23 Leadership Agent Skills

YC-style forcing questions before you write a line of code. Pushes back on your framing, challenges premises, explores alternatives, and writes a design doc that feeds every downstream skill.

Founder-mode plan review. Finds the 10-star product hiding in your request, challenges scope, and pushes the plan toward maximum ambition or maximum focus — your choice.

Assemble compelling board and investor update decks — structure, narrative flow, key metrics, and executive-ready slides that tell the right story.

Executive leadership coaching — strategic decision-making, organizational development, board governance, and navigating high-stakes business challenges.

Financial leadership guidance — budgeting, forecasting, SaaS metrics, investor relations, and financial strategy for growing companies.

Guide organizational change with the ADKAR framework — stakeholder mapping, resistance analysis, communication planning, and change adoption tracking.

C-suite orchestration layer — executive alignment, cross-functional prioritization, meeting cadence design, and turning strategy into executable plans.

Human resources leadership — hiring strategy, compensation benchmarking, org structure design, culture development, and people operations at scale.

Information security leadership — risk quantification, compliance roadmaps (SOC2, ISO 27001), security architecture, and board-level security reporting.

Choose and implement a company operating system — EOS (Traction), Scaling Up, OKRs, or custom frameworks. Design the rhythms and tools to run your company well.

Operations leadership — process design, OKR execution, scaling playbooks, operational efficiency, and cross-functional alignment from a COO perspective.

Product leadership — product vision, portfolio strategy, product-market fit diagnosis, and roadmap governance from a Chief Product Officer perspective.

Revenue leadership — revenue forecasting, sales model design, pricing strategy, and net revenue retention optimization from a Chief Revenue Officer perspective.

Technical leadership guidance — engineering team scaling, technology strategy, build vs. buy decisions, and architecture at the executive level.

Build company culture as operational behavior — define values-to-actions mappings, design culture rituals, and diagnose cultural drift before it becomes a problem.

An adversarial thinking partner for founders — challenges assumptions, stress tests plans, and provides honest pushback to sharpen executive decision-making.

Personal leadership development for founders — managing the emotional weight of building, developing self-awareness, and growing as an executive.

Build a coherent company story across all audiences — employees, investors, customers, and press — so your message stays consistent as you scale.

International market expansion strategy — market selection, localization, regulatory compliance, go-to-market approach, and operational setup for new geographies.

Mergers and acquisitions strategy — target identification, due diligence frameworks, integration planning, and deal structure guidance for buyers and sellers.

An 8-dimension organizational health check — identifies dysfunction, misalignment, and capability gaps before they become crises.

Multi-variable adversity modeling — simulate compounding crises (funding fails + churn spikes + key hire leaves) and build pre-planned response strategies.

Cascade strategy from vision to team-level execution — OKRs, initiative mapping, alignment verification, and gap identification across the organization.