IdeaForge Tooling Landscape
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IdeaForge Tooling Landscape
Scope
Every Claude-Code-usable tool (skill, plugin, MCP server, subagent, repo) that BUILDS, EVALUATES, or MONETIZES business ideas, benchmarked against IdeaForge's six skills: /flesh-out, /market-size, /score, /pitch, /challenge, /graduate.
Sources merged: four research passes (workflow report, Anthropic official directory, alirezarezvani/claude-skills, claudemarketplaces.com). Duplicate tools collapsed to a single row noting which pass found them.
1. Executive Summary
The Claude Code ecosystem for startup-idea tooling is saturated. Pulling all four research passes together, there are 60+ distinct tools that land in the same three jobs IdeaForge covers, and the strongest are free, high-star, actively maintained suites: phuryn/pm-skills (11,750 stars), alirezarezvani/claude-skills (16,614 stars, 338 skills across 11 domain bundles), slavingia/skills (8,906 stars, real /pricing and /first-customers), refoundai/lenny-skills (frameworks distilled from 100+ product-leader interviews), and show-me-the-money (25 skills with persistent cross-session memory and a review panel). Beneath the suites sit the VoltAgent subagent collections (20,000+ stars) of drop-in research and risk agents, and a thin but powerful layer of data plugins in Anthropic's own security-vetted directory (exa, firecrawl, brightdata, windsor-ai, vibe-prospecting) that feed real revealed-demand evidence into the EVALUATE job.
Mapped to the three jobs: BUILD and EVALUATE are crowded with free high-quality options; MONETIZE is where IdeaForge is thinnest and where the deepest external skills (pricing, GTM sequencing, first-customer outreach, battle cards, growth loops, investor targeting) all live. The reconciled bottom line: IdeaForge wins on /challenge (founder's own prior words, zero external equivalent) and /graduate (idea-to-project promotion plus integrated personal corpus), and it lags everywhere on monetization depth and live data. Market sizing and Why-Now framing, once thought IdeaForge-native, are NOT moats anymore.
2A. BUILD, generate, expand, scope an idea
19 tools| Tool | Form factor | IdeaForge parallel | Maturity / stars | Found by | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| phuryn/pm-skills | plugin | /flesh-out (multi-perspective PM+Designer+Engineer ideation, 3 viewpoints x 5 ideas) | active, 11,750 | workflow | strong |
| slavingia/skills | plugin | /flesh-out+/score; adds /pricing, /first-customers, /mvp | active, 8,906 | workflow | strong |
| the-startup | plugin | /specify ~ /flesh-out; /review ~ partial /challenge; spec-to-code | active, 285, v3.8.0 | workflow | strong |
| startup-skill | plugin | startup-design ~ /flesh-out (also Evaluate, Monetize below) | active, 322 | workflow | strong |
| startup-ideation (lenny) | skill | /flesh-out (Dalton Caldwell / Ryan Hoover frameworks, unfair-advantage prompts) | active | marketplaces | strong |
| problem-definition (lenny) | skill | /flesh-out (separate problem from solution before building) | active | marketplaces | strong |
| brainstorming (superpowers) | skill | /flesh-out (structured design dialogue, 161k+ installs) | active | marketplaces | strong |
| Business Model Canvas | skill | /flesh-out (9-block BMC output) | active, 288 | workflow | strong |
| product-skills bundle | plugin (bundle) | /flesh-out (RICE, JTBD, PRD, agile-product-owner, saas-scaffolder, ux-researcher) | active, 16,614 | alireza | strong |
| solo-founder persona | agent persona | All phases; highest single-skill overlap (Build+Evaluate+Monetize) | active, 16,614 | alireza | strong |
| product-manager (BMAD) | skill (persona) | /flesh-out (roadmap, PRD, prioritization, stakeholder alignment) | active | marketplaces | moderate |
| product-manager (VoltAgent) | subagent | /flesh-out+/pitch; RICE/Kano/JTBD | active, 20,896 | workflow | strong |
| product-manager (lst97) | subagent | idea-to-backlog handoff after /graduate | active, 254 forks | workflow | moderate |
| VoltAgent/awesome-claude-code-subagents | repo (index) | business-product pack ~ /flesh-out,/market-size,/pitch | active, 20,896 | workflow | strong |
| VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills | repo (index) | startup-canvas ~ /flesh-out; swot-analysis ~ /challenge | active, 23k+ | workflow | strong |
| wshobson/agents | repo / plugin | startup-business-analyst ~ /flesh-out+/challenge; team-composition; specialist build agents | active, 23k-34k | workflow + marketplaces | strong |
| Startup Idea Generation | skill | /flesh-out+/market-size+/score (founder-skill-to-market mapping) | unknown (no repo found) | workflow | moderate |
| airtable | plugin (MCP) | idea-scoring database / tracker for /score, /flesh-out | active, official-vetted | official | moderate |
| notion | plugin (MCP) | IdeaForge vault, /dump capture destination, /project-note routing | active, official-vetted | official | moderate |
| capture (alireza) | skill | /dump intake pattern (brain-dump-to-action, classify, route) | active, 16,614 | alireza | moderate |
2B. EVALUATE, size, validate, score, stress-test an idea
38 tools| Tool | Form factor | IdeaForge parallel | Maturity / stars | Found by | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| research-companion | plugin | Idea Critic ~ /challenge (7-dim Pursue/Refine/Kill); 6-phase orchestration | active, 668 | workflow | strong |
| market-research (alireza ResOps) | skill | /market-size (enterprise TAM/SAM/SOM, segmentation, opportunity scan) | active, 16,614 | alireza | strong |
| market-researcher (alireza Growth) | skill | /market-size (explicit TAM/SAM sizing) + /score Why-Now | active, 16,614 | alireza | strong |
| andreessen (alireza) | skill | /score Why-Now (demand-pull framing) | active, 16,614 | alireza | strong |
| competitive-teardown (alireza) | skill | /score differentiation; competitive matrix + gap analysis | active, 16,614 | alireza | strong |
| saas-metrics-coach (alireza) | skill | /score financial viability (LTV/CAC, payback, churn) | active, 16,614 | alireza | strong |
| product-discovery (alireza) | skill | /flesh-out+/score (JTBD, assumption mapping, riskiest-assumption) | active, 16,614 | alireza | strong |
| dossier (alireza) | skill | /challenge (company/person due-diligence dossier) | active, 16,614 | alireza | moderate |
| pulse (alireza) | skill | /score Why-Now (ongoing trend/signal feed) | active, 16,614 | alireza | moderate |
| patent (alireza) | skill | /score IP defensibility / freedom-to-operate | active, 16,614 | alireza | moderate |
| idea-validation-agents | subagent | /score+/flesh-out; live TikTok/Reddit/App Store/Google Trends, Van Westendorp, RAT | active, 245 | workflow | strong |
| measuring-product-market-fit (lenny) | skill | /score (PMF diagnostic from 46 product leaders) | active | marketplaces | strong |
| ai-product-strategy (lenny) | skill | /score+/challenge (where AI fits, build vs buy vs embed) | active | marketplaces | strong |
| competitive-analysis (lenny) | skill | /challenge (competitor mapping, differentiation) | active (page 404, repo-confirmed) | marketplaces | moderate |
| startup-pivoting (lenny) | skill | /challenge (Four-P: Problem/Persona/Product/Pivot) | active | marketplaces | strong |
| marketplace-liquidity (lenny) | skill | /score+/challenge (chicken-and-egg timing for marketplaces) | active | marketplaces | moderate |
| analyzing-user-feedback (lenny) | skill | /score (synthesize qualitative feedback into signals) | active | marketplaces | moderate |
| business-analyst (BMAD) | skill (persona) | /flesh-out+/score (discovery interviews, product brief, problem-solution fit) | active | marketplaces | moderate |
| startup-business-analyst (wshobson) | skill | /flesh-out+/challenge (discovery + competitive + problem-solution fit) | active, 23k-34k | marketplaces | strong |
| discovery-interview | skill | /flesh-out+/challenge (8-category structured interview) | active | marketplaces | moderate |
| assumption-mapping (VoltAgent) | subagent | /score+/challenge (structured riskiest-assumption pass, VUBF) | active, 20,896 | workflow | strong |
| trend-analyst (VoltAgent) | subagent | /score Why-Now backend (signal scan, tipping points, timeline projection) | active, 20,896 | workflow | strong |
| competitive-analyst (VoltAgent) | subagent | /score+/challenge research backend; pricing/positioning benchmarks | active, 20,896 | workflow | strong |
| research-analyst (VoltAgent) | subagent | deep-research engine for /market-size, /flesh-out | active, 20,896 | workflow | strong |
| first-principles-thinking (VoltAgent) | subagent | assumption-teardown pre-pass for /flesh-out+/challenge | active, 20,896 | workflow | strong |
| business-analyst (VoltAgent) | subagent | /score (feasibility/ROI/SWOT, BPMN pre-/graduate) | active, 20,896 | workflow | strong |
| PitchLense MCP | mcp-server | /score+/challenge (9-category risk scorecard, peer benchmarks, invest rec) | stale, 6 (no commits since Jan 2026) | workflow | moderate |
| exa | plugin (MCP) | /market-size revealed-demand, /score competitor scan (neural search) | active, official-vetted | official | strong |
| firecrawl | plugin (MCP) | /market-size competitor-pricing scrape, /challenge teardown (CAPTCHA bypass) | active, official-vetted | official | strong |
| brightdata-plugin | plugin (MCP) | /market-size TAM/demand signals (Amazon, LinkedIn, TikTok, 40+ extractors) | active, official-vetted | official | strong |
| windsor-ai | plugin (MCP) | /market-size SAM/SOM from real ad-spend/CRM/ecommerce (325+ sources) | active, official-vetted | official | strong |
| carta-investors | plugin (MCP) | /score investor-timing, /pitch benchmarking | active, official-vetted | official | moderate |
| carta-cap-table | plugin (MCP) | /score funding landscape, /pitch cap-table context | active, official-vetted | official | moderate |
| youdotcom-agent-skills | plugin (MCP) | /research cited web pass (lighter alt to Exa) | active, official-vetted | official | moderate |
| nimble | plugin (MCP) | competitor site mapping / price monitoring for TAM evidence | active, official-vetted | official | moderate |
| free-tool-strategy (coreyhaines) | skill | /market-size revealed-demand (free-tool lead-gen ROI) | active | marketplaces | moderate |
| lead-research-assistant | skill | demand validation (rank target companies, outreach) | active (page 404, JSON-confirmed) | marketplaces | moderate |
| ComposioHQ awesome-claude-skills | repo (index) | discovery layer; lead-research ~ /market-size; domain-name-brainstormer | active, 62,532 | workflow | strong |
| awesome-claude-code | repo (index) | discovery/vetting layer IdeaForge lacks (competitive density signal) | active, 45,218 | workflow | strong |
2C. MONETIZE, price, position, GTM, sell, fund
30 tools| Tool | Form factor | IdeaForge parallel | Maturity / stars | Found by | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| slavingia/skills | plugin | /pricing (cost vs value, tiers) + /first-customers (concentric outreach) | active, 8,906 | workflow | strong (fills #1 gap) |
| pricing-strategy (coreyhaines) | skill | /pitch + pricing depth (value metrics, WTP, "most comprehensive" in directory) | active | marketplaces | strong |
| startup-skill | plugin | /pitch (5 pitch formats + investor Q&A) + battle cards + April Dunford positioning | active, 322 | workflow | strong |
| show-me-the-money | plugin | covers all six; adds product/ops/ads/seo/finance + persistent memory + /money-panel | active, 457 | workflow | strong |
| positioning-messaging (lenny) | skill | /pitch (positioning doc from 58 product leaders) | active | marketplaces | strong |
| fundraising (lenny) | skill | /pitch+/score (raise-or-not, then pitch via operator frameworks) | active | marketplaces | strong |
| founder-sales (lenny) | skill | /pitch (founder-led sales, early-adopter qualification) | active | marketplaces | strong |
| launch-marketing (lenny) | skill | /pitch GTM (pre-launch / launch-day / post-launch playbooks) | active | marketplaces | moderate |
| designing-growth-loops (lenny) | skill | growth model (viral + retention loops) | active (page 404, repo-confirmed) | marketplaces | moderate |
| growth-loops (VoltAgent) | subagent | PLG loop design + viral coefficient (between /score and /pitch) | active, 20,896 | workflow | strong |
| growth-hacker (alireza) | skill | growth model (viral loops, acquisition experiments, north-star) | active, 16,614 | alireza | moderate |
| startup-financial-modeling (wshobson) | skill | /market-size revenue side (3-scenario, cohort revenue, cash flow) | active, 23k-34k | marketplaces | strong |
| marketing-strategy-pmm | skill | /pitch+/challenge (positioning, GTM, competitive intel; April Dunford) | active (page 404, scrape-confirmed) | marketplaces | moderate |
| marketing-ideas (coreyhaines) | skill | /pitch GTM (139 proven SaaS tactics by stage/budget) | active | marketplaces | moderate |
| c-level-skills bundle | plugin (bundle) | /pitch+monetize (cfo/cmo/cro/cpo/coo advisors, GTM, pricing, fundraising) | active, 16,614 | alireza | strong |
| finance-skills bundle | plugin (bundle) | /score viability (financial-analyst DCF, business-investment-advisor) | active, 16,614 | alireza | strong |
| marketing-skills bundle | plugin (bundle) | /pitch+monetize (sales-enablement battlecards, growth-marketing, AEO, CRO) | active, 16,614 | alireza | strong |
| vibe-prospecting | plugin (MCP) | /graduate GTM, /pitch target-account list (live B2B contact data) | active, official-vetted | official + marketplaces | strong |
| carta-crm | plugin (MCP) | /graduate investor pipeline, /pitch relationship mgmt | active, official-vetted | official | moderate |
| postiz | plugin (MCP) | /graduate GTM distribution (28+ social platforms) | active, official-vetted | official | moderate |
| revenuecat | plugin (MCP) | /flesh-out//score pricing-tier + subscription model | active, official-vetted | official | moderate |
| gapup-mcp | mcp-server | /pitch (pitch_deck_storyline) + investor_list/funding_hunter/term_sheet | active but brand-new, 0 (created May 2026) | workflow | moderate |
| startup-founder-skills | skill | /pitch (pitch-deck) + data-room + investor-research + cold-outreach | stale, 136 (launch-day only) | workflow | moderate |
| customer-sales-automation (wshobson) | skill | sales execution (outbound, CRM enrichment, follow-up) | active, 23k-34k | marketplaces | moderate |
| enterprise-sales (lenny) | skill | /pitch B2B GTM (deal structuring, champions, multi-stakeholder) | active | marketplaces | moderate |
| product-led-sales (lenny) | skill | monetization model (PLG to sales-assisted, expansion revenue) | active | marketplaces | moderate |
| partnership-bd (lenny) | skill | BD channel (partnership strategy) | active | marketplaces | moderate |
| content-strategy (coreyhaines) | skill | /pitch content GTM (traffic, authority, leads) | active | marketplaces | moderate |
| lead-magnets (coreyhaines) | skill | demand proof (email-capture offers, gated content) | active | marketplaces | moderate |
| marketing-psychology (coreyhaines) | skill | /pitch (behavioral mental models) | active | marketplaces | moderate |
2D. Full-overlap suites and stale-but-real (all three jobs)
5 tools| Tool | Form factor | IdeaForge parallel | Maturity / stars | Found by | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| stratarts | plugin | full overlap; financial model, fundraising, positioning, pricing | stale, 24 (no commits since Feb 2026) | workflow | moderate (dark-theme HTML) |
| startup-skills (bwerneckm) | skill | validating-ideas ~ /score; Wardley maps, Sequoia deck, financial modeling, battlecards | stale, 6 (no commits since Feb 2026) | workflow | moderate |
| claude-skills-founder | skill | /founder:validate-idea ~ /score; /founder:gtm-plan (new) | active | workflow | moderate |
| entrepreneur-claude-skills | skill | market-research ~ /market-size; unit-economics, pitch-deck, offer-creation, pricing | stale, 32 (no commits since Feb 2026) | workflow | moderate |
| Vibe Prospecting MCP | mcp-server | /market-size B2B demand signals (50+ data sources), same product as official vibe-prospecting plugin | active | marketplaces + official | strong |
Total unique tools in the merged table: 78. (BUILD 19, EVALUATE 38, MONETIZE 30, full-overlap/stale 5; tools that span jobs are counted once under their primary job, so the job sub-counts overlap the 78 by design.)
3. Mapped to IdeaForge's Six Skills
/flesh-out (expand a raw idea)
Matches: phuryn/pm-skills (multi-perspective), slavingia/skills, the-startup (/specify), startup-skill, Business Model Canvas, idea-validation-agents, research-companion (Brainstormer), startup-ideation/problem-definition (lenny), brainstorming (superpowers), product-skills/solo-founder/product-discovery (alireza), product-manager (BMAD, VoltAgent), startup-business-analyst (wshobson), discovery-interview.
Beats it: phuryn/pm-skills brings multi-stakeholder ideation (PM + Designer + Engineer, five ideas each) that IdeaForge's solo expansion lacks. idea-validation-agents adds live trend-signal ingestion at generation time. Startup Idea Generation adds founder-skill-to-market mapping. solo-founder (alireza) is the single highest-overlap external skill.
/market-size (TAM/SAM/SOM)
Matches (reconciled, this is NOT IdeaForge-native anymore): market-research (alireza ResOps, enterprise TAM/SAM/SOM), market-researcher (alireza Growth, explicit TAM/SAM), startup-financial-modeling (wshobson, revenue-side sizing), entrepreneur-claude-skills (bottom-up + top-down), stratarts (Porter's Five Forces), research-analyst/business-analyst (VoltAgent), free-tool-strategy (coreyhaines, revealed demand), plus the entire data-plugin layer: exa, firecrawl, brightdata, windsor-ai, nimble (official).
Beats it: idea-validation-agents and the official data plugins pull live demand signals (Google Trends, App Store, Amazon, real ad spend) instead of model-knowledge guesses, which kills the "made-up TAM" failure mode. windsor-ai (325+ real data sources) and brightdata (40+ structured extractors) have no IdeaForge equivalent at all.
/score (Why Now? timing rubric, GO/PIVOT/KILL)
Matches (Why-Now framing is NOT IdeaForge-native anymore): andreessen (alireza, demand-pull Why-Now framing), trend-analyst (VoltAgent, Why-Now research backend), pulse (alireza, ongoing Why-Now signal feed), measuring-product-market-fit (lenny), slavingia/skills (/validate-idea), claude-skills-founder (7-dim build/pivot/kill), startup-skills (GO/PIVOT/KILL), research-companion (Idea Critic, Pursue/Refine/Kill), idea-validation-agents (0-100 multiplicative-floor), assumption-mapping (VUBF risk), saas-metrics-coach/finance-skills (alireza, financial viability), PitchLense MCP (9-category risk + peer benchmarks).
Beats it: trend-analyst is a near-perfect backend for the Why-Now research step. PitchLense MCP adds peer benchmarking against sector/stage norms. assumption-mapping adds a structured riskiest-assumption artifact. The Why-Now rubric structure is no longer unique; andreessen does the same demand-pull framing.
/pitch (problem, solution, traction, ask)
Matches: startup-skill (5 formats + investor roleplay + April Dunford positioning), slavingia/skills, stratarts (12-15 slides), entrepreneur-claude-skills, startup-founder-skills, gapup-mcp (pitch_deck_storyline), claude-skills-founder, positioning-messaging/fundraising/founder-sales/launch-marketing (lenny), c-level-skills/marketing-skills (alireza, sales-enablement battlecards), marketing-strategy-pmm (davila7).
Beats it: startup-skill's startup-pitch produces five formats plus a scoring rubric and live investor roleplay, well past IdeaForge's single pitch; its startup-positioning (April Dunford 5+1) adds a positioning layer IdeaForge lacks. positioning-messaging (lenny, 58-leader corpus) is the strongest standalone positioning skill.
/challenge (adversarial stress-test using the founder's own past words)
Closest analogs, none exact: research-companion (Idea Critic, 7-dimension devil's advocate), first-principles-thinking (systematic assumption teardown), show-me-the-money (/money-panel multi-persona), competitive-analyst/competitive-analysis (lenny), startup-pivoting (lenny, Four-P), dossier (alireza, due-diligence ammunition), sales-enablement (alireza, objection handling).
/graduate (promote an idea to a full project)
Closest analogs, none exact: the-startup (/specify into requirements.md + solution.md with complexity tiers), slavingia/skills (/mvp build-readiness), spec-to-repo/saas-scaffolder (alireza, spec-to-code), product-manager (lst97) (idea-to-backlog with epics), prioritizing-roadmap/setting-okrs-goals (lenny), research-companion (Research Strategist continue/pivot/kill triage).
4. Gaps in IdeaForge (ranked, merged across all sources)
- Monetization depth (pricing + GTM + first customers). The single biggest gap.
slavingia/skillsships a real/pricingand/first-customers;pricing-strategy(coreyhaines) is the deepest pricing skill in the ecosystem;claude-skills-founder/startup-skill/launch-marketing(lenny) add 90-day GTM sequencing;cro-advisor/cmo-advisor(alireza) add revenue-model and channel design. IdeaForge's/pitchtouches monetize but has no pricing or GTM skill. - Competitive battle cards + pricing landscape.
startup-skill(startup-competitors),startup-skills(Wardley maps, 7 Powers, battlecards),sales-enablement/market-intelligence(alireza),competitor-profiling(coreyhaines). IdeaForge has nothing here;/challengeonly critiques the founder's own logic. - Live data plugins (revealed demand from the real world).
exa,firecrawl,brightdata,windsor-ai,nimble,vibe-prospecting(all Anthropic-vetted) pull live web, Amazon, LinkedIn, TikTok, ad-spend, and B2B-contact data. IdeaForge sizes and scores from model knowledge only. This is the highest-leverage gap to close because it is install-only (no rebuild) and security-vetted. - Structured riskiest-assumption artifact.
assumption-mapping(VUBF),first-principles-thinking,product-discovery(alireza) enumerate and prioritize hidden assumptions as a named output. IdeaForge does this implicitly, not as an artifact. - Live timing/demand signals for Why-Now.
trend-analyst,idea-validation-agents,pulse(alireza) pull search trends, App Store, Reddit, social at scoring time. IdeaForge's/scoreruns Why-Now from model knowledge. - Investor targeting + fundraising mechanics.
gapup-mcp(investor_list, funding_hunter, term_sheet),startup-founder-skills(data-room, investor-research),startup-skills(Sequoia deck + investor CRM),carta-crm/carta-investors(official),cfo-advisor(alireza),fundraising(lenny). IdeaForge has no fundraising layer. Lower priority given Annette's bootstrap posture, but real. - Growth-loop / PLG mechanics.
growth-loops(VoltAgent),designing-growth-loops(lenny),growth-hacker(alireza) design self-reinforcing loops and compute viral coefficient. IdeaForge has no equivalent between "what the product is" and "how to sell it." - Risk scorecard with peer benchmarking.
PitchLense MCPreturns a 9-category risk score benchmarked against sector/stage comps plus a recommendation. IdeaForge's Why-Now rubric is single-axis by comparison. - Cross-session idea memory + portfolio learnings.
show-me-the-moneypersists decisions/hypotheses across sessions (~/.smtm/) and rolls up learnings (/money-learn). IdeaForge stores idea files but has no portfolio-level learning loop. (Note: this is where IdeaForge's/graduate-plus-corpus could become a moat rather than a gap, see section 6.) - Multi-stakeholder ideation.
phuryn/pm-skillsideates from PM + Designer + Engineer viewpoints. IdeaForge expands solo. - Financial modeling depth.
startup-financial-modeling(wshobson),financial-analyst/saas-metrics-coach(alireza),entrepreneur-claude-skills(unit-economics) produce three-scenario models, DCF, LTV/CAC. IdeaForge has no financial-model output. - Community discovery/vetting layer.
awesome-claude-code,ComposioHQ awesome-claude-skills, and the VoltAgent indexes surface what others built in a niche (informs/scorecompetitive density). IdeaForge evaluates ideas in isolation.
5. Top Picks to Install or Borrow Now (ranked, deduped)
- Official data plugins:
exa+firecrawl+brightdata+windsor-ai. The highest-leverage move and the only zero-trust-risk one (Anthropic security-vetted). They convert/market-sizeand/scorefrom model-guess to real revealed demand./plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official /plugin install exa@claude-plugins-official (repeat for firecrawl, brightdata-plugin, windsor-ai) research-companion. Best external analog to/challenge; borrow the Idea Critic's 7-dimension rubric and the Research Strategist's continue/pivot/kill for the/graduategate.claude plugin marketplace add https://github.com/andrehuang/research-companion claude plugin install research-companion@andrehuang-research-companionslavingia/skills(Minimalist Entrepreneur). Fills the #1 gap with a real/pricingand/first-customersfrom a credible founder (Gumroad), 8,906 stars./plugin marketplace add slavingia/skills /plugin install minimalist-entrepreneuralirezarezvani/claude-skillsbundles (business-growth-skills+finance-skills). Getsandreessen(Why-Now),market-researcher(TAM/SAM),saas-metrics-coach(LTV/CAC), andsolo-founderin two installs. 16,614 stars, MIT./plugin install business-growth-skills@claude-code-skills /plugin install finance-skills@claude-code-skills- VoltAgent research subagents (
assumption-mapping,trend-analyst,first-principles-thinking,competitive-analyst). Zero-risk markdown drops that upgrade the research and risk steps inside IdeaForge's existing skills without adding commands. Copy each.mdfromcategories/08-business-product/andcategories/10-research-analysis/into.claude/agents/. Repo: VoltAgent/awesome-claude-code-subagents. refoundai/lenny-skills(cherry-pickpricing-strategypeers,positioning-messaging,fundraising,measuring-product-market-fit). Operator-grade frameworks distilled from 100+ product leaders.npx skills add https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills --skill positioning-messaging (repeat per skill) For deepest pricing: npx skills add https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill pricing-strategystartup-skill(startup-competitors + startup-positioning). Borrow the two capabilities IdeaForge has no equivalent for: competitive battle cards and April Dunford positioning.claude plugin marketplace add ferdinandobons/startup-skill claude plugin install startup@startup-skillREADME recommends Claude Max 5x; startup-design is token-heavy, so prefer the two named sub-skills.show-me-the-money. The most complete suite (25 skills); study it for the two patterns IdeaForge lacks: persistent cross-session memory (~/.smtm/) and a multi-persona review panel (/money-panel). CC BY-NC, fine for personal use.claude plugin marketplace add iamzifei/show-me-the-money claude plugin install money@show-me-the-money
Borrow-don't-install note: for claude-skills-founder (/founder:gtm-plan), entrepreneur-claude-skills (unit-economics, offer-creation), and the-startup (spec pipeline for post-/graduate), read the SKILL.md and lift the structure into IdeaForge-native skills rather than installing, since the first two are stale and none knows Annette's context, voice, or runway. PitchLense MCP and gapup-mcp are evaluate-at-low-cost-first options (PitchLense needs GEMINI_API_KEY and is stale; gapup is brand-new with a free 100-call/mo tier).
6. Micro-SaaS Read
Is "IdeaForge as a product" defensible? No, not as a generic startup-idea-evaluation plugin. Across all four sources this category is saturated and commoditized: phuryn/pm-skills (11.7k stars), alirezarezvani/claude-skills (16.6k, 338 skills), slavingia/skills (8.9k), refoundai/lenny-skills (operator frameworks), and show-me-the-money (free, 25 skills) set a free, high-quality bar that a paid generic clone cannot clear. Anyone can git clone a 20-to-300-skill founder suite today for zero dollars. A "score and pitch my startup idea" SaaS walks straight into a price war against free.
The cross-source reinforcement that sharpens the thesis: every framework an idea tool could sell is now commoditized and free. Market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM) is free in alirezarezvani and wshobson. Why-Now / demand-pull framing is free in andreessen and trend-analyst. Pricing is free in pricing-strategy and slavingia/skills. Positioning is free in positioning-messaging and April Dunford skills. PMF diagnostics are free in measuring-product-market-fit. Battle cards, growth loops, fundraising mechanics, financial models: all free. When every framework is free, the framework is not the asset. The only thing that cannot be cloned from a SKILL.md is the per-founder corpus: the accumulated brain dumps, decision logs, killed-idea post-mortems, and past pitches of one specific person. That is the one asset that compounds per user and gets better with use, which is the definition of a data moat.
Where the defensible white space actually is
- The
/challengemechanic, productized multi-tenant. Nobody else stress-tests an idea against the founder's own prior words. The moat is not the prompt (a competitor copies that in an afternoon); it is the longitudinal per-founder corpus that fuels the adversary. "Your past self argues with your present idea." Price: $19-29/mo for solo founders and indie hackers; $49-99/seat/mo for accelerator cohorts (YC-style batches, Build-in-Public communities, On Deck-style fellowships) who want every founder's prior reasoning held against their current pivot. Buyer: indie hackers, Build-in-Public founders, accelerator and incubator program managers. This is the single most ownable angle in the whole landscape and it has zero free competition. - Idea-to-graduation pipeline with persistent portfolio memory. Combine
/graduatewithshow-me-the-money-style cross-session memory and a portfolio learning loop. The product is not "evaluate one idea," it is "manage a portfolio of 30 ideas over months, surface which to revive, and learn from what you killed and why." Annette is the exact persona. Price: $20-40/mo for solo multi-idea creators; $79-149/mo for small studios and holdcos running many bets at once. Moat: the longitudinal dataset of one operator's full idea history. - A thin hosted wrapper that orchestrates the best free skills behind one opinionated, voice-aware, phone-first workflow. The market is fragmented into 60+ overlapping repos; nobody has bundled the best of each into a single curated pipeline with a clean non-coder interface and persistence. Value is curation + persistence + a phone-first UI for non-coders, not novel prompts. Closer to a productized-service play than pure SaaS. Price: $15-30/mo, buyer is the non-technical creator who will never
git cloneanything.
7. Excluded / Could Not Verify
- Startup Pitch Deck Reviewer (mcpmarket.com): listing page exists and is indexed, but no backing GitHub repo, SKILL.md, or 35-criteria rubric could be found after exhaustive search. Treat as an unverified product page, not an installable artifact. Confirmed real alternative if the capability is wanted: dkorobtsov/pitch-deck (Claude Code plugin,
/createand/auditwith a 7-test stress-test). - Startup Idea Generation (mcpmarket.com): skill listing is real and indexed but has no backing GitHub repo found; install only via the mcpmarket folder copy. Use with eyes open.
- claudemarketplaces page-404 skills (confirmed present in their GitHub repos via API, marketplace pages lag):
competitive-analysis,designing-growth-loops,defining-product-vision,platform-strategy(lenny);competitor-profiling,customer-research,product-marketing-context(coreyhaines);business-analytics,team-composition-analysis,customer-sales-automation(wshobson);marketing-strategy-pmm(davila7);lead-research-assistant(composio). Install commands remain valid; treat as "available, unindexed page." market-sizingskill inrefoundai/lenny-skills: searched for, not present in the repo scan. There is no explicit standalone TAM skill in the lenny pack (its sizing lives insidemeasuring-product-market-fitand adjacent skills). The TAM/SAM/SOM capability is confirmed in alirezarezvani (market-research,market-researcher) and wshobson (startup-financial-modeling) instead.
Data-accuracy corrections carried forward: alirezarezvani/claude-skills is 16,614 stars (the raw alireza source file records the older ~1,668 figure) and is owned by alirezarezvani (not "nginity"); rampstackco/claude-skills has 102 skills (not 59). Both repos are real and active.
Maturity caution (verified-real but stale, use with eyes open): startup-skills (bwerneckm), stratarts, entrepreneur-claude-skills, startup-founder-skills, and PitchLense MCP have had no commits since Jan-Feb 2026. Prompt-based skills still function but are unmaintained. stratarts additionally ships dark-themed Chart.js HTML output that violates Annette's no-dark-backgrounds rule and would need CSS overrides before any deliverable is surfaced.
8. Sources
Verified URLs🔒 Private · annettethompson.com/hub/ideaforge-tool-landscape · Session expires when browser closes