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Founder Development Coach

Coaches founders on delegation, energy, calendar audits, burnout and leadership growth

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alirezarezvani/claude-skills
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29,149
Licence
MIT
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3 files

What it does

This skill gives the AI agent a structured coaching playbook for founders and first-time CEOs. When you ask for help with feeling like a bottleneck, struggling to delegate, burning out, or moving from doing the work to leading others, the agent works through frameworks such as identifying your founder archetype, a skill-by-will delegation matrix, an energy audit, and a review of how your calendar is actually spent. It also covers blind spots, imposter syndrome, and succession planning, and points to reference files for templates.

Great for

  • First-time founders whose team is growing and who feel they have become the bottleneck
  • Founders or executives who struggle to delegate and want a step-by-step ladder for handing off work
  • Leaders who want a structured review of how their week and calendar are spent

Skip it if

  • Clinical mental health problems: the skill covers founder mental health and burnout at a coaching level, so serious distress should go to a qualified professional, not an AI framework
  • Legal, financial or board governance decisions: the content is general leadership guidance and does not replace advice from lawyers, accountants or experienced board counsel

Try asking

  • “I'm the bottleneck on every decision at my 20-person startup. How do I start delegating without losing control?”
  • “Run a CEO calendar audit on my last four weeks of meetings and tell me where my time is going.”
  • “I'm burning out and dreading my week. Help me map my energy and decide what to delegate or drop.”
  • “I'm moving from an individual contributor role to running a team. What leadership style shifts should I expect?”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Founder Development CoachInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 3 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    founder-coach.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip founder-coach.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip founder-coach.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Give the agent real context such as your team size, stage, and the specific decisions or meetings you are struggling with, so the framework is applied to your situation rather than generic advice.
  • Paste your actual calendar or task list for the audit instead of describing it from memory, since the skill treats the calendar as the most honest record.
  • Treat the output as a coaching starting point and check it against your own judgment and, where relevant, a trusted mentor or coach.

What's inside

  • references/founder-toolkit.md
  • references/leadership-growth.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from alirezarezvani/claude-skills under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.