The Founders Foyer — AI Product Skills
A collection of practitioner-grade AI product skills derived from insights shared by top founders and operators.
The Founders Foyer — AI Product Skills
Practitioner-grade skills for 43+ AI coding agents — distilled from deep podcast conversations with world-class founders and operators on The Founders Foyer.
These aren't surface-level tips. Each skill is a complete thinking framework — the kind of nuanced, experience-backed methodology you'd get from hiring these people as advisors.
Install all 6 skills
npx skills add aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills
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The Skills
1. Positioning Autopsy
"Why does everything feel so hard?" → Your positioning is broken.
What would happen if you didn't exist? Most founders position against competitors. This skill forces you to start from the status quo — spreadsheets, interns, "do nothing." Then builds upward through April Dunford's 5-component sequential framework, layers on Andy Raskin's strategic narrative, and validates with Emily Tate's PMF lens.
Featuring: April Dunford · Andy Raskin · Emily Tate
npx skills add https://github.com/aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills/tree/main/skills/positioning-autopsy
2. Growth Loop Diagnostics
"Why aren't we growing?" → You're optimizing the wrong metric.
Not traffic, not signups — the moment the user receives value. Diagnoses which of 4 sustainable loops fits your product, flags when paid marketing is your only channel (death spiral), and applies the Pinterest lesson: 3 new products = zero growth impact; a 2-day conversion test = 50% lift.
Featuring: Casey Winters (Pinterest, GrubHub, Eventbrite)
npx skills add https://github.com/aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills/tree/main/skills/growth-loop-diagnostics
3. Behavioral Product Design
"Why don't users do what we expect?" → You designed for rational humans.
Replaces "let's interview 5 users" with behavioral science. Maps every real-world step a person takes to reach a behavior you want to change — including steps outside your product. If you're designing for "increase engagement," you haven't defined a behavior yet.
Featuring: Kristen Berman (Irrational Labs, co-founded with Dan Ariely)
npx skills add https://github.com/aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills/tree/main/skills/behavioral-product-design
4. Rigorous Thinking Coach
"Why does our strategy feel hand-wavy?" → You haven't decomposed it.
Takes any vague strategy and decomposes it into super specific hows until every step is actionable. Catches lazy thinking where the "solution" is just the problem restated. Pairs Wes Kao's strategy decomposition with Ami Vora's decision-making frameworks from 15 years leading product at Meta.
Featuring: Wes Kao (Maven) · Ami Vora (ex-Meta CPO)
npx skills add https://github.com/aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills/tree/main/skills/rigorous-thinking-coach
5. Vibe-to-Ship Coach
"Why haven't we shipped yet?" → You're over-planning, under-building.
The anti-planning skill. Step-by-step methodology for going from messy idea to working prototype using AI coding tools. Includes tool selection (Bolt vs. Lovable vs. Replit vs. Cursor), the "don't write any code" debugging method, and the frontend-first mock data strategy.
Featuring: Colin Matthews · Eric Simons (Bolt/StackBlitz) · Dan Shipper (Every)
npx skills add https://github.com/aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills/tree/main/skills/vibe-to-ship-coach
6. AI Teammate Coach
"How do I actually use AI beyond ChatGPT?" → Think workflows, not chat.
95% of the time you want a workflow, not an agent. Walks you through auditing your work for automation, choosing the right pattern (periodic digest, event prep, external trigger, follow-up, data enrichment), and iterating on prompts until the output matches your taste.
Featuring: Jacob Bank (Relay, ex-Gmail) · Dan Shipper (Every)
npx skills add https://github.com/aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills/tree/main/skills/ai-teammate-coach
Which skill do I need?
| You're thinking... | Start here |
|---|---|
| "Everything feels hard, nothing clicks" | Positioning Autopsy |
| "We have users but aren't growing" | Growth Loop Diagnostics |
| "Users don't do what we designed for" | Behavioral Product Design |
| "Our strategy sounds good but goes nowhere" | Rigorous Thinking Coach |
| "We've been planning for weeks" | Vibe-to-Ship Coach |
| "I use ChatGPT but that's it" | AI Teammate Coach |
About The Founders Foyer
The Founders Foyer is a podcast featuring deep conversations with founders, product leaders, and operators building at the frontier of AI and product. Hosted by Aishwarya Ashok.
Distributed via skills.sh — the open agent skills ecosystem by Vercel.
License
MIT