Venture Assessor Skill — Design skill for Claude Code

Venture Assessor Skill

An evidence-first Claude Skill for evaluating startup ideas through structured market research, competitor analysis, beachhead market selection, BHM TAM sizing, validation planning, and GTM hypothesis generation.

This skill is built for founders, operators, researchers, venture studios, startup advisors, and innovation teams who want to pressure-test an idea before spending months building in the wrong direction.

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What this is

**Venture Assessor Skill** is a custom Claude Skill designed to help founders move from a vague idea or problem statement to a structured founder-grade decision memo.

Instead of producing generic market research, this skill follows a disciplined workflow:

• frames the problem clearly
• separates assumptions from evidence
• identifies who is actually facing the problem
• maps pain points and current alternatives
• analyzes direct, indirect, and status-quo competitors
• narrows to a beachhead market
• estimates BHM TAM
• proposes validation experiments
• suggests a first-pass GTM hypothesis
• ends with a clear verdict and next steps

This is not a "magic yes/no startup predictor." It is a structured decision-support system that helps founders think better, research faster, and validate more intelligently.

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Why this exists

A lot of early-stage startup work goes wrong for predictable reasons:

• the problem is too vaguely defined
• the market is too broad
• competitor analysis is shallow
• TAM is inflated and meaningless
• research is mistaken for validation
• the founder builds before talking to customers
• GTM assumptions are made too early and too loosely

This skill is designed to reduce those mistakes.

It compresses weeks of messy early-stage diligence into a more rigorous, repeatable workflow while keeping one important principle intact:

Secondary research is useful. It is not the same as validation.

The skill is built to keep that distinction explicit.

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Who this is for