Pitch Generator (Claude skill)

Generate concise, audience-targeted pitch drafts for products, projects, and ideas — with dedicated guidance for pre-seed fundraising.

What this skill does

This skill helps produce:

• A short "patterns used" note (when benchmark decks are available)
• A one-liner pitch
• A short paragraph pitch
• A concise investment-style pitch

It guides the assistant to ask for missing context (audience, goal, stage, traction, timing, and ask), then returns clear, specific messaging optimized for either live delivery or email.

Pre-seed stage support

When the user is at the pre-seed stage, the skill automatically adjusts:

• Inputs: asks about investor type (friends & family, angel, accelerator, institutional), use of funds / milestone roadmap, and instrument type (SAFE, convertible note).
• Traction framing: adds a Tier 5 evidence level for problem validation (customer discovery, waitlists, prototype demos) since most pre-seed companies lack revenue.
• Pitch priorities: weights founder-market fit, problem depth, and use-of-funds clarity over financial projections.
• Investor-type tailoring: adapts tone and detail level for friends & family vs. angels vs. accelerators vs. institutional pre-seed VCs.
• Anti-patterns: flags common pre-seed mistakes like premature financials, stacking confusing SAFE terms, and claiming traction that doesn't exist.
• Benchmark data: calibrates asks and framing against typical pre-seed ranges ($250K–$1M, SAFEs, 12–18 month runway targets).

Benchmark workflow (local-first)

• Local benchmark decks should be placed in skills/pitch-generator/benchmarks.
• When benchmark decks exist, the skill should:
  • select the closest benchmark by audience/stage
  • extract 1-2 concrete messaging patterns
  • adapt those patterns to the user's context (without copying claims or wording)
• Prefer local files over external URLs for security and reliability.

Current local benchmark example:

• skills/pitch-generator/benchmarks/2009_airbnb-pitch_deck.pdf

Sources

This skill draws on:

• Skillsmith Docs — skill authoring framework
• Carta: Pre-Seed Funding Guide — pre-seed stage definitions, investor types, readiness signals, typical round sizes, instrument guidance (SAFEs / convertible notes), dilution benchmarks, and common fundraising mistakes

Skill file

• SKILL.md