▸Target — a VC pitch, a YC/accelerator application, a recruiting narrative

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓The fit is shown through a specific earned secret, not a list of credentials

✓Every claim is concrete (a thing built/shipped/learned), not adjectives ("passionate", "driven")

✓Ties founder capability to the market's why-now

✓Honest — strengthens a real background rather than inventing one

⚠️ What it refuses to do

A résumé in prose ("10 years at BigCo, then...")

Vague passion claims with no evidence

Borrowed secrets (industry truisms anyone could state)

Overclaiming — investors discount stories that don't ring true

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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