The Founder Operating Stack

Claude skills for startup founders and CEOs cover the operating challenges that come with running a company — from strategic alignment and board governance to people decisions and operational execution. This stack gives founders senior-level thinking on demand for the situations where there’s no obvious playbook.

What these skills do

CEO Advisor

Think through CEO-level decisions: prioritization, company narrative, stakeholder management, and the judgment calls that don’t fit into a framework. Useful when you need a structured thinking partner on decisions that feel ambiguous.

Strategic Alignment

Diagnose and fix misalignment between company strategy, team priorities, and day-to-day execution. Covers OKR design, strategy communication, and the common patterns that cause strategic drift in fast-growing teams.

Company OS

Build or refine your operating model — meeting cadences, decision rights, communication norms, and the structural choices that determine how fast and cleanly information moves through your organization.

Board Deck Builder & Board Prep

Create board materials that communicate clearly and prompt the right conversations. Board Deck Builder handles the structure and narrative of the deck. Board Prep covers the preparation process — anticipating questions, framing sensitive topics, and deciding what to surface versus manage offline.

CHRO Advisor

Get structured thinking on people decisions: org design, compensation philosophy, hiring strategy, performance management, and the HR processes that either scale well or become bottlenecks as you grow.

Org Health Diagnostic

Identify early signs of organizational dysfunction — communication breakdowns, role confusion, team friction, retention risk — before they become serious problems. Produces a structured diagnostic with specific areas to investigate.

Executive Mentor

Work through leadership challenges with a structured mentorship framing — blind spots, leadership style, managing senior people, and the interpersonal dynamics that don’t show up in strategy documents.

Hard Call

Make difficult decisions more clearly — firing a co-founder, pivoting a product line, shutting down a team. Covers how to think through the decision, who to involve, how to communicate it, and how to execute it cleanly.

COO Advisor

Structure the operations side of your company: process design, cross-functional coordination, operational KPIs, and the systems that keep execution consistent as headcount grows.

International Expansion

Plan and execute entry into new markets — market selection, entity structure, hiring strategy, regulatory considerations, and the operational sequencing that makes expansion manageable rather than chaotic.

Founder Coach

Work on the personal and professional development side of building a company — managing stress, sustaining motivation, building self-awareness, and the founder-specific challenges that come with the role.

Who this is for

• Founders and CEOs at Series A and beyond who need senior executive perspective
• First-time founders making decisions they haven’t faced before
• Scaling companies that need clearer operating rhythm and governance

For more skills by the founders audience, see the founders audience page. If you’re earlier stage and focused on shipping your first product, see the Indie Hacker Stack.