Startup Design

Startup Design is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by ferdinandobons in startup-skill.

836 stars125 forkson ferdinandobons/startup-skillAdded 2026/08/22+11% in starsRepository updated 2026/07/01

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Install Startup Design

Copy Startup Design into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/ferdinandobons/startup-skill/tree/main/startup-design ~/.claude/skills/startup-design

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/ferdinandobons/startup-skill.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: startup-design/SKILL.md in ferdinandobons/startup-skill
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/startup-design
Collection: One of 4 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Startup Design does

Startup Design helps turn a startup idea into a structured plan with market research, competitive analysis, strategy, brand, product, financials, and validation experiments. Use it when exploring an idea, sizing a market, or deciding whether to pursue a business concept.

Startup Design is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Startup Design comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, battle-cards, claude-code, claude-skills and competitive-analysis.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Startup Design

A structured, multi-phase skill that takes a startup idea from raw concept to validated design. It produces a complete set of markdown documents organized by domain, with built-in progress tracking so work survives session interruptions.

How It Works

The process has 8 numbered phases executed sequentially, plus a Pre-Flight Check (Phase 0.5) and a Customer Discovery gate (Phase 3.7). Each phase produces output files and updates the progress tracker. If a session is interrupted, resume from the last completed checkpoint.

PRE-FLIGHT → INTAKE → BRAINSTORM → RESEARCH → [Research Gate] → CUSTOMER DISCOVERY → [Interview Gate] → STRATEGY → BRAND → PRODUCT → FINANCIAL → VALIDATION

Modes

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Startup Design

What else does ferdinandobons publish alongside Startup Design?
Startup Design is one of 4 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ferdinandobons/startup-skill, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Startup Competitors, Startup Pitch and Startup Positioning. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Startup Design does, and is maintained by ferdinandobons in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ferdinandobons/startup-skill page.
How does Startup Design compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Startup Design ranks #1565 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Startup Design against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.