Founder business documents and startup presentations — reports, quotations, spreadsheets, presentations with professional formatting, plus pitch deck structures, board updates, launch decks, palettes, investor-readiness checklists. Triggers: create a report, generate quotation, make a spreadsheet, prepare a proposal, build a financial model, create a tracking sheet, draft an investor update, pitch deck, investor deck, board deck, board update, demo day, product launch slides, Series A deck, pre-seed deck, investor-readiness.
Resources
1Install
npx skillscat add darellchua2/civiltekk-skills/civiltekk-startup-docs-skill Install via the SkillsCat registry.
Consolidates startup-business-docs-skill + startup-pitch-deck-skill (#603).
What I do
Produce founder-grade business documents and investor-grade startup decks:
- Detect the route (§Routes) — explicit > inferred > ask-once.
Explicit: the request names the artifact ("create a report", "generate
quotation", "make a spreadsheet", "prepare a proposal", "build a
financial model", "write a client email" →business-docs; "pitch
deck", "investor deck", "board update", "demo day", "product launch
slides", "investor-readiness" →pitch-decks). Inferred: the artifact
shape (a written or numeric business document →business-docs; slides
aimed at investors, the board, or a launch audience →pitch-decks).
Ambiguous ("startup materials", "deck plus the numbers behind it") →
ask once — one ask per run, then proceed on the answer. - Load the route's values file (
references/business-docs.md/references/pitch-deck.md) and apply its contract. - The routes chain naturally — a board deck starts from the report
metrics ofbusiness-docsand ends in the board structure ofpitch-decks; a full fundraising pass uses both files, the route only
decides which leads.
Side files (load rules)
| Read | When | Use |
|---|---|---|
references/business-docs.md |
route business-docs |
Five document workflows (report, quotation, spreadsheet, presentation delegation, communications) with structure templates, formula and output-format references, best practices, error handling, skill integrations |
references/pitch-deck.md |
route pitch-decks |
Deck-type matrix, 10-12 slide pitch sequence, board-update and launch-deck outlines, demo-day structure, design principles (visual philosophy, typography, palettes, layouts), investor-readiness checklist, stage-specific guidance, common mistakes |
Side files carry VALUES only; this file carries the METHOD. A document
or presentation concern outside founder business documents and startup
decks (technical documentation, changelogs, generic corporate slides,
construction proposals) is not this skill's space —technical-writing-skill owns prose standards, construction-bd-skill
owns construction BD, pptx-specialist-subagent owns generic deck
production.
Routes
| Situation | Route |
|---|---|
| "create a report", "generate quotation", "update slides", "make a spreadsheet", "prepare a proposal", "build a financial model", "create a tracking sheet", "draft an investor update", "write a client email"; any written or numeric business document for investors, board, team, or clients | business-docs |
| "pitch deck", "investor deck", "fundraising presentation", "startup slides", "board deck", "board update", "product launch slides", "demo day presentation", "Series A/B/C deck", "pre-seed deck", palette selection, investor-readiness check; any slide artifact aimed at investors, board, or launch | pitch-decks |
| Ambiguous ("fix the docs", "startup materials") | ask once (§What I do step 1), then route |
Boundaries
- The two routes were formerly peer skills (the business-docs workflow
delegated pitch/board decks onward; the pitch-deck knowledge consumed
report metrics) — that boundary is internal now; the route table above
is the boundary logic. - Actual PPTX production is delegated, not performed here —
startup-ceo-subagentfor startup decks,pptx-specialist-subagent
for sales decks and internal slides; this skill supplies structure,
content, and design direction (values-file doctrine). - File engines stay outside: reports and quotations export through
docx-creation/pdf-specialist, spreadsheets throughxlsx-specialist; this skill owns the workflow and templates, not the
engines.
Agent behavior rules
- One ask per run maximum (route detection); headless/CI: no asks —
infer from the request, defaulting tobusiness-docs(documents
first; decks apply once the content exists). - Clarify scope before generating (audience, format, deadline) and
verify every number before finalizing — a wrong figure in an investor
artifact is worse than a late draft. - Offer fast revision cycles; don't over-engineer initial versions
(values-file contract).
Harness binding — interactive asks (AGENTS.md §Portability contract):
OpenCode —questiontool. Claude Code —AskUserQuestion. Other/none —
ask in a plain reply; headless/no-answer rule above applies.